A dark day in Sudan

[slimreidy1]

Good afternoon chaps,
As the posts title sugests i was on the wrong end of a heavy defeat taking command of the British relief column in our latest Blackpowder 1885 sudan game. I have the usual AAR over on my blog  (using the new desert battle mat for the first time)  if you want to check out the action or massacre depending on how you look at it on the following link

http://www.slimreidy1.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/a-dark-day-in-desert-for-british-relief.html
cheers 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

A beautiful looking game again gents.
That's quite a licking you took there.

[FierceKitty]

That's quite a licking you took there...

...as the bishop said to the actress.

[pierre the shy]

Looks like a great game.....can sympathize with the bad dice rolling  

Got to say the desert cloth, terrain and troops look superb.

Looks like we might be playing a few games like this later in the year.....

[Leman]

Great looking game, and I really like the style of basing you have gone for.

[Womble67]

Cracking look game

Take care

Andy

[Maenoferren]

Great looking game.  Where did you get your mat?

[Leman]

...as the bishop said to the actress.

Oh dear me.

[slimreidy1]

Great looking game.  Where did you get your mat?

The mat was purchased from a company called the Cigar box. The mats are excellent,well worth the money

[paulr]

Looks like a great game.....can sympathize with the bad dice rolling  

Got to say the desert cloth, terrain and troops look superb.

Looks like we might be playing a few games like this later in the year.....

Seconded

Reports like this are making it more and more likely

[d_Guy]

...as the bishop said to the actress.

...after she lost a fifteen rounder on points.

[d_Guy]

Enjoyed reading the battle report - the table top has an excellent look and feel. Well done!
And another documented account of NPD syndrome - the evidence continues to mount - perhaps the day will come when our understanding will be sufficient to rid the world of this scourge.

[pierre the shy]

Seconded

Reports like this are making it more and more likely

Look forward to that then 

Keep calm, fix bayonets and hope the maxim gun doesn't jam?

[Techno]

Great report & photo's.
Cheers - Phil

[Zippee]

Looks really nice.
Really nice painting and basing style, almost impossible to tell at first glance what scale the miniatures are - probably means you take the shots from the right distance

I have Deep Cut Studio mats which are also excellent - is the Cigar Box one cloth or vinyl, it seems to drape well. I have vinyl from DCS which is great because pushing units about is really easy, no catching and stumbling, breaking ranks no siree! But it don't drape, at all. So in two minds about a cloth, DCS do cloth ones but cloth has texture,    - what's the surface texture like on the CB mat?