Battletech game

 

Well again it has been a while since i have updated the blog. Its only a short one. I would have taken more pictures, but forgot i had my camera was in the bag.

we got down to two games of Battletech. These were hurriedly thrown together and terrain set up. See photo. In both Greg's Whitworth and JagerMech faced my Atlas & Hunchback. While both were fun games, Greg was seriously at a disadvantage since he only had 105 tons vs. my 150. Oh well, he almost won the first game anyway. In the picture above you see that he's already destroyed my Hunchback(too many head-shots!!!) and his Jagermech is doing a "death from above" on my Atlas. While the Atlas eventually won, it was a near run thing. A similar result in the second game. Next Monday we'll try again, but with this time having an equal 200 tons per side.

Well that's it, short and sweet. the postman has turned up with my land forces for Dystopian wars

UNCHARTED SEAS

 

Well its been a while, i have been tired up with STEPS again this time on campus.So not much has been down since then. The following uncharted seas stuff has been painted last year, but i had not gotten around to putting up on the site. I have also included the islands I'm been doing as well, they are not finish and still need work to be done on them.

Frist up the islands

Elf's

Dwarfs

 

Last flyers and sea monsters

 

Now i need to do photos of the terran fleet for FSA

Greg

Napoleonic's Rank & File

 

Greg came over for a Napoleonics game using 15mm miniatures and the "Rank & File" rules at 6:30PM. Greg played the French using some newly aquired miniatures that really looked superb, while I played with my considerably less well painted Russians. Both armies were composed of 10 units: 5 Infantry, 1 two-gun light battery, 1 two-gun medium battery, and a unit each of Hussars, Lancers, and Cuirassier cavalry. The terrain had a central town (Novogord) with woods & croplands to the west and hills to the east.

I set up first and Greg moved first. We both had our medium guns on the Eastern Hills, an infantry centre, and cavalry on the flanks, Greg overmatching my cavalry in the west.

I was able to reach the town first, and occupied it with my Guard Infantry. The French did nasty work on my easternmost infantry with his artillery, finally forcing me to go into open order. Also on the Eastern Hills my Hussars and Greg's Lancers had several clashes. The Lancers were finally pushed back at great cost. My artillery destroyed one of the French guns and the troops in Novogord were just hanging on by their fingernails. A series of misfortunes beset the French flanking manoeuver to the west. Their hussars failed morale, and their resulting retreat allowed the Russian infantry to close with & destroy them. The French Cuirassier came to a similar end when charged by Russian Lancers supported by light guns and Skirmishers, but not before it had chased away the light guns.

A charge by the Russian Cuirassiers up a hill to take out the enemy guns ended in abject failure. It suffered 1/3 losses and retreated behind the infantry skirmishers.

Things also hotted up in Novogord as the French infantry forced out the Russian Guard. Half the French heavy battery was destroyed by its opposite number. The infantry fight before and to the east of town swung back and forth, with heavy losses on both sides.

In the end, French losses became too much and they fell back stubbornly. Sadly, at the moment of victory, my sub-general was captured leading the Cuirassiers, and is now a POW.

A very close game indeed, and one we both enjoyed greatly. The French are now regrouping and will launch another attack next Monday.

Pray for Mother Russia!

Hope the dice roll high.

Greg