Early 16th Century Scotland - Post Flodden Civil Strife in Edinbrgh

In this interesting scenario, the Douglases and Hamiltons fought the length and breadth of Cowgate in Edinburgh for control of the city, the castle and influence over the 'long minority' of the infant King, James V. A horrifying feature of the battle was the presence of local townspeople, armed with flails, pitchforks and other assorted agricultural implements, to attack shaken units of the paid retinues, from the flank and rear. The Douglases prevailed, driving the Hamiltons back up Cowgate, to carry the day.

The rules used were Lion Rampant, which work quite well, although we are noticing certain quirks with the rules - shooting being too powerful, lack of incentive to attack for quite a number of unit types etc.

40K Boarding Actions

A giant abandoned space hulk is fought over by roaming bands of scavenging bands of Dark Eldar and renegade teams of Space Marines.

40K Boarding Actions

40K Boarding Actions

Monday Evening Games - Byzantines and WWII

Well turned out Byzantines chase off some really annoying Arabs in this Lion Rampant game. Some great shield transfers on show here from Little Big Men.

Late war Germans see off an overly confident Soviet attacker, with some awesome King Tigers making a rare appearance :

Irish Wars - A Rare Pitched Battle

The forces were drawn up for a traditional pitched battle in this game, using the Pikeman’s Lament rule set. In reality, pitched battles were not really a feature in this series of wars, save the final, climatic engagement - The Battle of Kinsale in 1601.

In our battle, The English eventually ground their way to a narrow victory. Both sides deployed Kern, which were pretty useless on the more open battlefield. The gentlemen volunteers from the Pale were probably the best performing unit, seeing off two units of Bonnachts. Also the English pike held their ground to the end to enable the English player to claim victory….well, just about.

Irish Wars Wargame

Nine Years War Wargame

"Away, away, away down south in Dixie" - Vintage ACW

Some good old fashioned ACW on display this evening. In this scenario, both Federals and Confederates are fed fresh divisions into the front line as the game progresses. The Southerners end up with a terrible 'traffic jam' effect and struggle to get enough troops into the firing line. Nevertheless, the union commander was only able to make piecemeal attacks, which were mostly driven off eventually.

The climax of the game was a Union charge across a bridge in column of attack, which could have gone either way. However, the Confederates managed to hold on and push the column back over the bridge with heavy losses, providing a narrow 'winning draw' for the Secessionists.