I decided to watch the 75th Anniversary commemoration broadcast from Juno Beach this morning. Quite well done. It still fascinates me that when I was a kid, WWII seemed like history long past but in fact when I joined the Black Watch Cadets in 1967, DDAY was only 23 years past. Today, 9/11 is only 18 years in the past. Makes you think. Midway through … Continue reading Interlude
The Origawn Territory, June 5th in the 2nd year of the NorthWest Rebellion, a column of Rebel Cavalry approaches the sleepy town of Nulparte Junction. The Rebel cavalry is first on the field. Today wasn’t quite the day off I expected but the rules are decided on (in 1 page summary form) and terrain features and placement have been diced for and set up. (Damned uncooperative dice … Continue reading Planning and Preparation (Updated)
Another day of physical labour in the veggie garden done, rain in the forecast, Wednesday looks like Gameday. But what to do? Prince Valiant, ACW or…… A shot from my last 54mm game. Being at Huzzah! managed to enhance my feeling that as useful as the short, simple games are, I want a meatier option. I now have a pretty good idea of what I … Continue reading Now, where was I?
Its just been one of those weeks, nasty cold, nasty weather, urgent yard work when the sun appeared and……well, who’s never been there? But if there wasn’t time, energy and enthusiasm to push on full speed, one can always take smaller bites. I’d already decided to simplify the details but now I decided to cut the batch down to 3 figures and finish them then … Continue reading Push on! Push on!
Huzzah 2019 is over, preparations for 2020 have begun! I’m a little stuck at the moment since I need some modelling putty for conversions and for some new master figures but these Prince August SYW Hussars will do fine as les Hussards de la Mort. Image from Wiki article. Sure, in some realities they only lasted as an independent unit until 1793 but on my … Continue reading Finnigan, Begin Again
Nothing like a casual game to wind down after a good but busy convention. Since Rob already had an actual copy of A Gentleman’s Wargame and Vicky volunteered to play, Rob was able to GM which was a big help in learning on the go. Ready to Roll. There is a long series of sharp photographs detailing the action which no one took so this … Continue reading Huzzah2019 Another AGW Game ( and Booty)
This will be a very short post as there are much better pictures and background here: der resin kavalier blog That’s me on a horse, behind the gun. 🙂 It was Saturday night, I was dead tired, I love Charge! and I love 54mm. This was enough to make me nostalgic for my 54mm plastic 1812 and AWI armies, just not nostalgic enough to be tempted … Continue reading Huuzah 2019 Charge! Saturday Game 4
Saturday afternoon was what I thought of as our main game though it wasn’t much bigger than the previous game once I’d scaled down the unit sizes and table size so we could finish in the time available. I figured 4-6 players would be optimum but was prepared for as few as 1 (or none) with GM’s playing or as large as 8. Happily we … Continue reading Huzzah 2019 Sittingbad – Game 3
Home at last! (Stopped to enjoy some family time and not to mention watching GofT finale in good company. (I liked it btw, pretty close to what I had been expecting for a while but that’s not relevant here. ) Back to Huzzah!. Friday night’s game was the first ambush scenario from CS Grant’s Scenarios for Wargames. This is another old favourite that I have … Continue reading Huzzah 2019 Game 2
Not quite home yet but there’s time for a blog post. Rob and I RV’d nicely, arriving at our destination about an hour apart after each making an approach march of about 1,000 km. How’s that for converging columns? Rosmark’s forces deploy. To keep things simple I set out a few terrain pieces and we deployed symmetrical forces. Rob had grabbed a free table and … Continue reading Huzzah 2019 Game 1
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