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Dave da webhead

by David McLellan

There were four games taking place this Sunday. I’ll give a brief photo essay of the games. I’ll also ask forgiveness in advance if I get any names wrong and promise to do better in the future.

1. Hank (Successors?) prepares to take on Bob (Syracuse) in FOG
2. Hank’s pike block gets into Bob’s spearmen leading to a decisive victory.
3. Will, Chris and Danny are playing FWC Skirmish. No idea how this came out.

4. Biff and Chris overlook their allied setup in an FOG game. I think they had British Paras and American Infantry.
5. Mark moves some of his Germans. Justin contributed an Italian force to the Axis side.
6. Near the end of the game, the allies hold a river line against the Axis advance. This was a large game with 3000 to 3500 points on each side. Looks like a good time was had by them.

Several of us started the Check your Six Cactus Air Force campaign. We played out the first two scenarios. I plan to write up a more detailed battle report on this game and post it later this week.
7. First battle, Six Zeros take on four Wildcats. 3 Wildcats lost at a cost of one Zero. Banzai!
8. Eight Zeros escort five Kates in an attack on Henderson Field. Eight Wildcats defend. Details are sketchy on the outcome of this one.

Sorry for any site inaccessibility problems lately. Our host has been upgrading their servers, and it appears a password file was corrupted. No worries, all the LSHM files are backed-up regularly by the site host and the local LSHM admins.

In the meantime, please enjoy this photo of a WWII era Chi Ha tank. The model is 1/72nd scale. The Museum of the Pacific in Fredricksburg has one of these in their re-enactment collection.

by David McLellan

Kevin D set up a Black Powder learning game. It was the “not-Shiloh” battle from the examples in the rule book.

Bob H, Kevin S, and Sander commanded the Rebel brigades, with Chuck in overall command.

David M, Phillip, and Lance led the Union brigades with Randy as Union commander.

Here you see the Union camp and setup as well as the initial two Confederate turns. We became experienced with evading charges and fire combat, as well as giving and executing movement orders.

The Union advance continues. Sander takes up a blocking position on the Rebel right flank and disorders the Union battery and one regiment with accurate fire. Kevin rolls a blunder when attempting to charge the Union pickes - and gets … charge nearest enemy for his blunder move.

We see some action in the town as Phillip’s reserves enter and Lance sends one regiment across the bridge. Sander and David trade fire for a few turns, and David’s Union troops close to close range. Randy makes use of the CO to remove casualty points, and finally one of Sander’s regiments breaks. His brigade also reaches its brigade failure point at the same time.
Note that Reb artillery. Kevin rolled another blunder and got to charge nearest enemy with the artillery, placing them on the flank of the Union brigades that had damaged Sander. My brigade was close to breaking as well, but I managed to hold on.

You can see action at a distance between Bob and Lance. I lost track of what was happening over there.
The Union cavalry seemed to fail it movement rolls often, and just got into position as the game was ending. In my best Judson Kilpatrick imitation, I ordered them to charge the shaken and disordered Rebel infantry. Not a good idea. I pushed the infantry back, but nearly went shaken as well as taking another try at making my entire brigade shaken.

By Dave da webhead

A number of us old Napoleonic grognards and not a few newcomers to napoleonic wargaming are turning to a recently published ruleset titled Lasalle, by Sam Mustafa to rekindle or in the case of the newcomers start our interest in Napoleonic wargaming.

Napoleonics is one of those wargaming periods that for some reason tends to fractionalize its player base. Back in 80’s when I first started playing it was the feud between Empire, Napoleon’s Battles, and Column Line and Square. Then Piquet came on the scene and folks seem to either love or loathe that rules set.

For a number of years recently, at least here in Austin, Napoleonics seemed to lie pretty much dormant with a few cabals playing their favorite rules set in the garage but nothing much went on at the club Napoleonics-wise. Now comes Lasalle. This is a tactical rules set and the scale of play is pretty much a division or so on a side. The rules are very professionally presented and written with the novice rather than the veteran player in mind. Probably the best feature of Lasalle is the army builder system in the back of the book. This is basically a scenario generator that allows two players to get together and design a scenario on the fly. It can also be used for tournament play. The average game time for an army-builder scenario is 2 to 3 hours.

The turn sequence is a little odd for veteran gamers but it seems to work well. The troop ratings are a little homogonized and no allowances are made for units with unique battle histories (nothing special about the Prussian totenkopf hussars, French 10th or 57th ligne, etc.) but there is nothing to prevent you from adjusting things a bit if you want to create a historical scenario and not use the army-builder system.

All in all, I am excited about Lasalle and encouraged by the number of folks in the club who have expressed an interest in the rules. We are planning to run a Lasalle boot camp at Great Hall Games tentatively scheduled for February 28. I know at least a few loaner armies will be available for folks who want to try the game but don’t have an army for it.

Owlcon is a long-running convention featuring both role-playing events and miniatures gaming. It is held on the Rice University campus in the student center.

MAY 21 – 23, 2010
Sheraton Hotel – Fort Worth
1701 Commerce Street
Ft. Worth, TX 76102
Phone (817) 335-7000
www.sheratonfortworth.com

Be part of history. Join us for our Inaugural Year! Whether you are an experienced gamer or a novice, we will have the right games just for you. Miniature Games – Board Games – Role-Playing Games
Bring in a game and find people to play! If you’re interested in signing up to be a Game Master, contact Matt at msims@swbell.net.

For more information, check out our website: www.texicon.net.

Pre-Registration Prices: $25/day or $35 for the entire convention. At The Door: $40 for the entire convention. Space is limited to 200 people per day. Pre-register early to ensure you can attend.

	Name	Army		Round 1			Round 2			Round 3			Total
Place			Side	Opp	Table	Result	Opp	Table	Result	Opp	Table	Result
1	Kitchen, Chris	NZ Rifle Coy	Allied	Brown, Mark	6	4	Boykin, William	9	6	Sullivan, Brandon	11	4	14
2	Brown, Mark	Tigers in Tunisia	Axis	Kitchen, Chris	6	3	Somerville, Aaron	8	6	Trubowitz, Sander	10	4	13
3	Trubowitz, Sander	US Rifle Coy	Allied	McKinlay, Scott	12	5	Kibbe, Matt	11	5	Brown, Mark	10	3	13
4	Kibbe, Matt	Germ Panzer Gren (Gepn)	Axis	Moran, Frank	7	6	Trubowitz, Sander	11	2	Boyd, Justin	9	5	13
5	Shelton, Jason	British Rifle Coy	Allied	Mundt, Jim	9	2	McKinlay, Scott	3	6	Riney, Mark	7	5	13
6	Mundt, Jim	Italian Bersagliari	Axis	Shelton, Jason	9	2	Diaz, Jando	2	6	Arnold, Chris	8	5	13
7	Chun, Everett	US Rifle Coy	Allied	Horner, Greg	4	3	Leopard, Steve	10	5	Bayne, Mark	12	4	12
8	Anhaiser, John	Brit Indian Inf Coy	Allied	Key, Jeff	1	2	Horner, Greg	6	5	Boykin, William	5	5	12
9	Sullivan, Brandon	German Panzerpioneer Co	Axis	Diaz, Jando	5	6	Boyd, Justin	12	3	Kitchen, Chris	11	3	12
10	Boyd, Justin	US Para Coy	Allied	Rudd, Hal	3	5	Sullivan, Brandon	12	4	Kibbe, Matt	9	2	11
11	Bayne, Mark	German Grenadier Platoon	Axis	Arnold, Chris	2	3	Rios, Adam	7	5	Chun, Everett	12	3	11
12	Arnold, Chris	US Rifle Coy	Allied	Bayne, Mark	2	2	Brock, Bill	5	6	Mundt, Jim	8	2	10
13	Rios, Adam	Brit Armored Car Coy	Allied	Riney, Mark	8	3	Bayne, Mark	7	2	Leopard, Steve	6	5	10
14	Riney, Mark	German Panzer Gren	Axis	Rios, Adam	8	2	Moran, Frank	1	6	Shelton, Jason	7	2	10
15	Somerville, Aaron	US Tank Coy	Allied	Leopard, Steve	11	3	Brown, Mark	8	1	Key, Jeff	3	6	10
16	McKinlay, Scott	Italian Bersagliari	Axis	Trubowitz, Sander	12	2	Shelton, Jason	3	1	Horner, Greg	2	6	9
17	Brock, Bill	German Panzer Gren	Axis	Boykin, William	10	2	Arnold, Chris	5	1	Diaz, Jando	4	6	9
18	Boykin, William	German Panzer Gren	Allied	Brock, Bill	10	5	Kitchen, Chris	9	1	Anhaiser, John	5	2	8
19	Leopard, Steve	Germ PanzerKomp	Axis	Somerville, Aaron	11	4	Chun, Everett	10	2	Rios, Adam	6	2	8
20	Key, Jeff	Afrika Schutzenkompanie	Axis	Anhaiser, John	1	1	Rudd, Hal	4	5	Somerville, Aaron	3	1	7
21	Rudd, Hal	German Panzer Gren	Axis	Boyd, Justin	3	2	Key, Jeff	4	2	Moran, Frank	1	3	7
22	Moran, Frank	US Light Tank Coy	Allied	Kibbe, Matt	7	1	Riney, Mark	1	1	Rudd, Hal	1	4	6
23	Horner, Greg	Afrika Schutzenkompanie	Axis	Chun, Everett	4	3	Anhaiser, John	6	2	McKinlay, Scott	2	1	6
24	Diaz, Jando	Brit Infantry Tank Coy	Allied	Sullivan, Brandon	5	1	Mundt, Jim	2	1	Brock, Bill	4	1	3

From the Wargames Factory -there’s a pre-order effort for plastic sci-fi minis.

Check it out:

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 I pre-ordered 12 spruces which I would use SGII rules and my bastardized Space-Hulk version of the same.

Justo
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Our West Texas LSHM Chapter tried out “Uncharted Seas” from Spartan Games this past Saturday. We played a 725 point game, Elves vs. Dwarves, in a straight up sink or be sunk format. Andrew Becker & Mike McGrail ran a core Dwarven Fleet reinforced with 2 subs and 2 x Heavy Cruisers vs. Faron Bell’s Elven core fleet reinforced with an extra Battleship, 1 additional frigate and 2 dragon flyers. The game was very reminiscent of the old GW “Man ‘o War” and we thought it played very well.

 

The fleets were well balanced with the dwarves having the edge in fire power & armor and the elves being sleek, maneuverable & fast. We used the Fleet Cards which offered race specific magic & tactical cards during play. We thought these really added a great deal of flavor to the game. We used Litko tokens & small dice for game markers vs. book keeping and thought that worked very well.

 

We took turns setting up along the opposite board edges of our 3.5’ x 7.5 playing surface and were just outside of max range. I deployed in line of battle w/ my Elven Fleet with the cruisers in the lead, followed by my 7 frigates (divided into two squadrons) and then my 2 Battleships bringing up the rear. My two dragon flyers were set up at the other end of the board. The Dwarves were deployed running abreast with a 3 frigates on the extreme right, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 regular cruisers, 2 subs, the battleship and another squadron of 3 frigates.

 

I drew first blood as my dragon flyers made an acid run toward the frigates on the right and sank one of the fragile ships. As we maneuvered for positions, my superior maneuverability worked to my advantage as I ran down the middle of the dwarf cruisers with my 2 frigate squadrons and dished out damage to both port & starboard. I managed to disable a cruiser, sink a sub and damage a couple of other vessels during the maneuver. This would prove my greatest feat during the game, as the game would quickly turn against me. My two dragon flyers were “shot” down (one sustained a catastrophic hit, spewing acid all over the area which sank another dwarven frigate) and my 3 cruisers found themselves outmatched against 2 heavy and 2 regular cruisers. They began sustaining damage while only dealing superficial blows in return.

 

I quickly found out that I mis-deployed my Battleships to the rear, as it took quite a while for me to get them into battle. Though they are fast for a large ships, they were still quite slower than their frigate & cruiser escorts. By the time the elven battleships came into range, the dwarven cruisers had blasted thru my cruiser screen and came around my left, while the massive dwarf battleship closed range on my right. The frigates (only 4 now remaining) had run downwind and were coming back around but not before the elven capital ships began taking damage. In desperation, I rammed a cruiser and boarded the dwarf ship only to see both the crew of my battleship and the dwarf cruiser be annihilated in the action. The game ended as the remnants of my proud elven fleet limped away as the dwarves enjoyed a captured battleship & frigate as prizes. We shall be back for revenge!

 

We very much enjoyed the rules & system and look forward to playing again!

MILLENNIUMCON PLAYER REGISTRATION IS OPEN

The countdown is on for another great convention.

November 6 - 8, 2009
Friday – Sunday
Wingate Inn and Conference Center
Round Rock, Texas

The SHOP.MILLENNIUMCON.COM web store is open for Player Pre-Registration.

http://shop.millenniumcon.com/

Browse the vendor area for those “got to have” items. Many of the vendors are running demos of their latest games and offerings.

So register early for a better selection of events and a discounted pre-registration rate for a 3DAY pass of $25 and $20 for LSHM members (at the convention door the passes will be $30). Single day passes are also available.

The main website is http://www.millenniumcon.com

For registration help:

http://www.millenniumcon.com/store/registration.html  

For convention pass information:

http://www.millenniumcon.com/store/pass.html  

For game session information:

http://www.millenniumcon.com/store/games.html

WHEN AND WHERE

November 6 - 8, 2009
Friday – Sunday
Wingate Inn and Conference Center
Round Rock, Texas

We are pleased to announce that the 12th annual LSHM Gaming Convention will continue to be at the Wingate Inn and Conference Center in Round Rock, Texas. Discounted room rates are available at $98 per night (includes taxes). Ask for the Millenniumcon discount when registering. You must make reservations by phone to get the discounted rates: 512-341-7000

Please review the available gaming events at this point in time on the sorted lists at 

http://www.millenniumcon.com/game_index/game_index.html

These are kept up to date. 

Referee registration is still open. We will consider only miniature games at this point and Saturday morning sessions are now filled with games. There are a few tables still available during the other time slots with Friday evening having an entire room empty since the Field of Glory tournament will not be using that room until Saturday.

The Millenniumcon 12 Staff

FOWSA 4 went off as scheduled on Sep 12.
We had 19 participants divided into Eastern Front and Western Front divisions.
Three rounds were played using standard 1750 pt armies.

The missions used were as follows:

Round 1 - Free-for-All, 2.5 hr time limit
Round 2 - Hold the Line, 2.5 hr time limit
Round 3 - Player’s choice of Fighting Withdrawal or Cauldron
2.5 hr time limit

When the it was all done, the results were:

East Front Division:

Andy Blozinski Gvardeyskiy Tankovy Batalon Soviet 1 Best Eastern Front
Chris Kitchen StuG Batterie German 2 Best East Front German
Thom N Strelkovy Batalon Soviet 3 Best Soviet
William Boykin Panzerkompanie German 4
David Coon Panzerkompanie German 5
Joe Shaffer Motostrelkovy Batalon Soviet 6

West Front Division:

Mike Gomez Rifle Company US 1 Overall Tournament Champion, Best Painted Army
Joe Paquette Rifle Company US 2 Best Western Front
John Anhaiser Rifle Company British 3 Best Ally Western Front
Mark Reed Rifle Company Polish 4
Wes Knight Schwere SS-Panzerkompanie German 5 Best German Western Front
Ian Straus 2AD Tank Company US 6
Mark Cole Grenadierkompanie German 7
Ralph Chance Fallschirmjägerkompanie German 8
Everett Chun 3AD Armored Rifle Company US 9
Adam Aguilera Panzerpionierkompanie German 10
Hal Rudd 21 Pz Panzergrenadierkompanie German 11
Chris Arnold Rifle Company US 12
Dave Beeson Panzerkompanie German 13 Sportsmanship

Since this event is a regional qualifier for US nationals, our top 3 overall

1 Mike Gomez
2 Joe Paquette
3 John Anhaiser

will be qualified to participate at Nationals. Congrats Guys!!

The tournament organizers would like to thank the following people/organizations:

Battlefront Miniatures for their generous prize support and publicity

Our host venue, Dragon’s Lair Games and Comics for providing space and tables,
generous prize support and for judging the Best-Painted
Army contest.
Thanks Rich, Cliff, Brian, abd Ellen.
A special thanks to Rich for picking up the pizzas

Lone Star Historical Miniatures for providing administrative support,
and additional prize support

Thomas N. for providing the voice for announcements
and additional prize support

Thom, Wes, David, and James for staying late Friday to set up

Mike and Joe for providing very nice terrain setups

Everyone who helped clean up after the event

All-in-All FOWSA 4 was a great success, and all involved had a great time.
Thanks again, and be ready for FOWSA 5 next September!

It’s now September and it’s time to get serious about registering games at Millenniumcon. We are hoping to open player registration at the end of September. Since Millenniumcon is at the beginning of November this year (normally the middle to end), we need to fast track game registration.  So please start getting your games registered.

 

We are pleased to announce the that the 12th annual LSHM Gaming Convention will continue to be at the Wingate Inn and Conference Center in Round Rock, Texas.  Last year over 350 attended the event with over 175 registered sessions.

 

Registration for running a game at the convention is now actively open. There will be the same ample room between the tables for the players that was provided last year.

 

Millennium has a particular need for classical historical periods (ACW, Napoleonic, Ancients, etc). Last year, there was more demand for these types than we could meet, and the slots filled up quickly.

 

Only about 50% of the miniatures slots are filled. So we need numerous miniature game hosts.

 

Currently, most of the board, card and role-playing slots are filled. Therefore, those requests will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

 

There is one major change in the registration process:

 

NEW: Upon game registration, the room and table number will be assigned upon a first come - first serve basis. Once all the tables for a particular time slot have been filled, we will close registration for that particular time slot. If you request to run a game during a closed time slot, you will be notified and given a choice of alternate time slots that are available. At this point in time, all time slots still have space available but Friday evening is filling up fast.

 

This new process is to make sure that we have enough tables available for each time slot, and one time slot doesn’t get over booked…

 

Some Friday night sessions are still open as well as Saturday morning, but we definitely need Saturday Afternoon and Evening session. Sunday morning, as always, is open to new sessions,

 

The link to register is listed below:

 

 http://www.millenniumcon.com/referee/Registering_Game_on_Webpage.cfm

 

Referees are given discounted registration fees: 

 

    For a single session:

         Free for Friday or Sunday if you run a single game on Friday and Sunday

         $10 for Saturday if you run a single game on Saturday

         $15 for a 3-day convention pass

         For multiple sessions: a free 3 - day convention pass

 

For complete information about Game Referee Registration and registration forms, click the Referee Registration link on the menu at the top of the Millenniumcon 12 website.

 

 http://www.millenniumcon.com

 

We’ve arranged special room rates for Millennium attendees. If you mention Millennium when you make your reservation, you’ll get your rooms for approximately $98 per night (includes taxes).  Be sure to mention you are with Millennium. It gets you a lower rate and reduces the cost of the convention area, which, in turn, helps keep down the registration fees!

 

You need to make the reservation directly with the Wingate in Round Rock.  The discount is not available via the 800-reservation number or the Internet.

 

    Wingate Inn & Conference Center

   1209 North Interstate Highway 35, Round Rock, TX 78664

   Phone: 512-341-7000

   Fax: 512-341-7011

 

We look forward to the convention and seeing all of you there. If you have any questions, information, or problems, please contact us:

    Richard Wheet - Game Director (rwheet@grandecom.net)

   Chip Aaron - Convention Director (da_baron@sbcglobal.net)

 

 

The second Great Hall Games/LSHM Field of Glory Tournament of the year took place at GHG on August 29 & 30. The were five rounds of play (three on Saturday and two on Sunday), each of three hours. Armies were 800 points. Players were scored on their best three games.

We had a total of 18 players. Some only played a single game and others played the entire five game set. We originally tried to have two divisions, a Classical Division before 1040 AD and a Chivalric Division for armies after 1040. We did not have enough Chivalric armies, however, so we ended up having just an open tournament.

Winners

First Place - Alvaro Erize - (Later Carthagenian - Hannibal in Italy)

Second Place - James Boyd (Dominate Roman)

Third Place -Justin Boyd (New Kingdom Egyptian)

Fourth Place -John Payne (Parthian)

Best Painted Army - Bob Putnam (Bedouin: Hamdanids of Aleppo)

These were some older troops that Bob rebased and the looked great!

Best Camp - Justin’s Egyptian Camp

Did his dad, James, paint it?

Full Results
Five rounds of 3 hours were played. For tournament scoring, the best three games were counted. The table below shows the score for each game, the sum of the best three games and the sum of all the games played.

	Name	Army	Round 1		Round 2		Round 3		Round 4		Round 5		Best 3 Games	Total
Place			Opp	Result	Opp	Result	Opp	Result	Opp	Result	Opp	Result
1	Erize, Alvaro	Later Carthagenian	Harmon, Harvey	25	Boyd, James	25	Boyd, Justin	18	Kevin Dunn	4	Payne, John	24	74	96
2	Boyd, James	Dominate Roman	Askew, Fred	19	Erize, Alvaro	0	McLellan, Dave	17	Harmon, Harvey	16	Mundt, Jim	11	52	63
3	Boyd, Justin	New Kingdom Egyptian	Miller, Chip	14	Camp, Aaron	23	Erize, Alvaro	7	Askew, Fred	11	Hopper, Brian	12	49	67
4	Payne, John	Parthian	Hopper, Brian	15	Toon, Ben	16	Brock, Bill	16	McLellan, Dave	15	Erize, Alvaro	1	47	63
5	Putnam, Bob	Bedouin-Hamdanids of Allepo	Brock, Bill	13	Mundt, Jim	14	Harmon, Harvey	10	Miller, Chip	14	Askew, Fred	9	41	60
6	Harmon, Harvey	Early Successor, Selucid	Erize, Alvaro	0	Askew, Fred	12	Putnam, Bob	10	Boyd, James	4	McLellan, Dave	19	41	45
7	Miller, Chip	Late Achameanid Persian	Boyd, Justin	6	Hopper, Brian	9	Toon, Ben	13	Putnam, Bob	6	Boykin, William	9	31	43
8	Mundt, Jim	Principate Roman	Smith, Rob	8	Putnam, Bob	6	Hopper, Brian	11	—	0	Boyd, James	9	28	34
9	Hopper, Brian	Dominate Roman	Payne, John	5	Miller, Chip	11	Mundt, Jim	9	—	0	Boyd, Justin	8	28	33
10	Askew, Fred	Later Carthagenian	Boyd, James	1	Harmon, Harvey	8	—	0	Boyd, Justin	9	Putnam, Bob	11	28	29
11	Brock, Bill	Santa Hermandad Nueva Cast	Putnam, Bob	7	McLellan, Dave	13	Payne, John	4	—	0	—	0	24	24
12	Toon, Ben	Late Republican Roman	—	0	Payne, John	4	Miller, Chip	7	Boykin, William	11	—	0	22	22
13	Kevin Dunn (Referee)	Dominate Roman	—	0	—	0	—	0	Erize, Alvaro	21	—	0	21	21
14	Boykin, William	Sassanid Persian	—	0	—	0	—	0	Toon, Ben	9	Miller, Chip	11	20	20
15	McLellan, Dave	Mid Republican Roman	Camp, Aaron	7	Brock, Bill	7	Boyd, James	3	Payne, John	5	Harmon, Harvey	1	19	23
16	Camp, Aaron	Sassanid Persian	McLellan, Dave	13	Boyd, Justin	2	—	0	—	0	—	0	15	15
17	Smith, Rob (Referee)	Sassanid Persian	Mundt, Jim	12	—	0	—	0	—	0	—	0	12	12

Some Pictures
Here are some pictures of the day’s events:

By Dave da Webhead (back from an overlong absence)

The August 9th game day was well attended and there were a number of different games being played. Kevin Hendryx hosted one of his colonial skirmish extravganza’s. Rob, Marty, and the Kevins were playtesting Field of Glory Renaissance (English Civil War). Bob, Francisco, Sander, and I played Napoleonics using the Fast Play Grand Armee rules. Two of the younger members were playing an old school game of Command Decision. There were several games of Field of Glory being played and most if not all were part of Kevin Dunn’s long-running 1431 campaign.

Leftmost: Kevin Hendryx and Nathan Hook get the crowd in the mood for the highland skirmish game with a little bagpipe music.
Middle: Sneaking up on the castle from the river in the Highland skirmish game.
Rightmost: Very nice castle especially for a Lego castle.

Leftmost: Another view of the castle showing its defenders.
Middle: A nice farmhouse and livestock from Kevin’s colonial skirmish game.
Rightmost: Hand-to-hand fighting in the castle

Leftmost: Rob, Marty, and the Kevins setting up a ECW playtest game of Field of Glory Renaissance (FOGR)
Middle: ‘Cavaliers and Roundheads battling it out in FOGR
Rightmost: One of the two crowded game rooms

Leftmost: WWII skirmish using Command Decision
Middle: Fred Askew and Bill Brock playing FOG for the 1431 campaign
Rightmost: More Field of Glory action

The last five pictures are of the Napoleonic game played by Bob, Francisco, Sander, and myself. It was an 1813 scenario with Prussians and Russians attacking the French. This was a very exciting battle with several unexpected twists as commanders launched unexpected attacks and the occasional unwanted retreat. It was a near-run thing and we didn’t have to time to complete the battle but at the point we ended it the Russo-Prussians had the tactical edge and they declared a marginal victory. The FPGA command system is very interesting and makes for a very fun game. I’m happy to see a Napoleonics rule set that more than one person is willing to play.