Lots of Gaming Lately

 I have been playing games lately - just haven’t been able to do battle reports. Over the past three weeks I have played  two WWII era games of One Hour Skirmish Wargames. I also played one game of Brother Against Brother  and one game of Chocolate Box Wars.

Here are some random pictures of the games (Note: As I uploaded these, I realized I don’t have any of the OHSW games.  I’ll see if any of the other players took any and share later.)

Setting up the Brother Against Brother (BAB) game. Setting is the Indian Mutiny with the British moving to relieve the siege of Lucknow. TONS of TROOPS!!!

Nobody said the British were going to have an easy go of it! The objective is to cross the table and get over the bridge. Lots of Mutineers in the way. 

About half way through.  2d10’s worth of movement is excruciatingly slow!

When we called it a night. We made it about halfway across the board. It was bloody with lots of losses on both sides. Ralph did an excellent job of getting as far as he did while blasting away at the rouges trying to stop us. 

My Chocolate Box Wars game with Charlie.  It was the first game for both of us in our club round robin tournament campaign. I am using a British Interventionist division circa 1866 and Charlie has a Franco-Prussian era division. Here is my initial deployment. 

Early game.  Both of us moved on our left flanks in strength. 

My light cavalry squadrons did excellent flank guard work on both sides of the army. They destroyed or helped destroy three stands of Charlie’s forces. 

Late game. I tried so many times to get one more hit on Charlie’s badly shot up stand!  At the beginning of the next turn I finally put the last hit on him and ended the game. 

Here is the final location of the survivors. It was a, “short sharp action,” to be sure. Good thing we can re-constitute the division for the next game or we would be in a world of hurt!

All in all both of these games, and the One Hour Skirmish games were loads of fun.

A Game or Two of ‘Not Brother Against Brother’

This weekend I played two games of ‘Not Brother Against Brother’ with my friend, Ed M.  The first game was a practice affair with Ed's excellent Prussian and French figures.  The second game we used my British, French and new Spanish Guerrilla figures.  I have not completed basing of the French Foot Dragoons or the Spanish, but we used them anyways because we wanted to try out some new troop qualification stats in the game.

We used Ed's Napoleonic adaptation of the very fun Brother Against Brother rules system.  He has really tweaked the base rules to give it more of a period feel and to also clean up what we find to be some inconsistencies within the rules themselves.  These two games gave us reasonable results with no game situations running outside of what could be 'expected'.

The results of the games were both a draw, but we were playing more to test new rules than to really try and gain a clear cut 'victory'.

Here are some photos of the first game:

And some pics of the second game featuring the new troops:

All in all it was a great couple of games.  I am looking forward to playing some additional games with my Napoleonic troops in the near future.  I also am looking forward to maybe tweaking the rules for my War of 1812 collection.