Club Wargames 6th September 2010

It was my intention to come down to the club to join in in a game but due to the fact I was late arriving I ended up watching the chaos and destruction instead.
There were a small assortment of games: Warhammer, Wars of the Roses and War of the Spanish Succession.
Above you can see Dave Tuck’s godson James playing Ron Skeet at Warhammer. It was a basic Space Marines v Space Marines battle. From what I could gather, James appeared to be winning.

Dave Tuck (on left) was playing Mike Barnatt at Wars of the Roses. Mike was the Lancastrians as usual with Dave being the Yorkists.
It looked like them Lancastrians were getting another trouncing before I left…..

Below are a few more photos of the WOR game:

In this War of the Spanish Succession game were Mark Alcock as the English and Andy Hamilton and Mal Taylor as the Austrians using Andy’s Austrians.
Things were not looking good for the English when I left due to its commander’s poor dice throwing (not throwing high dice) which once again had reared its ugly head.
Here a few more pics of the WSS game:


This last photo is a close up of some of Andy Hamilton’s Austrians which are admired by all the club members, myself included, for the way Andy has based and excellently painted them.

Wars of the Roses Fest

Last Monday we had 2 Wars of the Roses games going on. A Huge battle on the large table downstairs plus a smaller one on one of the tables upstairs.

John Ogden (on the right, with camera) as the Scots playing Mark Alcock as the Yorkists. At the time it seemed that there was no clear winner. The figures were great to look at though….

 

 

A Close up of some of John Ogden’s Scots.

 

 

 

 

Myself I participated in the HUGE game downstairs on the Yorkists side which meant I was on Dave Tuck’s side. Specifically my soldiers were on the left flank which was doing surprisingly well due to the unusual amount of sixes that were being thrown by me, leaving my counterpart Mike Barnatt understandably frustrated.

Both sides put up a great fight. On the Lancastrian’s side were Mal Johnston and one of his sons and Mike Barnatt. On the Yorkists side were myself, Dave Tuck and his godson James. Unfortunately due to the collapse on our right flank we were unable to achieve victory on this occasion. The first wargame I had played at the club in months and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Here are a few other pics from the game:

Triples 2010: Re-Enactment Groups

There were several re-enactment groups at Triples this year. While having nothing against the groups in the past, thought it was time I paid more attention to them. In their particular uniforms, with their stands behind them, those in full costume looked very smart.

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Le Garde Imperiale	21 eme Regiment de Ligne
The Thomas Stanley Retinue	Medieval Combat and Archery Tourney organised by the Thomas Stanley Retinue

You may notice that those featured above, with the exception of The Thomas Stanley Retinue, are Napoleonics Re-enactment groups.

Le Garde Imperiale is based in the UK and France and open to all. They do small skirmishes, large battalion formed battles, a public drill display, seminars, concerts, TV work etc and in 2006 were involved with film work for the BBC and Chester University.

21 eme Regiment de Ligne otherwise known as The 21st Regiment of the Line, is one of Emperor Napoleon’s elite line Regiments and recreates its history from 1812 to 1815.

The Thomas Stanley Retinue are a Medieval Re-enactment group who specialise in the recreation of the Wars of the Roses. They also demonstrate combat techniques of the period including hand and pole weapons, black powder, archery and cavalry.

On a final note the 21st Regiment of the Line are will be leaving for the Waterloo Battlefield on June 16th 2010. The Regiment will also be taking part in a re-enactment of the battle for Plancenoit and camping on the Waterloo battlefield itself. Everyone welcome. Cost of the trip is £150. For the full details, click here

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.

Wargames at Club 14th December 2009

There was a Wars of the Roses game between Dave Tuck (left) and John Odgen. Once again Dave was the Yorkists.

The Lancastrians on the left start fighting off the terror of the Yorkists.

A Mega game between the Swedish and the Bavarians. Mike Barnatt as the Swedish and Mark Alcock as the Bavarians.

Thats the Bavarian Light Horse Cavalry in the background.

The Swedish Kings Royal Regiment.

Swedish Artillery.

Wars of the Roses and Guests

On Saturday 12th December 2009 there was a Wars of the Roses game played on our big table downstairs. We had the pleasure of some friends out of town joining in with the game who are from the Society of Gentlemen Gamers. The Society of Gentlemen Gamers can be found here at: http://www.societyofgentlemengamers.org/

The Battle between the Yorkists and Lancastrians heats up. On the Yorkists side were Mark Alcock, Dave P (of SOGG) and Dave Tuck. On the Lancastrian side,on the left, were John Ogden, James (of SOGG) and Mike Barnatt.

Close up of some of the Yorkists with Dave P in the background.

Thats Mark Alcock in the back of the photo moving some of the Yorkists.

Looking towards the Lancastrian Lines.

On the left is the Lancastrian Lines. Forefront left is James of SOGG. Behind him is John Ogden.

The Yorkists won again...

Wars of the Roses 2nd November 2009

Multiplayer games with quite a few gamers involved in them is one thing the Grimsby Wargames Society is very good at. On 2nd November 2009 the club demonstrated that again.

There was a large Wars of the Roses game on our big table downstairs. A total of 8 players playing (not myself).....

On the Lancastrians side (the left side) was Mike Barnatt, Andy, John Ogden and Tony Walmsley. On the right as the Yorkists was Ron Skeet, Dave Tuck, Malcolm, Mark Alcock and another member whose name has unsually escaped me.

This pic is an aerial view taken by standing on top of a chair...

Some serious meleeing going on here between the Yorkists and Lancastrians.

A view of the battlefield just before the game ended...

The Yorkists won....

I intend my next post to be written using some new desktop blogging software I am trying out which may make it easier for me to blog without logging in all the time.

Wargames at Club 6th April 2009

Only 2 games were played that night: Rapid Fire! WW2 Eastern Front and a huge game of Wars of the Roses. I was able to join in the Wars of the Roses game.

Up first is the Rapid Fire! game between Rob and Mike Barnatt.

Mike was Russian using his own figures and vehicles while Rob was German with his own figures.

Mike however had air superiority. Only the plane in the middle was being used. The Shturmovich.

The Scenario was:
The Russians attack the Germans but first must cross the river and establish a Bridgehead...

BIG GAME OF WARS OF THE ROSES.

Playing on the Lancastrians side (on the left) were: James (One of our newcomers) with his son, Mark Alcock, Paul Robinson with his son James. Mark and Paul supplied the troops.

On the Yorkists side were:
Myself, Dave Tuck and Dave Hewins. Most of the troops were supplied by Dave T though Dave H did put some of his "Stanleys" on the table, which he mainly played with.

As the game begins the Yorkists begin their attack heading straight for the middle of the table.

I was facing James (not paul's son) across the table. Here mine and his troops finally get close. My troops were cautious and did not move that much during the course of the game.

By this time I was taking casualties. Things had started off ok at my end of the table but gradually got worse as the game progressed.

This Jumble is mine and James' troops in Melee.

The rest of the battle for the Yorkists was not going too well either. Mark's Troops had attacked and here they were assaulting our artillery which they took quite easily.

In the end the Yorkists lost. Actually all the troops on the table were technically Lancastrians and only called ourselves Yorkist cos we lost!!

Back to the Rapid Fire! game...

Here we are at the end of the game. Mike had managed to get troops into the water and had began building a bridge but not managed to make a bridgehead. Russian troops on one side of the river attacking the other side.

Even some of Rob's Awesome German tanks had taken a battering.

Mike's Russian Infantry trying to cross the River whilst a German tank lies in wait..