Last Game I played - Field of Glory Napoleonic 2 Training Game

Richard and fellow wargamers had spent the last couple of years rewriting the Field of Glory Napoleonics rule set and he was keen to walk me through a training game of the new rules. It was fun, with the new rules definitely being more intuitive, not slow in the pace and things felt as a reflection of the period.

I fielded a list that was based on my unpainted French and Danes (Davout's XIII Corps 1813) against an 1809(?) Austrian list.

Set up was myself defending with Probe as my strategy, allowing me to deploy one division, while one was in reserve and the other would come on in the first turn, while Richard deployed his whole army:

This left flank was a couple of unit of conscript French infantry reinforced with combined arms (light infantry and artillery):

The Austrians unit primarily facing this flank was 'uge... and supported by grenadiers(!):

Only a little reshuffling mid-game was needed, but on the whole my deployment was sound:

Soon my Danes and cavalry division arrived, and were able to check the Austrian advance:

Richard charged my left flank a few times, not of them successful (on the whole I pushed the Austrians back instead):

The cavalry I had amassed on the right flank were more successful (in hindsight way too much), routing a unit (but taking a bit of damage in the process):

As it was a training game, we played slower then normal and didn't have the time to play out to a conclusion. Nonetheless, a fun game and the rule set was better than I remember it (so version 2 definitely is an improvement). I definitely plan to play more games in the coming months.

Last Game I Played - DBA and Muskets & Tomahawks

Played the last of the DBA Crusaders-themed campaign games and a game of Muskets & Tomahawks on Sunday.

First up two games of DBA with my Mongol Conquest (IV/35) against Lyle's Ilkhanid (IV/46). We lost a game each, switching terrorities that some outsiders are labelling a shady real estate deal. These are just false rumours spread by our jealous neighbours.

Later in the day I played Peter with his Seljuk Turk (III/74b) in a friendly game (we were at opposite sides of the map). I managed to stumble when the lines hit (maybe slightly unlucky dice were involved too). The Mongol list has way more LH than I'm used to, and definitely needs to do a lot of dancing to win.

I also played a part in a lovely looking game of Muskets & Tomahawks with Mark and Andrew. Mark had a defensive army with an offensive mission, while Andrew had the opposite. We played ignoring the mission and Andrew made a game of it by deciding to attack to not make it a boring game. He failed (as the hail of Vigiliance fire really makes it hard), but was at least fun.

My commander was also successful in throwing it all in and getting himself killed to complete his side mission (c'est la guerre!).

Next month I'm going to stick to the light horse and run them in an ADLG game again.

Last Game I Played - Conquest of Paradise

Played this last night and really enjoyed it.

It's an empire building game with brutal combat mechanism.

Board Game Geek entry:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15954/conquest-paradise

I learnt the hard way to defend all islands, after Lawrence (green) snuck through my (red) island chain. Lawrence went on to win the game - even though his fortress of islands was beset by a typhoon, tsunami and almost the blessing of volcanic ash.

Thanks Jack, Lawrence and Liam for a fun (and not unnecessarily complex) game and Nic for teaching us the rules. Definitely one I want to play again.