Phalanx

Me and B went to the Phalanx show in St Helen's at the weekend. Great show with lots of demo games and stalls selling all your war gaming needs.
I managed to pick up some scenery mainly but did pick up a new navel ancients game. B spent most of his spends on more Napoleonic 1:72 for black powder. Had a great time and played in a gladiator game and won a roman coin, then beat up some zombies in a game using sewers. My sniping was some of the best shooting I have ever seen, two shots - killed driver of an armoured car then got the gunner.

In the Arena

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Zombies!!!

B waits to open up!

Battle Ship

Last night at our gaming club me and B played a navel battle game against R. The rules (written by him) and models used were R's. The game was an engagment by a Russian fleet (us) and a Japanese fleet (him) in the year 1904ish. The Russian objective was to destroy three transport ships.
Game rules to begin with seemed complicated but once you got going they were easy to follow, it took some thinking to wotk out were your fleet and his fleet were going to meet as speed and course change took time and went in slight arcs as you would expect in a real manover. Shooting was done on a damge chart and each ship had pips of damage. What we liked was whoever won inititative picked who went first (normally your opponent) but who won initative fired first which worked out as a real advantage.

Russian fleet had 3 battleships, 1 crusier and a couple of destroyers.
Japanesse fleet had  2 battleships, 4 crusiers some destroyers and a couple of torpedo boats.

After a few hours of gaming and help from R we called the game. Me and B are claiming a moral victory becasue the transports were sunk but at a terrible cost the fleet (we only had one battleship left limping home and had sunk some torpedo boats).



Two fleets face off



Russian Fleet



Two Fleets meet.



1:3000 Ship

 Thanks R for a great game.

Operation Squad Game

Me and B played our first game of operation squad tonight, played nice but getting used to the reactions will take some getting use to.
A small German unit advanced on to a Russian position and meet some stiff shooting but in the end the Germans managed to push the Russians out of the village.



Germans Advance




Russians defend the house




Final German push



WWII Germans

20mm Germans are also now all painted up now to give the Russians a game over some unnamed Russian village.



Rifleman



WWII Russians

Russian 20mm miniatures are now painted up. 57 models with Rifles, SMGs & MG's.
Just need to get a game in with them.

Rifleman



NCO




Medic




MG



Clout Game

S & B had a quick game of Clout, first game in a few years.
Clout is a chip throwing game were chips have different abilities and are placed on the table by throwing them. Each chip has a range and combat is resolved using the different abilities on each chip.
S played using Elves with B bringing out the Undead. Game played good with S winning 8 points to 5.

 Game End


Example Chip



Dead Pile

Corn Field

Some small sections of a door mat cut up to use as corn fields.

Base of Confederates shown in picture.