1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Home brew amalgam of Operation Warboard and Quarrie, et al
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans v Russians 1944
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - not by a looong way
5) How many players were in the game? - four
6) What went well? The Luftwaffe intercepting all the attacking Russian aircraft
7) What could have been improved? The Russian airstrike

The Russians were attempting to break through the Germans encircling Leningrad. The initial Russian bombardment took out half the German artillery. But the Germans managed to get their Tigers and Panthers into good blocking positions and the Russian T34/85, KV-1 & T34/76s struggled to make enough head way.

If the Russian airstrike had arrived and thinned out the German artillery even further then things might have been easier for the Russians.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Blitzkrieg Commander
2) What armies were confronted? - Russian vs German
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Vert
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 6

This March we have been playing a campaign set in the Baltic/East Prussia.

The Germans are backs against the wall trying to hold a disintegrating front, movement hampered by refugees and retreating units, units short of fuel and ammunition.
The Soviets have the men, the equipment and the strength to crush the Germans but the size of their forces makes them unwieldy.

The first game saw a German Infantry Brigade over-run by a large Soviet Infantry Army.

In the second game an over confident Soviet Tank Army commander take on a German Infantry group supported by heavy weapons. The tanks tried to roll over Panzer Grenadiers occupying a wooded hillside and came a cropper as the panzer fausts and shreks reaked mayhem on the unsupported tank battalions. The Soviet player pulled off to await the infantry.

The third game saw the 2nd Soviet Shock Army take on the 65th Infantry. The Soviets were surprised by a STuG battalion hidden in the right hand woods. Two T34s were KOed. The Soviets managed to suppress the STuGs  and then, in their following move destroyed them.

IMG_8398 by Michael Rourke, on Flickr

On the left the Germans used their Jagdpanther and other heavy assets to stall the Soviet advance but accurate shooting sees two assets destroyed.

IMG_8399 by Michael Rourke, on Flickr


The Germans realising the game is up have a good run of dice and quit the board. As this was a hasty attack by the Soviets they could not pursue the Germans. The Germans however have had their force split.

IMG_8396 by Michael Rourke, on Flickr

The campaign continues after Easter. For those who haven't campaigned before I can heartily recommend it as it  forces players to really think about how they use their forces.

Look like you had a good game

Take care

Andy

Nice looking game vonlacy 


1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Home brew amalgam of Operation Warboard and Quarrie, et al
2) What armies were confronted? - Germans v Russians 1944
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - not by a looong way
5) How many players were in the game? - four
6) What went well? The scenario, it generated a lot of fun and quite a few headaches
7) What could have been improved? The shooting of my Tiger guarding my left flank

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Sword and Spear, 2 v 2 with large armies
2) What armies were confronted? - Wars of the Roses. Who was what was never worried about
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Mostly.  Most of the basics stuck.  Rules queries were quickly sorted by those who owned the book.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Played a game last Monday to learn the rules with Sunjester in preparation for today's all day game
5) How many players were in the game? - 4 (as fitting for a 2 v 2)

The new:
6) What went well? My bottle of beer, getting the understanding about what is best for a unit in activating it isn't necessarily best for the overall local situation.
7) What could have been improved?  I think we forgot a rule about testing for units near a defeated unit a few times.  My dice rolling as per usual, however my dismounted men at arms did well.  If it was me I would have written an Orbat specific roster to help me find what I wanted, but that's just me.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - The Pikemen's Lament
2) What armies were confronted? - Parliamentarian vs Royalist
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo
6) What went well? - The rules came back to me, which was great as it's sometime since I last played these.
7) What could have been improved? - The Blunders, as the Parliamentarians had two, both of which saw them lose two four point units, the last when they had manged to get into a good position!

Some more games to come so that I'm fully au fait with the rules before our Salute demo game

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortiem et Gloriam
2) What armies were confronted? - White Sheep Turkomen vs Catalan Company in Anatolia
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - completely
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - nope
5) How many players were in the game? - two
6) What went well? Despite being out numbered, out classes and out played, I won! Useless bows, holding full fat knights for three turns in combat before they could be rescued. Shooting a key unit. Catching other units from behind. Realising how to use my armies manoeuvrability. Having Shaun the Sheep as a legendary cinc!
7) What could have been improved? Losing a unit due to being stupidly badly positioned. Parking the flank of one of my most expensive units too near a village, and being hit by raving loonies!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - The Pikemen's Lament
2) What armies were confronted? - Parliamentarian vs Royalist
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo
6) What went well? - The Parliamentarian shooting, which gave them fire ascendancy which they didn't relinquish.
7) What could have been improved? - Remembering that Clubmen can shoot.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Warband
2) What armies were confronted? - taurians vs Hill Dwarves vs High Elves in Fight For The River Ford
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - absolutely
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - this year, shamefully, yes, but otherwise, no.
5) How many players were in the game? - three
6) What went well? Minotaur charging elves in the back while dwarf general hit them from the front. Rallying broken Minotaur, randomly placing ALL the terrain in sector 1, three small hills a large hill and an impassable, then the Dwarves ending up in that sector (at random), and only one of their units had 'hillwalkers'!  we all rolled1 for deployment,  (but chose to split to other sectors), 8 1s on the trot!!!
7) What could have been improved? Ditching the Minotaur mage, as he did nothing all game d6-1, not so helpful. John had his usual run of bad dice, but was far more mobile than when he used Elves!
Full blog write up later, but needless to say, huge amounts of hilarity ensued!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - The Pikemen's Lament
2) What armies were confronted? - Parliamentarian vs Royalist
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo
6) What went well? - The Royalist comeback after an early Parliamentarian lead.
7) What could have been improved? - The Blunders rolled by both sides plus the Parliamentarian leader dying the second game in a row.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - BB DBA
2) What armies were confronted? - III/66 Fatimid Egyptian, III/74b Other Seljuq Turkish, IV/6a Syrian v IV/1a Komnenan Byzantine, IV/2 Cilician Armenian,IV/7 Early Crusader
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Four
6) What went well? - Early shooting by the Byzantines & Armenians and the Crusader Knights recovering from being driven back onto their own bow
7) What could have been improved? - Me allowing the Byzantine general to get mugged by a couple of Turkish bow and the subsequent destruction of the Byzantine army

The Crusaders and Armenians went on to win without the Byzantines

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - The Pikemen's Lament
2) What armies were confronted? - Great Northern War Swedes vs Russians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo
6) What went well? - The Shooting from both sides.
7) What could have been improved? - Both Command unit Forlorn Hopes mutually destroying each other in Close Assault!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortiem et Gloriam
2) What armies were confronted? - Later Imperial Roman vs Sassanid Persians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - yes, opponents second game
5) How many players were in the game? - two
6) What went well? Cheap auxilia Killing cavalry, pushing enemy light horse around, three units doing more damage than the four legions that legged it early
7) What could have been improved? My shield cover was not quite as effective as I hoped! Not taking so many shooting hits!

Had to call it a game as my opponent had come all the way from Essex to play and was tired, 6-8 to him as the game ended, with two of his units in big trouble!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Hail Caesar
2) What armies were confronted? - Russian vs German
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Reasonably
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

16 Apr 2018, Celts vs Romans, Club

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Blitzkrieg Commander
2) What armies were confronted? - Russian vs German
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Reasonably
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 3

9 Apr 2018, Russian vs Germans, Club

Take care

Andy

Err ...
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Hail Caesar
2) What armies were confronted? - Russian vs German

Great pics of what looks to have been a couple of cracking games!

Caesar, Tzar, pretty interchangable

Not to mention Kaiser!

1) The Men Who Would Be Kings

2) NW Frontier patrol v. the local upstart

3) Absolute doddle to pick up

4) First time I had ever played it

5) Two players

6) As the upstart my chaps (irregular infantry) did well to grab the high ground, whilst the utterly hopeless, but fine moustachioed, British gunnery officer didn't seem to realise that this might be a problem.

7) Unfortunately the British infantry officer was a much more clued in chap and gave my irregulars a jolly good thrashing with concentrated volleys.
Finally word got through to the slumbering artillery, who let rip fine style into my charging horde of tribesmen, and also saw off the sneaky flank attack with my irregular cavalry.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 April 2018, 11:50:23 AM
Err ...
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Hail Caesar
2) What armies were confronted? - Russian vs German

Great pics of what looks to have been a couple of cracking games!

Yeah that's what happens when you try and be clever by copying and pasting.

I particularly enjoyed playing Hail Caesar as it's been ages since we've had the Romans and gauls out.

Take care

Andy

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - What a Tanker!
2) What armies were confronted? - German vs Brits
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Couple of errors, but not bad
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

TooFatLardie's latest rules are simple, fast play tank skirmish rules - you can play an entire game with just a couple of minis a side! It's a very rules-light action oriented set of rules, I can best liken it to the online game 'World of Tanks', but with minis.

I ordered the rules from the website Wednesday, they were dispatched Thursday, I got them Friday and played my first game Saturday. Not bad service  I got most of my familiarisation with the rules from the various YouTube video playthroughs, which may explain the errors...

I threw together a N African themed table (I had the buildings & the palm trees handy), and 2 PzIII (a 3.7cm & a 5cm), a PzJg 1 and a StuG IIIB faced off against a Churchill I, Valentine II, Crusader II and an A13. We played in 10mm scale, naturally, so converted all inches to 2cm.

The Churchill & Val, both Slow & Heavy Armour, advanced all of about 20cm (over many game turns) before they fell ( the Val in flames, the Churchill abandoned) after repeated shots from both Pz III and the StuG. The A13 kept the PzJg I busy over the other side of the table until the Crusader, desperately getting out of the way of the Pz IIIs, chased the PzJg off, making good use of it's Fast trait. With 50% of the force down (and the time getting late), the Brits conceded the field...

I did get the rules on spotting & damage slightly wrong (but equally for both sides) in manners which stretched the game out but didn't really change it, but it was a damn fun game!

1. Longstreet

2. I863 in the Eastern Theatre

3. I felt very comfortable with the rules, even though I hadn't used them in about three or four years. Very quickly back into the swing of things after the first couple of turns.

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5. This was a two player game.

6. What went well? This was a try out prior to doing the full campaign, probably in the Western Theatre. The game itself played very well and looked like the small battle it was, with a larger Confederate force gradually pushing back a defending Union force. The game went through two complete reshuffles of the card decks and took about  3 1/2 hours all told.

7. What could have gone better. Despite being a 15mm game it probably would have played better on a 5x3 rather than a 6x4. Almost the entire left quarter of the field was not used, as well as the further 9 inches of the right flank. The first three turns involved the Confederates simply making their way across the table to get into range. Their gun battery featured a 12pdr howitzer, which never fired as it never got into range (its accompanying Napoleons did sterling work). The game lasted a long time but the Union could have done with at least one more unit of veterans to put up a stauncher fight when the Confederates charged. The scenario was number 5 in the rulebook, with a seasoned veteran Confederate force of 6 to 8 stand units (some of the 8s being recruits) attacking a smaller force of Union 8 stand recruits with a single unit of 6 stand veterans and a 10 stand force of eager recruits entering the fray on turn 7. Finally I had a Confederate infantry regiment in canister range of my three light rifles. "Just so long as I don't roll threes." I then rolled three 3s - oh how we laughed  . Needless to say, the photogenic Union generals (the objective) were captured by the Rebs. Serves them right for being such posers.