The Little People

 On Wednesday evening I popped over to Jon's for the first time since March last year for a game. I must point out that this state of affairs was just the culmination of circumstances neither of us were in control of in the form mostly of Borisbans and Jon's erratic working patterns. Back to the game then, in the form of a Marlburian battle using the Black Powder rule set and his collection of 10mm armies.

 

As an aside Jon has collections in a number of scales as I knew, but I'd only ever gamed before with his 20mm WWII or 28mm ACW or Crimean War collections. This was the first time I'd even seen the 10mm WSS collection in person and I must say I was really taken with the look of both the game overall and the individual regiments. Briefly then, despite my best efforts in feigning on my left, throwing back his cavalry on my right, and driving forward with massed infantry brigades in my centre the French of the Comte du Merde failed to achieve the objective of taking the road and so ceded the field to the Allied army under Lord Walton.  Some scenes from the action then ~

I'm sure that even on my day I could not have enjoyed painting such small figures, Lord knows I found 15mm figures hard enough back in the day, but I really liked the way the smaller scale created the illusion of a battlefield on a 6'x4' table. I would definitely play this again, great fun despite my loss!