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

[Nosher]

1. Lion Rampant
2. Vikings and Saxons
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Solo

http://nosherswargames.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/landwasters-and-ravenfeeders-dark-ages.html

thoughts and a batrep with photos above

[Leman]

1. Maximilian v.2
2. French v. Venetians
3. Sort of, as share similarities with DBA/DBR
4. First time for about 5 years - unlikely to use again within 5 years. Think Warmaster Medieval will give a more enjoyable game
5. Two players, two games involving swapping sides - French won both games.

[Tawa]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - X-Wing
2) What armies were confronted? - Empire
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yep!
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Far from it.....
5) How many players were in the game? - 2



Pretty much all I play at the minute. At least until I get my Bolt Action and Pendraken ECW stuff painted up...... 

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Volley & Bayonet WWI adaption by Dave Fielder
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans vs Royal Naval Division and Belgians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, picked up the mechanics pretty quickly, but then Dave has played loads which helped.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes.
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

Nice little game for Armistice Day. The Royal Naval Division held off the Boche until nightfall, and then had to retreat due to threatened flanks. Very similar historically to Mons, which it was lossely based upon.

[Rob]

1) What rule set do you use in your last game? Saga
2) What armies were confronted? 28mm Viking (me), Charlemagne French, Anglo-Saxon, and Irish
3) Did you feel comfortable with the rule set? - Easy to learn, but will take a long time to assimilate all of the nuances of each war-band's advantages and disadvantages which is why I was given Viking - a simple in yer face aggressive army (which suits my style of play anyway)
4) and... was the first time do you use the rule set? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? 4

It was a very amusing with a great deal of leg pulling. I was opposite an old opponent who is a veteran of competition gaming so I knew he would know all of the tricky things in the rules and he had cavalry!  How tricky is that in a Dark-Age brawl! Any way I went straight for him and he tricked me! He rode around a flank and surrounded a heavy infantry unit and a warrior unit, which apart from a total of 3 men were destroyed. My ally the Irish moved over a heavy infantry unit and javelined his cavalry and then in my turn I used my other heavy infantry and leader to wipe them out!  This was the end of the 4th turn which meant any alliances from the 5th turn onwards were permanent and of course myself and the French were now allied against the relatively untouched Irish and Saxons. The Irish went for me with javelins and destroyed half of my remaining heavy infantry. The following turn, because I was basically finished with only a single remaining full strength warrior unit remaining, I used the Viking Valhalla option which allowed me to sacrifice some of them for extra attack dice and I then threw them with the leader at the Irish heavy infantry. The dice were kind and I wiped half of them  out while losing all but 2 of my warrior unit. 

Winning and losing is based on losses inflicted and as luck would have it that meant I won.  I am sure in the next game I won't receive all of the beginners advice I was given during this dust up.

A really great game and I will now buy a war-band. Not sure which one but possibly Norman, Viking,.... Anglo-Danish..... mmmm 

Rob

[Leman]

A couple of photos of the Maximilian game mentioned above.

First, the Venetian pike move forward backed by some of their mounted troops.



Second, the Swiss pike plough forward for the French - not painted by me or my opponent. I always paint flag edges.



Got those the wrong way round, whoops! Third, an overall shot of the battlefield.



In this battle, owing to the army lists in Maximilian, two Venetian pike blocks had to be fielded as spearmen. Tonight my Venetians will be out again down the club facing Papal troops and using Impetus rules.

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - BKCII
2) What armies were confronted? - British Union of Fascists vs Prince Alebert's Somerset Light Infantry
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, I've played them many, many times.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

An introductory game for Neil, which seemed to work well.

[Hwiccee]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mit Blut und Eisen - ACW (http://www.wfgamers.org.uk/FUFF.htm)
2) What armies were confronted? - US vs. CS
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? No
5) How many players were in the game? Three, 1 vs 1 but with a newbie helper for the CS player


A refight of the 1st day of the battle of Chancellorsville. The CS player (players) managed to mangle 2 of the US corps quickly. This meant that by the time the last 2 of the 5 US corps arrived the battle was mainly already over & they took little part in it before the army morale went.

[vonlacy]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Regimental Fire and Fury
2) What armies were confronted? - US vs. CS
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? No
5) How many players were in the game? Seven

We are playing out The battle of Stones River 31st December 1862.

[FierceKitty]

Alamein to Zem Zem, 8th Army and Afrika Korps, Yes, No, Two.

The opposition was playing moderns for the first time and did not anticipate what 88mm guns could do, nor how important radios were. His one success was that a tank-buster Hurricane shot up Rommel's half-track, following which the 25 pdr finished him off. But there wasn't much left of the Commonwealth forces by then.

I sneakily played Die Wacht am Rhein on the computer to inspire my Jerries. Dear God, for such a musical nation the Germans have the ability to write really dull martial music!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Four games of FogR
2) What armies were confronted? - Mapuche vs Early Danish, Tartar, Early Imperial Spanish and Ming Chinese
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? No
5) How many players were in the game? Two per game.

Results is order:
11-9
1-19
14-6
12-8

Four great games, but can you spot where the dice gods deserted me?

[Leman]

1. Bloody Big Battles at Warfare using Pendraken 10mm armies.

2. Poorish quality French Republican against veteran Prussians and Saxons.

3. Played a number of games now and very comfortable with the rules, especially since a friend of mine made me a slightly altered QRS which includes more information about silenced artillery.

4. No

5. The cast varied between two and three per side depending on people having to get off home or arriving later in the day (I was one of the latter having been involved in the Liverpool club game in the morning and on the Saturday.

[NeilCFord]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - BKCII
2) What armies were confronted? - British Union of Fascists vs Prince Alebert's Somerset Light Infantry
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, I've played them many, many times.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

An introductory game for Neil, which seemed to work well.

Indeed it did. So my differing answers to above are:

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes. Will definitely be using them again.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes. Was a lot less daunting than expected.

- Neil.

[Last Hussar]

Ask Sunjester about the last game.  Specifically the last 3-4 moves... 

[paulr]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Four games of FogR
2) What armies were confronted? - Mapuche vs Early Danish, Tartar, Early Imperial Spanish and Ming Chinese
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? No
5) How many players were in the game? Two per game.

Results is order:
11-9
1-19
14-6
12-8

Four great games, but can you spot where the dice gods deserted me?

3 Wins, well done that man