Well just had two days of gaming at the local clubs annual convention here in Wellington.

After last years highly sucessful American defence of Guadancanal  this year Paul and I put on two one day games, Nery 1914 on Saturday and Camden 1781 today.

What happened?

Plenty of interest in 10mm, especially todays AWI game. Lot of people commented on how good the figure to base ratios looked.  If I say so myself the terrain and troops looked fantastic 

Nery - one of the games that I REALLY wanted to play having got my British Cavalry Brigade and German Cavalry Division near complete.
However things did not go quite as scripted, the German artillery proving too much for the 1st Cavalry Brigade in the end, after a tough fight.

Camden - Lots of woods, lots of American Militia, lots of powder smoke, not enough decent dice rolls from Lord Cornwallis's men to match their actual, albeit phyrric, victory in 1781.
I played the British. The Regular Brigade (23rd and 33rd Foot and supporting artillery and light troops) were exemplary in their conduct, routing three American Militia brigades before mounting losses and a brigade of Continentals turned the tables on them. The Loyalist Brigade contained most of the American regulars for a while but they took a lot of hits and eventually the brigade morale collapsed. The Reserve (mainly 71st Highlanders) was committed in support of the Loyalists but was seen off by the Americans after some particularly bad dice rolling,

So had fun on both days, but best moment was with the 33rd's final action, assualted on two sides and shot at by several American stands they finally rolled well, two sixes seeing off their attackers. They were given the task of acting as the rearguard by Cornwallis as he tried to withdraw his shattered army.

Other moment was at Nery - A Sqn 11th Hussars plus the regimental MG section put paid to a whole squadron of German Dragoons attempting to enter Nery village. Next turn however the German guns reduced that part of the village to a heep of rubble, forcing them to withdraw.

Even managed to keep Mrs Shy happy - didn't buy anything at the bring and buy 

It was a very enjoyable weekend, caught up with lots of people I haven't seen in a while
Thanks Peter for two very enjoyable and challenging games

Lots of interest in 10mm, we got to recommend Pendraken repeatedly 
A lot of positive comments on 10mm, a scale not often seen in NZ, most on the good balance between detail and mass effect

I took quite a few pictures and will put together reports on the convention and the two games

Camden was fought on 16 August 1780, so we got to refight it on the 235th anniversary

Sounds like a corker!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 16 August 2015, 08:37:59 PM
Sounds like a corker!

Camden worked really well. Have to be one of the most
memorable games I've played in a while, even if the result went to the
Americans. Some earlier awi games got me into 10mm in the first place.

The wingscale v and b rules and 10mm scaling are a winning combination.

Looking forward to the report and pics, Paul.
Glad to hear you both had what sounds like a great time. 
Cheers - Phil

Call to Arms is the annual convention of the 'Wellington Warlords', the oldest wargames club in Wellington.

This year there were 8 competitions with 6-10 players in most, more in the Warhammer comps.

• DBMM
• Flames of War
• Field of Glory
• Lord of the Rings
• Malifaux
• Warhammer Fantasy
• Warhammer 40,000
• X-Wing

As well as the competitions there were a number of demonstration games, all one day games.

A 'panorama' of the hall from the stage.





The bring and buy area



and in the background the one trade stand, a local wargames shop

A DBM game



and some of the demonstration games...

28mm Napoleonic Black Powder



28mm Pike & Shotte



28mm Vietnam, Charlie Don't Surf



The aircraft and Hueys didn't appear to play any part in the game, but looked cool 

OK here's a few photos I took using my little Canon point and shoot camera using auto settings, not on a par with Paul's pictures taken with his SLR

Nery Terrain
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126694647@N03/20461732478/in/dateposted-public/

Camden Terrain
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126694647@N03/20656391981/in/dateposted-public/

Cornwallis deploys
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126694647@N03/20623519886/in/dateposted-public/

Regulars advance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126694647@N03/20461832050/in/dateposted-public/

End of the first American militia line
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126694647@N03/20461882018/in/dateposted-public/

The 33rd Foot stands firm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126694647@N03/20027376944/in/dateposted-public/

apologies if the pics don't show. Tried using insert image button with link between the [img] but nothing showed.

Can someone tell me what I'm not doing correctly? I use Flickr.

Yes I have read the FAQ's  

Very nice pictures.

Looks like a good time was had by all.

The links you have are to a page not an image.

I use Photobucket which generates a link for you. No idea if flikr has the same facility but if you open the image from the page and insert the url for that it should work.

Right-click then Copy Image Location - NOT Copy Link Location - works for many images.

Great pics.

Odd....The links give me photos.....Or perhaps this has been fixed already. 

Cheers - Phil

Nery Terrain



The image location is carefully hidden in the HTML embed link on the share tab

I processed my pictures last night and will hopefully get at least one report done tonight

NÉRY, 1 September 1914

British 1st Cavalry Brigade had arrived late last night at Nery. Their orders were to move off to continue the retreat at dawn. The heavy fog delayed departure and gave the troopers a chance for some much needed rest.



This rest was disrupted by a German artillery bombardment out of the fog.

L Battery suffered heavy casualties from the artillery and MG fire.



The survivors were overwhelmed by the 18th Dragoons, no VCs for L Battery today
11th Hussars wipe out one squadron of 18th Dragoons as the probe the south east corner of Nery
The 17th Dragoons supported by 2 batteries attacks the 2nd Dragoon Guards from the Sugar Factory



The survivors of the 18th Dragoons shelter in the fields south of Nery as the artillery and MGs supress the 11th Hussars in the south east corner of Nery

In the north the 2nd Kuirassiers and 9th Uhlans exchange fire with the 5th Dragoon Guards across the steep impassable ravine



17th Dragoons pressure the 2nd Dragoon Guards



The first British reinforcements make their presence felt, I Battery fires from off table on the German artillery
The German attack is running out of momentum as casualties mount. They concentrate their fire on the 2nd Dragoon Guards and 11th Hussars



The fire from I Battery and 11th Hussars MGs force one of the German batteries to withdraw but the German reserve brigade arrives



15th Hussars dismounts and charges the south east corner of Nery, the defending 11th Hussars have been stunned by the fire from the German MG battery and artillery

The remaining British reinforcements arrive

• From the south a squadron of 2nd Lifeguards launch a mounted charge into the rear of a squadron of 17th Dragoons as the Lifeguards reformed they were caught by a storm of German artillery fire and destroyed
• From the north a company of the Middlesex Regiment approaches Nery and are ordered to act as rear guard as the 1st Cavalry Brigade withdraw to the north.

The end, with the German 15th Hussars in Nery supported by 17th Dragoons the remaining British forces withdraw

That's a superb looking battlefield, and a great report. Many thanks.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 August 2015, 11:17:07 AM

The links you have are to a page not an image.

I use Photobucket which generates a link for you. No idea if flikr has the same facility but if you open the image from the page and insert the url for that it should work.

Right-click then Copy Image Location - NOT Copy Link Location - works for many images.

Alas Mike Flickr only offers copy link location not copy image.....might have to jump ship to Photobucket.

The Nery scenario that I came up with worked ok,  but I felt the German artillery was a bit too good in the end to give the 1st Cavalry Brigade any real chance of holding on. Might have a tinker with the scenario (limited ammo supply or different deployment [sources don't all agree as to where the German artillery and MG's were deployed]) and see if things work out a bit more historically, shall we say second time around.....might let the entire Combined Household Regt appear too.....now that would have wind up that German Dragoon Brigade 

Leman - under the basecloth is Paul's geometric terrain tiles which we used to get a very good representation of the different terrain levels etc for Nery. Amazing what terrain stuff Paul has at the back of his gaming cupboard.
 
For Camden (which was of course fought in 1780, not 1781 ) we just used some plastic sheet cut to shape and  painted up to represent swamp ponds, and used fine river sand to mark the limits of the swamps.

By geometric terrain tiles, do you mean hexes like the Kallistra ones? I was thinking of getting some of those to go under my base cloth. If that's the effect they produce I'm well up for it.

Lovely looking report!