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Wider Wargaming => Batreps => Topic started by: Norm on 29 April 2018, 03:57:37 PM

Title: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: Norm on 29 April 2018, 03:57:37 PM
Part 2 (the AAR) of my attempt to take a slice of action from a boardgame and take it to the tabletop has now been put up on the blog. Black powder on a 4' x 3' table with Kallistra 12mm figures. The boardgame generated a landscape that I doubt I would 'imagine' if I was just putting a non-historical game together, so it was interesting to step outside a typical table (mine at least)

Link
http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-fight-for-balls-ford-black-powder.html
Title: Re: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: paulr on 29 April 2018, 07:37:21 PM
An interesting game on challenging terrain :)
Title: Re: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: Steve J on 29 April 2018, 08:09:43 PM
Another nice report on mixing board games with figure games. Also good to see BP being used for smaller scale actions.
Title: Re: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: Techno on 30 April 2018, 05:29:08 AM
Great report !!

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: sunjester on 30 April 2018, 08:23:49 AM
Excellent, looks like a fun game. I'll have to try some smaller games with BP myself.
Title: Re: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: Norm on 30 April 2018, 03:02:37 PM
This game has left me feeling that smaller BP games benefit from having some cover on the table rather than being mostly open, to dampen down the hit rate.
Title: Re: Fight for Ball’s Ford - Black Powder
Post by: d_Guy on 30 April 2018, 06:48:38 PM
That's a hard slog making an opposed crossing particularly where there is no place to work against the flanks (other than by fire). In many  ways it had the feel of one of Neil Thomas's OHW scenarios (which is a complement, actually). Enjoyed reading your narrative and analysis.