2025 games count.

[Last Hussar]

FSN did not enter his games, which would have taken much, much longer

FIFY

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Game 1 of February
Blood Bowl Vampires 🦇 Vs Halflings
3-0 to the Vamps.

[sultanbev]

Back to the one true scale tonight at the Burnley club, 10mm WW2 in Italy late 1943, 29th Panzer Grenadier Division getting another drubbing from the British 23rd Armoured Brigade. The Company commander of A Coy 129th Panzer Bttn managed to single-handedly pot three Shermans before his StuG IIIG was knocked out. The only other impressive feat was the artillery OP shelling his own flak platoon, knocking out a Sdkfz 7/1, the rest retired off table in disgust. Out of my three blunders this evening (half the normal quota!), two were on the OP tank.....

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

10mm AWI Live Free or Die, Battle of Trenton. US forces scraped a win.

[Steve J]

Another Rebels & Patriots 1848 campaign game finished this morning.

[O Dinas Powys]

1. Offer to roll for them, to see if that makes any difference    Point out that you are not suggesting anything but luck here 

2. There is a player known to many NZ gamers who could fix this by simply standing near the table when your opponent rolls   

The most extreme example of the Mike effect I've seen was about 8 players in a larger Modern Spearhead game all complaining their dice had turned to crap. About 10 minutes later several started commenting that their dice were finally improving. It was at this point I noticed Mike walking back into the main hall after having a smoke leaning against the building we were in, unseen by any of us until this point.

 

[O Dinas Powys]

My friend has that effect at the same time!

I once did an analysis of his D10 rolls in a campaign we were doing. He rolls +0.5 per D10 higher than the average. Which doesn't sound much. Until you realise that is in effect +1 per every 2 D10 rolls, or +2 on one in four D10 rolls. As we use a Fire & Fury system, melees involve 2D10 per side in effect, defender shoots, attacker shoots with whats left, both roll melee roll.
 
More mysteriously the high rolls occur at critical sectors, eg when charging with line into grenadiers defending a wood. His low rolls occur where sufficient pluses make it not really a problem.

Dread the thought that there is more than one such deadly dice roller in the gaming world. Maybe we should get them to game each other, it would be bloodbath to the last stand   

My younger daughter also has this effect! 

At junior school they set a probability homework using dice: (effectively) roll 36d6, what do you expect the average of your rolls to be and why.

She put something like, "About 5 because I'm good at rolling dice".  She wasn't too far out!  

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Battle Group - using overlord book 500pts last night. I lost 

[paulr]

Black Powder with Glory Hallelujah in 20mm

Towards the end of the evening one of the Union commanders suggested they concede the game and withdraw their forces having lost two of their five brigades. The other Union commander suggested, one more turn. In this turn they broke two Confererate brigades. This on top of the Confederate brigade that had been broken earlier gave the Union victory, a very costly one, but victory.

[fred.]

Live Free and Die, 10mm AWI wargame. Our first go with these rules - which we enjoyed. But the scenario felt a very hard ask for the attacking British. 

[T13A]

Hi

Live Free and Die, 10mm AWI wargame. Our first go with these rules - which we enjoyed. But the scenario felt a very hard ask for the attacking British.

I've played most of the 'official' scenarios (some several times) and the British have yet to win one. Now remind me who wrote them.....    

Cheers Paul

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hi

I've played most of the 'official' scenarios (some several times) and the British have yet to win one. Now remind me who wrote them.....    

Cheers Paul

We came to the same conclusion, but we still like them!

[paulr]

Three For King & Parliament games at my local Hutt Club.

We used the same terrain and 100-point forces, selected from my Cheriton troops, each time. Three enjoyable and very different games with one Parliamentarian and two Royalist victories. We played for about 5 hours including set up and pack up.

[T13A]

Hi

First game this year, To the Strongest! Ancient Brits v Early Imperial Romans, win for the Brits mainly down to pretty bad dice for the invading Romans!

Cheers Paul

[paulr]

That's an interesting coincidence, last night we made a start on a DBMM Ancient Brits v Early Imperial Romans game.

We'll finish it next weekend as it's still anyone's game, despite the Britians having lost one of their Chariot and Light horse commands. Losing their General in the first round of combat didn't help 

[fred.]

Hi

I've played most of the 'official' scenarios (some several times) and the British have yet to win one. Now remind me who wrote them.....    

Cheers Paul

This was a fan made scenario - the only one we could find that was small enough for our currently painted troops. 

It felt that the distance the British had to cover vs the time limit really made it difficult for them to just get to grips with the Americans. 

[Steve J]

Another Rebels & Patriots game as part of my mini-campaign.

[sultanbev]

Continuing our 15mm ACW battle last night. We use a control deck to see who activates next, it's a normal pack of cards. The lucky CSA player got 9 reds in a row! So used up all his activation cards, destroying most of a Union brigade in the process. Now I get to play all my activations cards in a row with what's left 

[Chris Pringle]

BBB, Peninsular War - Battle of the Pyrenees
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/02/battle-of-pyrenees-1813-operational.html

[Shedman]

2 x BBB Nachod 1866 (1 Prussian Win , 1 Draw)
1 x BKCIV 1940 German airborne assault on the Maginot Line (German Win)
1 x Bumper Boats - Ancient Naval Warfare
1 x GW Lost Patrols