Games for 21/03

Next week's games are Hordes of the Things with Roddy, James, Bradley and Bookmark; something damp with the RPFC; BFG with Mick and Andy Glenn; and Andy B and Vince playing Fog of War with Tom.

In an enjoyable game of LOTR, Minas Tirith overtook Harad on victory points 25-22 on the second to last turn having lagged behind all game. The Haradrim players promtly complained it wasn't balanced. How much balance do you want?

Games for 14/3

Next weeks delights are LOTR with JDE, Bradley and Roddy, and maybe Andy G and Knuckles; AWI Black Powder with Brett, Dave, Beef, Bookmark, and Rob H; and back to the 80s with Mick, and Robin playing BattleTech - whilst listening to a Flock of Seagulls.

Quote of the Week comes from Tom this evening - but not something I can put on here. Mick might want to slap him again.

Games for 07/03/2012

Games for next week - BFG with Mick, James, Trainset & Roddy; PreDreadnaught Commander, or Predred ops, or something, with Rob, Dave, Taff and Bookmark; and Andy B, Vince and Bradley doing something else.

1870 Volley and Bayonet ... with a twist ...

"Zulus Sir, thousands of them" ... "Pardon me Sgt?" ..."er sorry Sir, I meant Jerrys Sir, thousands of them" ... "Well Sgt lucky we got the Martini-Henry Rifle eh what!" ... "Jeez Sir, they've got Krupps"

SITUATION: War! Well it is Wednesday night. The Germans invaded first, but only because the French weren’t ready. The German army has been all conquering and so far they have won every fight the French are quite pants really. Now it is the turn of the BEF to turn the tables and stop the advance before a counter attack can be prepared.

MISSION: BEF is deployed in prepared position ready to repel the Germans, who are expected to attack in force. Your mission is to stop the Germans in their tracks, hold them, repel them, cause a bloody nose in order to gain time to generate a brilliant counter attack (on another day).

EXECUTION: 1st Corps (less 4th Div in Reserve) deployed into positions along a ridge line as indicated on the map … or more likely as the umpire will point to on the night. All troops can be stationary if so desired. A skirmish screen (up to 4 points of skirmishers) can be forward deployed to either act as a forlorn hope or delaying screen. They can retire if desired in front of enemy advance.

... bring it on Jerry, we got guns and Marines ... that's them in the distance, trying to bully a single dismounted battalion of Canadian dragoons holed up in a town.

So they tried to go left flanking and got all messed up, "that's a lot of disordered troops Mr Jerry". :

So Jerry then cheated and opened fire, charged with his cavalry and ... lost all of his cavalry but routed the RMLI who ran straight past the Guards Bde. The shame of it.

Here you can clearly see the gap left by two brigades of German cavalry who bravely acted as targets for the British volley fire, one remaining brigade is permanently disordered which means they can't charge into contact ... duh!

Overall an honourable draw, but the threat of the German Guard Corps looming off table in reserve meant the BEF had to pull back to another ridgeline for tea and tiffin.

Games for 29/02

Space is a little less green today.

Games for 29/02 are Smugglers Shiv with Brett, Robin, Bookmark, Trainset, Roddy, Andy and James; Volley and Bayonet 1870 with Dave, Bradley and Rob; and Mick and Vince playing Necromunda 2nd ed in the absence of the rest of Team Saga.

15mm Royal Marines

OK so a Royal Marine has been given access to this blog, so don't be suprised when he puts pictures of Royal Marines onto the blog. These are Peter Pig conversions and organised into a WW2 Rapid Fire Commando Unit, equivalent to a battalion:

Next comes the Royal Marines Armoured Support in the guise of 95mm armed Centaurs. Used in Normandy, there is still one at Pegasus Bridge. Very useful in a close encounter.

Games for 23/02

Next weeks games are, in chronological order, Saga (we assume) with Andy, Vince and Mick; the RPFC playing something modern, Bradley and Roddy playng Epic, and Brett, JDE, Robin and Bookmark playing BFG, in which the Ork ships will advance unsupported up the middle of the table and be taken out by Imperial Panzerfaust class ships.

PAW Pictures

The link below takes you to a set of some rather nice pictures taken by a young guy who, I think, has a big future in photography...
Che Edward Smith Photography - Wargames

Mick

 
EXETER LEGIONARY MMXII Saturday 5th May 2012
Games, traders, competitions and a HUGE bring and buy!
Every year we get BIGGER and better...
http://legionaryshow.co.uk/

Games for 15/02

Congratulations to Roddy for only getting half the newly painted Hexosaur artillery killed this week... sigh.

Next week, WW2 with Robin, Dave and Brett - or so Dave says, anyway; Dungeon Delving with Rob, Bookmark, Roddy, James and Vince; and Something Else with other people.

Congratulations to Mick for winning best game at Plymouth with his VBCW game. Seems a bit full circle as I'm sure wwe won best Plymouth once before - Gladiators maybe?

Russian BIG Armour

I like this picture so I thought I'd share it. Who wouldn't want to have one of these in front whilst attacking the hapless Germans? Just don't forget you ear protection .... BOOM!

Games for 08/02

Especially early this week so Robin can plan his week....

A shocking state of affairs for a wargames club when there's more roleplaying than wargaming going on. At least the GMs were enjoying themselves though. Next week we have Martian Empires with JDE, Kris, Roddy and Bradley; Saga with Andy, Vince, and Bookmark; Brigade Ops with Dave and Rob; and no doubt a dodgy board game in the corner.

Serveral of the club are making trips to the Plymouth Show - http://www.paw2012.co.uk/ - to run a VBCW game and raid the bring and buy. Have fun.

Legionary now has almost all the trader space booked, although probably room for a couple more, and it's looking good. Tournament packs for WFB and 40K are also now available from the site.

Some 15mm 1859-1871 images ...

Dave says "Time to take over the blog again and post a few images of my 15mm goodness". First let's look at the Brunswick troops from 1866 who fought for Prussia, these are conversions from the Lancashire Nassau range, easy to paint and easy to command (unless you are using James's dice).

Next come a few 1866 Hanoverians who opposed the Prussians at Langensalza, Lancashire figures again:

This is my French force that can be used from 1859 through to 1871 on a beautiful carpet backdrop. It is a mixture of Minifigs and Irregular 15mm figures:

Everyone needs a few Old Guardsmen with large bearskins:

Austrians ... 1859 and 1866 periods covered here with Ian Kay's Irregular Miniatures. These fought Prussians, Italians and French so are a pretty flexible Army if you ever wanted to invest in one, just like their Napoleonic ancestors.

The Italians come from Minifig French converted with a pot of paint and some QRF ACW who closely resembled the Grenadiers of the 1859 and 1866 period. They look nice, but their commanders were particularly pants! See if you can work out which ACWs I converted in the last phot below:

Games for 01/02

Good point Andy....

Games for 01/02 are Smugglers Shiv with the usual Pathfinder suspects; VBCW with Mick, Bradley, Vince, and Kris; the RPFC (Rob and Dave) doing something "modern" ie late nineteenth century; and Bill and Taff playing GHQ microarmour.

Games for 25/01

A busy night at the club with 6 tables covering WW2, Dark Ages, Napoleonic, Fantasy and Sci fi. And we had enough tables and lights to go round…

Next week we have the return of the miniature wargamer and something Ottoman, with Mike, Brett, Rob and Bill; Bo5A (subtle enough?) with Dave, Bookmark, JDE, Roddy and Taff ; and Traveller with Kris, Andy G, Trainset, Bradley, Vince and Mick.

In other news, it was agreed the cupboards were a shambles and it was Phil's fault, he has been deputised to tidy them up ASAP. Even though I'm not sure he's even been to the Bath House venue. Hurry up...

Games for 18/01

Last weeks Epic game was fought to a conclusion shortly after ten, the Orks destroying some terminators and whirlwinds but being conclusively wiped out. Seeing as you ask.

This week sees a return to Robin's very pretty WW2 with Robin, Bradley, Brett and Trainset; Kings of War with Bill, Bookmark, Taff and one other?; Saga (promises, promises) with Andy B, Vince and Mick; Kris luring people into traveller character generation; the RPFC playing some thing with flags and complaining I don't keep track of what they play; and Roddy and I playing 1st edition Necromunda.

Games for 11/01/12

Oops! Completely forgot, how can you tell...

Games for 11/01 are WW2 with Robin, Bookmark, Brett, and Mick; Battlecry with Bill and Taff; Smokeless Powder (?) with the RPFC and Epic with Bradley, James, Roddy and Vince. And Kris is playing one of the above. Erm. See what happens without the comfy chairs?

Games played in 2011

Games played for 2011 - and we have a draw….

Very British Civil War - 18
Black Powder/Hail Caesar - 18
Pathfinder - 12
Fringe - 12
Hordes of the Things - 8
Bliztkrieg commander - 6
WFB - 6
LOTR - 5
FPW - 5
Incursion - 5
BFG - 4
Epic - 3
WHQ - 3
FUBAR - 3
GHQ Microarmour - 3
WH 40K - 3
Fantasy Pirates - 3
Wings of War - 3
Martian Empires - 3
Flames of War - 2
Other Colonial - 2
Warmaster Ancients - 2
AWI - 2
Kings of War - 2
Secrets of the Third Reich - 2
Future War Commander - 2
Modern - 2
POTSM - 1
ACW - 1
Naval - 1
GNW - 1
7 years war - 1
15mm Sci fi - 1
Napoleonic - 1
Wild West - 1
Necromunda - 1
Nap Naval - 1

Games review 2011 - Hail Caesar

Rick Priestly fan club reporting here for duty. This game saw a Dacian horde tasked with stealing two Roman Eagles from a couple of Legions and then killing everyone else on the table - simples. It began with a brave show of horde like tendancies aimed at making the Romans quake in their sandals, they responded by simply standing still and ignoring them. In fact the Romans were to do lots of standing still that night, much to the disgust of Rob who couldn't make a command roll to save his Roman Forum Political career.

In the first turn, one of the Dacian Chieftains decided to blunder early on, Dave was using the lucky dice from the club cupboard - cheers for that fellas. Rob laughed at the sight of two warband sixes on display, but not for long because the result of the blunder was an uncontrolled charge up hill against the Romans, which saw an improbable Dacian victory - strike one Eagle.

Next, and finally with Rob only being able to move due to initiative (he was still failing miserably with his command rolls) the Dacians were charged by a Roman Legion which then

got surrounded and beaten up by a bunch of ragged warbands - Strike two Eagles.

Rob hurrumphed off the to the bar saying something like "rules wrong, dice unlucky". Dave assumed a smug smile and with his horde marching off with some new shiney Roman toys.

Games review 2011 - China vs NATO

Some images from a Cold War Commander Game between Dave and Rob late in 2011. A Chinese horde confidently attacked NATO in hidden positions circa 1980. First we see the hidden NATO positions ... well actually we can't see them because they are hidden - duh!

Following this the Chinese attacked the centre across a ford they found very early on - something to do with their webbed feet:

But they got stuck, mainly because of the NATO hidden troops opening up with LAW, MILAN and Medium MGs.

The Chinese did manage to kill the MILAN team and it's supporting infantry on the NATO right flank, which was a very high priced piece of kit to be lost to the Chinese.

But then the NATO armour counter attacked and stalled the entire Chinese assault. Oh well, there's always tomorrow and the rest of the Yellow Peril horde that didn't make it onto the table - we shall see in 2012 if they can turn Europe into a Eutopian Communist state with little Red books everywhere.