What Was the Last Ruleset You Played in 2024?

[paulr]

Definitely an enjoyable game that went done to the wire  

It got tense very quickly so none of us had time to take any pictures

[Last Hussar]

Black Powder, 1812, Russian v French (obviously, nothing else in 1812, was there, except some upstart getting a kicking? )

Number 1 son wanted a BP game, so I got out the petits hommes en bois (that's yer actual French, that is!)

Very simple set up, 3 French brigades of 6 units, with 2x3 regiments of horse, and some guns. I had a 6 unit brigade, and a 3 unit brigade, 2x2 horse, and a separate battery of 3 guns, to reflect what I've learned about the Russian artillery; that is their approach to guns is similar to a Hobbit approach to breakfast.  We just picked some units, there were no lists.

French had to break the defending Russian line.

Felt a bit odd, the scale of the game was basically 1 v 1 bases in the Blucher Sunjester and I do!

It was an eventful battle. On my right the cavalry wandered off on a Blunder roll, and ended up getting charged in  columns, while on his right I found the 3 v 2 was even more unbalanced that I expected, as my Hussars and Dragoons were facing 3 units of cuirassiers! No1Son pointed out I had just said put 3 cavalry units out, no prescription on what they were to be.

However, despite the odds, both wings of Russian cavalry quited them selves well. While I list both fights eventually,  the French horse played no real part against my line.

No1Son's was in fits and starts. His artillery was particularly bad; they spent most of game hiding behind a wood, and when he finally gave up trying to move them and said "unlimber here", they rolled a blunder, and advanced!

I forgot for the first half of the game that my large units of 4 bases got 4 not 3 firing dice. I corrected it to get 8 not 6 hand to hand. However "quantity has a quality all it's own" and eventually,  partly due to weight of numbers,  partly due to horrendous morale shows by my self, the Russian center collapsed.

[pierre the shy]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - For King & Parliament + Celtic Fringe
2) What armies were confronted? - Parliament v Irish Royalist Coalition - Rathmines 1649
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? - 4
6) What went well? - An intriguing scenario that we started playing last night. It is currently fairly evenly balanced. We will play the rest of the game next week.
7) What could have been improved? -
For the Irish: better outcomes for our cavalry would have meant that one of our brigades of horse survived, at least for
 a little longer. As happened historically Sir William Vaughan was killed and his brigade scattered.
For the Parliamentarians: a few chit pulls with a value greater than about 3 when they attempted to assualt the Baggothrath Castle fortifications. 

[paulr]

A very interesting scenario and I'm looking forward to the conclusion next week.

So far, I haven't managed to get my namesake Colonel killed, unlike in our ACW game the night before

[sunjester]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - Midgard Heroic Battles
2) What armies were confronted? - El Cid's Spanish vs Ibn Tashfin's Almoravids.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - Solo
6) What went well? - A really good set of rules that handles heroic characters well, making them important to the game without overpowering things.
7) What could have been improved? - Remembering all the rules! This was an opportunity to get a feel for the game mechanisms before trying the set out with live opponents.

[Last Hussar]

Are they only hood for that period,  or could you extend them back?

[fred.]

Midgard? They are aimed earlier really, Ancients and Dark Ages with medieval being the later period for them (though the author has done a WoTR game as well as Troy - and LoTR). 

I'm yet to get them on the table. 

[sunjester]

They cover any era/genre when commanders would be expected to be "heroic", i.e. lead by example and get stuck in. List in the rulebook cover The Trojan War, Historic Arthurian, El Cid and various fantasy armies. The author has produced lists for Wars of the Roses, The Hundred Years War and Imperial Romans/Britons.

They are very much in the style of war described in heroic poetry/sagas/medieval chronicles.