Busy day, Hwiccee

Take care

Andy

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? - 5
6) What went well? My veteran Brits re-rolling 1s for shooting and digging in after a tactical move
7) What could have been improved? - Terrain definitions and remembering to pack up the mg (deploy action) before issuing a move order to the battalion

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - BKC2
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans  v British, Operation Goodwood.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Not by a long way
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo
6) What went well? The British artillery for once.
7) What could have been improved? - The German FAO's command rolls!

AAR report to follow in due course.

1. TDFG - first scenario in Grant and Asquith

2. Imperial French v. Confederation Prussians 1870

3. Pretty comfortable, although the rules play fast and loose with the words fallback, retreat and rout so we had to define what is falling back facing the enemy and what is fleeing backs to the enemy, so decided any morale failure and melee defeat rated as a rout but voluntary fallback is a steady withdrawal facing the enemy.

4. Rules of choice between first publication and about 2002. This was only my second game since then, but very enjoyable and about 2 1/2 hours for 12 moves.

5. 2 players

6. Game flowed well and easy to keep track of what was going on

7. Prussians must learn to skirmish ahead of deploying guns to protect them.

Had a busy weekend gaming-wise, my son was up from Christchurch for work on Friday so stayed the weekend

On Saturday we went to see the Scale of our War Exhibition at Te Papa (National Museum) and to revisit the Great War Exhibition, including the Chunuk Bair diorama we both painted figures for

On Saturday evening he joined our regular gaming group, on Sunday we had a couple of games at home

Saturday evening
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - DBMM 2
2) What armies were confronted? - Romans v British c 55 BC
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Farily, but still a bit rusty even though it was the second evening playing the game (started last Saturday)
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Not by a long way
5) How many players were in the game? - Six
6) What went well? Most things
7) What could have been improved? - The progress of my son's Chariots against a single element of Light horse from the broken right wing, the Light horse kept rolling 5 or 6 in combat

Sunday morning
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Flames of War It's the second set he ever played, so a bit of nostalgia
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans  v Free French, Tunisia March 1943
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - No
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Played a lot years ago but haven't played since son was last in Wellington years ago
5) How many players were in the game? - Two
6) What went well? The German ambushes and artillery
7) What could have been improved? - The Free French infantry assault

Sunday afternoon

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Fast Play Fleets - Star Trek - first set of rules my son played
2) What armies were confronted? - United Federation of Planets v Kilingon
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Fairly
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Have played sporadically but haven't played since son was last in Wellington years ago
5) How many players were in the game? - Two
6) What went well? Two Klingon squadrons catching the Enterprise and De Rutyer in a pincer move
7) What could have been improved? - we needed a bigger table as we both had squadrons that pulled off to frantically repair shields and computers

A very enjoyable weekend and great way to catch up

...to frantically repair what no man has repaired before....

Good to see the old traditions kept up.

) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortem et Gloriam
2) What armies were confronted? - Late Achaemenid Persians vs. Alexandrian Macedonians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes. It was my third time to play and the rules are coming more naturally now.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - two
6) What went well? Had a great time playing.
7) What could have been improved? - My infantry were 6 base units going up against 8 base units. Which means in an even fight, my units would get to their break point first.  I need to consider fielding larger units.

A write up with pictures is now available on my blog:

http://gamingreference.blogspot.com/2018/03/mortem-et-gloriam-alexandrian.html

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game?           Blitzkreig Commander
2) What armies were confronted?                             Soviet v Germans March 1945
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?             Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? No, my favourite ww2 rule set
5) How many players were in the game?                   5
6) What went well?                                                 Randomised Soviet arrival
7) What could have been improved?                         More aggressive tactics by the German players.

These last two weeks we have played a late war scenario based around the resupplying the town of Kustrin on the River Oder. On 27th March 1945 four armoured divisions from Busse's 9th Army made an all out counter attack against the Soviet 8th Guards Army to reach and resupply Festung Kustrin. Initially caught off balance the 8th Guards Army counter-attacked piecemeal. Some supplies did reach the town before the 8th Army repulsed the Germans back to their staring point. On the 29th the Soviets took Kustrin by storm. around 1000 soldiers eventually managed to reach German lines, including the garrison commander, who was promptly arrested on the orders of Hitler.

In our refight very few supplies managed to reach the garrison and the Soviets achieved a major victory



Kustrin, the Mark IVs are assaulted by Soviet armour and infantry, whilst their panzer grenadiers stand impotently in the neighbouring wood. by Michael Rourke, on Flickr



Kustrin, the convoy luckily escapes a katusha strike, with the loss of just one truck. by Michael Rourke, on Flickr



Kustrin, the cat killers take out a Tiger. by Michael Rourke, on Flickr

An excellent scenario, if you would like to fight it out, check out http://www.wfhgs.com/PDFFILES/wo25.pdf for all the details of the scenario.

Great looking game

@vonlacy

nice looking game

Which version of BKC?

BKC 1 with some home rules.

Succinct 

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? – If The Lord Spares Us, by Too Fat Lardies
2) What armies were confronted? – Ottomans v British, 20 February 1918
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? – Not by a long way
5) How many players were in the game? – 3 on the first evening, 4 on the second

The new:
6) What went well? – One of the British Battalions
7) What could have been improved? – British deployment and command and control

We belatedly marked the 100th anniversary of the battle of Jebel Ekteif over the last two Saturdays.

The Talat ed Dumm - Jebel Ekteif range runs across the Jerusalem to Jericho road. The 180^th British Brigade attacked the Talat ed Dumm end of the range up the main road while 179^th British Brigade attacked the Jebel Ekteif end via the Pilgrim road. Our game looked at 179^th British Brigade.

The Brigade attacked the eastern end of the range, including Jebel Ekteif with two battalions up. Another battalion was in reserve while the fourth battalion supported the two batteries of artillery deployed to cover the remainder of the range. The Brigade MG company covered the left flank of the assault while the Wellington Mounted Rifles covered the right. Armoured and Light cars advanced along the Pilgrim road to cross the Wadi Mukelik and support the assault.



As the two leading battalions approached the Ottoman trenches they received two very different receptions. The London Scottish on the left took fire from two Ottoman rifle companies, two MG companies and indirect fire from an Ottoman artillery battery. In contrast the Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles only took fire from two Ottoman rifle companies. Fire from the Civil Service Rifles and the supporting armoured cars reduced the effectiveness of the Ottoman fire.



It was about this point that the British realised they had two major problems.

In a desire to avoid potentially effective machine gun fire from the ridge the artillery and supporting infantry had been deployed too far back and were unable to spot any enemy in their trenches above them on the ridge. Similarly the MG company in the wadi was going to have to rely on spotting enemy troops firing to support the assault.

The Wellington Mounted Rifles were also deployed too far away from the ridge to spot the enemy and worse were out of contact with the Headquarters, 179^th British Brigade.

One of the lead companies of the London Scottish was destroyed and casualties mounted in the other companies. In contrast the Civil Service Rifles had their paper work in order, this became a running joke, and managed to capture the eastern end of the Ottoman trench line expelling two companies of the weakest Ottoman battalion. They then repulsed a counter attack by two fresh Ottoman companies.



The British finally managed to partially sort their command and control issues and ordered the fourth battalion and one battery of artillery to advance to the wadi where the infantry was on the losing end of an exchange of fire with an entrenched Ottoman battalion. They did however pin this battalion in place. They also ordered the reserve battalion to advance and replace the London Scottish. Finally they ordered the Civil Service Rifles to advance along the range, hopefully taking the enemy in the flank.



One company of the Civil Service Rifles was blown off the top of the Jebel Ekteif by close range fire from an Ottoman artillery battery having previously driven the enemy infantry before them. Another company was steadily clearing the trench line supported by the Armoured and Lights cars. One over enthusiastic section of light cars was destroyed by fire from an Ottoman MG company.

The right most company of the Civil Service Rifles was poised to overrun the Ottoman artillery and avenge their colleagues.



It was at this point that the Ottomans conceded, they were going to be unable to inflict enough casualties on the British to force a draw.

The battle had been won by the Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles but a heavy price had been paid by the London Scottish. They had attacked with nearly 650 men, 80 had withdrawn.

Excellent battle report

Take care

Andy

~Ditto~   

And again !! 

Looking forward to seeing the newest 'batch', Paul !!

Cheers - Phil

Great looking battle as always

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder
2) What armies were confronted? - British v Rebels
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? - 3

19 Mar 2018, Russians V Germans, Club

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder
2) What armies were confronted? - British v Rebels
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? - 2

12 Mar 2018, Russians V Germans, Club

I hope you enjoy these

Take care

Andy

Great AAR and pics, Paul. Nice to see your trench sections back in use.

As a British player seeing that many trenches on the ridge was extremely daunting. I suspect that contributed to our timid deployment of the artillery and infantry on our left.