What ruleset did you use in your last game - 2015?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Absolutely AGREE! 

[Maenoferren]

Science versus Pluck
Sudan
Anglo Egyptian forces v Mahdists
3rd time played,
Solo ish game

A photo of the action after the cavalry screen find an awful lot of angry people with sharp pointy things. Luckily they cleared the line of fire  and volley fire commenced.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150606_213748_zpsejxmplsl.jpg

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice!

[paulr]

 

[Leman]

I have thought about giving them (SVP) a go having downloaded a copy from Wargame Vault.

[Maenoferren]

The rules work well when you get the hang of them (It took my quite a long time  )
I have ended up doing 40 random events so far and want to get to at least 50 so that I can use percentage dice to randomise the random events.
this runs from Sandstorm, which happened in the game above to recalcitrant camels and or drivers. Loss of ammunition to increased accuracy of the Dervish fire.

[Nosher]

1. Muskets and Tomahawks

2. Small Elite British Force v Large Continental/Militia American Force

3. Second time I have played the game (6 months between games) and this time solo. Easy to pick up and within a few turns I was back in the swing of things. Not as much fun as against a live opponent but the card driven system lends itself well to solo play

The British won (Hurrah!!) with their mission being a straight forward defeat your enemy. The Americans had to scout each area of the board and exit at least a 3rd of their force from their own table edge. They managed to scout the battlefield but took horrendous casualties attempting their withdrawal - not helped by having a very large militia unit rout after only taking a single casualty.

Its a good system, loads of scenarios, random events and sub-plots built into the scenario generator which makes for a good game.

I played a 400pt mid sized game in 15mm (purely because I have a large AWI collection) and used cms as opposed to inches on a 4ftx3ft table so I think it would equally suit 10mm. There were 33 figures on the British Side and double that on the American side. Going 10mm would be cheap as chips!

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder with LAoK supplement
2) What armies were confronted? - Prussian vs Austrian
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, although we had to check and talk through a few issues that hadn't arisen before.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2 players

[Chris Pringle]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Village hall booking rules
2) What armies were confronted? - Wargamers vs 17th Century folk dancers. Quick and total defeat of the Wargamers, unfortunately.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - No, and the umpire let us down.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - 2 of us, at least 6 of them. Not a fair scenario.

Today's blog post explains!
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

Chris

[Leman]

  Somebody needs to tell them Cromwell banned this.

[Techno]

 

Chris.....You did that all wrong !
You should have feigned huge interest, and asked if you could join in with the folk dancing.
Then.......Completely and utterly, made a total hash of it.

They'd have probably never returned to the hall, in case you asked to join in again.

Cheers - General Lewis (Black Ops  )

[Chris Pringle]

Somebody needs to tell them Cromwell banned this.

The thought did cross my mind, and I might have voiced it, except I just spent a week in Ireland biting my tongue to avoid saying his name or putting on an even sillier accent than usual.

You should have feigned huge interest, and asked if you could join in with the folk dancing.

Actually Bruce did - but I dragged him away ...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That was never going to be an easy game!

[Leman]

The Irish are probably still whingeing about something that happened in 953BC.

[runelord]

Warband Empire(Dragon Men) v Undead, AAR to follow on forum.

[Techno]

Warband Empire(Dragon Men) v Undead, AAR to follow on forum.

Looking forward to that, Runelord ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sounds great!

[Last Hussar]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder
2) What armies were confronted? - Rebs vs Yankees
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - See below
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2.

Sunjester and I have been playing Black Powder since it came out with WSS mods.  Couple of weeks ago I suggested doing Gettysburg in campaign style - map maneouvers, then fight the battles as Divisions come into contact - some games would be 'simultaneous' with the next game, so if you used the reinforcements in one battle they are not available in the next battle, because they are effectively happening at the same time.

We usually play "They Couldn't Hit an Elephant" for ACW, but as this campaign could get big I suggested we try BP.

We went for the Large/Small unit options, plus commander personalities, neither of which we've used before.  With WSS mod we are strict about movement, ACW we were close to 'as written', and the terrain was less restrictive for our troops (woods we counted as Rough that blocked line of sight).  We played our normal house rule of units in Broken Brigades can be rallied if they didn't need to retreat during initiative (so it is possible to 'unbreak' a brigade), and kept my WSS Fire before move, but without the -1 command penalty we usually have.

It was a different game to WSS, and it did feel ACWish.  It wasn't 'Elephant', where it is fatal not to keep reserves, and hinges round morale, but it didn't feel too generic.  WSS you can only move straight ahead or wheel.  With ACW we allowed move how you like in the front quadrant, or half move in the flanks/rear - watching ACW reenactors it seems as though they jog to roughly where they're supposed to be, then dress the lines.

The thing is we had  to check the rules, not because we don't know them BUT we were getting situations that just don't happen in WSS-  Like brigades winning and going forward!

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder
2) What armies were confronted? - French vs Allies at Quatre Bras
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, given it was my first outing with Napoleonics.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2.

Cracking game and felt very different to the previous SYW games due to the differences in the froces ability to move around the battlefield. AAR to follow before the weekend hopefully.

[FierceKitty]

1) Warlord's Pike and Shot.
2) ECW early Roundheads vsCaviliers.
3) Not hard to understand, but the old "buckets of dice" syndrome, together with the cavalry melee that leaves one side annihilated and the other one scratch away from the same condition - I am in no hurry to repeat the experiment, even though I won.
4) Yes. Old buddy grabbed me for an afternoon on holiday in Cape Town.
5) Two.