It dose look rather good

Take care

Andy

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - another play-test game of My Homegrown Zombie Rules
2) What armies were confronted? - US WW2 Armoured Infantry section v Zombies (funnily enough)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - refined rules V3 - getting there!
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo

This game was fought between the same US WW2 squad that had fought in the initial game again coming up against hordes of Zombies (about 50) in a Village. The Zombies had four spawning points in the village and the US force had found themselves in the village in a Half-track which had broken down. The Zombies had a character with them - a Scientist and his bodyguard (a gun-toting female Officer).

There were lots of buildings, gardens and alleyways and the Scientist was holed up in Coaching House complete with walled garden.

Having learnt the lessons of the first game, the US section was led by a JNCO with a second JNCO commanding the BAR gunner. I also allowed the US to man the 30 cal on the half-track.

The US fared much better in this game and very quickly whittled the zombie horde down to just a few small groups who finally cornered the US section in a graveyard. Very few Zombies made it into contact with the US troops, but those that did began to whittle down the Americans to a third of their starting strength before being beaten off.

The scientist escaped, his bodyguard sacrificing herself.

All in all quite pleased with the progress the game is making. Once I'm totally happy with Zombies and how they interact, I am hoping to add werewolves and other creatures to the game.

Ten More Sons, Moghul Indians and Ava Burmese. The rules are pretty familiar to both of us by now. Close fight; clincher was a lazy Burmese elephant unit that didn't get into the main body of dakhili and tabinan cavalry until they'd broken the Burmese right flank, and the player's failure to realise how tough the Portugese mercenaries were, and thus to commit them in time. A touch of the bizarre was that the Indians lost of unit of Hindu bowmen who deserted to the Burmese, but the Burmese lost some Siamese crossbowmen who crossed over to the Indians.

Wife is demanding a rematch. Interestingly, she complained that the Siamese troops looked wrong ("We never dressed like that!"), spent an hour Googling this morning, and reluctantly admitted that I'd got it right anyway. Even if I had to point out that looking at 19th-century photographs wouldn't help much in the search for data relating to the early Ayyuthaya era.

Last Thursday.

1) Rules - SW Armada
2) Forces - Good Guys v Rebel Scum
3) Comfortable - not at first but quickly got the hang of it
4) First Time - yes - played SW X-Wing a few times, this is similar, and yet different
5) Players - 5 with one organiser (and supplier of all toys)

I'm told it was about 300 points a side, 3 Rebel Scum (including me) with 4 ships (a Nebula something and something else - not a SW nerd, sorry) and 4 squadrons of X-Wings against 2 Good Guys with 2 Destroyers with 6 squadrons of TIE fighters. It was a fun evening as I led the Rebel Scum to victory, nice to see all the counters that ruin SW-XW gone from the table but still a bit fiddly with dials and stuff and you really need more than one of those clicky turn thingamajigs. But otherwise looked good, we all had fun, made appropriate wheeee, whooom, fsst noises, etc and drank some wine.

Not sure I'd invest in it (although the pre-painted models are very nice) but certainly happy to play as an infill game. Although I suspect there are a lot of additional personality and "special" cards we didn't use that probably bog it down just like it does in SW-XW.

The extra cards usually just give revolt or other effect, not many are characterful

Quote from: Zippee on 16 April 2016, 07:57:04 AM

1) Rules - SW Armada

Not sure I'd invest in it (although the pre-painted models are very nice) but certainly happy to play as an infill game.

Agreed. I haven't played a game yet as I keep missing the nights when its played at the club (come to think of it I have only made two club nights since january.....) I baulked when I saw the prices of the mini's, but that is often what puts me off a new project - having to buy both sides as most of my games are solo.

Regular Friday get-together with three long-standing friends, a couple of bags of crisps and a couple of bottles of wine

1) Rules - Spartacus: Blood and Treachery
2) Forces - Houses Batiatus, Solonius, Tullius and Glaber
3) Comfortable - Yes, all players were comfortable with it by the end of the first turn
4) First Time - Two of us had played one game before the others were first timers
5) Players - 4

This is a boardgame based on the TV series and I didn't have high hopes when I first saw it but at £25 including postage it seemed worth a punt given I play boardgames at least twice a week with three different groups.

It is definitely not a game to take too seriously  but it is surprisingly good fun.

There are three main phases - Intrigue, Market, Arena.

In the Intrigue phase you acquire and play cards to advance your own cause, hamper others or foil other players nefarious schemes.

In the Market phase players trade with each other or the Bank, they bid for Gladiators, Slaves and Equipment and finally bid to host The Games.

In the Arena phase the host invites two players to provide gladiators for the arena - they can refuse or can send a lesser gladiator or even a slave if they don't fancy their chances against the opposition. In the arena a gladiator's stats (Attack, Defence and Speed) are the dice they roll. Speed dice are rolled to decide initiative (very important) and movement is limited to a number of hexes equal to the number of speed dice. Attack dice are matched against defence dice - highest to highest. Wounds mean losing your choice of dice, reducing your gladiator's abilities. Lose all of one pool and you are beaten, all from two and they're wounded, all three and they are decapitated! It's a fast yet surprisingly tactical system.

The Arena phase would make a good Public Participation game.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Lion Rampant
2) What armies were confronted? - Swedes vs Danes (12thC)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 4-6 as it was a demo game at Salute.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Spearhead
2) What armies were confronted? - German 3^rd Light Division v Polish 10^th Motorised Brigade, September 1939 in 6mm
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, if a little rusty
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No, but we haven't used them for about a year
5) How many players were in the game? - 3 Germans & 2 Poles

Can't say too much, we only got half way through the game, should finish off the Poles the game next Saturday

Need to bang your head against a Polish army of the glory days. A very different class of opponent.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Impetus
2) What armies were confronted? - 6mm Persians with Greek allies against Carthaginians
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - no, we have played Impetus many times now.
5) How many players were in the game? - 2 Persian/Greeks against 1 Carthaginian


The armies deployed


The Persian High King Advances confidently


The battle for the village ends in total disorder!


The phalanx hits home and promptly collapses causing us the loss of our centre and the game.

Great fun, took about 4 hours inc. lunch break but the Carthaginians slowly rolled us up once our centre boke.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 April 2016, 06:38:02 AM
Need to bang your head against a Polish army of the glory days. A very different class of opponent.

The Polish 1939 offensive against Berlin is expected to commence shortly 

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Updated Twilight of the Sun King
2) What armies were confronted? - Battle of Luzzara, 1702 - Austrians vs French and allies
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? 2.

A test of the upcoming scenario for the updated version of the rules. The real battle started late and went into the night. The outnumbered Austrian player who was attacking decided to moved fast to make the most of the daylight. The initial attack didn't go too well but slowly the better quality of the Austrians paid off. Night fall was a random dice roll and was late. This probably favoured the Austrian player. On the last turn night finally came but both French cavalry wings failed their morale.

Iacta alea est, two, Romans and Numidians. It was rather gratifying to see mavouevrability winning out over weight.

Overweight Romans, oh dear, too much garum and honey stuffed dormice?