“Not I”, says Dene after scoring 180 to win the Archery tournament.
Jason organised a ‘have-a-go’ evening at the Burton Bridge Archery club.
The attending BAD members showed that England would indeed be safe should the French try to invade!
Despite being July it was a bit chilly. But we should be thankful that we missed the torrential rain
Assemble brave Yeomen
Runners and Riders
Results
Martin Stevenson – Best Presented Army.
Simon Green “Oh No, Dene’s going to get more points than me!”
Bob Amey (concentrate Bob!)
Simon Clarke – Third
Dene Green – Winner
Steve Holt – Second
Ray Boyles
Martin Stevenson
Steve Holt – with Keith Spedding looking-on in shock & admiration that someone could do so well with average Swedes!
Bob vs Dene
Simon vs Keith
MAWS civil war
Kevin Johnson
Simon Green (with a face)
Paul came back to the club and walked us through his version of Chain of Command, for the Spanish civil war. I played the Nationalists (with 2 sections of Guardia each with 3 teams) an HMG and an armoured car. Peter with his social predilection played the Republicans (which had 3 big blobs of militia, some barricades, an LMG and an armoured car.
As it was out first game the scenario was pretty simple, a basic ‘kill the opponent’ while not dying type affair. The initial phase is the scouting phase. While i understood the principal I couldn’t grasp the nuance to gain any advantage. Once the deployment drop off points were set the command dice determined the arrival of the off table troops.
Tactically it was pretty simple. The communist militia were pretty poorly led (and that wasn’t just Pete!) and didn’t have much in the flexibility and were deployed in static blogs in some defensible positions.
Initially the Fascists had some early success catching one section in a crossfire between the armoured car and one section of the Police. They took withering fire, but hung on. On the other flank the other Police were caught a little in the open by the opposing armoured car, but did manage to make it into the large central Taverna (where they would safely stay all game)
The game deterioted into a firefight. The Repubicans just hung on the left flank by pullling back the section that had soaked up th attention of the Nationalist A/C and HMG , just before it was breaking an putting a whole new section into the same place.
On the right shots were exchanged, and while it did look back for the Communists, the casualties were racking up for the Nationalist, and with there more granualted force lost a rifle team and also the HMG team. So by the time we called it the VP were in Petes favour, so a winning draw for the forces of Socialism
Lovely terrain and figures from the extensive collection on Paul Scrivens Smith, very enjoyable
Come back soon
Last night James and Scrivs came down for a game of squarebashing. Paul has diligently documented the event here !
http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/something-new-square-bashing.html
Thanks to both of them for coming down and being pleasant opponents. Looking forward to the game you’re hosting soon ! 🙂
The Periods
Last Trumpet of the Elephants, Southern Asia 1650-1698
Minimum of 4 Elephant bases, no more than 16 bases of Superior Battle Troops
Peasant Revolts and their Overlords.
An army must have as many poor bases as it has sup/elite bases. (mob and LF count towards these totals)
Friends and Enemies of Charles II and his wife 1660-1685.
Artillery rules for all periods
1) Must have 6 bases of foot battle troops for each base of Lt/Med/Hvy artillery
2) All heavy artillery starting the battle unlimbered must be deployed first. Limbered heavy artillery may be deployed at any time. The army list must specify whether the artillery is limbered or unlimbered. The player may send in two army lists with different order of marches only, depending on whether they want their heavy artillery to start limbered/unlimbered or a combination of both if they have more than one BG of Heavy artillery.
3) Light and medium artillery can deploy at any time during the order of march.
4) If artillery is captured, the player who has captured them can at the end of the turn in which he has captured them, during the JAP phase, after all auto routing troops have been removed, choose to remove the artillery.
Allies and special options are allowed if specified.
BAD players at MK
Plenty of smiling faces from the Burton team and BAD mercenaries!
He are the final results (with a pat on the back to Dene & Wayne)
1st Forlorn Hope 240
2nd Central London Mediocre 188
3rd October 164 (tie breaker result between the two teams)
4th Les Trois Mousquetaires 164
5th Burton and District 124
6th Wooden Spoon 100
Last Trumpet of the Elephants
1st Bob Medcraft, Forlorn Hope, Indonesian, Johor Sultanate w Dutch Allies, 1693 70
2nd Wayne Charleton, Burton and District, Rajput Hindu Indian 1650 64
3rd Chris Beesley, Les Trois Mousquetaires, Indonesian, Johor Sultanate w Dutch Allies, 1695 60
4th Tim Porter, Central London Mediocre, Vietnamese 59
5th Ray Boyles, October, Indonesian, Johor Sultanate w Dutch Allies, 1650 58
6th Will Denham, Wooden Spoon, Hindu Sinhalese w Dutch Allies, 1650 9
Peasants and their Oppressors
1st Dave Parish, Forlorn Hope, German States (South or East) 1524 71
2nd Dene Green, Les Trois Mousquetaires, German States (South or East) 1524 52
3rd Dave Allen, Central London Mediocre, Hungarian Peasants Revolt 1525 49
4th= Stephen Stead, October, Slovenian Peasant Revolt 1516 48 (No tie breaker their game scored 10/10)
4th= Lynette Maxim, Burton and District, Hungarian 1514 48
6th Nigel Emsen, Wooden Spoon, German Peasant Revolt 1525 32
Charles II Friends and Foes
1st Ben Jones, Forlorn Hope, Later Dutch 1680 99
2nd Simon LeRay-Meyer, Central London Mediocre, Later Dutch 1680 80
3rd Paul Kitcher, Wooden Spoon, Later Dutch with Later Spanish Allies 1673 59
4th Keith Spedding, October, North African States 1680 58
5th Martin Val Tol/Tom Elsworth, Les Trois Mousquetaires, Restoration British in Tangiers 47
6th Steve Holt, Burton and District, Later Spanish 12