World War II in Miniature

The following pages relate to wargaming the battles of World War II using military miniatures and the Spearhead miniatures rules system.

My interest in World War II wargaming goes back many years. However, it has only my "discovery" of the Spearhead rules system that I started building miniature armies again. Like most of my wargaming interests I have selected to build my World War II collection using 1/300th scale miniatures.

British infantry and a carrier platoon advance through a cleared town during an action in Northern France during 1944.

Spearhead is designed to allow the refighting of battles from brigade scale to divisional level. In Spearhead each stand represents around a platoon of infantry and between 3-5 vehicles or guns. The ground scale is 1" = 100 yards and each turn represents between 15 to 20 minutes. A brief introduction to the Spearhead rules system can be found here.

To date our games generally are at the level of a reinforced brigade which allows the game to be resolved within an evening. No doubt, as the size of our miniature collections increase, so to will the size of our games.

Currently my minitaure collections are based on German and British armies from the 1940 and 1944-45 campaigns. Forming, are German and Russian forces for the campaigns of 1941 to 1942 on the Eastern Front.

Navwar Britsih Churchill tanks move forward during a battle in Northern France. They have just moved through an area of hedges, which remains visible behind.

Collections of other local Spearhead wargamers include German, Russian, French, Polish and Americans. These collections ensuring there is plenty of variety in Spearhead World War II gaming locally.