Derby 2012 wrap up

Well,

my new version of the 30 Years War Germans didn't work very well.  Back to the drawing board for Warfare.

I nearly doubled my score on the 3rd game on Sunday when I had a bye, so, that says how well I was going.

the games

Game 1 Louis the XIV 0-25
Game 2 30 Years war swedes  7-18
Game 3 Bye 10
Game 4 League of Ausburg 22-3

My theory for this comp was to base the army around three veteran pike and shot units and shoot my way out of trouble.  The key to this theory was to be able to shoot.  It wasn't until the fourth game my troops decided that they could even hit anything.

Hmmm, what to do for Warfare...

the new venue was different, very similar to one of the comp venues back in Aus.  It was held at the Donnington race course and was in a large exhibition hall.  It was well suited to having a large amount of gamers in it as it had high ceilings and the traders were in the same room as the players.  This may have contributed to some of my spending.

It was rather strange to game next to a car race course, you could hear the cars racing around while pushing lead around the table.

Derby 2012

I'm off to Derby with the Central London Mediocre team to play in the FogR comp.

I'll be playing in the Rise of Gun powder period with my 30 years war Germans.

I've made some changes to my usual list so will be interesting to see how it goes.

These are the periods for the comp.

1) The Early European Renaissance - up to 1570, no battle troops with musket or impact pistol. Armies from T&T and CofE.

2) The rise of Pistols and Muskets. European Warfare from 1570-1700. Armies from WofR and D&G, plus any from T&T or CofE that aren't allowed in Period 1.

3) Non European War in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Armies from C&C and CofG.

Lisbon 2012 wrap up

So, a bit late, but here is the wrap up from Lisbon. The Anzac team ended up 7th out of 8th. We were doing well going into the last bound but we didn't do as we'll as we hoped and the other teams around up got big wins.

The idea of the 30-0 made every one get stuck in and play like they had a pair which was a nice change.

My results were;

Free Company (Portuguese) win to me
Swiss (Italy) big loss to me
Medieval German city leagues  (barbarian) draw
Medieval Danish(Spain) win to me

Lots of fun playing with the international teams and speaking Italian with the Italian team.

Photos to come from the visit to the armoury.

It was great to play a period comp with tightly controlled armies. None of us medieval players had to worry about light horse armies running around us.  We all got to do some moving and then lined up and charged.  Good honest fun.

Lisbon 2012

I'm off to play in in Lisbon this weekend.


I will be my first FoGAM comp for the year, so, hope I don't embarrass  myself too much.

Lisbon in a team comp done by country, so, a bunch of Anzacs are flying over from the world to hopefully give a good spanking.

I'll be playing in my favorite pool, the full metal medieval pool.  I'll be bringing in the Medieval Germans with a small twist, a Swiss ally.

The medieval pool has been restricted to some twenty odd lists, of only one which is a skirmisher army (Santa Hermanded), so, the rest of the armies will be proper ones.

I reckon that there will be quite a few Ordonannce French and 100 years war English running around.

At least we can get stuck in.

Wonder who will be in my pool?

Britcon 2012 wrap up

Back from Britcon 2012 and ended up middle of the pack.

It was a very tough competition (there are never enough bunnies) and I ended up with 66 points.

I had six great games with different armies each time, so, lots of variety

Game 1 0-25 vs Western Sudanese

Game 2 5-20 vs Later Imperial Spanish

Games 3 10-10 vs Early 30 years war Swedish

Game 4 20-5 vs West African Forest

Game 5 10-10 vs Later Imperial Spanish

Game 6 21-4 vs Later German States (Barvarian)

One big surprise of the comp was to see the power of foot armies over the mounted ones.  The guys who got 1st, 2nd and 3rd all had foot armies.

Good to see that you can win a comp with a proper army, unlike the mounted one I brought.

Everywhere I looked there were guys with guns who took me to pieces.

It was lots of fun and I can see my army changing for the next comp.

Britcon 2012

Off to Britcon this weekend for the FoGR competition.  It's an open competition and will be a tough one.

here is the runners and riders for the comp.

Additions to my 6mm British

At Salute this year, I ran into Heroics and Ross and was able to pick up a few additions to my 6mm British modern army.

It's looking pretty well rounded now the army.

Time to start on the next one....  :-)

The F-16

The A-10.  I know it's not British but can you blame me?

Chinook to get you to the battle in style

 Command Unit