What was the last rules set you played 2019

[Last Hussar]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? – Black Powder
2) What armies were confronted? – 1866 Austrian vs Prussian
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – No
5) How many players were in the game? – 2
6) What went well? – the look on Sunjester's face when the Austrians rushed on and made a near perfect deployment.
7) What could have been improved - Sunjester's legendary dice gods not turning up in the denouement.

This was the tweaked version SJ and I tried. I know very little about this war, but wanted to get his 15mm Austrians on the table.

He'd rewritten the needle gun so instead of twice the amount of shooting dice,the Prussians got to reroll misses, which should decrease hits on average by 25%, but still 50% more than non needle gun shooting. The command tweak encourages the Austrians to use battalionmasse, or what ever they called it in 1866.

It was a historical scenario, both sides rushing down a road to attack the other, not realising they were both coming down the same road. The Prussians suffered from their entry being one the corner quarter behind a river which takes time to ford, and arty can only use the bridge. The dice gods slept for the first 3/4 of the game, SJ deploying in a confused mass, with divisions getting in each others way.  Meanwhile the Austrians rushed on, deploying correctly in position to  block with 1 line, and smash with 2 columns. One Prussian AdC was heard to say shut they can't be be Austrian. They are doing it correctly." My single cavalry unit even had success in a frontal charge to disrupt a division by catching a brigade (we play this period at next level up) as it forded the river.

Then the dice swung back, and my shooting became abysmal, while his save throws demonstrated the familiar SJ luck, my commands went askew, leaving a division that should have charged part way to target and enfiladed by his massed artillery.

A battle that historically had the Prussians fleeing back the way they came ended with a tactical victory-draw to the Austrians.

[Glorfindel]

Leman,

I do like those pics - very nice painting and basing.


Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice reports

[Leman]

Mostly Pendraken stuff done by my mate (and opponent in this instance), Paul.

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? – Honours of War
2) What armies were confronted? – 1744 French vs English Militia
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – A bit rusty as it's been some time since we last played.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – No
5) How many players were in the game? – 2
6) What went well? – Dave's die rolling, with lots of 6's allowing him to move rather quickly. The scenario in general as this is the start of a mini-campaign, with a strong narrative to drive it.
7) What could have been improved - Not a lot really. We were a bit rusty but if we weren't sure on something, we went with what seemed most reasonable.

[Leman]

Nice one Steve. My next game is HOW (also a bit rusty).

[FierceKitty]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? – Ball and Bayonette
2) What armies were fighting? - SYW Prussians and Austrians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – Not a bit of it
5) How many players were in the game? – two
6) What went well? – Prussian musketry and getting there when they were needed   
7) What could have been improved? - Wretched melee and artillery rolls.

[Ithoriel]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? – Ronin
2) What armies were fighting? - Sohei vs Sohei
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Bit rusty but I got there
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – No
5) How many players were in the game? – Two
6) What went well? – Teaching my son the rules ... and pretty much everything he did thereafter!
7) What could have been improved? - I could have won one initiative roll, that would have been nice He chose the order of things in every turn and struck first in every combat.

I bought a pile of "Ninja All Stars" chibi ninja second hand because I liked the sound of the game and also liked the figures but the combat rules were awful (IMHO) so I switched to "Ronin" instead. We stat the ninja as factions from the rules, not ninja.

Couple of pictures of the action. Translucent skulls are light wounds, cream skulls are serious wounds, white tokens are stun and red tokens are dead body markers.

[ronan]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? – Honours of War
2) What armies were confronted? – 1759 Austria vs Prussia,  (Zinna, a scenario from the forum HoW)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – yes.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – No
5) How many players were in the game? – 2
6) What went well? – The game was fine.
7) What could have been improved - A very tough scenario for the austrians. I should have rotate the map 90° on the side to gain more space.

I like this picture :

[Leman]

Great looking battlefield Ronan.

[Steve J]

Yep, great looking terrain

[fred.]

Yes, really good looking artillery and table.

[paulr]

Fourthed

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool

[FierceKitty]

Sorry I'm late - looks wonderful.

[Norm]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? – Black Powder 2nd edition with Glory Hallelujah supplement
2) What armies were fighting? - ACW uninion and confederate
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – No
5) How many players were in the game? – Solo
6) What went well? – The chaos that the order system throws up made for dynamic play.
7) What could have been improved? - my own fault, poor tactics and some unlucky dice when attacking a building ended really badly for the attackers.

[FierceKitty]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? – Ball and Bayonette
2) What armies were fighting? - SYW Prussians and Austrians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – Not a bit of it
5) How many players were in the game? – two
6) What went well? – From my point of view, just that Lee is very pleased to have clobbered me.
7) What could have been improved? - Not having an Austrian off-table flank march turn up in my rear and kill Frederick, causing a general collapse of morale.

[Last Hussar]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? – Sell Swords and spell slingers
2) What armies were fighting? - our band of plucky adventurers vs {checks scenario} everybody from the look of it
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – Not a bit of it
5) How many players were in the game? – two Me and Sunjester
6) What went well? – FIREBALL 
Calm down Eddie.
Also it turns out a really good way to annoy the Ranger is for the dwarf to find the path leading out of the wood. And for the elf to find the short cut.
7) What could have been improved? - not enough undead for Brother Christos

[Last Hussar]

Lemmy.
Think of this as a trailer for SJs write up.

[paulr]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? – Volley & Bayonet Wing scale Indian Mutiny variant (pulled together from a couple of local Colonial variants)
2) What armies were fighting? - Loyalists v Muntineers
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? – Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – First & second time testing this variant
5) How many players were in the game? – one
6) What went well? – the variant seemed to work pretty well, both games played differently as both sides used different tactics
7) What could have been improved? - not a lot so far, I need to try a different scenario