22rnd November Games

We were down on numbers again last night; Dave K ran a Bolt Action games for Mark, Andy P and Steve S, with some armour turning up; a Panther for the Germans and a Sherman for the US forces. No apparent arguments so they must be getting the hang of the rules.

 

Rob and Alan were engaged in separate Blood Bowl games nearby. Rob reportedly lost his game but was able to ‘beat up some Orks’ as he advised me. Alan was playing against Skinks but no details of the result have reached me as yet.

 

Steve H and I were engaged in a further play test of my DBA derived ECW rules, using my collection of WoFun flat figures. I’d made a number of alterations to the rules following our last game, and we were also using sub commanders as well as a commander in chief to give some extra flexibility. Steve drew the Royalists for his force, so I found myself in the position of being right but repulsive on ‘1066 and All That’ terms as the forces of Parliament. We fought to a bloody but honourable draw (although Steve took out a couple of my infantry units in the last move to have a slightly higher kill rate than myself), but overall the changes and use of sub commanders speeded up the game considerably.

 

I probably won’t be down next week due to family commitments, but there is a further Bolt Action game arranged.

 

See yer soon,

Neil

 

29th June Games

 We were mostly together this week. Dave K ran the Mad Dos with Guns game for Bob from the Friday group, Paul, Steve S and Andy P. 

While Mike and I pitted our respective Wars of the Roses forces against one another with the assistance of Steves B and H. Mike's Lancastrians were tasked with escorting a convoy across the table* while my Yorkists had to stop them. The usual problem with failed activation rolls in a Lion Rampant game meant that both sides struggled to get into contact, although things did hot up on the Yorkist left flank just as time beat us. Both sides have since claimed victory.

*I believe there were two different versions of this scenario being played depending which side of the table you were on - Mike

Alan was seen to be playing Blood Bowl, not sure what Rob was playing though.

Next week Andy P will run his Core Sci-Fi game; I've booked a table but no decision has been made as to the game yet.

See yer soon

Neil