A 1ft x 1ft Game squeezed onto a 6ft x 4ft table

In this somewhat unusual scenario, a force of WWII Russians, spearheaded by 2 T34/85s, had to 'escape' off the opposite side of the table. To complicate their objective, a German force had to try and stop them.

Bizarrely, the Germans seemed to have more troops and equipment than the Russians, despite the nature of the Russian objective. Indeed, a number of German units didn't even get into action, they were so numerous. Also, the availability of a road block and barbed wire entanglements forced the Soviets into attempting to leave the table at the only point available to them - the far top corner of the board.

This resulted in practically the entire game being played in the top corner 1ft x 1ft square, leave the rest of the 6' x 4' table free from any combat whatsoever!

At one point this looked like 'shooting fish in a barrel at a turkey shoot' for the Germans, but, to everyone's surprise, when the Victory Points were calculated, the Russians had won by 16 to 14 points. So go figure!

Monday Night Games - New England Puritans vs Indians, Rapid Fire and Midgard

Some of the games hosted last Monday:

Monday Games - WWII, Medieval and Napoleonics

Four games were hosted on Monday night, three of which are posted here, representing a huge span of military history from Medievals to WWII (the fourth one - sci fi - is covered in the next post).

These match-ups included Byzantines vs Normans, French vs Spanish and British vs Germans.

Three Bridges Too Far? WWII Eastern Front Action

In this highly enjoyable game scenario, a rag-tag German battle group had to make a fighting withdrawal across a river via several bridges, as a large number of Soviet tanks and infantry bore down upon them.

The fun aspect to this was that, as the Germans attempted to cross each of the bridges, they found them in various states of repair. Indeed one was completely destroyed.

The initial bravado of the Germans evaporated once they realised that the scenario was more difficult than thought at first and the game devolved into a mad scramble to escape the oncoming Russian horde. In the end the Germans did manage to successfully evacuate the heavy armour - a Panther and a Tiger, whilst some other units were left to their grizzly fate on the wrong side of the river.....

WWII - Big and Small

WWII is a standard favourite at the club. Here are two games - a low level skirmish game in 54mm and a Flames of War game in 15mm.