28th August Games

No Neil but somehow the remnants managed to wrangle up two games. One Kill-Team game Alan's Nids vs Bob's Dark Eldar and Andy's game of GAS (I'm sure it has a better name). Both games looked fun with some nice terrain.

21st August Games

Greetings

Reasonable turnout last night, with a gust all the way from New Zealand: Mark B used to wargame in the Southend area and is visiting family at present. Andy P ran his new sci-fi game for Mark L and Steve S, while I ran the postponed ACW naval game for Steve H and Mark B. Rob and Alan played Kill-Team.
Mark didn't do too well in the ACW game but was able to pick up the rules and I've agreed to send him a copy under a separate cover.

We'll go ahead with the same games next week as there are others waiting to play the ACW naval game.

See yer soon

Neil

14th August Games

Greetings

We were rather split up this week; Mike, Steve B and Gary were playing a card game, and Eamon and Finn were playing Battle Cry in the bar area. Andy P ran his play test for a new sci-fi game (which I gather went well and only requires some minor tweaks to the rules at this stage) whilst Steve H and I were trialling his recently received Triplanes and Tripods game at the opposite end of the main hall.

This last game has been developed from the popular Wings of Glory WW1 and WW2 aerial game to permit the war planes of the period to combat various Martian fighting machines. The base game comes with WW1 aircraft so I took a rocket armed Nieuport 16 (used for observation balloon busting in WW1) against one of the 'smaller' tripods. We got in two games = in the first I was 'crispy crittered' by the heat ray, and took significant damage whilst trying to bring the rockets to bear in the second game. Great fun and I look forward to playing this again.

 

Next week Andy will run a further play test of his new game, and I'll run the ACW naval game which I've held over from this week as Matt couldn't get down.

See yer soon

Neil

7th August Games

Greetings

Numbers down again due to holidays etc but we were able to put on two games this week. Mark ran his Lord of the Rings game with his Rohirrim and Rob's Wildlings (from another more recent TV series involving games and thrones), masquerading as Dunlanders on this occasion. I am unable to report on this game as I was introducing Matt to the joys of World War 1 naval combat, using the Line Ahead rules I found a few years back. My Austro-Hungarian and Italian dreadnought fleets clashed for the first time in a looooong while and it seems the work paid off as Matt enjoyed the game and picked up the rules very quickly. We inflicted damage to each other's fleets but there was no outright victor at close of play, rather like the real thing.

Next week, Andy P has asked if we could play test a set of sci-fi rules he is working on. I've agreed to bring along my 1/600 ACW naval ships for some water-based dodgems mayhem.

See yer soon

Neil

31st July Games

Greetings

Fairly quiet last night - Dave K ran his Batman game for Mark, Rob and Steve S, while I played Battle Cry with Matt. The scenario was First Bull Run/Manassas depending on which side you support. Suffice to say Southern honour was upheld ad the Yankees sent scuttling back to Washington (can you guess which side I was on?).

Next week, Mark will run a  Lord of the Rings game, and I've promised Matt a WW1 period naval game.

See yer soon

Neil