28mm Thirty Years War game with ‘The Warre Game – 17th Century’.
A classic encounter between the Swedes under Gustav Adolph and the Imperial forces under Albrecht von Wallenstein. This was a ‘test game’ set up to explore a set of rules new to the club. This is the second edition of the ‘Warre Game – 17th Century’. I had the previous version but never got around to playing it. This summer the main author, Steve Jones, was discussing the new version coming out on Face Book and we were intrigued to give the new edition a go.
You can finds out more about the rules, including a free download, here https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Warre-Game-17th-Century/100063546461771/
We had to adjust the size of some of our typical units to fit with the scheme in the rules, and also cut out some of the counters required for the game. There are also ‘special dice’ but Steve had provided the bare dice and stickers in the printed sets we’d bought from him.
A definite ‘thumbs up’ for the first play through. Some thoughtful mechanisms to reflect TYW warfare and we much much enjoyed the command and interrupt system. Makes for a very thoughtful game that feels like you are making 17th century tactical decisions. We’ll be playing these again.
6mm Cold War game with Cold War Commander
An attack v. defence game set in the late 1980s with Russian tank formations assaulting a dug in West German force.
The West Germans certainly had a tough challenge with hordes and hordes of Soviet armour advancing towards them. As well as the myriad armoured vehicles and infantry, the terrain looked really nice with the German built up areas modelled with lots of interesting details. I spent a lot of time looking for someone having a sneaky smoke behind a portacabin that was allegedly on the board!
The West Germans finally succumbed to the massed Soviet firepower, and the Soviet tanks trundle inevitably forward further in to NATO territory.
28mm Napoleonics with Black Powder using The Clash of Eagles supplement
An interesting encounter with a mainly Austrian force fighting their former allies, the Russians. More investigations in to using Austrians and Russians in Black Powder with Clash of Eagles. A nice change from the classic British and French encounters we have focused on for a long time.
