What Ruleset Did You Use In Your Last Game 2016

[Zippee]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - The Walking Dead (The Mantic KS game)
2) What armies were confronted? - Survivors v Survivors with walkers getting in the way
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes-ish, would have helped if the chap running it had taken the cellophane wrapper off before turning up!
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 4 plus one chap allegedly running the scenario

Quite a fun game - needs consideration in setting up the scenario though as otherwise you can end up too spread out for the number of walkers. this happened here with 4 survivor groups on a larger table. The forest on the left was effectively cleared of walkers early on so those groups were having a fine old gun battle over the box of Twinkies while the two groups over by the road junction could only sneak about. Still quick, fun and quite brutal - we had bear traps, booby trapped grenades, players rising as walkers and others running out of ammo. We'll play again - we'll just ensure someone else has the rules beforehand 

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder
2) What armies were confronted? - French vs Prussians 1813ish
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, but a long time since we played
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

[toxicpixie]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - DBA
2) What armies were confronted? - Pyrrhic Successor versus Late Imperial Roman
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, very. My opponent was much more confidant as well.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Two

Got three games of DBA in before stopping to chat about show prep for Sunday at Wargamer. This week my opponent brought her Late Imperial Romans, as she'd got fed up of getting her warband smushed last week Two wins to Pyrrhus (both hard work, one involving forcing a river line which then went a bit Cannae as I eventually punched holes on the flanks and pocketed the Romans up), one win to the Romans - I got stupid, fell right into the terrain trap and flank envelopment from her Auxilia and blades, and then my cavalry shambled in and died removing all hope whilst trying to salvage any honour

Next games should be Sunday at Wargamer in Halesowen, we're running Song of Blades & Heroes as a participation game so pop along if you're free!

[Leman]

1. FOB2

2. 1860s style Prussians v. milita and civilian insurrectionists

3. Very comfortable with this set now.

4. No

5. Two players

[toxicpixie]

So, how did it go? Did the Franc-Tireurs beat off the dastardly Hun?

[Nosher]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Sharpe Practice 2
2) What armies were confronted? - AWI Loyalists v Southern Militia
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? - Solo

The Loyalists were attacked in a farmstead they had recently captured from the Militia.

With only minimal British Support (in the form of an artillery piece), they set about defending Trumpton from the dastardly Lt Pugh and Sgt Pugh (Leading the State Line), Barney (Leading the Frontier Skirmishers, McGrew (Leading the Dragoons, Cuthbert (Leading the Minutemen) and Physician Dibble and his boy assistant Grub.

Farage's defence of Trumpton consisted of 3 Loyalist Regular Groups, 2 Loyalist Skirmish units (under Nuttall), a unit of Loyalist Cavalry (held in reserve) and the British Medium Artiilery Crew led by Cpl Boris Johnson. Johnson, not reknowned for his forward planning had the foresight to take additional cannister which was to prove pivotal in the battle.

The Southern Militia advanced on a broad frontage but were held back on their left flank by some determined Loyalist skirmishing whilst on the right Jonhson's artillery soon found its range and peppered the oncoming State Line. Desperate to make a breakthrough the rebel Dragoons charged the British Artillery into a further hail of cannister, but with shock mounting they managed to effect a charge on the crew. In fierce had to hand the Artillery crew beat off the Dragoons and when the dust had settled only Johnson remained alive. He heroically reloaded the gun and continued to pour cannister into the rebel ranks which were faltering. Out of shot, he retired behind Farage's Loyalists who made short work of smashing the State Line's will to fight forcing a retreat.

Another stonking game.

[Luddite]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Blood Bowl (new version)
2) What armies were confronted? - Orcs v Dark elves
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, very. They are a re-skin rather than an update of previous versions
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes, but very familiar with previous versions
5) How many players were in the game? - One.  I was playtesting them.

[Leman]

So, how did it go? Did the Franc-Tireurs beat off the dastardly Hun?

Err....not quite. It was part of the ongoing C19th Imagi-nations campaign. The people of Kleine Hoysee had had enough of  Keller giving them a bit of a rough deal and rose up in revolt, led by the local militia (bearing an uncanny resemblance to red shirts). Most were local townspeople made up of a motley collection of communards, C19th civilian types, western figures, Confederates etc. They had access to a small amount of cavalry and a battery of light guns. They were suppressed by 6 battalions of regular Keller infantry, represented by Prussians with needle guns, a battalion of jager and three batteries of artillery, two of which were smoothbore 12 pdrs. The table was laid out as a grid and each square contained a building template with a building. The spaces between the buildings were roads, and some of these had roadblocks. We had a very simple method of hiding the insurgents in buildings or behind barricades until spotted by the oncoming troops (if in line of sight, throw a dice - 123 not seen, 456 spotted). This urban fighting proved very successful as a games mechanism and kept us going for three hours, but the poor old insurgents were mainly raw with a small number of militia units, whereas the Keller troops were all regular. Nevertheless the insurgents managed to shatter one battalion before they ran out of morale chips and failed an army morale test. However, the Kellerites are in for a surprise, as hot on their heels a larger Hoysee army force (here we use Austrians) is only a couple of days march behind them. Will the Kellerites, having driven off the insurgents, be able to hold on to Kleine Hoysee against this larger force?

[Steve J]

As I can't start a new topic in the Batreps section , here goes on trying to post the AAR of our recent Black Powder game:

http://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/a-clash-at-kutzdorf-black-powder.html

[toxicpixie]

Err....not quite. It was part of the ongoing C19th Imagi-nations campaign. The people of Kleine Hoysee had had enough of  Keller giving them a bit of a rough deal and rose up in revolt, led by the local militia (bearing an uncanny resemblance to red shirts). Most were local townspeople made up of a motley collection of communards, C19th civilian types, western figures, Confederates etc. They had access to a small amount of cavalry and a battery of light guns. They were suppressed by 6 battalions of regular Keller infantry, represented by Prussians with needle guns, a battalion of jager and three batteries of artillery, two of which were smoothbore 12 pdrs. The table was laid out as a grid and each square contained a building template with a building. The spaces between the buildings were roads, and some of these had roadblocks. We had a very simple method of hiding the insurgents in buildings or behind barricades until spotted by the oncoming troops (if in line of sight, throw a dice - 123 not seen, 456 spotted). This urban fighting proved very successful as a games mechanism and kept us going for three hours, but the poor old insurgents were mainly raw with a small number of militia units, whereas the Keller troops were all regular. Nevertheless the insurgents managed to shatter one battalion before they ran out of morale chips and failed an army morale test. However, the Kellerites are in for a surprise, as hot on their heels a larger Hoysee army force (here we use Austrians) is only a couple of days march behind them. Will the Kellerites, having driven off the insurgents, be able to hold on to Kleine Hoysee against this larger force?

No pasaran! Up the Revolution! If you don't fight, you'll always lose! etc.

Sadly that sounds like the popular front have opened the door to The Other Empire ^(tm), instead of forging fraternity across borders...

[Luddite]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - L'Art de la Guerre
2) What armies were confronted? - Wars of the Roses
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes.  While we're still learning, they seem intuitive, and as we have a background in DBx and FoG they LADLG ("laggledaggle"?!) feels very familiar.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No, but its been a while since we tried them and so this revisit means for us they're still new.
5) How many players were in the game? - 6.  Go big or go home.

[Leman]

You're right in one sense Toxic. However, the people of Kleine Hoysee (think Lichtenstein) feel they have much more in common with Hoysee (Austria) than they do with Keller (Prussia).

[toxicpixie]

Ah well, guess an inept and stagnant empire is better than nothing

[Leman]

Oh the Empire does exist, It's called the Empire. The Hoysee troops look like Austrians but they are not Austrians. Hoysee is about the size of modern Austria but is not controlled by the Empire.

[toxicpixie]

I do like a bit of Imagination'ing

[mollinary]

Oh the Empire does exist, It's called the Empire. The Hoysee troops look like Austrians but they are not Austrians. Hoysee is about the size of modern Austria but is not controlled by the Empire.

I am sure there is a saying regarding looking like, waddling like, and quacking like something or other, which might be relevant here, but I can't quite bring it to mind!? 

Mollinary

[Chad]

Think I will 'duck' behind a chair ! 😈

[vonlacy]

The rule set I used in our last game was Havelock.
The armies were the Honorable East India Company and Queen's Regiment verses Sepoys.

[vonlacy]

This was not the first time we have used the rules and there were five players.

[paulr]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - DBA 3.0
2) What armies were confronted? - Early Crusader v
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, still carefully double checking so I don't carry over any of my previous DBx rules that don't apply
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No, but yet to play against an opponent
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo

I decided a brief break from painting the Seljuq Turks would lift my enthusiasm for the project

So I pitted the last winners, the Cilician Armenians, against the 'newly' completed Early Crusaders. Much to the surprise of all the Armenians were the invaders (on the right).

The Crusaders deployed in the ploughed fields with Crossbows on the left, Spear in the centre and the right covered by bowmen in the scrubby area. Their Knights were in column ready to move to the left. The supporting Byzantine light horse were on the right eyeing up a sweep around the right to loot the Armenian camp.

In response the Armernians anchoured their left with bowmen on the gentle hill, their spearmen were in the centre. The Bedouin light horse on the right were to delay the Frankish knights and support the outnumbered Armenian knights.



Both sides were limited by some poor PIP dice in the early turns but fortunately the ploughed fields turned out to be good going. The Byzantine light horse didn't swing wide enough and were destroyed by bow fire when the Armenian bowmen advanced on the hill.



Some great shooting from the Crusader crossbows recoiled one of the Armenian spear units and destroyed another as the Crusader line closed on the Armenians.
I have just realised this was a mistake, Bows can not shoot if they moved more than one base width, they had moved two base widths to maintain the line. They had the range just wouldn't have been in line with the spear.



The Armenians again had limited PIPs, they managed to pull the bow on the hill back to the spear line and to move the right most spear onto the end of the spear line. They were unable to withdraw the Bedouin light horse or commit their knights.

The Crusaders charged all along the line. On the hill the spear facing the Armenian bowmen pushed them back and this allowed the Crusader bow and spear to push back their opponents. Unfortunately for the crusaders the next spear unit was pushed back, this left one Crusader spear unit facing three Armenian spear
A 5-1 was enough to push the Armenians back 

The Bedouin light horse was overwhelmed by the Crusader knights.



The Armenian spear counter attacked destroying the crusader spear. The fighting on the hill continued and the Crusader bow managed to destroy one of the Armenian bow units.

The Crusader knights charged the outnumbered Armenian knights pushing them back but their pursuit outdistanced their supporting knights on the left flank.

The Armenian knights fought back in their turn on even terms but their general was unhorsed (6-1'ed). With 4 elements destroyed the Armenians lost the battle.