1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortiem et Gloriam
2) What armies were confronted? - White Sheep Turkmen vs Ottoman Turks
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes, but neither of us had used these armies before.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - nope
5) How many players were in the game? - two

The new:
6) What went well? White Sheep could stand up in a fight to Ottomans, and broke their cavalry centre, nearly taking a unit of Jannisary's too!
7) What could have been improved? For me, not much, superb thinking game, which will get its full write up tomorrow.

1. BBB

2. Ausrtians v. French 1859

3. Very comfortable, played many times

5. Two players

6. A tense game which went the whole 7 moves of the Montebello scenario.

7. In terms of game rules nothing. In terms of individual game play: when rolling on the firing table, the number of 'one year out' rolls was phenomenal on both sides, the most common being when an eight was needed a seven was rolled. The French had two turns where attempted assaults rolled low and failed to materialise, which allowed Austrian reinforcements to appear. One of those was a unit of Grenzers who managed to take the northern French village whilst the French were otherwise engaged. Despite a valiant assault, the French were thrown back in turn seven and the Austrians claimed the victory.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortiem et Gloriam
2) What armies were confronted? - Late Achaemenid Persians (me) vs. Classic Indian (Grant)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - 2nd time for me, 1st for Grant
5) How many players were in the game? - two

The new:
6) What went well? For me, nothing. I lost my entire left flank which consisted of cavalry to elephants and chariots. Other than that,  despite the length of the rules they really are quite easy to understand. The charge, shooting and other combat mechanics are really very easy.
7) What could have been improved? I should have charged his archers and elephants sooner with my hoplites. I was too apprehensive of them and allowed the Indians to dictate the battle.

Interest in MeG is starting to build here in Texas. There's a tournament in Austin next month which Grant will attend and since I've played once before I agreed to run a few learning games. 

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - To the Strongest
2) What armies were confronted? - Paphlagonia vs Latium (Imaginations armies)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Pretty much
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - 3rd or 4th time for me, 1st for Keith, my opponent.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two
6) What went well? - Keith picked up the mechanics pretty quickly and I kept the game pretty simple, so that we could focus on mechanics, rather than the detailed rules. In the end two easy wins for me and both games went along at a fair old lick.
7) What could have been improved? - A better QRS sheet with a tad more detail added, to save looking through the rulebook. Things such as bonus cards for flank attacks etc. just to help cover the major things during the game.

Nice 👍  Shecky

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Captain General
2) What armies were confronted? - Franco-Reichesarmee v Prussians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - No
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - Six
6) What went well? - Not a lot!
7) What could have been improved? - A QRS sheet in needed as these are detailed rules that have many charts. Found them to be slow, detailed and clunky as a set of rules. After three nights play we decided to abandon the game. I doubt we will revisit these rules again.

Here are a couple of pictures of the game.



7YW, Prussian infantry advance against the Franco-Reichesarmee. by Michael Rourke, on Flickr



7YW, cavalry action on the flanks. by Michael Rourke, on Flickr

Very nice

I finally posted a report of my Mortem et Gloriam game on my blog.

http://gamingreference.blogspot.com/2018/02/mortem-et-gloriam-classical-indians-vs.html

Great report

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - BKC3
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans v British NW Europe 1944
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 4
6) What went well? We used the Recce rules from FWC
7) What could have been improved? - Off-board artillery deviation and certain weapon ranges

Nice report Shecky

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Honours of War
2) What armies were confronted? - Prussia (me) vs. Austria (the schizo)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - no
5) How many players were in the game? - solo

This was a refight of Lobositz, 1756, in the Seven Years War. An even game to begin with but gradually my opponent gained the upper hand and won the day (I swear he can read my mind!). For photographs and a battle report, click on the following link. Honours of War Forum members can click on the thumbnails to enlarge the photos. Guests may have to zoom in or join the Forum (which is dead easy and quick to do).

http://honoursofwar.com/thread/484/wchinitz-10mm?page=1&scrollTo=3695

Cracking game

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - BBB - but a stripped-down version for operational-level games
2) What armies were confronted? - 1796 Revolutionary French vs Piedmontese
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, gratifyingly so
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Only our second time with this version
5) How many players were in the game? - 5 players, including Dave T in a proper French hat (he's a reenactor as well)

I generally spare y'all on this thread from being bombarded with posts about my regular BBB games. This one was a bit different and special though. The scenario was an operational-level game that fits a week of action, encompassing three historical battles, spanning a rugged 30km battlefield, onto a 6'x4' table and <90 minutes of playing time. This is the second in a set of scenarios planned to accompany the forthcoming translation of Clausewitz's history of the 1796 campaign.

Dave W has been busily painting up his 10mm Pendraken armies for our 1796 games ... but hasn't finished enough yet, so we had to use 2mm, sorry!

Full AAR here:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/mondovi-1796-game-of-book-of-campaign.html

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info

Cracking, Chris!

Chris - you are a very bad person for tempting me with another period 

1) They Died for Glory

2) Two identical French and Prussian 1870 avant-garde forces

3) Very comfortable with this old set, first played in the early 90s

5) This was a solo playtest to see whether my downsizing worked

6) Using samesize bases with a combat value, rather than number of figures to show strength, worked extremely well, as did using a half size table and cm instead of inches.

7) I needed to re-read the rule on voluntary and conditional fallbacks, amalgamations and rallying

Quote from: Shedman on 22 February 2018, 02:42:03 PM
Chris - you are a very bad person for tempting me with another period 

Just trying to keep you from straying down that SF / fantasy path ...   

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortiem et Gloriam
2) What armies were confronted? - my Sassanid Persians vs Greco-Bactrian
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - indeed
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - nope
5) How many players were in the game? - two and a neutral observer
6) What went well? Royal Asavran taking a full charge in the flank, turning round and beating up the unit that tried it! Catching two skirmishing cavalry units and running them over. Skirmishers repeatedly beating other skirmishers who should have run them over. Catching Catafracts in the flank
7) What could have been improved? Not letting my Catafracts get tractor beamed off into the distance by Bactrian light horse. Getting drawn out in all directions. Losing all my average horse archers to worse opponents!

Great game vs a master of cavalry armies. Lost 6-15, which is quite a positive result for me, quick rewrite of the list tomorrow and all is great.

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1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?           Muskets and Tomahawks
2) What armies were confronted?                             French against British
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?             Yes, starting to get the hang of it although we had 4 new players...
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? For some it was
5) How many players were in the game?                   6, 4 of whom were new
6) What went well?                                                 The new guys loved the system and the British won a sound victory...finally!
7) What could have been improved?                         Experience and for the French a better disposition of the available troops.

Cheers,
Rob