Gaming - Wake Island 192?

 This weekend saw the first Partizan of the year . I was with the guys from The League of Extraordinary Kriegspeilers . The game was a imaginary 1920’s fight at Wake Island 

The sea is made of 4 mats from Deepcut 

The set up is all part of Steve Langans wonderful collection 

My Torpedo boat breaches the defences 

The Japanese won the pre invasion game of Battleships in the bar the night before giving them the edge on the day which followed through to an ultimate victory in the day . I was busy all day and didn’t take nigh pictures of this ! 

The show was as busy as ever with epic looking games that had 5 minutes to look  at . I didn’t have a shopping requirement as I am having a bit of a downsize of  stuff for the rest of this year . They did run a table top sale which I took advantage of which has got the downsize project off to a good start and thinned out the lead/plastic pile and the rules that were never getting used .

As usual it was also a good social catch up with various friends . Time to think about The Other Partizan , and what game to do I think 

Here is the game brief .

 

Gaming - Sudan . A last run out

 This weekend saw a run out for a small portion of the Sudan collection .the Egyptian army was sent to quell a rebellion . Now if you know you history, you will know where this goes 😆. 

The table was set up at 16x6 with the column having to travel across it to the rebellious village. What could possible go wrong . 

The Bashi Bazooks scout ahead 
 

Gendarmes lead the colum off .

They actually look pretty organised! 

 

The village openly displays its allegiance.

Dervish riflemen appear in rocks .

The Egyptian 4th Infantry took the full force and held a first round of melee , but the Dervish Emir brought inn yet more forces wrapping around the square.

The 4th Egyptian were wiped out as the square face collapsed with Martins epic dice rolls .

The flank guard of the Egyptian camel corps formed its own square . It would later be annihilated by a Dervish ambush 

 

 The village remained in revolt  great fun game . 

This will be the last run out of this collection as I have made decision to have a major thin out to enable me to progress onto new projects . Some parts will indeed be kept and redeployed to the Hindu Kush . The rest will be available via Colonel Bills in due course . 

Building this collection has been a real joy over the last 11 years - and I must admit the building of these is the real joy for me . It has figures from every manufacturer who has done Sudan stuff. It has conversions and scratch built stuff too. I have played all the huge games it was designed for . It’s been to major shows , and in the magazines , as well as taken it to a major  film studios to use in a HBO documentary. It’s time to release it into the wild . 

Gaming - Ardennes game 2

 A second run for  the Ardennes set up . Since last month I have added extra German anrmour - Stugs , Pumas , Ostwind  and Pioneer platoon with 3 Hanomags  and bridging options . I have also completed the blown bridge version of the existing one . I picked up a 3x3 winter town mat from Deepcut to help create a larger town look . 

 The basic scenario was the same , I just keep adding stuff to it to see how far I can take this . James had the US forces which is a platoon of US infantry and combat engineers with some 57mm ATGs and off table 105mm battery Reinforcemts would be tank and Tank Destroyers . 

We had the mist across the table . The mechanism for lifting is each player turn they roll a D20 , odd below 15 the Germans remove an area, evens below 15 the US do . Above 15 odds is German artillery available, evens &s reinforcements. This produced various bits of sneakiness and amusements . 

 

The lead German elements git across the bridge after clearing minefields on the way to bridge 

The US engineeers managed to blow the bridge after redoing the wire behind leading elements - boom !

There was definite Tiger scare in the town .. as it prowled around . 

 

This game was a German minor victory , as the captured the town , with plenty of resources left , they had inflicted lots of casualties on the US , but it had taken too long .. and the dump behind the town had been blown up . 

More next time 

Gaming - Ardennes ‘44 - first game

 The collection had a proper run out today . I used the 12x6 set up to maximise playing area and see how the terrain created for the 8x4 set up needs adding too. 

The objective at the far end of the table - Fuel! 

I need another 6-8 feet of roads  to give me extra options 

I have some more conifers to winterise l but that should be enough 

I need to add more to stream set - it only covered 5 feet , I have an extra 3 feet to hand that needs sorting . 

 

The Yanks blew the bridge early  by rolling the 6 that was needed on the first attempt-forcing a detour by the tanks .

The Nuns in the chapel were preparing for trouble 

The Germans advance to the South side of the town having cleared out the defenders 

The spearhead is making back to the road and fuel !

Panzers charge through the village , crushing the AT Gun.

The US engineers are still laying charges as the King Tiger plows into dump .

The cavalry have arrived .

Tiger ! 

 

Caught by the cavalry - shot in the rear .. boom .

 

A US victory - but only just ! 

A great first game .