Mutant Zone Wars II

Having now painted the character figures, we fought the next post-apocalyptic scenario/mission in the rule book. This was a bit of a lop-sided affair. The GenLab tribe (animal-human mutation experiments 'gone wrong') had a disastrous second turn, with two of their gang members being knocked out in quick succession. The Mechatron Hive (displaced and confused robots following the apocalypse) won handsomely by securing and holding most of the objectives.

So far we have had lots of fun with this game. It has some interesting game mechanics, great characters and miniatures and outrageously random events. The scenarios also seem well balanced.

Retreat from Fort William Henry - French Indian Wars

This was a recreation of the retreat of British forces from Fort William Henry. The British had been granted safe passage to Ford Edward by their French adversaries, but were attacked en route by the Indian allies of the French in a dastardly betrayal of the surrender terms at Fort William Henry!

In this refight, it looked like His Majesty's forces forced their way through, pushing the dishonourable Indians - and any accompanying Frenchmen - aside.

British Historical Games Society - Britcon2024 - Our Franco Prussian Demo

This event, held in the epicentre of the 'Lead Belt' in Nottingham City Centre (Nottingham Trent University), just gets bigger and better! Great competition games and scenery, superb trader stalls, interesting demo games, dedicated 'Perry' and 'Two Fat Lardies' rooms, a bring and buy stall etc etc.....what more could you want?!

We ran a Franco-Prussian demonstration game in which the Prussians eventually managed to eke out the narrowest of victories after suffering horrendous casualties.

Mutant Zone Wars

Somewhat of a departure form our normal wargames, but here is an initial run through the post apocalyptic skirmish game 'Mutant Zone Wars', that has been based off the popular RPG, 'Mutant: Year Zero'.

In this game you command a small team of mutant scavengers, of various description, that must search for artefacts, kill other scavengers whilst avoid being killed themselves by other mutants or dangers lurking in the Zone.

This was much more fun than expected! The game play is heavily dependent on cards, which actually works very well. The figures come in the box with a degree of a 'dry brush' shaded look from the manufacturing practice, which is interesting. We will, at some point, get round to painting the miniatures, which will add to the feel of the game and setting.