Wargames at Club 25th January 2010

A couple of games for that night. Unfortunately I arrived too late to join in one of the games. My own fault. Will join in next time. Haha!!

A Napoleonic game between Mark Alcock (army on the right) and John Ogden. My digital camera had died at the time so took this photo and the one below with my Nokia 6303.

Another shot of the table. Sorry as the pics are a little darker than normal.

Taken with my digital camera. A shot of Andy Hamilton's British WW1 figures. Andy was playing a game against Paul Robinson's Germans.

Paul Robinson's Germans. Unfortunately Paul wasnt feeling too good so he left early.

A game between the Romans and Barbarians. Playing in it were Dave Tuck, Ashley, Ron Skeet and Mal Johnston. Each side had an objective....

The objective for the Barbarians, sorry, Germans.

The objective for the Romans. A concubine is, of course, always extremely important. In a wagon train full of supplies, she will make sure you get your oats.

Wargames at Club 30th March 2009

4 games went on last Monday night at the Club:

Anglo-Dutch Wars. Nice to see these lovely ships on the big table downstairs.

The English Fleet is on the left (not the Royal Navy) with the Dutch on the right.

Slightly more close up on the English Fleet.

The Dutch.

Playing in this game were:
Dave Tuck on the English side assisting Andy Hamilton; On the Dutch side were Dave Hewins and Steve Mercer. The ships belonged to Steve Mercer and Andy Hamilton.

One of Mal Taylor's British tanks.

This was a small game using the Rapid Fire! rules. Playing in it were Mal Taylor, Rob and Dave "Pod" Hodson. All figures and vehicles belonged to Mal Taylor. Mal was playing British with Dave "Pod" Hodson, who were attacking a small town occupied by the Germans. Rob was playing as the Germans.

Mike Barnatt (on right) with James, one of our newcomers, deep in thought in their 6mm Ancients game of Romans v Pontus.

One of Mike Barnatt's homemade buildings. This one looks like a roman courtyard.

A "close-up" of the 6mm Ancients game.

WW1 game between the Germans and British. The British are occupying the town. Playing were Mark Alcock, Paul Robinson and John Ogden. These Germans belong to Mark Alcock.

Paul Robinson's Germans swooping down on the town.

Return of the Egyptians and Hittites

On the night of 26th January 2009 the Egyptians came back. Thought I had recalled taking some photos of a game before which used Egyptians however after searching the blog it appears no photos or game reports of such a game have ever appeared on this blog. So it means the game happened pre-blog. The Egyptian game with piccies will be reserved for last on this post.

Monday night just gone fellow grimsby wargamer Steve Walker dropped in with some of the new armies he had been painting up. He showed several of us some of his 15mm WW2 army which were Flames of War figures I believe. Steve let me take a photo of some tanks (above).

The tanks were: Tiger (upfront) and Crusader (at the back). As you can see there is an armoured car in the middle.
Steve has just recently started his own blog. There is a permanent link to it on the right or you can just click here:
http://panzerfaustepainting.blogspot.com/

Please drop by his blog and have a look.

Also that night Mark Alcock and John Ogden were having a 15mm Napoleonic game.

Mark was the French (on the right) while John was Russian (on left).

Both sides beginning building up their forces in the middle.

French and Russian forces battle for control of the Farmhouse. Notice there are more Russian forces here (front of the photo).

Close up of the Russian forces advancing on the French. In the end it was the Russians who won. The outcome of the game was not helped by Mark's dice throwing which was worse than normal. It only hindered him unfortunately.

Finally we reach the Egyptians v Hittites game. All the figures in it were Dave Tucks. Playing on Dave's side as the Egyptians was Dave and Ron Skeet. The Hittites side was Mike Barnatt and Tony Walmsley.

The scenario involved the Egyptians getting this Sphinx and a Mummy's Casket (picture to come) to the port. Think the game was partly inspired by an article in Battlegames magazine by Ross Mcfarlane about Persians v Assyrians. The terrain boards were the club's though other little touches like the Egyptian buildings, the Sphinx, Mummy and Egyptian boats were all Dave's.

Chariots on the Run....

Normally there are Pharoah's in these things however this fella seems to be a Pharoah size as he is huge! Look at the size of the casket compared to the size of the other men!.....

Oh Mummy!! Yep, there is even a Mummy inside. It is Tuck-Sun-Amun which translates as Son of Tuck.

A photo of the rules being used which were written by Dave Tuck. As far as I know I think they will be just for club use. These are similar to the ones the club already uses for Ancients. These one's in particular have been coined "Warmati" as they use elements from the Armati and Warmaster rulesets. Dave and Mike were just playtesting them for this game.

I am looking forward to tomorrow when I will be going to a wargames show I have never been to before. Vapnartak at York Racecourse. Never been to the Racecourse before either. It is possible it could be snowy weather while I am up there with several other grimsby wargamers at the show and will certainly be feeling really cold judging by the forecast. As usual my digital camera will do the talking when I get back for those of you who were not able to attend.

Let it Snow......

Wargames At The Club 19th January 2009

My first Monday night of 2009 at the club. Only dropped in this time. Hoping to get back to playing and joining in again soon. As usual, took a few pics of the games that were played. There were 3 games that night.

Dave Tuck (left) and Steve Mercer (right) were engaging in a 15mm American Civil War Battle.

Dave was the Union while Steve was playing as the Confederates.

Some of Steve's Rebs taking the long way round to the Battlefield.

The ACW playsheet. This is the advanced version of the playsheet that had been used in the October 2008 ACW game at Dave's house. Its report can be found here:
http://grantsgrimsbygames.blogspot.com/2008/12/battle-of-stones-river-1862-at-daves.html

Mike Barnatt (left) and Tony Walmsley (right) playing 6mm Ancients. Indians v Alexandrians (Greeks).

A close up of some of the action in the 6mm Ancients game. Personally I find this scale too small for me and could hardly see anything even when I tried to look up close. Those lads have obviously got better eyesight than me.

Mike built this fort at home for his 6mm Ancients game.

A nice large War of the Spanish Succession game on our big table. The players were: Paul Robinson (Grimsby Mariner) as the French, on the left of the photo; Andy Hamilton (on right of photo) and Mark Alcock (not in photo) as the Anglo-Dutch.

An "aerial" view of the WSS action in the middle of the table.

Cavalry Melee between the French and the Anglo-Dutch.

The French won the entire battle. Read Paul's report here at:
http://grimsbywargaming.blogspot.com/2009/01/monday-19th-january.html

Wargames At The Club 23rd September 2008

There be a few games on the 23rd September 2008. 15mm Napoleonic, Malburian/WSS Game and Ancients. John Ogden and Mark Alcock were playing the 15mm Napoleonic game, Andy Hamilton and Mike Barnatt were playing the Malburian game. Steve Mercer and Dave Tuck were playing Ancients: Dave as the Ancient Germans and Steve as the Romans.

These are Mike Barnatt's Tecklenbergers, after Mary of Teck. It is a fictional state.

Andy Hamilton's Austrians. Slightly flagless but that's work in progress. Andy's figures are just so great to look at. This photo is not the best one I have ever taken of them.

The Austrian Cavalry en route.

Different view of the Cavalry.

The Battlefield. The Austrians on the bottom left with the Cavalry heading towards the village. The Tecklenbergers occupying the village with more coming into the game down the road.

Andy Hamilton (left) and Mike Barnatt (right) in jovial mood as always.

15mm Ancients. Dave Tuck (left, with tape measure) with Steve Mercer (right). Martin Buck looking on. Dave is playing with his Ancient Germans while Steve has his Romans.

Steve's new Romans.

Some Roman Archers.

Some more Romans.

15mm Napoleonics. These are some of John Ogden's Russians.

The Battlefield. The game had started late and I was only passing-by which is why it looks as though nothing has happened yet.

Mark Alcock's 15mm French. A view down the line.