Last weekend two and a half ACW games over two evenings

First game 3 players 1 hour decisive Union victory
Second game 3 players 2.5 hours close Confederate victory
Third game 3 players 2 hours so far - to be resolved this weekend

On the contrary I am frequently told I don't look nearly as old as I am.

I recently had to produce ID to prove my age to get an OAP discount on my haircut.

Just as well they can't see the picture in my attic 

Two terrific games on the Bank Holiday Monday.
ACW: The Petersburg Campaign. (BBB rules)
That's right, the campaign, the whole 9 months of it, in 9 turns on 6'x4'.
We played it twice in five hours.
Really, really good - exciting, entertaining, educational.
Photo-AAR on the BBBBlog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-whole-petersburg-campaign-twice.html

Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 26 August 2025, 06:52:18 PMFancy a game in 10mm,come over to LB

Thanks for the offer, I may wel take you up on that

Quote from: fsn on 26 August 2025, 03:20:32 PMI have looked at the FPW, but then slipped back just 4 years to the shenanigans of 1866.

Yes, 1866 is a ton of fun too.

Quote from: henjed on 26 August 2025, 09:15:00 AMis FPW "too close" to early Great War gaming? 

Not at all. Plenty of manoeuvre and depth and attack and counterattack and ebb and flow and fresh decisions to make every turn, not grinding incremental advance where all the defender has to do is roll firing dice.

Quote from: henjed on 26 August 2025, 04:41:33 PMWill 1870 be a bit of a slugfest compared to 1809 or 1812? I probably want to game at around Corps scale, either in 10mm or 6mm (the latter, I know, an heretical leaning). I like the idea of manoeuvre and the different dynamics of the two armies. I know some battles wee arduous tests of static courage under intense infantry fire (Gravelotte-St Privat) while others were more mobile.

Actually, 'slugfest' is a word I find myself using more for Napoleonics. In Napoleonics, firepower is less, so the assault is more important, and troop density is often such that it feels like alternating battering rams. (That has a charm of its own - Borodino was great.) In FPW, firepower is greater and has longer range but doesn't yet trump manoeuvre to the extent it does in WWI. Instead, it makes it easier for a mobile and clever attacker to concentrate enough firepower to blow enough holes in an enemy line to then charge through it. Of course, the enemy then responds in kind. But it means there is movement and the situation can change quickly.

I think there were actually fewer corps-sized actions than multi-corps battles in the FPW. It really was all about those 20 or so major set-piece battles. That's why we created BBB - when Dave W said "let's do FPW", I said "OK but this time let's do it properly". I didn't want to be doing just one sector of a big battle. That's where you do run into the problem of no room to manoeuvre and limited options. The Prussian Guard at St Privat? No thanks! (Each to their own, of course, and not everyone's tastes fit with my prejudice - just trying to say that I think the most fun to be had from FPW is at that higher big battle level.)

Hi

Does anybody know of a 'link' to information about 'the Other Partizan' show taking place in Newark on 12 October 2025? I'm trying to find out what games are going on, traders attending (I know Pendraken will be there) etc. All the links I have tried so far take me to information about the show in May this year.

Many thanks.

Cheers Paul

But they are... 

However, you don't look a day under 80.

Quote from: Orcs on 26 August 2025, 05:01:35 PMHenjed, Please can you keep the thoughts in your wandering mind to yourself.   I have enough problems being distracted onto other wargames related projects by my own mind, while still having several projects on the go. Without you making me think of others I might like.

Your post reminded me of playing Franco Prussian in 6mm using Principles of war rules, and now I am thinking "Where did I put those rules" despite not having suitable armies for either side.

So next time your mind wanders, please go and get coffee......and stay away from posting on the forum.   

Fancy a game in 10mm,come over to LB