Wars of the Roses, Anglo-Dutch Wars and Colonials 1st February 2010

View of the top floor of the Grimsby Wargames Society.

A Wars of the Roses game. Players were Paul Robinson, John Ogden and Mark Alcock. Thats Mark in mid-grin on the right.

A close up of some figures that look strangely like knights to me.

Steve Mercer's Dutch Fleet.

Andy Hamilton's English Fleet.

Colonials: Myself and Dave Hewins were the fuzzie-wuzzies while Tim Smith and Dave Tuck were the British. On this photo some of my fuzzie-wuzzies had gone straight on to attack Tim's soldiers who had only just started moving. However my little band of fuzzie-wuzzies found themselves right in front of one of Tim's field guns.

Here the British move up with their attack and head for us fuzzie-wuzzies. You can see Tim on the left with Dave T minus head on the right.

The objective of this game was for the British to get to the well. They did not and so lost the game just in time for tiffin.

The Colonial game was played using the Black Powder rules from Warlord Games.

Anglo-Dutch Wars, The Great War and The Boer War...all at the same time!

Last Monday there were a nice selection of games going on. I'm saving the Anglo-Dutch Wars till last so you can all those fantastic ships properly.

First up, Boer Wars. Between Mark Alcock (left) as the British and Dave Tuck as the Boers using rules created and developed by both.

The Boer Trenches which the British were slowly making their way up to...

and didn't quite get there before the game finished. These are Mark's British (left). Unfortunately neither side got to see how a firefight at the Boer trenches would have turned out!

Paul Robinson's WW1 Germans attacking the town where Andy Hamilton's British were lurking

As you can see there are 5 Germans attacking this house where there are 2 British in the attic..

2 of Andy Hamilton's British looking out in the town in hard cover..

Anglo-Dutch Wars. All ships in this game belonged to Steve Mercer. Playing with Steve was Mike Barnatt.

Some of the Dutch fleet.

Close up of some Dutch ships.

These English ships are new. Steve had not long finished them.

More of the new English fleet.

Wargames 1st June 2009

Plenty of gaming last week:

Andy Hamilton and Steve Mercer were once again playing with their English and Dutch fleets.

Some more of these lovely ships.

WW2 Eastern Front using Blitzkrieg Commander rules. Martin Buck, Dave Hewins, Mike Barnatt and Ron Skeet playing. Forces provided by Ron Skeet and Mike Barnatt.

These Shirtless Germans with their guns belong to Ron Skeet.

Mark Alcock (pictured, left) playing Paul Robinson at WSS. Thats a bemused looking Tony Walmsley in the middle overseeing proceedings.

Mark's Troops.

Paul Robinson's French (on left) which would be the Court of King Louis X1V, the Sun King. Notice the blue flag with the Sun on it.

Wargames at Club 18th May 2009

Not posted from the club for a few weeks. Here is a quick rundown of some of the games from 18th May 2009.

Anglo-Dutch wars. All ships belonging to Andy Hamilton. Playing also were Mike Barnatt and Mal Taylor.

The English Fleet.

Another nice view of the fleet.

Think these chaps are dutch.

Close up of an English ship.

Ro(on left) playing a game of Rapid Fire! with Tim. Rob playing Germans on this game.

Tim's American's about to storm a church. This Rapid Fire! game was not a scenario just simple attack and defend.

The Americans have been engaged in battle...

The Germans march in...

The Shermans go on the attack..

Right into the arms of the waiting Germans...

15mm Colonials. Dave Tuck (with the British) and Dave Hewins (with the Sudanese). The Sudanese were actually on the right in this game.

This Riverboat was handmade by Dave Tuck.

Another view of the boat.

Another one of Dave's homemade boats.

In addition to Dave Tuck, Mark Alcock was playing as the Sudanese.

On top of that Dean Heathcote, with his blog at http://toomuchlead.blogspot.com also paid a visit.

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.