Folks, Just to let all our members and subscribers know that it’s time for the clubs AGM. As usual it’ll be held at the Oldmeldrum branch of the Royal British Legion on Tuesday 30th January, 2018. Topics of discussion will include the selection of the Committee Members (Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary) for the coming […]
words & pictures by Stuart. I had a look on the excellent Honours of War Forum and came across the Pfaffenhofen scenario. This battle involved the Austrians trying to either capture or drive the Franco-allied army from the field. Not so much a fire fight as a chase! An interesting fight, with plenty […]
words & photos by Stuart. Ruleset used: Stuart’s own set based on “Ancient and Medieval Warfare” by Neil Thomas. Battle Of Magnesia We like to try to stick to a single set of rules for a few weeks at the club. This lets everyone get use to the rules and the period and get into it, […]
words and pictures: Alistair For Tuesday’s Honours of War scrap, Stuart devised a scenario that was a rearguard action in Emsdorf, 14th July, 1760. It was played on a 6′ x 4′ table, where the front was the narrow side and play ran along the longer one. Assembling his troops, the Prince of Brunswick […]
words & pics by Stuart HOW are proving an excellent set of rules. Last night we played this scenario from the HOW forum as I hadn’t had a chance to put together something of my own. You can find it here HOW Forum We used my Russians as the Pragmatic army and a mix of […]
Photos by Mike Just a little bit of eye-candy from a Sunday game from a few weeks ago that some of the guys set-up using the General de Brigade rules. Fictional scenario – French rearguard action at Quatre Bras – 19th June 1815. Alistair and John were French, Tim and Myself were the allies. Bit of […]
Folks, As you may have already seen there have been several new scenarios added to the club website over the last few weeks. Being stuck in Paris with little more to do than eating bread and cheese and quaffing wine, Ross has been busy putting together new scenarios for the members and other visitors to […]
Later this week the club will be refighting the Battle of Marengo using the excellent Napoleonic ruleset “Blucher” by Sam Mustafa. These have been a club favourite since their release with the members putting on a well recieved “Quatre Bras” scenario at both Kirrimuir in November 2015 & Falkirk in May 2016. Most of the club […]
Zombiecide – Prison Escape! words and pics by Mike. Beginning of the Game A simple task you may think. But those of you who have played the game know that the zombies spawn quickly and get more and more as you go on killing them!! The game is team based. So as a […]
Action on the way to Canneloni words and pictures by Stuart Last night we took the opportunity to kick off a new set of linked game set around a narrative theme of the invasion of Campari (a sort of proxy for Savoy) by the armies of Naples, using Parma as their staging point and […]
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