1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? BBB - Bloody Big Battles

2) What armies were confronted? Waterloo - French vs British, Dutch, Belgians, Prussians, Hanoverians, Nassauers ...

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? Yes (I wrote it) - very happy with how BBB works for Napoleonics.

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? About the 150th time overall, probably, but the first time for a month. I was getting serious withdrawal symptoms.

5) How many players were in the game? Six - an ideal number for the scenario as it resolved nicely into three distinct fights.

This was a playtest of our display/participation game for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum on 24 October:
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,12718.msg177205.html#new
The French seized La Haye Sainte early on, while outflanking Hougoumont. They then took Hougoumont and pushed on round the Allied right flank towards Mont St Jean but stalled at the third line. Meanwhile on the French right, aggressive Allied command had actually driven D'Erlon back towards his start line, and then the arriving Prussians forced commitment of the Guard to shore things up. The game ended as a very honourable draw (in game terms).

All the players were really happy both with how the rules played and with how the scenario worked. It was particularly interesting how beforehand some of them were concerned that cavalry might be underpowered. Three hours later the same people were commenting on how the short ranges and reduced firepower (compared with rifled weapons later in the century) enabled cavalry to be very potent.

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,12718.msg177205.html#new
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

1/ Lion Rampant
2/ Fictional 12th century Britain, Welsh vs Scots.
3/ Very happy with the rules, hardly even needed to refer to the QR sheet.
4/ Played them many times before, this was a game to try out armies for the Lion Rampant League I'm running at the club.
5/ 2 players

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Honours of War
2) What armies were confronted? Jacobites vs British
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, even though we were tweaking it for the '45.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two.

A re-run of our previous game as it was so one-sided first time around. AAR to follow...

Can I ask, when you say 'tweaked' for the 45, are the Jacobite rebellions fully covered with army lists in the Honours of War rule book or are you making up your own?

1. Warband
2. Undead Lord v Vampire Lord
3. yes
4. no
5. Solo

Good game - playing ambush scenario with Undead Lord ambushing.

First time I've used flyers and they are really good at harassing the flanks and rear but are very very fragile to firing...... The Vampire Lord Undead won but it was a close run thing. Both armies were down to bare bones (pun very much intended) before the Undead Lord's army broke.

Really enjoying the game which has surprised me as I have never really got the whole fantasy thing

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Honours of War
2) What armies were confronted? Jacobites vs British
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, even though we were tweaking it for the '45.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two.

An absolutely cracking game; one of the best I've played in for simply ages . AAR to follow...

I am quite interested in these rules so can I ask again...

QuoteCan I ask, when you say 'tweaked' for the 45, are the Jacobite rebellions fully covered with army lists in the Honours of War rule book or are you making up your own?

cheers,
Bodvoc

Sorry Bodvoc, but missed this request before . We are using our own lists, but still keeping all the core unit types, hence the tweaking. The author has given us some pointers which helped to start with. Some broad details can be found on my Blog:

http://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/honours-of-war-45-rebellion.html

My opponent, Dave Fielder, has been using Stuart Reid's excellent guide to the '45 as a reference for how the troops might be represented, plus I've added in info from Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland.

Hope this helps?

Hi, and thanks for that. I will probably get a set of these rules as they are due out quite soon. I ha ve some 20+yr old 10mm Jacobite and Government troops that have not been out of their box for years. I will certainly jot down your suggestions,
Cheers,
Bodvoc

Look forward to seeing them in action when you get the rules .

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?  Alamein to Zem Zem
2) What armies were confronted?  8th Army, Afrika Korps
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, it's starting to make sense.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two.

Still nervous that there's no way to beat those Jerry 88s without giving the Commonwealth troops some ridiculously disproportionate numbers of AT guns or something.

The answer is 25pdrs
Now could you repeat the question a bit louder, I've gone a bit deaf

Or Grants. The German gun crews were apparently very unpleasantly surprised to find the 75mm HE round on the Grant could engage them effectively at their normal battle range, in contrast to the dinky 2pdr gun tanks they'd been able to pick off at leisure before

1. Guns of Liberty
2. British v Americans AWI
3. Yes. Helpful yahoo group to deal with a few queries. Needed to make some house rules for some terrain effects and skirmishing.
4. Yes - First game
5. 2 players

Found the rules quick to use and gave a good game.

Chad

Anyone here played Honours of War yet?