2025 games count.

[Last Hussar]

Sunjester...

Ask Orcs.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Mortal Gods: Mythic last Wednesday
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2025/01/mortal-gods-mythic-heroes-of-argo-vs.html

[Steve J]

Rebels & Patriots, part 1 of a mini-campaign.

[Chris Pringle]

BBDBA - a historical scenario, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451 AD). Six players, individual objectives, good fun. Yes, I played an ancients game!

[sultanbev]

Concluded the first round of our 15mm ACW game, the Iron Brigade totally wiped out but taking out 1000 Confederates of Anderson's Division of Jackson's Corps; US forces swept from the field for a 12-4VP win to the CSA.

Is a long game over several weeks still only count as 1 game for games count purposes?

[sunjester]

First game our new VSF campaign, groups of survivors post Martian invasion (War of the Worlds style). Perhaps that should be ESF?

[Last Hussar]

Steve - the Osprey website doesn't seem that clear on R&P scale (or I've just missed it!). It says 'Company'; my 10mm ACW are 6-7 on a 30mm base - would that feel odd?

It says based off Lion Rampant, so assuming the same sort of scale - 12 figures to a unit in LR - would 60-80 men in a unit (in 12 bases) look about right? Or is it literally a dozen blokes skirmishing?

[fred.]

With the whole LR series details such as figure scale and ground scale are not to be concerned with!

Its basic premise is 12x 28mm figures to a unit. For smaller scale figures going with 6 or 12 bases with multiple figures on the base would work fine. 

If you've got the figures going with 12x 30mm bases for a unit would look suitably imposing! But as you can see from Steve's reports he's gone with a lower figure count per unit. 

[Last Hussar]

What I'm thinking is that LR 10mm can work, but for later periods, which are more regimented,  the 12 bases cluster will look stupid.

[sultanbev]

Another 15mm WW2 battle at the Burnley club last night, second attempt at the Anschluss rules.

Three companies of panzer grenadiers in halftracks attacking head-on into a full battalion of US infantry hidden in buildings backed up by 13 anti-tank guns should go badly in any rules set, and indeed this was the case.
The morale rules are strange and the mortar ranges are plain wrong, but the latter is easy enough to alter. Overall 200% better than FoW, but data presentation needs to be better (vehicle & infantry stats are interspersed throughout the scenario books) and methodology of firing and morale (which confusingly they call effectiveness) is a bit convoluted and possibly not to current tastes.

[fred.]

What I'm thinking is that LR 10mm can work, but for later periods, which are more regimented,  the 12 bases cluster will look stupid.

There is no reason not to go with 6 bases, with each base having 2 hits and 2 attacks. As long as both sides are similarly based, it will work.


I don't recall any template weapons in LR, and combat is at unit level, so base size isn't that important. This becomes part of the rules in Dragon Rampant mainly to allow big creatures.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Two games of Pulp Alley Vs Mort's 'Top League'. Unfortunately my Wakandans came out on top, twice!

[pierre the shy]

Played a GQ 1/2 scenario on Saturday - Operation Vado 14 June 1940. A lesser known French Navy action just after Italy declared war on France. A French cruiser force attempts to bombard industrial targets around Genoa, Vado and Savona. In my What If scenario the French are intercepted by a Italian cruiser force heading for Genoa. The shore bombardment rules are taken from David Manley's Operation Grog scenario which covers the later British bombardment of the same area by Force H in February 1941.

Ended up a very close game with the Italians winning by 8.5 to 8 victory points. The scenario worked well and we had an entertaining evening.

[fred.]

This was a Jan game on Friday the 31st

Table top wargame of Dead Man's Hand, 28mm Wild West. Not sure if this is 3 games or 1 game. We played a linked set of 3 scenarios over the evening - they are escalating Scenes set within an Act.

Was a fun set of linked games, enjoyed the DMH rules, the cards add a nice bit of extra actions, without needing to remember loads of special rules. We played Tong vs Outlaws. Master Wu Jen was lethal in hand to hand combat - often scoring 7+ wounds, when 4 is enough to kill most characters. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Jan count and processing underway
From now on, Feb games please. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Of those who submitted date:
88 games were played.
15 people admitted to playing these games in January
Equates to an average 5.8666666666666666r games per poled player (effectively one a week).

I tried to roughly group some (some cross into other catagories):
15 were various types of boardgames
11 fantasy (including Midguard, some of which might hae been historical, and LoTR boardgames)
7 WW2 (land)
6 Wild West
6 BBB (5 of which were 1858-9)
5 ACW (although one big game, fought over several meets, could make this higher)
5 Colonial
4 Ancients/Medievals
3 Air games
3 ECW
1 Naval

What does this tell us?
we played a fair few games with family at the beginning of the month.
Fantasy is skewed by Midguard, whether because it is flavour of the month, a certain group of frieds play it, or that covers both fantasy and ancients, but nice to see new rules making an impact.
Cowboys are the big surprise to me, did not realise they were still popular
WW2 in various forms remains on the radar
I skew Colonial...
One person can skew a result set (BBB, but it's not the author)

[fred.]

Thanks for collating. 

No Sci Fi, and no Naps (didn't fsn finish his Naps campaign in Jan, or did he not post these to this thread?)

19th Century is the biggest with Wild West, BBB, Colonial, and ACW giving 22 combined. 

[sultanbev]

For February count,
day 2 of our ACW battle started tonight, the first turn (being an hour) sees both sides advancing their right flanks into undefended woodlands, whilst an artillery duel on the Union right flank gets the upper hand, the 8 US batteries versus 4 CSA being required due to the unequal dice rolling as usual. 

[Chris Pringle]

The author of BBB playing yet another non-BBB game:

Rapid Fire WWII France 1940. Victory to the defending French DLM, whose tanks sensibly didn't try to do anything complicated such as moving.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks for collating.

No Sci Fi, and no Naps (didn't fsn finish his Naps campaign in Jan, or did he not post these to this thread?)

19th Century is the biggest with Wild West, BBB, Colonial, and ACW giving 22 combined.

There was one Naps, forgot to add it to the list (which is the headlines). FSN did not enter his games, which would have taken Naps even higher