2025 games count.

[fred.]

Two more Dead Man's Hand cowboy games on Friday. As always these are much fun, with the straight forward core rules, but then the cards allowing for some fun special rules. 

[sunjester]

This week 2 games, a War of the Worlds Survivors Game and Sellswords and Spellslingers.

[flamingpig0]

Four games of the yet unreleased Peter Pig Sci-Fi rules- "The Company Rules"

[Chris Pringle]

Napoleonic Peninsular War battle: Braga (1809).
(For the history see here:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Braga_(1809)

This will be one of the scenarios in Dr Mark Smith's book of Peninsular War battles for BBB. It's a really interesting match-up: French vs Portuguese, not a Brit or Spaniard in sight. The French have a high-quality force and the mission of driving twice as many Portuguese off a couple of steep ridges. The Portuguese are numerous but really poor, half-armed and quarter-trained levies for the most part. Their only decent unit is the 2,000 men of the Loyal Lusitanian Legion.

This asymmetry made for a great tabletop teaser, a tactical challenge with a very different flavour. As it turned out, our Portuguese 'speed bumps' did manage to disrupt and delay the French assault enough to claim victory, but it was nip and tuck to the last turn. Great fun. Proper report to follow.

[Chris Pringle]

AAR of the Braga game is up now:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-grape-scissors-portuguese.html

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

2 games of XenosRamapant last night...both fun, lost 1 won 1....

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Wednesday was Mortal Gods, my Thespians did a number on an encroaching Spartan warband.

[fred.]

WWI table top wargame - using If the Lord Spares Us rules - historically plausible scenario in 1916 French vs Germans. 2 players, 9 player hours. 

[paulr]

Two Big Battle DBA games - Hundred Years War

• Two French & Scots v Two English & Low Countries - 4 players, 2.75 hours - English win
• Two French & Burgundians v Two English & Free Companies - 4 players, 1.5 hours - French win

For King & Parliament Battle of Roundway Down - 2 players, 3.5 hours - Royalist win
    Used the cards produced by TtS! rather than figures

[flamingpig0]

7TV Planet of the Fungoids

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

A General d Armee game yesterday - Telavera scenario. Was about honours even, as the British C0mmander it was nice to equal froggy skimishers for a change.

[sunjester]

This week 2 games of Zombie Stagecoach and one of Midgard (Dwarves vs Elves).

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

4 games of MeG this weekend, came 5 out of 6 with a big win, an absolute loss, a draw and a fair sized loss.
But I did use 10mm cavalry and sheep.

[pierre the shy]

Love playing BBDBA...fast and furious games. We went for all infantry forces in the first game and the Scots Pk didn't have much fun against the Low Countries Pk and English missile troops.

We changed the French ally to Burgundians for the return match. They had 3 units shot away in the first exchange (don't roll 1's Peter 🙂) but hung on as the French right wing unexpectedly rolled up their opposite numbers in two turns. A good couple of evenings 👍

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

March count finally done!
71 games.
Will add full results to the spreadsheet, but...
C19th Europe 3
WWII 6
WWI 1
WWII air 2
WWI air 3
Cowboys 10
Sci-Fi 3
ACW 7
ECW 2
Nap Naval 2
Nap 6
AWI 7
C18th Europe 2
Fantasy 6
Boardgames 1
Classical/Dark Ages 8

I'll add the Q1 list from hammurabi70 to the running total too.

[fred.]

Well we are a varied bunch aren't we   

I've no idea what these numbers mean - other than bad news for Leon in that he has to keep producing more and more ranges of figures!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Burrows & Badgers
Mort's warband failed to rescue their Mole Friar before I handed him over to the witch hunters.

[flamingpig0]

March count finally done!
71 games.
Will add full results to the spreadsheet, but...
C19th Europe 3
WWII 6
WWI 1
WWII air 2
WWI air 3
Cowboys 10
Sci-Fi 3
ACW 7
ECW 2
Nap Naval 2
Nap 6
AWI 7
C18th Europe 2
Fantasy 6
Boardgames 1
Classical/Dark Ages 8

I'll add the Q1 list from hammurabi70 to the running total too.

I am not sure  how much it matters but I played 4 Sci-Fi games on the 5th April

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Quite a lot, as that was March's count, and didn't have much Sci-fi. , and now you've given April a boost. Thank you.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ran a GdA game last night....