The many faces of Wargaming or doing as you're told!

On Sunday Posties Rejects met up for a game of 15mm ancients and as you've possibly heard here and here it was a bit of a disaster for BigLee and Ray, the game was finely set up by Postie with hidden units and possible Favour of the Gods markers all over the place but where the problem started was with one side's man in charge sticking to a plan (in his eyes a good plan) that other's possibly didn't think so!

Now you know me a little and I'm not one to focus on the misery of others (well Ray can be an exception) but I felt sorry for the boys and did a little pictorial tribute to the many faces of wargaming...our hobby.

Will post some of my pictures of my game tomorrow for eye candy purposes, sorry about yesterday but the SWMBO was in her birthday mode so I took the day off and hid.

This is going to be a good day and a good game my friend....

What????????????????

F************************k

You need to stop taking pictures Fran or I'm going to arse invade you with that camera!

A moment of despondency....

The brave face.........

I'm not playing anymore........

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........

I'm going to kill him..........

I had a great time though and won!

The Battle of Hamath 933BC: 15mm Egyptians vs Hittites.

This fictitious battle is fought south of Tunip which in 933BC (new chronology) was besieged by Ramesses II. The Hittites have gathered various loyal supporters to their cause which has swelled the size of the army immensely so the Hittite king has decided to confront the Egyptian army well away from the walls of Tunip and so has marched south to engage the Egyptians.
Spies from both armies have been busy so both sides know the others whereabouts, the armies have started to deploy on the plains of Hamath just west of the town of Hamath, the terrain is ideal chariot terrain with both commanders confident of victory. (Words supplied by Postie)

We gathered last Sunday for this 15mm game put on by Postie with Dave, John, Smithy and Surjit playing the Hittites and myself, BigLee and Richard playing the Egyptians, we all had a division each with the Hittites having more troops and better chariots but the Egyptians have better quality troops especially in archers. We were fine tuning Posties rules "Let the Gods decide" but they needed very little done to them and it was a good days gaming with a fine win for the Egyptians, good game, good food and good company.

Some eye candy and brief descriptions of the action.

Part of the initial Egyptian deployment.

The Hittite King forces, poor old John had to actually pay for the loyalty of his generals with several dice rolls which luckily went his way ( he took the money back though).

The town of Hamath which if you entered you had to roll a dice to see if your troops started looting and for how long!

Hittite troops stream forward.

Egyptian chariots, fast but vulnerable in melee.

Egyptian archers, good missile troops and decent infantry.

Egyptian axeman, big choppers.

You had to roll for your generals ability, I hate dice rolls like this.

Lunchtime oven chips, how he spoils us.

Richards forces defending the right flank.

Unit of Hittite spearmen, good solid troops.

The Hittite heavy chariots, ancient panzers if you let them get into melee.

Egyptians light chariots with attached runners.

Hamath where Smithy is busily looting, he was a little pissed at this.

The clash in the centre which went well for us with the help of terrible Hittite dice.

Reinforcements just in the right place at the right time.

Hittite bodyguard heavy chariots, tiger tanks of the ancient world.

The battle ended before this clash.

This didn't go well for the Egyptians and was one of the last melees before time caught up with us.

Good game with the egyptians strong in archery and the Hittites strong in infantry and heavy chariots, we destroyed a lot of Hittite light units and chariotry  but we were close ourselves to losing a lot of units and with a few more turns things may have gone the other way, playing the game again we would have deployed differently especially as we know the rules a bit better now but a good set of rules and a well balanced game.

1809 Napoleonic Battle Report Part 1.

....or the day the Dutch blogger MiniMike turned up for a 15mm Napoleonic game with Posties Rejects and survived.

The invitation to come and game with the Rejects is open to all, we just need a little notice as we're old.

Mike follows myself and Rays blogs and he blogged that he was coming to the UK (Broadstairs, an hour away by car) for a holiday with family and friends and Ray invited him to a game that Postie organised and I catered for (we still don't know what Ray did) and what follows is a little batrep and a lot of pictures of the day.

It's 1809 and the Austrian empire is on the ropes after several major defeats at the hands of Napoleon and a French (Lurker) and Saxon Army (Dutch Mike) has been commanded to finish off the remnants of the Austrian army (Surjit and Ray), the game was set up and deployed before we turned up, dicing for reinforcements along the way. Both sides were of similar size and similarly deployed and battle commenced. Would have had more detail but Ray took the sheets with the details of the battle and units and has lost them and mislaid his camera, Ray will be eventually doing a batrep on his blog tomorrow from the Austrian side.

The Rejects with Mike at the far right, not a lot of Rejects as the richer ones were on holiday.

Initial set up, French and Saxons on the left.

My line regiments move forward, the white marker denote first fire (a +1 to your firing dice, only allowed once).

The Austrians and Surjits arms await.

Contractual Postie shot with evilness and maniacal laughter present.

Tried to be a bit windswept.

Artillery had to roll for ammunition as they had not been resupplied, so a 1 got you 2 shots and no cannister for the game or a 6 got you 10 shots and 2 cannister (I didn't get anything near a bleeding six).

Postie the git made me roll 3 times until I got a 6 for this wood and this number and then it turned out to be nothing (I was expecting militia and deployed accordingly).

Austrian elite cavalry try it on with my column, they would eventually break, disperse and the attached general would be shot from his horse.

Saxon cavalry and elite Austrian cavalry clash.

If a general was attached to or within 2 inches of a unit that took casualties, you rolled a D20 to see if the general was a casualty (usually a 1 or a 2) we took 4 Austrian generals out of their saddles.

Things are not going well for the Saxon cavalry.

In fact going really badly.

Classic French deployment, 2 columns protected by a line unit for the assault.

Saxon reinforcements getting lanced.

4 Saxon columns attacking.

Nothing better than a bit of artillery, more ammunition would have helped.

The blue marker shows captured colours from that Austrian cavalry unit.

Doing a bit of birds eye, the Saxons (Mike) were an aggressive lot and should have paid a far higher price but Mike was a lucky guy with the dice at the right times.

French birds eye view.

We stopped for lunch, it's called "Marry Me" pasta.

The Rejects and a Tiger at Salute 2012?

The Rejects met Paul Darnell at Salute this year and myself and Ray had been following his blogs for a while, had a chat with him at the show, took some pictures and went our separate ways but we would meet again seemingly, Paul runs two blogs Battles in Miniature and Hadrian's Wall Live , he is a prolific model maker (very good and can turn his eye to any piece of terrain you could want) and has several publications to his name, more information on those blogs (go visit).

Anyway his latest post on his Battles in Miniature blog is about a WW2 game he will be hosting at Salute 2012 and the rejects will be assisting on the day (now I hope Paul knows what he's getting himself into because we're gits when we game and Ray has terrible social skills).

It's a 1:1 late war WW2 skirmish at a radar station......anyway go over to his blog and read the post.

This is one of his old WW2 layouts from issue 3 of one of his model books.

The Rejects at Salute 2012 and participating and not being asked to leave hopefully (I'm talking to you Ray), could get in free aswell (£12.00 extra to spend on figures).