2025 games count.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

A frostgrave game last night, much fun...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Three hours 🕒 of Burrows and Badgers, took a beating but it was a great game

[kustenjaeger]

I played (most of) a solo game of Stargrave on Sunday (4th May) using some of my son's old WotC Star Wars figures with a Republic team attempting to extract data from a separatist base and flee from it.

Worked pretty well but I couldn't finish it on Sunday because one of the cats objected to the board's presence in an upright and figure covered position ...

Edward

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cats always win

[paulr]

ACW Black Powder - Glory Hallelujah 3 players 3.75 hours

Fighting over the Corn Field at Antietam, this is the third time we've played the scenario (or is it the fourth), the Union Commander is still adjusting his forces to try and get a win.

We started this game last weekend finished off the Union game in about 15 minutes. We then reset with the Union commanding selecting an all infantry force, up to his points limit, this time. Each of the four (or is it five) games have played quite differently and all so far have been Confederate victories but not overwhelmingly so.

[flamingpig0]

Lasalle 2 1813- part of Leipzig

[fred.]

Back to fantasy gaming - War of the Ring Battle Game - Dwarves vs 'Goblins' lots of 10mm figures, about 8 player hours

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Five games of MeG using my Samurai.
A win, two draws, two losses.
About 15 hours playing time.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sabresquadron in 10mm
Russian T-64s beat up Black Horse cavalry.
Full report soon, but I got extremely lucky

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The Old West tonight What a Cowboy...

[paulr]

ACW Black Powder - Glory Hallelujah 3 players 3.25 hours

Fighting over the Corn Field at Antietam again, this is the third fourth time we've played the scenario (or is it the fourth fifth), the Union Commander is still adjusting his forces to try and get a win.

We started this game last weekend finished off the Union game in about 30 minutes. We then reset with the Union commander using the same forces, using different deployment and tactics, this time. Each of the five (or is it six) games have played quite differently and all so far have been Confederate victories but not overwhelmingly so.

In this one the Confederate right most and center brigades broke but we just managed to break enough Union brigades before he could take advantage of the gaps. We definitely snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Three board games yesterday main was Terraforming Mars. All much fun

[Chris Pringle]

ACW - Chattanooga (one scenario covering two days and combining the battles at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge). Doubly interesting as I visited the battlefield last year. BBB rules.
Full photo-AAR here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/05/chattanooga-lookout-mountain-missionary.html

[sunjester]

Not much time for gaming at the start of the month    so I tried to make up for it this week. Two games, a post-Martian Invasion skirmish game and a Midgard fantasy game.

[kustenjaeger]

On Thursday had a three player 15mm 1941 Ostfront game using IABSM which went for a bit under 5 hours.

Yesterday played 3 WWI dogfights and a WW2 bomber stream game at Army Museum of Flying.

Edward

[paulr]

For King & Parliament Battle of Montgomery scenario from the rule book using the unit cards available from Simon Miller's BigRedBat Shop. The unit cards were provided by my opponent and again generated comments about 'playing cards in church'.

An interesting game with both sides managing to rally some Horse from pursuit and one unit of Royalist of Horse managing to get back on table after pursuing off.

A leisurely 5 hours (interrupted by the club AGM and an interesting chat about the founding of the RNZAF) by 2 players

[Last Hussar]

I couldn't find this thread earlier, so the MSH is here

https://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,23708.0.html

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Three and a half hours of Soldiers of Napoleon, close game, but my Prussians lost.

[paulr]

ACW Black Powder - Glory Hallelujah 3 players 3 hours

Fighting over the Corn Field at Antietam for what turned out to be the final time. The Union player finally got a win

ACW Black Powder - Glory Hallelujah 3 players 2.5 hours

Moved onto bloody lane at Antietam, a clear Union victory (with a different player commanding the Union this time)

[fred.]

A couple of additions from the last couple of weeks

LoTR Fantasy Battle Game - Dwarves vs Goblins - Fords of Isen style scenario - started well for the Goblins, but the durability of the Dwarves told. 2 players, about 8 player hours. 

Heiho Sengoku period mass battle rules - two scratch sides to match the basing and play test the rules - ultimately a rather disappointing game, we were hopeful the rules would have good period feel, but the rules are hard work, and units were brittle and there was little attrition - both of which feel wrong in a mass battle game. 2 players 4 player hours.