2025 games count.

[Chris Pringle]

Great rort and piccies Chris

Thanks, Duke!

[Chris Pringle]

WWII: Peleliu - The Point

The scenario was the attack by K Coy, 3rd Bn, 1st Marines, to secure "The Point" and cover the western flank of the invasion force. I commanded the USMC force against Scott's Japanese. Really bloody game that came down to the last few dice, decided by a crucial objective being captured and then recaptured in the last couple of turns. Tense and difficult - just as it should be to capture the flavour of the Pacific - terrific scenario by Rob and his beautiful troops and terrain. Rules were a new set that Scott is developing. Proper HQGE ("High Quality Gaming Experience").

[fred.]

Back to Cowboys this Friday with Dead Man's Hand rules, we played 2 acts of a scenario, with 4 players. More good games, the special abilities on the cards add just enough chrome to make it interesting, without dominating. But 4 players does slow things down - so we will keep figure count low to allow the standard 3 acts of a scenario to be played through. 

Thinking about how we quantify games (yes, I do have better things to do with my time!) would number of player hours be a useful metric (i.e. the number of players x number of hours played), so for these games it was 2 games, the first with 4 player hours, and the second with 8. 

Whereas last week the LoTR dual games were just 1 player hour each, and the big epic game was 24 player hours. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That might be a fun way of doing it.
Will do the Feb count after work tonight.

[Federico]

Got a hard beating by some nasty necron with my eldar army, WH40k 5th edition.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cool model.
Channelling Cylon raiders!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

February games count (of those games admitted to)
Total games played 42 (down from 88, but it's a short month, it's the second month so the novely wears off, and less people added in their scores, plus less boardgames as it's not the Xmas break/family time)
Scores Jan/Feb
Boardgames 15/5 Wild West 6/4 WW2 7/7 ACW 5/6 Colonial 5/0 Ancients 4/3 Fantasy 11/4 Air 3/0 Naval 1/0 ECW 3/4 Naps 1/1 Med 2/2 Chinese 0/1 C19thEuro 3/3
 
*Between now and next month, I will practise inserting tables*

[sultanbev]

Continued our 15mm ACW game tonight, the Union right flank just got demolished, 1 battery and 3 regiments completely destroyed by 18th and 19th Virginians of Garnett's Brigade. Will the Union get chance to deploy sufficient reserves to that flank in time next week?

[Federico]

Cool model.
Channelling Cylon raiders!

Yes definitely a reference for the design of the necron "croissant"

[Chris Pringle]

American Revolutionary War: Freeman's Farm.

Lovely 28mm figures. Revisited a scenario we played a couple of years ago, but this time we used a variant of BBB that Scott has developed. Great punch-up, victory swayed from the Brits to the US and finally back to the Brits again - but only because the variable turn limit gave them one extra turn to salvage it.

[sunjester]

3 games of Zombie Stagecoach (Wild West zombies).

[Chris Pringle]

American Revolutionary War: Lexington & Concord.

This game was adapted from the scenario in the Canadian Wargames Group's "Whites of their eyes" campaign book. We played this back in 2016 using Muskets & Tomahawks rules, as reported here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2016/01/back-with-bang-waterloo-winter-war-awi.html
This time it was with Scott's BBB AWI variant. Ended up 10 VP each - a tie! Super fun scenario.

[Chris Pringle]

American Revolutionary War: Bunker Hill.

This is one of those battles that has to be gamed but isn't necessarily much fun: a frontal assault with very limited options for the attacker and little for the defender to do other than shoot. As one of the British players, I enjoyed it in a masochistic way. Scenario needs some adjustment so we will tweak and replay.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Mortal Gods
The gods were on my side last night, massive win.

[Chris Pringle]

American Revolutionary War: Bunker Hill.

Replayed adjusted scenario. Adjustments worked - better game, ended in a draw (in game terms).

[Chris Pringle]

Three games yesterday:

American Revolutionary War: Lexington & Concord.
A draw yet again! 5 VP each. A classic scenario.

American Revolutionary War: Bunker Hill.
Third time lucky! Plans A & B had failed; Plan C finally produced a British victory, but could easily have gone the other way. Calling this one done.

WWII air battle: "When Pigs Fly".
Brits vs Italians over Egypt in 1940. This was a scenario from CB Stevens's "Falcon of the Duce" scenario book for the "Check Your Six!" rules. It features six Ba-65s bombing British armour, while their fighter escort of Cr-32s and Cr-42s - including Italy's top fighter ace, Franco Lucchini - took on British Gladiators escorting a recce Lysander. Swirling furball ensued in which we Brits shot down all the Italian biplanes except Lucchini, without taking a scratch. Years since I last played CY6 and it was great to be dogfighting again.

[flamingpig0]

Bussaco in 6mm using Black Powder

[fred.]

Legions Imperialis - Sci Fi wargame - marine vs marine action - 3 of us played, with one side split between two. When I left we were winning! 11 player hours. 

[Chris Pringle]

WWII: Peleliu
Replayed with different players and plans. Crushing US victory: they ground forward keeping concentrated, none of the Japanese ambushes caused significant casualties, so the Japs were defeated piecemeal.

[Chris Pringle]

WWII: Death of Wittmann.
(Is this 2 1/4 games? We played it two and a bit times.)
This was a scenario of the action during Operation Totalise, near Caen in August 1944, in which German panzer ace Michael Wittmann was killed. It's one in which the German player has to grit his teeth because he knows he has to advance and be ambushed by Sherman Fireflies. First go was abortive - the Brits and Canadians sprang their ambush too early so the Tigers sat on their haunches and won the firefight from a distance on Turn 2, game over. Second go similarly one-sided in the other direction: having swapped sides, the new German players squandered light armour on their flank, then the Tigers wandered past half of our ambush to present their flanks at close range and were duly wiped out. Third game much tighter and the most fun: sensible use of reconnaissance by the Germans, a more even firefight, but the Germans just managed to get a Panzerkeil off the north edge for a clear win.