Tons of heaving Napoleonic Horse Flesh

This week's game was an interesting play test of one of the club's member's speed-play Napoleonic rules. Napoleonics is very popular in the club and we do like to get a 'lot of toys' on the table when we get the chance, as most members specialise in one army of the period, or another. Nevertheless, we have never managed to find a set of rules that enable us to adequately finish these large games in a club night (2-2.5 hours).

These rules introduced a number of interesting mechanics to speed up play including a straightforward melee system that includes a roll on a probability table of results, application of a few key modifiers and immediate delivery of combat results. They did seem to capture the grand sweep of mounted combat of the era and were certainly quick. The real test will be with the introduction infantry, artillery and shooting.

Warhammer 40k Adventures

The first selection of photos features some refurbished vintage Chaos Space Marines vs Eldar, complete with Terminators, Khorne Berzerkers, Wraithlords and an Eldar Avatar.

The second selection of photos consist of some images taken at the Games Workshop unit on Friar Lane, Nottingham. They ran a couple of sessions for my two lads to get them up to speed with the 40K rules. The sessions were excellent and the GW staff couldn't have been more helpful.

Games Workshop Nottingham

Napoleonic Egyptian Campaign

Using 'The Men Who Would be Kings' rules, the British as soundly defeated by some Mamluk types, who were landed by boats on banks of the Nile:

Some Images from Recent Club Games

 Some Medieval slash and gore using Osprey's 'Lion Rampant' Rules:

Some 15mm ACW action using Fire & Fury Second Edition:

ACW - playing about with movie trailer creator, imovies

 

1859 Second War of Italian Independence

A really interesting club night encounter between the French and Austrians in Italy during the war of 1959. One of the most colourful periods in military history. The Austrians, as always, look smart. The French, well they just look classy.

ACW - A club night game

A club night game. This was our first trial of Fire & Fury Second Edition. The second edition tidies up some of the quirks of the classic first edition, and includes more sophisticated sections on morale and weapons, without losing the character of the original rules. Highly recommended!