After over a month off from clubs games, for the Christmas holidays, it was great to get back around the table, to shove some lead, and to throw some dice. We started the year with a bevy of Black Powder games.
28mm French v Russian – Black Powder with Clash of Eagles
The Napoleonic fans started the year with a game that seemed to have as many nations taking part as possible. There were French, Italians and Poles against Russians and Russo/German Legion. A great example of just how varied and colourful this period can be.
The game was set with a village, full of supplies, held by the Vistula legion. The allies objective was to take the village before it was relieved by a force of French and Italians. The allied cavalry forced opposing infantry on both flanks into square, but their infantry in the centre failed to take the village, and the French retained their much needed supplies.
28mm American Civil War – Black Powder with Glory Hallelujah
Last year (2023) saw the club get back in to ACW after an absence of many years, and it looks like 2024 will similarly be echoing to Rebel yells and Union thunder.
Eight Federal regiments slowly pushed five rebels regiment out of a farm complex, but couldn’t clear them off the table. Both sides agreed at the end of the day that it was a tactical draw.
10mm August 1914, World War 1 – Black Powder with club amendments (Sheffield Steel)
A return to the late summer of 1914 with the Imperial German army sweeping through Northern France, pitted against the British Expeditionary Force and the Republic’s army.
This two scenario game started with a BEF rear guard trying to hold off a much, much larger force of Germans, while a French force tried to retreat across a river to establish a new defensive line. The second scenario then pitted the allied troops, that had managed to escape across the river, against the subsequent German attack, with more BEF troops coming up in support.
