After our annual tabletop sale at Lincombe Barn we invited visitors to stay on and play a game. Here are the games played on that afternoon.
7 Days to the River Rhine
Jet bike racing
US Army modern rules
Warmaster Ancient Battles
17th Century
Wild West
After our club's annual general meeting John C hosted a monster rampage inspired by the classic Godzilla movies. The buildings and mats are from the Dropship Commander game. The human military are 6mm models. The cars and the monsters are all toys
The three players on the monster side created the stats for their monsters. Godzilla was a level 40 monster with 40 points to spend on strength, speed, etc and bonuses. He went for the maximum save of 4+ and the great height bonus. The other two were level 30, one with flight the other breathing fire.
For the monsters to win we had to inflict damage greater than the number of points spend on the monsters, 5 points for a destroyed building, 3 for burning, one for crushed people etc.
Our least menacing looking monster came on first and set a building on fire, but was taking a lot of damage immediately.
In the next turn we brought on the others. Godzilla headed straight for some tanks and crushed two of them. The two headed monster moved rapidly up the road. At this point is was clear the monsters weren't going to last very long. John said he'd written the rules in 10 minutes and so a quick modification gave us each an extra 20 points to spend (without changing the victory conditions)
The two headed monster flew to the enemy rear where rocket launchers and tanks were about to attack and used it's newly purchased radiation wave to destroy them. Moving back it used the second of it's radiation waves to kill more units and hordes of citizens (represented by cars) as well.
I controlled Godzilla an miss-read the rules about taking hits, so Godzilla came crashing down before his time. Using the great height bonus he was able to take another building with him, crashing into it. By then he'd crushed three buildings.
The fire breather was doing well setting fire to buildings and surviving a lot of hostile attention, but diminished by wounds. It dodged around tall buildings depriving the enemy of a target, eventually going down next to the corpse of Godzilla.
So we needed to cause 90 points of damage to wing, the fire breather had set lots of buildings on fire and killed plenty of military units, Godzilla had crushed three buildings plus a few casualties, and the two headed monster had killed significant military casualties and killed hordes of civilians.Total damage was 72 points so the human side won.
This was a lot of fun.
Before Christmas we played Dead Man's Hand at the club. We had three players on each side and split a gang between each team.
The outlaws, having robbed the bank in the top left of the picture had to exit the table by the bottom right corner of the table.
We started with the sheriff and another model in the jail since they would have to exit that way. Our other figures were scattered around the town.
This outlaw was taken out almost immediately.
My Marshall, stepped round the building, took an aimed shot and then withdrew from site using a card for an extra move.
An outlaw entered the store by the rear door and shot at him through the window without effect, another came round the side.
By now we had decided that getting a shot as they ran past the jail at the end wasn't worth keeping two models out of the fight.
The lawmen killed eneugh of the outlaws for them to run away, victory.
The rules give initiative to individual models using playing cards and use a deck of special action cards. Models aquire tokens with footprints which shows how far they moved, and therefore makes them harder to hit. Oddly these are removed at the end of the turn, rather than when the model activates again which would seem to make more sense.
Men of Company B is published by Peter Pig. It uses a grid with the table being divided into 60 squares. Our mat has crosses marked on the junctions which aren't to obvious to spoil the look. I took the South Vietnamese army. My mission was to search the villages, destroy caches of equipment and interrogate villagers for information. John took the Viet Cong, Kev refereed as he owned the rules and none of us had played them before.
Starting positions were random, we rolled again for a VC unit that appeared right in front of the enemy. The Started with two platoon leaders with a squad each. They were able to recruit from villages. Three more VC units would arrive later as well as two tanks and another platoon for the South Vietnamese army.
I made a good start moving a platoon off the road into the jungle where I could shoot at the enemy exposed in a paddy field, causing one casualty, my command group moved forward to see and called down artillery destroying the remaining stand. I moved the other platoon into a village to interrogate a villager, who died, giving a victory point to the enemy. And their search turned up an ambush that caused me a casualty.
A new VC unit appeared in another village and recruited a new platoon. My tanks arrived and fired on them from the road, killing another villager and giving away more victory points. My third platoon arrived and started searching and interrogating in the other square of the first village, they discovered a cache and killed another civilian.
I now planned to press my advantage and storm all three platoons across to attack the smaller enemy. However in the next two turns the remaining VC groups appeared at the other end of the table and recruited the villagers there.
My HQ moved to a position to call artillery on them, the stand it killed was replaced by a newly recruited one the following turn and another civilian was killed. My tanks moved to engage them as well. Kev had taken over by now and the VC in the centre moved forward. threatening to assault my tanks and I repositioned to face them. The VC killed most of my platoon in one round of firing.
The VC at the bottom of the table surged forward to assault my platoon which was destroyed, I expected them to move onto my HQ but the assaulted the tanks instead, unsucussfully.
In my turn I destroyed one VC squad, but triggered them to get opportunity fire that destroyed a tank and then failed my second action.
Meanwhile at the top of the table my advance had failed. The first platoon failed to call in medi-vac and were caught in the open when the VC made a long distance move, losing most of their troops. I pulled the back behind the village and managed to evacuate the casualties but my second unit failed to stop the enemy moving into the village with them.
The game has a count down with players choosing one to three increments each turn. As it was impossible now to get near any of the other villages, let alone search them I started choosing the maximum to try to run down the clock before I lost most of my force.
The VC player also reduced my victory points my removing their dead, reducing the bodycount. Counting the victory points gave the VC a solid win, most of the villages hadn't been searched and most of my attempts in the one village I occupied cost my victory points.
Lion Rampant is published by Osprey and this game used the new 2nd edition with an unofficial Robin Hood list. Robin Hood and his inner circle form an elite infantry unit with bows, the rest of the army are two units of archers and four units of skirmishers. The Norman force has two units of mounted knights, one led by Guy of Gisborne, one unit of crossbowmen and three units of foot knights.
The scenario requires the Normans to get three wagons from one corner of the table to the opposite corner. The Bandit force is deployed in all three remaining corners. I had Robin Hood and Kev had the Normans.
In the South West corner are archers and skirmishers, I planned to move towards the centre to get in range and shoot the convoy from there. Kev had other ideas though and sent the cavalry to attack them. The new mission became keeping the knights occupied while I tried to take out the wagons.
The skirmishers killed a knight as they fired and evaded, and another in the melee, in which they were unsurprisingly wiped out. The archers killed 2 more before they had to turn their attention to the second unit coming round the lake. They survived the first charge fairly well and killed 2 knights before being overwhelmed and fleeing.
The wagons moved forward, my skirmishers in the South East corner were slow to intercept them due to failed activation rolls. Robbin Hood's unit shot from the woods.
I wiped out the crossbowmen escorting one chariot and discovering my mistake earlier brought my reclassed archers out to attack the next unit. The wagons wavered due to turns rallying and failed commands long eneugh to wipe out a second escort.
A unit of foot knights closed on my skirmishers who held them off for a while, getting one kill each turn and the knights being shaken and having to spend the next turn rallying. Eventually the Knights got into melee and destroyed the skirmishers. With the remaining cart nearly off the table and no longer in reange for one unit and line of sight for the other my heroic unit charged the foot knights, reducing and shaking them in the first turn then destroying them in the second.
Casualties were high on both sides, victory was determined by the wagons, two were abandoned and one crossed the table giving victory to Robin Hood.
This game used the Rangers of Shadow Deep rules with a Star Wars adaption found on line. We played a five part mission over two sessions. We each had a hero and two companions against randomly generated enemies. Some of the scenarios are from the Rangers rules and some from an Star Grave expansion. Star Grave and Rangers of Shadow Deep are both based on Frost Grave.
We descended a mountain side by a rugged path being attacked by the local wildlife along the way.
Next we had to swim through a swamp to get to the entrance. There were more creatures. We silently dealt with a possible rebel who was watching the base and then found that the Stormtrooper guards were actually zombies. We made it in at the last moment.
We crossed through a storage area where hordes of zombies emerged. We were joined by Nick for these games. This trooper didn't make it, although he returned for the next stage having lost some fingers from the casualty table.
Next there was a laboratory area where force fields randomly divided the playing area periodically. Both my companions were casualties this time but survived to fight again.
Having established that the base was overrun by the walking dead it was time to exit. We aimed for the transport which was most likely to get us to safety before the base was destroyed.
A group of living opponants appeared from another door also intent on escaping, including a senior officer. I tried to bluff that we were on the same side but they weren't buying it.
We got there first, shooting some stormtroopers, and shot and fell back into the vehicle. Some dice rolls succeeded in getting us airborne and escaping, leaving the enemy to their doom on the landing field.
The stormtrooper zombies are 3d printed, the other figures are from Star Wars Legions.
