games have been happening

I've not posted in ages, though gaming activity has continued. There were a lack of decent pictures on my part, mostly down to forgetting on the day and sometimes a shaky hand on the camera.  

Here's a selection of reasonable pictures. 

First was our first game of 1914. It was a new rule set and we played with 15mm figures belonging to a couple of the chaps at the club.  A nice game system based on playing initiative tokens to do stuff. As the name suggests, it's for 1914 and the initial battles where there was still an element of movement. I liked it and would like to try the game system again, but we have so many games to play. 

Next is a snapshot of a Black Powder game and an AWI scenario.  This battle took place in open woodland, hence the scattered trees.  The British were advancing from the bottom.   

And the clash when the two lines met.  This was another fun game using Black Powder.  

Back to the great war, this time in 6mm and using the Spearhead rules.  The figures were by a fellow club member.  6mm may not be to everyone's taste, but I like the more operational possibilities in games like this. While 28mm looks very good, many games do tend to involve charging over the table as fast as possible and throwing lots of dice.  

If I remember correctly, each base represents a company, and this is me, as Germans, trying to take a river crossing on my left flank, with 3 battalions of a regiment with accompanying machine guns and artillery support somewhere off to the rear.  

And this is my corresponding attack on my right flank with a similar sized force. 

Back to Black Power and a Great Northern War scenario. Holzowyn.  This is the only decent picture I took. At the top of the table the Swedes have just emerged from the marsh to attach the Russian right.  The rest of the Russians stretch down the table towards the camera, and are defending a long low ridge against more Swedes advancing from the left. 

The objective of the scenario is that the outnumbered Swedes have to attack and win before all the Russian reserves arrive.  It was a really goo game, but we stumbled a bit by having 7 people round the table, most of whom were new to Black Powder.  I'd really like to do this scenario again with 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2, to play more slowly and demonstrate the rules  a bit better. 

 More to come.