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The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm A few months ago a few of us got together to stage an enormous Marston Moor game, held in a hotel in a remote corner of Fife, a one hour drive from Edinburgh. Well this time we tackled a Seven Years War refight – the Battle of Hastenbeck,
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm This week’s game was a refight of the Battle of Camden, one of the shortest stand-up fights of the American War of Independence. In the real battle, all Cornwallis had to do was to advance his army towards the Americans. That was enough, and half of the
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm It isn’t often that you dread playing a game with lots of your favourite figures. The reason was, Black Powder have several critics in the club, most of whom seem to be people who’ve never read the rules. Well, last week Dougie challenged our nay-saying pal Kevan to
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm We had a rare opportunity for a weekend game, and we decided to play the sequel to our First Battle of Saratoga (Freeman’s Farm) game we played out last month. This was General Burgoynes’s second and final attempt to defeat the American army blocking his advance down
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm This week’s game was another “learning the rules” game using Black Powder, which is fast becoming our rules set of choice for Horse & Musket games. This time we refought the small encounter at Emsdorf (1760), which is the introductory scenario in our Seven Years War rules Die
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Black Powder, 28mm The new Black Powder rules purport to cover the period from around 1700 to 1890, and the rules include a sample game set during the Sudan Campaign of 1884. well, we thought we’d give the period a try, using figures from the collections of Dave O’Brien and Colin
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm Last week we decided to try out the new Black Powder rules (see review), using the Freeman’s Farm scenario they described in the rule book. The crowd who designed Black Powder like to use abnormally large tables – far bigger than the largest we regularly game on
The Napoleonic Wars, French Revolutionary War, Napoleon, 28mm This small game was set in Italy during the French Revolution, and involved a French assault on an Austrian position. We were using Napoleon rules for the second time, but this time we not only had time to figure the basics out, but Bill Gilchrist was on
The Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm We’d actually planned to play a much bigger game – a potential scenario for a potential scenario book. It was based on the French attack on Obensberg hill, the turning movement that led to a French victory in the Battle of Hastenbeck (26th July 1757). One of the
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Legends of the West (modified), 28mm Once every four months the “League of Gentlemen Wargamers” gather somewhere for a big game. The November one is usually played in Stonehaven, just south of Aberdeen, and is usually less serious than the two earlier games of the year. This one, laid on by Peter
