Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 March 2016, 05:31:24 PM
Which figures do you use?

The Gnomes are done by RebelMinis in a ready to play army pack with Snail Battlewagons and Sun Flower catapults extras. The Penguins came from Magister Militum, not sure where the Polar Bears came from, they were a conversion done by a friend.

UPDATE: Had a quick look on Magister I think he probably used the Dwarf Bear Cavalry (the models look very similar).

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Those [Expletive removed so as not to offend] Frenchies started it! (wars of Spanish Succession home brew rules)
2) What armies were confronted? - Allies (Brits & Austrian) v's Franco-Bavarians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 6 - 3 per side & me as umpire

I meant to take a few pics, but as usual I got caught up in the game & forgot

Rob

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - FogR
2) What armies were confronted? - Henrician English vs Korean
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2
20-5 win for Henry VIII and his boys, although Pete had some majorly naff dice and poorly positioned units!

White Man's Burden, Victorians vs Zulus, familiar rules, two players, battle went smoothly despite having both machine guns jam at critical moments. A useful little bonus was having two impis recoil from squares into each other, with calamitous results.

Couple of snatched shots

Deploying, I'm on the right.

The moment of victory

My army still needs basing and two units to paint, but they did well.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Twilight of the Sun King - updated version that is coming soon
2) What armies were confronted? - Battle of Almenar, 1710 - Spanish vs Confederates (i.e. British and allies)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

A refight of a battle in Spain during the WSS. It was a meeting engagement. Historically the Spanish lost but this time they managed to hang on until nightfall and so claim a morale victory.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Frostgrave
2) What armies were confronted? My noble Enchanter and his gang against Roy's y Illusionist and his squad.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

This was mine and Roy's second game of Frostgrave and really good fun. I managed to bag most of the treasure by using a Telekinesis spell to move most of it my way; this spell seems to dominate the game but then my Wizard does wear an anorak!

My earlier Frostgrave experience was against flashy Elementalists and ingrained a "shoot first, shoot second, then set fire to the bodies" approach to "winning". Swapping around a little I've then been playing versus an Enchanter who uses a lot of Telekinesis, Mud and Fog spells to shape the field, who'd normally played against a very cagey Necromancer who generally contented himself with bagging a couple of closer treasures and not risk too much.

I think our disparate approaches caused each of us some consternation. He gets a bit wierded by me closing right up and just killing his chaps, I get wierded that all the treasure keeps disappearing

Good game!

1. Field of Battle 2
2. Russian v. Japanese 1905
3. Yes. Played the Japanese and experienced a rare victory.
4. Been playing these since published.
5. Two.

Just so you know I do other stuff than BBB sometimes!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Victory at Sea (WWII naval)
2) What armies navies were confronted? - US vs Japanese 1945
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 3

I generally don't do boats and am no expert, but VAS seemed to me to capture some key aspects of WWII naval warfare with rule mechanisms that were slick and quick and easy to grasp.  We didn't have any carriers or strike aircraft, but I did get to command the biggest battleship ever built, the Yamato. Only reservations: torpedoes seemed a little too deadly, and the squadron-by-squadron activation makes it slow for multi-player. Good fun nonetheless.

And also:
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Bolt Action (WWII skirmish)
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans trapped between US and Russians in 1945
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 4

Apparently the Allies had 2000 points vs our German 1500. As it turned out that was poor odds for the attackers. We'd set up the German defence efficiently and the Allies mostly just walked into our ambushes. I didn't lose a man and didn't have to move. Satisfied with my basic tactical competence. As for the rules: surprisingly similar comments as for VAS! Quick and simple and easy to grasp; again, a big reservation about the unit-by-unit activation so that in a 4-player game I was doing nothing 3/4 of the time.

But it was good to vary my diet, and I had a great day.

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
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What Bodvoc said.

Here's a link to some photo's
http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/frostgrave-game-2-mausoleum-scenario.html

Quote from: Bodvoc on 23 March 2016, 11:39:56 AM
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Frostgrave
2) What armies were confronted? My noble Enchanter and his gang against Roy's y Illusionist and his squad.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

This was mine and Roy's second game of Frostgrave and really good fun. I managed to bag most of the treasure by using a Telekinesis spell to move most of it my way; this spell seems to dominate the game but then my Wizard does wear an anorak!

I don't think Telekinesis played as big a part in this game, as it did in the first, to be honest. A couple of the nearer treasures were brought closer to be claimed, but they probably would have been anyway. Apart from one, the furtherest treasure from Bodvoc's warband was more hotly contested and I only came off second best due to my soldiers and apprentice falling wounded to shooting or combat.

The only thing that I'd possibly like to try, as a House Rule, would be the following (as earning 50 Experience for each treasure secured is unbalancing the rival warbands too quickly, I feel).

Possible House Rules For Frostgrave
In an effort to try and keep rival warbands balanced, in regard to experience gains and rapid advancement of "Levels".

1) No experience gained for each treasure recovered.

2) alter the experience table to include:

+10 Exp. | For each enemy soldier that one of your soldiers takes out of the game.
+20 Exp. | For each enemy apprentice that one of your soldiers takes out of the game.
+35 Exp. | For each enemy wizard that one of your soldiers takes out of the game.

+20 Exp. | For each enemy soldier that your apprentice takes out of the game.
+40 Exp. | For each enemy apprentice that your apprentice takes out of the game.
+75 Exp. | For each enemy wizard that your apprentice takes out of the game.

This 'warband' experience is in addition to the normal experience gains awarded from a game (excepting that stated above in House Rules 1).
All experience benefits achieved are still only awarded to the Wizard, however.

Using my alterations, after our two games, both warbands would still be on a par with each other and we would both, I feel, be more satisfied recording the successes that our soldiers had achieved. [Bodvoc's crossbowman notching-up at least 3 'kills' and my knight took out Bodvoc's wizard in the first game.]

Other than that, its an enjoyable game 

1. Rank and File -Lace Wars period
2. British and allies v French and allies
3. yes
4. Yes
5. 8

Reasonably quick to learn, easy to play which was good as there were 8 of us from the LAW forum . Pics and report if anyone is interested on the blog at:

http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/yesterday-after-interesting-driveiain.html

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Lion Rampant
2) What armies were confronted? - WoR
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Ish, find the Bidowers too strong for 2pts
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 6

1. FoG Renaissance
2. TYW Swedes v Catholic League Germans
3. yup
4. No but first outing in almost two years
5. Solo

First time the Germans have managed to beat the swedes in four outings and first time I have used early tercios which may be coincidental?

I'm using Swedes in 25mm tonight, be interested to see how cheesy they can be!