11th February Games

     A decent turnout this week. Thanks to John for running a WW2 game and Neil for running an impromptu 3 way Lion's Rampant game. 

     Both looked like really enjoyable games and, from a personal point of view, we will definitely see more Lion's Rampant in the future. The game flows really nicely and definitely feels like it could support multiple players on a more regular basis.

4th February Games

      Another good turn out this week, with Alan and me playing an impromptu game of Saga, while the rest of those present played a big multi player game of LotR put on by Mark.

        

Lotr first turn

Scenery-less saga game

      Next week John is putting on his 15mm WW2 game and there is going to Lion's Rampant for anyone with a force to join in with.

Convention Logo

Sometime last year Neil asked me to produce a new Club logo for showing at conventions and some idiot suggested doing it as a pop up which I foolishly agreed to. Unfortunately I then had a nasty operation followed by various other family upsets and never finished in time for last years season. I did finished it some three months ago but have not actually been to the club in all that time (and annoyingly forgot to take last Friday when I saw Chris at Waylands) so I thought I'd stick a few photo's up to show everyone what it looks like and provided it meets approval hope to arrange to get it in before the next convention.

Laying flat it comprises of two A1 sheets

To show the pop out element a little better for the photo this is taken slightly closed.

28th January Games

       Good turnout this week; Laurie, Andy and Neil played Battle cry. While the rest of those present played 'Pirates of the crimson coast'. Which turned out to be a great little game that encouraged armada like alliances, lots of carnage and a lot of backstabbing thereafter. All the pictures below were taken from the French fleet's perspective.

Next week, Mark has offered Lord of the Rings, Neil will bring the hobbit board game and there might be some Saga.

17th December Games

Greetings

We were rather thin on the ground this week - due no doubt to seasonal panics etc. My thanks to Steve for running his traditional Lost World adventure game, giving me the chance to inflict my own special brand of mayhem as the BeastMaster. Image of Old One-Eye (below) about to wreck havoc.

We go into Yuletide hibernation until 7/1/15, so give some thought to what games you might want to play then. As ever my best wishes to one and all for Christmas and the New Year, and may your Christmas be what ever colour you feel appropriate

Regards

Neil

3rd December Games

Thanks to Andy for running a pirates game using the new 'On the seven seas' rules by Osprey. When read through properly and tweaked it should make a good club night game.

The scenario played was a simple raid by the pirates into a Spanish held town, with the Spanish troops hiding in ambush in the town houses, although ambush turned out to be the wrong word for what actually happened, with one group of Spanish running away before the first shot of the game had even been fired. While two units of Spanish did put up a spirited defense of their town, killing a few of the pirates, it was all too little and too late with the pirates making off with some treasure and supplies and winning the game. 

The pirates making off with the loot

Next week, Space Hulk.

19th November Games

       A good turn out this week to play Dave's Zombie game, which is always popular whenever it is run. This time it had much more of a futuristic feel to it than it normally does.

      The mission specifics this time were;

• Destroy the alien ship, as this is the cause of the zombie outbreak.
• Find two lots of supplies and a single canister of fuel.
• Escort any civilians off of the table.
• Survive.

The alien ship in the brown thing at the bottom of the picture.

       Once it was established that only one survivor actually had the explosives on them, the alien ship was quickly destroyed, but in our haste to achieve that mission objective, we had been split into two groups who struggled to clear enough zombies to really regroup and we lost our first civilian to a zombie attack. 

The last stand of Paul and James, before James was tricked into drawing the zombies off.

      The rest of the game was mostly just survivors splitting off into ever smaller groups to try and raid the shipping containers or search for more supplies in other places, with different degrees of success. The game ended with a big group of civilians helped off the table edge, all supplies and fuel found, Laurie hiding from the zombies while carrying pretty much all the weaponry left in the game, Lance standing on a mound of dead zombies after being locked in combat for almost half the game and James our only casualty after being tricked into being a diversion.

Next week 15mm WW2.