Storm day! A tired storm by the time it passed over us but a little extra hobby time none the less . Martime troops on the move. Official sources deny that this exercise is related to the irresponsible rumours of an impending campaign in Furland. But how to spend my sudden free time? Poke bamboo splints under my finger nails then set them on fire? … Continue reading Sailing, Sailing…..
It seems that while I was distracted by Rosmark’s latest war with Schoeffen-Buschhagen, there had been some serious political shifts closer to home. Shifting alliances were not unusual during the Not Quite Seven Years War and in this case it seemed to me that something must have triggered a falling out between the Duchy and the Alliance on one hand and a reconciliation between the … Continue reading Digging into some Not Quite History
The Tricornes have it! However, to reflect the votes for The War of 1812 (“with Indians“) and for what our southern neighbours like to call “The French & Indian Wars” (The term wasn’t in common usage in Quebec where I grew up.), and since I’ve been wanting to get back to my nascent colonial-ish NQSYW, over the mountains to Furland, setting, I’m going to set … Continue reading And the winner is?
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
Today I “Hungout” at Rob’s place 2,000 km away for a playtest of our Ambush scenario for Huzzah. End Game. The ambushers will retire and the wagons will make it through.Photo by Rob since I couldn’t figure out how to do a screen capture on the new version of Google Hangouts. We had a host of unrelated technical problems but we overcame them and managed … Continue reading An Ether Wargame
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