What Ruleset Did You Use In Your Last Game 2016

[Nosher]

1) Blucher
2) Napoleonic Peninsula French v Spanish
3) yes (although I got firing scores wrong and had to restart the game...... 
4) No  see 3...... 
5) Solo - although this was a virtual scharnhorst campaign played with T13a

Head over to http://nosherswargames.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/putting-down-andalusian-revolt-battle.html to see the result.

[Vanvlak]

Have not had a game in 2016 

[vonlacy]

) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Lion Rampart
2) What armies were confronted? - Late Medieval
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - OK, but the Bidowers are like the SAS!
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 5

[Last Hussar]

1 What ruleset do you use in your last game? - I don't play by no rules
2) What armies were confronted? - LMe vs the World
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - I make it up as I go along
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - 4 decades and counting
5) How many players were in the game? - 7 billion

[toxicpixie]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Song of Blades & Heroes
2) What armies were confronted? - Labyrinth Dwellers versus Mycenean/Greek Heroes
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 - but played through four times!

Several cracking games at WMMS on Sunday, where the Minotaur and his Satyr allies and giant rat minions got a repeated whalloping from Theseus or Jason and their men. I don't think the monsters fared very well elsewhere either! We had a good selection of punters from kids to veterans play, probably a dozen games or so over the day? Show was good too, cheers to all who went along!

Back to running D&D at the club in Wednesday so no wargaming for a few weeks but I'm hoping club mate Alan will have finished his 6mm Napoleonics by then, and if not more Frostgrave.

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Bloody Big Battles
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans and French & Spicheren 1870
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Two

Another great game with the terrain offering a very different set of challenges. AAR to follow.

[Chris Pringle]

Another great game with the terrain offering a very different set of challenges. AAR to follow.

Tantalising ... dare we hope the French might have recorded a win?

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

[Steve J]

No spoilers Chris but...

[JaymisHawk]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - Mighty Armies
2) What armies were confronted? - Gnomes Vs Penguins 
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? - 2

For anyone whose never tried it, Mighty Armies it is very simplistic but is great for a good all round 30min - 45min game. The core rules are easy as pie but the strategy element is quite deep. You can build whatever army you like (using a point based army builder in the core book), using whatever figures you want so long as both sides are based the same. If you get the chance and have a spare half hour or so, try it out!

P.S Polar Bear Mounted Penguins are EVIL!!!! By far the nastiest Cavalry I've come up against in Mighty Armies, and I've come up against some really weird but fun concoctions.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Which figures do you use?

[JaymisHawk]

Which figures do you use?

The Gnomes are done by RebelMinis in a ready to play army pack with Snail Battlewagons and Sun Flower catapults extras. The Penguins came from Magister Militum, not sure where the Polar Bears came from, they were a conversion done by a friend.

UPDATE: Had a quick look on Magister I think he probably used the Dwarf Bear Cavalry (the models look very similar).

[Katana_bob]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Those [Expletive removed so as not to offend] Frenchies started it! (wars of Spanish Succession home brew rules)
2) What armies were confronted? - Allies (Brits & Austrian) v's Franco-Bavarians
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? - 6 - 3 per side & me as umpire

I meant to take a few pics, but as usual I got caught up in the game & forgot

Rob

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - FogR
2) What armies were confronted? - Henrician English vs Korean
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? - 2
20-5 win for Henry VIII and his boys, although Pete had some majorly naff dice and poorly positioned units!

[FierceKitty]

White Man's Burden, Victorians vs Zulus, familiar rules, two players, battle went smoothly despite having both machine guns jam at critical moments. A useful little bonus was having two impis recoil from squares into each other, with calamitous results.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Couple of snatched shots

Deploying, I'm on the right.

The moment of victory

My army still needs basing and two units to paint, but they did well.

[WFGamer]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Twilight of the Sun King - updated version that is coming soon
2) What armies were confronted? - Battle of Almenar, 1710 - Spanish vs Confederates (i.e. British and allies)
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? - 2

A refight of a battle in Spain during the WSS. It was a meeting engagement. Historically the Spanish lost but this time they managed to hang on until nightfall and so claim a morale victory.

[Bodvoc]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Frostgrave
2) What armies were confronted? My noble Enchanter and his gang against Roy's y Illusionist and his squad.
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? - 2

This was mine and Roy's second game of Frostgrave and really good fun. I managed to bag most of the treasure by using a Telekinesis spell to move most of it my way; this spell seems to dominate the game but then my Wizard does wear an anorak!

[toxicpixie]

My earlier Frostgrave experience was against flashy Elementalists and ingrained a "shoot first, shoot second, then set fire to the bodies" approach to "winning". Swapping around a little I've then been playing versus an Enchanter who uses a lot of Telekinesis, Mud and Fog spells to shape the field, who'd normally played against a very cagey Necromancer who generally contented himself with bagging a couple of closer treasures and not risk too much.

I think our disparate approaches caused each of us some consternation. He gets a bit wierded by me closing right up and just killing his chaps, I get wierded that all the treasure keeps disappearing

Good game!

[Leman]

1. Field of Battle 2
2. Russian v. Japanese 1905
3. Yes. Played the Japanese and experienced a rare victory.
4. Been playing these since published.
5. Two.

[Chris Pringle]

Just so you know I do other stuff than BBB sometimes!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Victory at Sea (WWII naval)
2) What armies navies were confronted? - US vs Japanese 1945
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 3

I generally don't do boats and am no expert, but VAS seemed to me to capture some key aspects of WWII naval warfare with rule mechanisms that were slick and quick and easy to grasp.  We didn't have any carriers or strike aircraft, but I did get to command the biggest battleship ever built, the Yamato. Only reservations: torpedoes seemed a little too deadly, and the squadron-by-squadron activation makes it slow for multi-player. Good fun nonetheless.

And also:
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Bolt Action (WWII skirmish)
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans trapped between US and Russians in 1945
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 4

Apparently the Allies had 2000 points vs our German 1500. As it turned out that was poor odds for the attackers. We'd set up the German defence efficiently and the Allies mostly just walked into our ambushes. I didn't lose a man and didn't have to move. Satisfied with my basic tactical competence. As for the rules: surprisingly similar comments as for VAS! Quick and simple and easy to grasp; again, a big reservation about the unit-by-unit activation so that in a 4-player game I was doing nothing 3/4 of the time.

But it was good to vary my diet, and I had a great day.

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
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