WD at Sheffield Triples

Last weekend saw the first outing of 'The End', WD's new participation game.  

Triples was a great success at it's new venue (the English Sports Institute) which was much more spacious and accessible that the Octagon.. The show now has room to grow, and I look forward to more games and traders next year (21st May 2011).

Moving on to the game, I commented on the finishing of the toys a couple of weeks ago, and I now reproduce the briefing below:

Berlin May 1944.


Has it really been four years since the Wehrmacht’s last victory?

The heady days of success in Poland and France seem so long ago.

Stalingrad was ours, Leningrad and Moscow seemed to be within our grasp, but now?

We lost heavily at Kursk and are not capable of mounting a serious attack against a formed Allied defensive front.

The Soviets are massed along the Dneiper, the Allies are in Italy and about to cross the Channel and the bombers, the relentless stream of bombers...

You have been promised Vonder Waffen to stem the tide but will they arrive in time and will they work?

Yet there is still hope! The Wehrmacht has demonstrated time and time again that we are still able to fight mobile battles against enemy breakthroughs and defeat their exposed forces with counterattacks.

You are in command of the German Armed Forces, starting in June 1944. Your aim is to prolong the war beyond its historical end point, May 1945. The Army is unable to successfully attack static enemy fronts, but each month the Allies will attack in a number of sectors. You will have forces to counterattack and defeat these operations.

Allocate these forces wisely, as if Berlin falls, Germany loses. The forces available will vary from month to month, and these may be supplemented by prototype wonder weapons, but there is no guarantee the new weapons will work properly.

The Allied forces will advance at different rates in different sectors, and some are easier to defeat than others.


The map was based on a design by Jim Wallman and was scaled up and printed onto fabric by Matlock Media.

WD Display Team North draws your attention to our supporters:
Wargame Developments

Wargame Developments (WD) is a group of like-minded wargamers who are dedicated to developing wargames. It is a non-commercial organisation, and its aims are:

 To provide a forum for the exchange of new ideas and concepts.

 To develop both new and existing methods of recreating military conflicts.

Wargame Developments was founded in 1980, and since then it has pursued its aims in several different ways. These include:

 Running an annual conference (COW - the Conference Of Wargamers).

 Publishing a regular journal (The NUGGET) that is sent to all members nine times per year.

 Putting on participation games at major wargames shows in the UK in order to demonstrate the sort of developments in wargaming that are being undertaken by members of WD.

 Supporting groups of members who work together to develop particular ideas and concepts (e.g. Megablitz (Operational level rules for 20th Century warfare) and Matrix Games).

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The Sheffield store is located in Orchard Square, in the Heart of Sheffield, up in the craft shops. The store stocks a wide range of products for all your gaming needs, ranging from GHQ to Essex Miniatures, Games Workshop to Peter Pig to name a few, also stockists of Osprey books, Miniature paints, Scenery and Dice.