2026 Games Count

[Chris Pringle]

ACW: 2nd Bull Run aka 2nd Manassas (BBB rules).
A ding-dong scrap, pretty historical shape to it, good fun, multiplayer mayhem.
Photo-AAR on the BBBBlog here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2026/03/second-go-at-2nd-bull-run.html

[Steve J]

Fine game there Chris ! A very good point that in a large multiplayer game, not knowing what is going on on the other flank is a good reflection of reality.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Another top report

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

BKC IV a win fir the Britush in the desert, report to come.
Ingenious, just pipped into 3rd

[Chris Pringle]

WWII: Keren (1941). (Adapted BBB rules)
A nice exotic and different game, 4th Indian Division trying to turf Italian colonial forces out of their mountaintop entrenchments in Eritrea.
Photo-AAR on the BBBBlog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2026/03/eritrean-escapade-keren-1941.html

[fred.]

WWII: Keren (1941). (Adapted BBB rules)
A nice exotic and different game, 4th Indian Division trying to turf Italian colonial forces out of their mountaintop entrenchments in Eritrea.
Photo-AAR on the BBBBlog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2026/03/eritrean-escapade-keren-1941.html

Very cool. Hadn't realised anyone had adapted BBB for WWII

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Soldiers of Napoleon
Guard Imperial vs Austrians
Mutual break, but had been looking like an absolute stomping of my Guard.

[Chris Pringle]

Very cool. Hadn't realised anyone had adapted BBB for WWII

Cheers, fred. Well, I'm still not sure I'm convinced, but it was a good game. Whether it would still work with tanks and mech inf on the table, rather than just being mostly an infantry fight, remains to be seen.

Bob Mackenzie's adaptation is pretty good, actually, and that does handle tank battles well.

[Chris Pringle]

Soldiers of Napoleon
Gurdwara Imperial vs Austrians
Mutual break, but had been looking like an absolute stomping of my Guard.

A little-known campaign!

[pierre the shy]

Very interesting Chris 

As you say the 1940-41 East African campaign is not a subject that I have seen gamed very often. Battling Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa is a lot more popular.

[FierceKitty]

Very interesting Chris 

As you say the 1940-41 East African campaign is not a subject that I have seen gamed very often. Battling Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa is a lot more popular.

I plead family interest; my granddad was there.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

A little-known campaign!

Well, they were feared so no one fought them...
(Bloody phone)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

WWII: Keren (1941). (Adapted BBB rules)
A nice exotic and different game, 4th Indian Division trying to turf Italian colonial forces out of their mountaintop entrenchments in Eritrea.
Photo-AAR on the BBBBlog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2026/03/eritrean-escapade-keren-1941.html

Sounds like an absolute belter of a game

[Chris Pringle]

A current what-if:
Battlegroup Clash Baltics.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/434134/battlegroup-clash-baltics
This is a boardgame but would translate readily to miniatures (in fact Phil has already painted some up for it).
Very interesting.

[hammurabi70]

Q1 Twenty-Four
Ancients - 6
WAS - 1
Napoleonic - 1
Boer War - 1
WWI - 4
WWI(Naval) - 1
WWII - 6
WWII(Air) - 1
WWII(Naval) - 1
Post WWII / Cold War - 1
SciFi - 1

[Chris Pringle]

Franco-Prussian War: Coulmiers (BBB).
Introducing five mostly new players (Richard, Bill, Tim, Dave N, Les).
Used Tim's lovely 10mm armies.

Game was a riot, classic BBB finish - all three results possible on the final turn, came down to the last couple of rolls of the dice. Random events table reproduced history: a few franc-tireurs showed up and were mistaken for Germans by the French cavalry, who promptly departed ...
A thoroughly good evening. Pity I was too busy reffing and bantering with the new recruits to take a photo for a proper AAR.

[sunjester]

just one this week, a fantasy game with A Song of Blades and Heroes.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Umpiring an experenced player and someone who had never met it befire though a game of Crossfire.
It were bloody! The new player playing Americans soon got the hang of it.
To be fair, we havent played since the 00s!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Dead Man and Redux
First time ever played, but did allow me to get out some 28mm figures I'd not used in twenty-odd years.
I really enjoyed the multi-part game and unpredictabke nature of the game. Will play again.