If War World One was a Bar Fight, Lokis Giveaway and Boobs!

Sent to me by another Reject (John)............plus the very talented Loki (click on name) is having a cool giveaway and some boobs!

...and one for Clint!

28mm Victorian Sci-Fi Female Trench Raiders from Hinterland Miniatures ......

......and Magenta is the new red!

A unit of trench raiders for the forces of Angria, the elite of the elite, the hardest hitting and fighting unit in the region, the magenta piping is the unique colour and calling card of the female only forces.

Delicate but nice miniatures that deserved a better paint job but they'll do!

Early War 10mm WW1 Game and Pictures.

Last Sunday some of the Rejects gathered for a quiet game (no Ray!) of early war WW1 action (Mons I believe) featuring a German breakthrough and the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) defence of the area, the game was hosted by John with Lee and myself playing the British, Richard and Postie (good umpire, terrible figure mover) played the Germans, Lee was on the right flank and I the left (Lee covered his part of the battle on his blog).

The rules were John's own, I believe the figures are mostly Pendraken and most of the scenery is scratch built, it was a fast, good game but ended in a draw...I believe we were robbed!

Poor old Ray was much maligned during the game and none of it from me either......excellent!

Initial map and deployment.

I liked the regiment tags.......

The columns racing to the bridges and river crossings......

This is our artillery observer and scratch built!

Scratch built houses and gardens.......

The genial host John, seemingly my blog sometimes make John swear!!!!

2 of the three crossings, yet again scratch built!

This didn't go well for my cavalry to begin with.....

The Germans had a lot of cavalry and artillery and it was a bit rampant but ultimately foolish....

The fighting at the bridge, each stand represented about 200 figures and could take 4 hits before being destroyed.....

The British had better shooting but were heavily outnumbered as was the case at the time....13 on a D20 to the Germans usual 16 on a D20.

My cavalry still surviving but now dismounted and skirting the woods....

My observer observing the stalemate at the bridge, the Germans were in trouble with the losses inflicted but the game was called and a draw offered up which we agreed to in the spirit of wargaming! 

One of my units that was based outside my home town of Dublin and founded in 1881 and disbanded in 1922.

A draw is a win in my book!

Broadside 2012 this Sunday, Rejects WW1 Demo Game.....

.....and a story about a magic trick!

The Rejects will be at Broadside 2012 this Sunday with our WW1 Battle of Amiens 1918 demo game........

...a sneak pic of the practice demo game we played last Sunday.

......and now a story about a magic trick!

Many years ago back in Dublin, me and the boys were out drinking and we ended up in a posh hotel bar, for some reason they were hosting a magic show with a reasonably famous magician and his quite risqué magic show (amazing female assistants).

So anyway the show was good until he requested a volunteer from the audience to help with an old magic trick, my mates volunteered me and really fecking reluctantly I agreed.

He asked me to loan him my watch....... which I did, he asked me to place it in a red velvet bag that his assistant handed me...and I did, he then took the bag and with a large fecking hammer that he produced from his inside his cloak he proceeded to knock the faeces out of the bag and then he asked to go back to the seat.......

....very, very reluctantly I returned to my seat to the sound of my mates laughing their heads off, I sat down when all of a sudden the magician shouted at me and threw the red velvet bag to me......

......I reached inside the bag and took out a doughnut and I bit into it and guess what was in it...........

....JAM!!!!!!

15mm WW1 "Battle of Peronne" Battle Report Part 2.

At the beginning of each turn you also had to roll for who got to go first or second, the British got a +1 each turn to the dice roll because they were attacking (I won 2 of 16 turns!).

Remember the name......

I started emptying the dugouts, the H token represents special tank busting grenades (3 grenades strapped together).

The first tank (French) to approach the wire.....

Infantry racing along the lines, safe from fire as long as they didn't get up on the firing steps...

A captured Mk IV male tank approaches from the village, this is how the Germans countered the allied tanks by capturing any allied tanks they could....

The view from the trenches....

You had to roll to cross the trenches, don't roll high and cue the maniacal laughter.....

The facine this tank is carrying is to fill the gap in the trenches and there are no more trench rolls and access is easier....

My captured tank makes a short appearance, not getting to go first was a chore at times....

The attrition rate for the allies was mounting.....

A close up of a St Chamond French tank....

Every turn you rolled for duds among your off table artillery and you discarded a dice...

This is a bloody lot of duds, the German war machine was suffering....

More maniacal laughter as more tanks break down or are blown up....

2 French tanks (a Schneider and a Renault F17) try the flank and pay the price....

Willy makes it across the wire.....this brought the first and only morale check which I passed!

A Schneider ditches in the trenches, these tanks were dealt with by the infantry with flamethrowers and hand grenades....

Willy is close to the edge.....

I threw everything into the area, I was willing to sacrifice everything to destroy the last British tank...

Another view of the carnage.....

Regardless of all the dice I threw in the last turns (8 attempts at a 5 or 6 on a D6 and even with some Elvis dice rolling) came to nothing as the last of 21 allied tanks limped off the board, It had virtually no crew or officers left but to no avail as the allies scraped the victory....

The winners and their award, smug lucky gits......