2025 games count.

[Chris Pringle]

Three games yesterday:

American Revolutionary War: Lexington & Concord.
A draw yet again! 5 VP each. A classic scenario.

American Revolutionary War: Bunker Hill.
Third time lucky! Plans A & B had failed; Plan C finally produced a British victory, but could easily have gone the other way. Calling this one done.

WWII air battle: "When Pigs Fly".
Brits vs Italians over Egypt in 1940. This was a scenario from CB Stevens's "Falcon of the Duce" scenario book for the "Check Your Six!" rules. It features six Ba-65s bombing British armour, while their fighter escort of Cr-32s and Cr-42s - including Italy's top fighter ace, Franco Lucchini - took on British Gladiators escorting a recce Lysander. Swirling furball ensued in which we Brits shot down all the Italian biplanes except Lucchini, without taking a scratch. Years since I last played CY6 and it was great to be dogfighting again.

[flamingpig0]

Bussaco in 6mm using Black Powder

[fred.]

Legions Imperialis - Sci Fi wargame - marine vs marine action - 3 of us played, with one side split between two. When I left we were winning! 11 player hours. 

[Chris Pringle]

WWII: Peleliu
Replayed with different players and plans. Crushing US victory: they ground forward keeping concentrated, none of the Japanese ambushes caused significant casualties, so the Japs were defeated piecemeal.

[Chris Pringle]

WWII: Death of Wittmann.
(Is this 2 1/4 games? We played it two and a bit times.)
This was a scenario of the action during Operation Totalise, near Caen in August 1944, in which German panzer ace Michael Wittmann was killed. It's one in which the German player has to grit his teeth because he knows he has to advance and be ambushed by Sherman Fireflies. First go was abortive - the Brits and Canadians sprang their ambush too early so the Tigers sat on their haunches and won the firefight from a distance on Turn 2, game over. Second go similarly one-sided in the other direction: having swapped sides, the new German players squandered light armour on their flank, then the Tigers wandered past half of our ambush to present their flanks at close range and were duly wiped out. Third game much tighter and the most fun: sensible use of reconnaissance by the Germans, a more even firefight, but the Germans just managed to get a Panzerkeil off the north edge for a clear win.

[paulr]

Two evenings into a 20mm Napoleonic game using our regular hosts home brew rule set

Reinforcements still arriving so at least another couple of evenings to go

One village has changed hands twice and much of the heavy cavalry of both sides has been roughly handled, including one unit of Cuirassiers losing its eagle to the Scots Greys

[Chris Pringle]

ACW: The Seven Days.
Playtesting a modified version of the BBB scenario reported on here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-seven-days-battles-acw-all-in-one.html
Players loved the challenge of the decisions they had to make. US suffered a devastating Confederate onslaught around Gaines Mill early on, but Jackson's men were too laggard to take advantage. McClellan responded by an uncharacteristically aggressive push towards Richmond but was kept at bay. US still had to fall back towards the James River eventually, but managed to hold up the Rebs' advance north of White Oak Creek and retain Glendale. US victory; useful playtest; successful game, much post-battle discussion of alternative plans for both sides, full of replay value.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Busy table ..
Surprised Linda didn't knit extra terrain.

Great report

[Federico]

North Africa campaign - WW2
Commonwealth forces conquer the heavily fortified city of Tobruk, with the 7th armored division and the 4th Indian infantry division leading the assault.
A 4 hrs friction with Alto Comando rules.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That looks Awesome

[fred.]

North Africa campaign - WW2
Commonwealth forces conquer the heavily fortified city of Tobruk, with the 7th armored division and the 4th Indian infantry division leading the assault.
A 4 hrs friction with Alto Comando rules.

Looks cool - I'm interested to know what scale the game is, i.e. what does 1 stand represent, because there are a lot of lorries on that table!

[Federico]

Looks cool - I'm interested to know what scale the game is, i.e. what does 1 stand represent, because there are a lot of lorries on that table!

We're using Alto Comando rules (High Command) by Riccardo Affinati, there's the english version somewhere on the web. It's an fast and easy set of rules for WWII divided in 6 principal scenarios (North Africa, Greece, Italy, Russia, Normandy and Pacific) using divisional perspective (a single base being a battalion 500/1000 men strong). So a single truck would be a motorized infantry battalion. In this rules set a British infantry division is made of 13 bases, 1 hq, 1 recon, 9 motorized infantries and 2 artillery. I have to admit that even in the desert I managed to clog the roads with some traffic jams...

[Federico]

That looks Awesome

Thanks! We started painting 3 years ago everything from scratch - table, items and the two armies. It's satisfying to use the same painting process for every base, table and items.
It's all Leon fault.

[Steve J]

An absolutely beautiful game there Frederico !

[Steve J]

Honours of War, nominally Europeans vs Ottomans, 18thC.