AARs Wargaming: SnapNap1813 – Russ Lockwood

Happy Halloween!

For your infotainment, the big multi-table, multi-player Snappy Nappy 1813 Peninsula Campaign in a Day game starts off the AAR and the Book Reviews end it — and in between the usual mix of miniatures, boardgames, and card game recaps and analysis, plus the news, and HMGS doings.

Enjoy!

After Action Report Newsletter — October 2025

Spanish Reign or Rain? SnapCon 11 — 1813
In The Shadows: French Resistance 1943-1944
Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Hoth: Star Wars
Kingsburg: Influence Resources
Halloween Dominion: Custom Cards
Star Wars: C&C-RUSE Fusion
Fate of the Fellowship: Lord Of The Rings Boardgame
Axis & Allies Europe: Boardgame
Vikings: Thor vs. Loki Card Game
Allies & Axis: Homebrew WWII Card Game
Doubleblind WWII Eastern Solomons: Part Two
WWII RUSE: Tweaked Again
News: New Products and Information
HMGS Next Generation: Gaming Extravaganzas
HMGS Outreach: CamelCon 2025
Adventure of Tazan Rell Continues:
Letters From The Edge: D&D
Working…
Intel From a Dragon
Infrastructure and Logistics
Nevar Say Never
Sterling Sliver: D&D Adventure Continues
Into The Sea of Dust: Wasteland

Books I’ve Read

Washington’s Lieutenants: Amer Rev
War in Ukraine: V8: Kyiv EurWar 50
Nations in Arms: 5 Armies Made Europe
Danes on D-Day: Normandy 1944
US Seventh Fleet: Korea 1950-53
M18 Hellcat vs Panther: Duel 146
Kursk 1943: Air Campaign 55
New Guinea 1942-43: Air Campaign 56
B-52 Stratofortress: Combat Air 158
Manila Bay 1898: Campaign 419
Sinai 1916-17: Campaign 421
Luftwaffe Intruder Operations Over UK
German Breakthrough in Greece: 1941
Yugoslav Air Force 1991-92: EurWar 48
GSG 9: From Munich to Mogadishu

Hitler’s Paratroopers in Normandy
The Final Reflection: Star Trek 16

A Flag Full of Stars: Star Trek 54
China’s Fighter J-7/F-7 V1: TechWar 4

War in Ukraine: V9: Artillery EurWar 52
Armed Forces N. Korea V1P1: AsiaWar 55

Doctor Mirabilis (novel)
The Final Nexus: Star Trek 43

The Disinherited: Star Trek 59
Ishmael: Star Trek 23

German Logistics 1939-1945: C Illustr.
Fighting Kaiser’s War: Saxons 1914/1918

Norbert Hannig: Luftwaffe Fighter Ace
Hood’s Defeat Near Fox’s Gap

The True Story of Catch-22: WWII
Imprisoning the Enemy: Axis POWs War

Without Mercy: American Revolution

Russ >>>

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October 28, 2024October 28, 2024

Russ Lockwood’s AAR Monthly Journal – October 2024

Russ Lockwood’s AAR Monthly Journal

Happy Halloween. It’s scary good to get back to wargaming on a big scale with two multi-player, multi-table games as well as the one-on-one games. And let’s not forget the news section where I further link Taylor Swift to wargaming (sorta). Plus the usual cornucopia of book reviews. Enjoy.

October 2024 AAR

Springtime for Napoleon:
Snappy Nappy SnapCon X: Yorck
Battle of Wittenburg Recap: Eugene

On a Pedestal: Malta Convoy
Umpire’s View Of The Fifth Session
Umpire’s View Of The Sixth Session

Red Devils Ambush: WWII One Hour Wargame

HMGS Next Generation Outreach: Battles

NEWS
Taylor Swift vs Joan of Arc: Followers
Against the Odds Magazine: 100th Game
New Wargame: Britskrieg!
2nd Edition: One Page Bulge
Cadwalader AWI Lecture: Princeton Battlefield
WWII Australian Heavy Mortar: 3D Printed
And Elves, Too: 3D Printed
New Wargame: Langport 1645

Maritime Dominion: Card Game

Mega Multi-Table D&D: Return of the Lich

Books I’ve Read
The Trojan War: As Military History

Storm Clouds Over the Pacific: 1931-1941
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: Glider WWII

Robert E. Lee’s Reluctant Warrior: Wickham
Becoming Eisenhower: Between World Wars

Hitler’s Last Chance: 1945 Movie Kolberg
Joan of Arc’s Army: France 1415-53 (MAA 558)

Barbarossa 1941: OKH German Army Atlas
Operation Dragoon: Southern France 1944

Captured at Arnhem: In Their Own Words
The End of August: Novel

Roman Army Units West Provinces 3 (MAA 557)
Warships Komandorski Islands 1943 (NV 333)

The Union Army 1861-65 3 (MAA 559)
Through Hell to Dunkirk: Evacuation

The Rif War: 1921-1926 (Elite 257)
Mers El-Kebir 1940 (Campaign 405)

Lockheed Constellation: Legends of Flight
The CAC Boomerang: Australia’s WWII Fighter

US Air Power 1945-1990 (v1): Technology at War 2
Japanese Combines Fleet 1942-43: Fleet 8

8th Army Soldier versus Italian Soldier 1942
Romania 1944: Campaign 404

Sumatra 1944-45: Air Campaign 49
The Messerschmitt Bf 110 Story

How Hitler Evolved Traditional Army Establishment
The Fighting Fathers: South Vietnam

The House of War: Christendom and Caliphate
Perceptions of Battle: Washington at Monmouth

Yugoslavia and Greece 1940-41: Air Campaign 48
Borneo 1945: Campaign 406

Russ

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July 18, 2024July 18, 2024

A Snappy Nappy Reply From Russ Lockwood

A Snappy Nappy Reply

Mark:

Thank you for your kind words.

> I follow the ‘Blunders on the Danube’ site and all the multi-table game AAR. I am really impressed by all.

Peter, James, Mark, Greg & company do put on a wonderful day of Snappy Nappy gaming called SnapCon. Next one is October 5 (about 10 miles east of Hartford, CT), if you happen to be on this side of the pond. It’s at The Portal, 60 Hilliard St, Manchester, CT 06042.

Peter’s e-mail is in the CC. He runs the blog and the SN ‘SnapCon’ list.

>I write to ask you if the rules have ever been converted to earlier periods (Seven Years War) by anyone?

I recall Chris Parker gave it a whirl years ago. I’ve added his e-mail in the CC in case he can add some more info about his efforts.

There was a Franco-Prussian War variant, but that was lost when the SN group on Yahoo disappeared. And it’s in the wrong time direction.

There is an IO group: https://groups.io/g/SnappyNappy

Not as popular as the Yahoo group.

In theory, mechanics for 7YW should play roughly the same, with a slight tweak for deployment: I’m thinking instead of the second stand being placed wherever the player wants when going from column to line, the stand must be placed to one side to reflect more rigid linear deployments. Not sure about the timing of formation changes, say from line to square, etc. The best Napoleonic units could perform these rapidly. I have to dig out my Christopher Duffy book on the 7YW. I’m not sure about firing distances of musket or cannon — maybe a tweak to ground scale needed to keep things about the same.

We haven’t done a 7YW battle in our group for a while…or maybe I wasn’t at the game that night. I found a write-up of Rossbach from 2018, but it was using modified Shako II rules. I’m attaching the After Action Report (AAR) newsletter I wrote. Dan played in a Command & Colors Kolin game at Fall-In 2022. Here’s a link to the PDF download page:

https://www.hmgs.org/blogpost/1757492/481940/AAR-Fall-In-CaC-Kolin-7YW-Snappy-Nappy-1812-Russia-Book-Reviews-and-More

If you like the AAR, I’ll add you to my AAR list and e-mail the monthly PDF issues to you. If you think it nothing but horrible spam, let me know and I won’t. It’s changed over the years, but I think it’s gotten better. 😀

Or, Chris is nice enough to post the AAR on his website: Here’s the June 2024 issue:

https://www.chrisparkergames.com/russ-lockwoods-aar/

FYI: I do a lot of book reviews of military history books in the AAR. All of them are up on HMGS.org, which is searchable:

https://www.hmgs.org/blogpost/1779451/Historical-Book-Reviews

Currently 1,479 reviews available.

If you have any other questions, SN, AAR, or otherwise, please don’t hesitate to ask…

Thanks,

Russ

On 07/15/2024 6:44 AM EDT JACQUELINE LODGE wrote:

Dear Mr Lockwood,

Please forgive this ‘cold call’ email. I hope you don’t mind me contacting you.

I have recently retired from the British Army and find I have a great deal of time to pursue my long-standing wargame hobby!

Firstly, I am a recent convert to Snappy Nappy and love the rules. I combine them with WoFun 10mm Napoleonic figures, which work brilliantly. I follow the ‘Blunders on the Danube’ site and all the multi-table game AAR. I am really impressed by all.

Sorry to ramble. I write to ask you if the rules have ever been converted to earlier periods ( Seven Years War) by anyone? If so, please would you kindly point me in the right direction to where I might find them. In addition, please could you advise where on the net I might find the best snappy nappy group to join.

Very many thanks. I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours sincerely
Mark Lodge , England.

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November 14, 2023November 14, 2023

Snappy Nappy Peninsula Campaign in a Day 2023

From the video game master.

An eight player Napoleonic Wargame in 15mm re fight the British intervention in France’s attempts to conquer Spain & Portugal in 1809.

Played in a single day at the Napoleonic Wargaming Society, Perth, Western Australia.

Russ Lockwood Writes

Chris:

Thought you might like to see this fantastic 13 minute video from a Snappy Nappy Campaign-in-a-Day from Australia. They did the Peninsula. Quite entertaining to see their video recap efforts.

So lets try and give this video some more likes and shares.

Thank you

Chris