David Bickley's Wargames Blog

The occasional ramblings of an average gamer, journeyman painter, indifferent modeller, games designer, sometime writer for Wargames Illustrated and host of games in GHQ.



Saturday 17 August 2019

Brother against brother...

...or rather father against son. Matt is up for the weekend to go with us to Partizan tomorrow, so what better opportunity for an ACW game using Black Powder, as Matt and his fellow club members in Brecon are building ACW forces to play the game. Matt chose to be the Union before seeing the set up, leaving old Jubal E Bykleigh in command of the Confederate forces.
The game lasted 10 of the alloted 12 turns before the Rebs were finally defeated, with three Broken brigades out of five a sorry reflection of the boys lacking any real fight when it mattered!

We have to be up bright and early tomorrow to travel over to Phil's, as he has gamely volunteered to be the driver for our day out, or perhaps my driving bothers him! I have a small list for the event, mostly MDF bases from Warbases and terrain features from The Last Valley. If any readers see a bemused old chap wandering about, do come up and say hello!

16 comments:

  1. You need to sort these young whippersnappers out David, give him a clip.

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  2. Indeed, a lovely looking game!

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  3. I see Matt was quite magnanimous in victory :~)

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  4. Bemused old chap wandering about...
    That pretty much describes everyone there... ;-)

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    1. Close, but just a tad harsh. Many thanks for the wonderful gift today, I’m speechless really.

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  5. Nice to see the whole table in use. Enjoy Partizan sadly not this year 😢

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  6. Lovely looking game David! Enjoy Partizan!

    Christopher

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    1. Thanks Christopher, I’ve had a great day.

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  7. Looks like a good looking game!
    Best Iain

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