2025 games count.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Finally got to play Sabre Squadron (company-level moderns).
Arab-Israeli tank action in 1973.
Centurions demonstrated their superiority over T-55s in both attack and defence.
AAR here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/07/sabre-squadron-arab-israeli.html

Nice report, glad you enjoyed it.

[Chris Pringle]

Nice report, glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks for prompting me to pester Nick!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks for prompting me to pester Nick!

Pleasure
It's a small world sometimes. 

[fred.]

Finally got a game in after several fallow weeks!

Played Daimyo a play test version of an upcoming Osprey set - for Sengoku Jidai period - they played really well, the command token system works well, and certainly gives a good flavour of sonae style warfare. 

This is good news as the search for rules for this period has been challenging!

2 players, 8 player hours. 

[Chris Pringle]

ACW: 3rd Battle of Winchester, aka Opequon (1864).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Winchester
Second playtest of a scenario for the intended BBB ACW scenario books.
First one had been a one-sided Union win in which the Union cavalry was rated a bit too high and acted like Panzer divisions.
This time Matt had over-corrected a bit, not just re-rating the cav but also hampering the Union command, producing a comfortable Confederate victory.
Still a very interesting scenario with decisions and movement for both sides. One more round of minor tweaking should be the charm.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

A rapid Fire reloaded game last night - set in Greece. Never seen so many 1's rolled. German victory but fun for both sides.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

AVBCW pkaytest

[paulr]

ACW Black Powder - Glory Hallelujah 2 games 3 players 2.25 hours, 3 players 3 hours

Fighting over the Bloody lane at Antietam again, a Confederate & a Federal victory

DBMM II/49 Marian Roman v II/53 Ancient British 4 players 4 hours a Roman victory

[sunjester]

Two games this week, a War of the Worlds survivors game from our on-going campaign and Midgard bash between Nasty Normans and Magnificent Mercians! Somehow the Mercians thrashed the Normans, even I was surprised by my dice rolling!!!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Should we be surprised?

[Last Hussar]

In the blue corner, the might of imperial Rome at it's height.
In the Red corner farm boy with pointy stick and Sunjester rolling his dice...

[sunjester]

Should we be surprised?

In the blue corner, the might of imperial Rome at it's height.
In the Red corner farm boy with pointy stick and Sunjester rolling his dice...

    

[paulr]

DBMM II/49 Marian Roman v II/53 Ancient British 3 players 5 hours a Roman victory

DBA IV/62c 100 Year's War English v IV/64c Medieval French 2 players 45 minutes, a French victory

DBA IV/62c 100 Year's War English v IV/64c Medieval French 2 players 45 minutes, an English victory

DBA II/33 Polybian Roman v II/32a Later Carthaginian 2 players 45 minutes, a Carthaginian victory

DBA II/33 Polybian Roman v II/32a Later Carthaginian 2 players 45 minutes, a Roman victory

[pierre the shy]

DBMM II/49 Marian Roman v II/53 Ancient British 3 players 5 hours a Roman victory
DBA IV/62c 100 Year's War English v IV/64c Medieval French 2 players 45 minutes, a French victory
DBA IV/62c 100 Year's War English v IV/64c Medieval French 2 players 45 minutes, an English victory
DBA II/33 Polybian Roman v II/32a Later Carthaginian 2 players 45 minutes, a Carthaginian victory
DBA II/33 Polybian Roman v II/32a Later Carthaginian 2 players 45 minutes, a Roman victory

There's a bit of a story behind these games.....

Mrs Shy works as the librarian at the community library in the suburb we live in. The library is shared with the local primary school who use it during school hours. After 3pm on weekdays and on Saturdays it transforms into the community library.

In order to help encourage visitor numbers she has set up a number of different activities and displays, mainly on the weekend. She asked me and our small group of regular gamers if we could put on some demo games and display a few different units from various eras in our collections.

With limited table space the best solution we could easily come up with was to play DBA with various different armies. We got through 5 games, though none were taken particularly seriously as they were all demo games. We got a steady flow of visitors, mainly kids and parents, who were all quite interested in our display. We got the kids to roll the dice (the French won the second game thanks to some great rolls by one youngster who rolled a lot higher scores than I usually manage    ).

I made up around 20 flyers giving details of the two local Wellington area gaming clubs and we finished up with four left in the end, so hopefully they may get some potential members.

All in all a very productive session all round           

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff there