Fine summer weather, a Test match, and the Lions tour, were not enough to deter the band of doughty Friends who met on Saturday afternoon to enjoy three splendid games.
Epic Scale – Prussians v. French & Saxons 1813 – Warlord Games Black Powder
Epic scale troops, epic figure conversions, and epic numbers of troops all led to an epic looking Napoleonic struggle. The black and blue Prussian steam-roller tried to flatten a French force, with Saxon Allies, that was defending a strongly fortified position. The massed battalions from both sides boiled around the French redoubts, neither side seemingly willing to give way. Eventually the French managed to hang-on and kept the field, while the stalwart Prussians retired to plot their revenge.
20mm – WW2 Ostfront – WW2 Rules from PZ8
Massed German and Russian armour clashed, somewhere on the steppes. Despite Stukas screaming overhead, the mighty Wehrmacht were humbled by the tenacious Russians defence, and some may say their exceptional dice throwing!
28mm – Peninsula Skirmish – Sharpe Chosen Action
Another crack at this skirmish malarky, with a Frankenstein set of rules combining the favourite bits from number of other sets. Once again, Major Hogan, holed up in a Spanish village with only a few Spanish guerrillas to protect him, was needing to be rescued from capture by the French. The plucky chosen men of the 95th, supported by redoubtable 43rd Monmouthshires, were the just the chaps for the job. Musket and rifle shot flew across the Spanish countryside, while the French light troops from the 2ème Légère bravely attempted to break in to the enemy held village. The French almost managed to encircle the Spanish held buildings, but the British exploring officer was spirited away in the very nick of time!
