Wednesday Night Napoleonics - A Draw!

Right so drinking Pear Cider (I only did so to see if it was any different or better than cider - jury gives a verdict of - no difference, certainly after the 12th can), and playing games can be a hazard.  Certainly I managed to damage a bridge and break a storage box lid.  Not I was not standing on the table to break the bridge.  Clearly I should not navigate around my game room while under the influence.  Thankfully my opponent Andrew was not on duty so I didn't get arrested for D&D (this time).

Right on to the game.  Whether it was the alcohol or just the fact that the terrain was a little kinder to me I felt not as badly outmaneuvered by my opponent.  Certainly I felt that my position was better.  My artillery I have decided are better at counter-battery actions than that of killing troops.  One of Andrews batteries was reduced to half strength before they were chased from the field by Lancers.  The other battery was reduced by one gun.  That battery did manage to drive off the Hussars as they did their Light Brigade impersonation.  They were sadly badly mauled.  My right flank fluttered in the air, I think I would have been safer to have had the entire unit behind the wall and settle for attrition from light troops actions.

In the end Andrew and I called it a draw.  Neither of us was prepared to leave the realitve safety of our positions for the off chance of rolling out opponent.

I enjoyed tonight, and look forward to next week with anticipation,  I'm hopefully trading my Lord of the Rings for British and Hanoverian troops to my Prussians!  Rockets, did someone mention rockets!

Here are some photographs for the night.

Enjoy.

My noble opponent Andrew R and with dastardly french!

French Right Flank, main body on the finger hill
 on the reverse so that my artillery couldn't have target practice.

French Left Flank.

1st round of artillery exchange.  One french gun silenced!

The Lancers decide to test the french guns.

Prussian landwhere again show that real estate is where the money is.

Prussian Left flank - all good, lets keep it that way.

Prussian left flank view - all very quiet before the artillery let loose.

Lancers on their way - maybe!

French decide that the wine here is dreadful and maybe their
might be better piss over with the Prussians.  The Landwhere
decide no one drinks their piss but themselves,
and consequently hold the buildings!

Cavalry maneuver time.

Another french gun silenced.

The Prussian Right flank.  Why are the french advancing?

Lancers decided charging artillery was not a good idea.
The Hussars decided to show the Lancers how its done.
The Dragoons, line up to chase off the enemy Dragoons.

Off and racing, Hussars against the guns

The french see the weak piss in the form of Pear Cider
and make a made dash for the grog.

Prussians decide real estate is safe as houses!

Hussars on their way to charging home!

Damn, those french really do like weak grog.

Hussars are repulsed and fail to charge home.
Half the troops lost from a deadly barrage of
artillery and musketry shots.

Lancers came back to chase off the artillery.
Dragoons versus Dragoons.

Hussars racing for safety after the failed charge on the artillery.
Lancers convert to a rally back order.

Right flank looking sad.

Left flank, OK. Though the french guns did some casualties.

The final french charge and defence of the cider.

The cavalry melee continues, although the Prussians
slowly loose troops, they manage to hold up procedings
by refusing to run away.

Cavalry in action.

Prussians about to leave the battlefield.

Hussars reduced to two models and the Division Commander.

Cavalry action continues some more.

Prussian Dragoons gone with the french in hot pursuit.

Their were some Prussians troops here, but they have left
with the grog!  French must pursue off table.

Both sides continue to stare at each other until night falls.
They then meet at the local tavern and swap war stories.

Warzone - there can only be....

As readers of my blogs and facebook postings, I've been spending a lot of time searching for particular figures or projects.  During this period I have been frustrated by my minds capacity to associate what qualified as a logical place to store or perhaps hide them.

Warzone was for a time a contender here in SE QLD for "threatening" GW and it's strangle hold on the gaming fraternity.  I can remember going to a pokey place on the North Side and meeting with other secessionists to plot and plan the downfall of the evil empire.

Warzone was at the time a stable platform for a game system.  They had "reps" that were "rewarded" for the work they did to push the game and get it out there in people's faces.  What killed it?  Not cheap, even though GW weren't that competitive at the time.  The company having financial problems that lead to it's collapse.

I enjoyed the game.  The figures are chunky to be kind, lead sinkers to others.

Here is my collection.  There is probably five times this lot waiting paint.  I've been quietly picking up figures from old players for a damn decent price.  I intend to launch a dash into the past with this game in the times ahead.

Enjoy!

Mighty Empires - Campaign Play rules & miniatures (1990)

I have had this game knocking around in the shed!  Yes the shed, sheds in Brisbane are not the place to store things with the extreme range of temperatures we get here.  A few years ago (ok I think is was a decade ago) I launched an expedition to recover what games I stupidly had stored there.  My shed has Redback spiders (danger Will Robertson, danger!), Cane Toads (yuck) and reptiles of unknown species (I heard them but refused to investigate (I am a coward where any reptilian is involved).  I rescued a number of games I had forgotten about, some miniatures and a lot of really unhappy memories (my mothers possessions have been untouched since 2003).

I was surprised, most of the game was all there!

 The Contents List
1 x Rule book
111/112 Hexagonal Map Tiles (a Lowland tile is missing)
45/45 Village Models
43/45 Army Pieces
14/15 City Models (need 1 model)
14/15 Fortress Models (need 1 model)
14/15 Dragon Models (need 1 model)
8/15 Ship Models (need 7 models)
161/162 Territory Markers (need 1 red skull token)
Blue Counters
3 x Agent, 3 x Assassin, 3 x Saboteur, 6 x Spy
54 x Blue Territory Marker
Red Counters
3 x Agent, 3 x Assassin, 3 x Saboteur, 6 x Spy
53/54 x Red Territory Marker (need 1 token)
Yellow Counters
3 x Agent, 3 x Assassin, 3 x Saboteur, 6 x Spy
54 x Yellow Territory Marker
75/76 Baggage Counters
29/30 x 1 Baggage Tokens (need 1 token)
18 x 2 Baggage Tokens
15 x 3 Baggage Tokens
5 x 4 Baggage Tokens
5 x 5 Baggage Tokens
4 x 6 Baggage Tokens
24/24 Razed territory markers
6/6 Strategic Battle Cards
Attacker - 1 x Flank Attack, 1 x Direct Attack, 1 x Surprise Attack
Defender - 1 x Counter Attack, 1 x Hold, 1 x Withdraw
9/9 Spell markers
1/1 Sheet of self adhesive flags.
0/2 Dice (but who really cares unless the die are really special, which these aren't)

So this is what I am chasing to complete my set.
1 x Lowland tile (no idea which)
1 x City Model
1 x Fortress Model
1 x Dragon Model
7 x Ship Models (I think they were used in Man o' War at that time!)
1 x Red Territory Token (has a skull picture on token)
1 x 1 Baggage Token

I was gobsmacked to find that I got another sheet which was rather well pressed to another.  Hence I can offer this sheet towards any trades/sale if possible to completing this set.

I even found the packer ticket in the box, that's how much I must have played this game.

The People of the Wild Wild West

Here are all the western figures I have painted to date.  I really feel like I want to strip them all back to bare metal and start again, but, my age makes that a silly notion.  They are good enough to play with.

Enjoy.

Civilians.  Something that some Wild West games forget about.

More ladies - including Queen Victoria with shotgun.
Who's not amused now!

The Mexicans.  Or people anywhere south of the Queensland border.

The mob, gunslingers, bounty hunters and toughs. 

Mountain Men!

Some Victorians got lost including Prof. Moriarty and Moran.

Some soldier types of the day.

Chinese/oriental ruffians.

Mounted and dismounted models.

Very handy to have the foot figure as well as the mounted version.
Ladies were not forgotten, which is good.

Indians, Native Indians.
Not to be confused with the ones from the sub-continent.

Indians on foot.

The Wild Wild West

Why does a song from the Escape Club always come to mind when I think of the Wild West!

Wild Wild West

I know that I've posted this somewhere else but after talking to my old Greybeard Glen Taylor we have been thinking of Dog Town and getting it up and running again.

Here are the buildings I've built quite some time ago.

Enjoy!

The Town of Dog Town!

The Railway Station, there is even a train ( not seen)