Seemed a shame to clear the table after just one game. The original game was played with Don’s 30mm Spencer Smith ACW figures but my first wargame book was his Battles With Model Soldiers and the figures were Airfix ACW so…….. Hobby time has been curtailed this last week and casting & converting has taken precendence. If all goes well I’ll get to play on … Continue reading Recycle Reuse
Where to start? This game could have made a great Newport Noodle article or made for a good long blow by blow post describing how the rules worked turn by turn and what affect they had on each player decision but that might have been as tedious to read as to write. So I’ll quickly summarize the game in the picture captions while writing the post … Continue reading The Battle for Light Rock Valley
An Old Scenario to try out the new rules again. One Brigade? I’ve got a whole Division marching on and you’re hitting me with one Brigade? Lovely. The Battle for Light Rock Valley will continue tomorrow. Oh…. I guess we are gonna have a fight. Continue reading Ma! They’re at it agin!
Maybe. What I have been searching for, for some years now, is essentially a game that has the simplicity, ease and speed of play of a stand=a unit games such as Morschauser, Volley & Bayonet, DBA, and the Portable Wargame but with just a little bit more tactical colour to feed the narrative (since I play at lower scales of game and am not terribly … Continue reading A Triumph of Persistence Over Good Sense?
This game was worthy of a proper battle report but no correspondents or professional photographers from the Newport Noodle were on hand. (Possibly they were also working overtime in the garden during a rare burst of good weather.) I’m afraid we’ll have to make due with a quick summary of the action and a few fuzzy snaps. Somewhere around turn 5 or 6 out of … Continue reading The Quick Version
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
Not the battle on the table, though it had its moments, it was the struggle in my head. Luckily, Victory has been declared! The 2nd Battalion of the Highland Brigade goes in ! This week I had the luxury of time and the intent to “find” my game for my toy soldiers. Ideally one should know what one wants to do before setting out to … Continue reading It Was a Terrible Struggle
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