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).