Two For King & Parliament games at the Hutt Club yesterday, played the Stow on the Wold scenario using the cards produced by Simon Miller and Andrew Brentnal et al.

The cards look pretty good but they did generate a few gentle comments about not using figures. The 'best' was "the sergeant major has sent me to ask if you realise you are playing cards in church."

The scenario is interesting as the Royalist will almost always lose. The suggested solution is to play the game twice and note how many victory medals the Parliamentarians surrendered. As Royalist I managed to force the surrender of 6 victory medals before being defeated. When I commanded the Parliamentarians they surrendered 8 before defeating the Royalists    Two very enjoyable games, that played quite differently, each a little over 2 hours  

A quick Black Powder - Glory Hallelujah ACW game yesterday evening. The Confederate dice were either exceedingly good  or exceedingly bad
Unfortunately, exceedingly bad where it really mattered 

The Confederates conceded about the time we normally break for coffee/tea. One brigade broken, one driven out of wood and a third with all but one regiment shaken

Can't complain about four games in a weekend      

A busy week for gaming!
1 game of War of the Worlds survivors

3 games of Frostgrave and

1 game of Zombie Stagecoach

The zombie western turned into a tense game of misdirection!

ACW: Gettysburg. This was our BBB demo/participation game at the Overlord show in Abingdon UK.
We used Matt's custom terrain boards and armies, as reported on his blog in 2023:
https://pushingtinwargames.blogspot.com/2023/02/gettysburg-1863.html?q=gettysburg

This beautiful layout for such a famous battle attracted lots of interest and attention and we were able to involve some participants for most of the day. Despite spending so much time talking to people, we got through most of the game. The Confederate plan of concentrating all their efforts on the angle of the fishhook didn't go well. They did burst through Gettysburg and charge up the slopes of Cemetery Hill, but had to fall back again at dusk on Day 2. Meanwhile, both their flanks were under pressure and at risk of being rolled up.

On the plus side, as Buford got wiped out on Day 1, the cavalry action at East Field was inconclusive, so no US cavalry arrived on Day 3. Pickett did, though. We didn't quite have time to play it out, but we reckoned he would have been able to get behind the US left flank into a vacated Peach Orchard, and that the resulting alarm in the Union camp would have turned a likely Confederate defeat into a draw. (Translation: the Confederates would have ended up with enough objectives to avoid defeat but not enough to win.)

      

A very impressive looking table

After Sunday's Gettysburg epic at the Overlord show, something more modest for the club Monday night:
Coulmiers (Franco-Prussian War).
This is one of the smaller bite-sized BBB scenarios. Always felt it was a bit skewed against the French and tonight we confirmed it. Not that we French didn't dish out a fair bit of damage to the Bavarians, but it needs some tweaks to help the French reach the victory locations sooner and to adjust their victory target. Good fun regardless.

Q1: Nineteen
Ancients 1
FWR 1
Napoleonic 1
ACW 1
Boer War 3
RJW 1
WWI(Air) 1
WWII 8
WWII(Air) 2

WWII(Air) is a bit unusual as we are doing the Big Week campaign with Fire in the Sky.  WWII land comprise two new rules under development: Monty / Eisenhower Unchained (E rewritten without the grid), and a card based system without dice.  Our Boer War refight has moved from Principles of War to BBB!  ACW is Altered of Freedom, a club rewrite of the original AoF rules.

Franco-Prussian War: Beaune-la-Rolande. (BBB rules.)
Great little battle. We swapped sides and played it twice in 3 hours.
French double envelopment came within an ace of victory but had to settle for a draw.
Different plans on both sides in the second game: Germans weighted their gun line on their left, so the French mostly shifted away from there and concentrated on the well fortified town of Beaune-la-Rolande itself in the centre. German reinforcements saved the day; German win.

Last week a game of Zombie Stagecoach, one of Fantasy Midgard and an evening of boardgames!

Any more March games before I begin the count?

What a Cowboy

I managed to steal a horse

Hi

Altar of Freedom (ACW)
Chaberlain (ACW version of Blucher)
Fighting Sail x 2 (Napoleonic Naval)
Live Free or Die (AWI).

Cheers Paul

Quote from: flamingpig0 on 02 April 2025, 08:35:55 AMWhat a Cowboy

I managed to steal a horse

For this forum, I'd call that a win!

Quote from: sunjester on 02 April 2025, 02:29:55 PMFor this forum, I'd call that a win!

I am certainly counting it as a victory.

Sergio Chinchilla the leader of my Italian rodent themed  gang was most pleased