Also last week at Great Hall games we got to play test Marty’s module for Rhodesian bush wars using Disposable Heroes and Coffin for Seven Brothers core rules..
Here are some pics ( until the Rhodesians are released and painted we are using 80s Brits as Rhodesians )
Francisco
So this past Monday here at Great Hall Games we got to play some Babylon 5 converted to Starmada rules.
We captured the big table and used the large scale minis. The conversions to Starmada were done from the old Babylon 5 Wars set…
Lots of people wanted to play so we managed to play with two teams of 3 players each. The scenario was an ambush set up by the Narn fleet on a Centauri squadron.
The action quickly turned to a close quarter fight where the Centauri managed to obtain a slight tactical advantage. The result was a Centauri victory but only by a very small margin and at the cost of loosing their two Primus Battlecruisers, so I am not sure that they’ll actually be able to sell it as a victory to the Senate 
Great game where the admirals from each side proved that they are probably the most experienced Starmada commanders in the are at this point with their very skillful maneuvering.
Hopefully we’ll set up another game soon since I know there are a couple of players that were sad to miss the game.
Francisco
by David McLellan
There were three games going on last Sunday. Marty N and Bill C were getting in a little FOG practice in 275BC with their armies. Bob Green and Dennis were Nuts! Oops, I mean they were trying out THW Nuts! for WWII. Lance, Randy, Dave A and David Mc fought out a small river crossing defense as part of the campaign Lance has going. The French were victorious, but it was a costly fight.
FOWFest Kursk
Sunday, April 17th’s FOWFest was a rousing success with 18 participants fighting three battles each over the Saturday afternoon. Only one non-German Axis power was present and we all recognize Everett’s pluck in fielding the Romanian infantry force!
Mark Baynes won the Best Army with his Kossack force (which I did not get a picture of, grr). Mark Cole won best unit for his 1.5 cm German artillery battery.
Here are the results (The tie for 3rd, 4th, and 5th place was broken by the scores of the players’ opponents):
| Name | Army | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Total | ||||||||
| Place | Side | Opp | Table | Result | Opp | Table | Result | Opp | Table | Result | |||
| 1 | Boyd, Justin | Tankovy | Soviet | Biff Coon | 8 | 6 | Mark Cole | 2 | 4 | Everett Chun | 3 | 6 | 16 |
| 2 | Bayne, Mark | Cossack | Soviet | Hal Rudd | 1 | 6 | Jasen Olsen | 6 | 5 | Brandon Sullivan | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | Sullivan, Brandon | Panther Coy | Axis | Will Burns | 4 | 6 | Andy Blozinski | 1 | 5 | Mark Bayne | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Straus, Ian | Mixed Tankovy | Soviet | Aaron Sommerville | 7 | 6 | Everett Chun | 4 | 5 | Jason Olsen | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Blozinski, Andy | Gardovy Strelkovy | Soviet | Bill Brock | 11 | 6 | Brandon Sullivan | 1 | 2 | Aaron Sommerville | 9 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Olson, Jason | German Pioneer Infantry | Axis | Steve Leopard | 3 | 6 | Mark Bayne | 6 | 2 | Ian Straus | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 | Reed, Mark | Gardovy Strelkovy | Soviet | Sander Trubowitz | 2 | 5 | Aaron Sommerville | 10 | 4 | Hall Rudd | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | Shaffer, Joe | Motor Strelkovy | Soviet | Mark Cole | 9 | 4 | Sander Trubowitz | 9 | 2 | Bill Brock | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 9 | Cole, Mark | German Grenadierkompanie | Axis | Joe Shafer | 9 | 3 | Justin Boyd | 2 | 3 | Will Burns | 7 | 5 | 11 |
| 9 | Rudd, Hal | German Grenadierkompanie | Axis | Mark Bayne | 1 | 1 | Phillip Stieffler | 5 | 6 | Mark Reed | 6 | 4 | 11 |
| 11 | Chun, Everett | Romanian Batalion Puscasi | Axis | Philip Stieffer | 10 | 6 | Ian Strauss | 4 | 2 | Justin Boyd | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Trubowitz, Sander | German Mot. PnzrGren | Axis | Mark Reed | 2 | 2 | Joe Shaffer | 9 | 5 | Phillip Stieffler | 8 | 2 | 9 |
| 11 | Burns, Will | Rota Razvedki | Soviet | Brandon Sullivan | 4 | 1 | Biff Coon | 3 | 6 | Mark Cole | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 14 | Coon, Biff | German Mech PnzrGren | Axis | Justin Boyd | 8 | 1 | Will Burns | 3 | 1 | Steve Leopard | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 14 | Stiefler, Philip | Tankovy | Soviet | Everett Chun | 10 | 1 | Hal Rudd | 5 | 1 | Sander Trubowitz | 8 | 5 | 7 |
| 16 | Brock, Bill | German Mot. PnzrGren | Axis | Andy Blozinski | 11 | 1 | Steve Leopard | 7 | 4 | Joe Shaffer | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 17 | Leopard, Steve | Gardovy Strelkovy | Soviet | Jason Olson | 3 | 1 | Bill Brock | 7 | 3 | Biff Coon | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 18 | Somerville, Aaron | German Grenadierkompanie | Axis | Ian Straus | 7 | 1 | Mark Reed | 10 | 3 | Andy Blozinski | 9 | 1 | 5 |
A total of (6) players competed in the HotT Open-Scale Tournament I ran at Chimaeracon, April 10. It was a four round, Swiss Chess format tournament. The open-scale format meant that as long as both players agreed on the scale, they could either play 40mm frontage armies or 60mm frontage armies. The fact that we had some undersized playing boards (30″ x 30″) meant that most players switched to 15mm scale after the first round.
The list of players follows, with some of their armies (as I recall them):
Cameron - Scorpions of Dirz, GW Empire, 15mm Dwarves
Mark - GW High Elves, Demonworld Orcs & Goblins
Mack - GW Undead, 40K Imperial Guard, Fire Giants
Josh - Ice Giants, 15mm Imperial Guard, 15mm Hobgoblins
Joseph - 15mm Fallschirmjagers
Chip - Scorpions of Dirz, 15mm High Elves, Demonworld Wood Elves
Congratulations go to Cameron for going undefeated for 1st Place, with Mack and Josh right behind him, respectively. Plus we got a couple new contacts that are interested in possibly joining us in the future for some HotT. The new venue at San Pedro Event Ctr was very cozy and looked well attended. I’ll post pictures as soon as I get them…
Next Sunday, April 18, is our next Non-Con Tournament, which will be HotT-Hammer themed. Though the theme is meant to get players to pull out all those unused GW figs and get them on the table as a HotT army, any minis mounted on 60mm frontage are allowed. The tournament will take place at Dragons Lair San Antonio from 11am-5pm.
Hope to see you there,
chip
Dk Elves vs Inca
Romans vs Scorpions
–Sat, April 10 - Chimaeracon Open-Scale Tournament, 7-11pm (www.chimaeracon.com)
–SUNDAY, April 18 - HotT-Hammer Tournament, 11am-5pm Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (60mm frontage tourney)
–Sat, May 15 - HotT One-Day Campaign, 11am-5pm, Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (60mm frontage tourney; prereg at DesertScrb@aol.com)
–Sat June 5 - HotT Game Day - 11am-5pm, Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (army building, terrain making, stronghold building, practice games, etc)
–Sat, July 17 - Double-Sized HotT-Hammer Tournament - 11am-5pm, Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (48AP armies, 60mm frontage tourney)
If you have any questions you can email me at da(underscore)baron(at)sbcglobal(dot)net…
Take care,
chip
blog.baronaaron.com
(ps - sorry for the stacked images; if someone can tell me how to avoid in the future I’d be MUCH appreciative!)
Here is a brief recap of the results. I am leaving to attend the GAMA Trade Show early tomorrow, so it may be the weekend before pictures, etc. are posted.
Rob
| Name | Army | Best 3 Games | Average Points | Games Played | Total |
| Boyd, Justin | Hellenistic Greek | 60 | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Boyd, James | Mid Republican Roman | 59 | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Payne, Ryan | Seleucid Early Successor | 59 | 16 | 5 | 79 |
| Buttridge, Ian | Early Successor | 55 | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Chun, Everett | Ptolomaic Early Successor | 52 | 12 | 5 | 58 |
| Huey, Bob | Bosporan | 51 | 13 | 5 | 67 |
| Esslinger, Hank | Macedonian Early Successor | 48 | 12 | 5 | 58 |
| Putnam, Bob | Macedonian Early Successor | 45 | 13 | 5 | 66 |
| Askew, Fred | Later Carthage | 40 | 11 | 4 | 43 |
| Payne, John | Classical Indian | 37 | 9 | 5 | 44 |
| Wolverton, Marty | Warring States Chinese | 33 | 9 | 4 | 34 |
| Morgenthaler, Dave | Hellenistic Spartan | 31 | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| Chriss, Bill | Macedonian Early Successor | 31 | 10 | 3 | 31 |
| McLellan, Dave | Mid Republican Roman | 29 | 7 | 5 | 35 |
| Smith, Rob | Gallic | 27 | 9 | 3 | 27 |
| Green, Bob [R] | Kyrene Greek | 19 | 10 | 2 | 19 |
| Jones, William | Skythian | 19 | 6 | 3 | 19 |
| Arnold, Chris | Mid Republican Roman | 17 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| Miller, Chip [R] | Spanish | 11 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
By Dave da Webhead
I added a new page under the club links (on the left side of the home page). The purpose is to allow Austin painters who want to paint for others to advertise their services for free and allow those in Austin looking for a local painter an easy place to go to find one. If you don’t see the link, here it is:
We ran two games this Sunday at GHG. One was a four-player Field of Glory game and the other was a four-player Lasalle game.
The Field of Glory game matched up Greeks versus Carthage in North Africa. I don’t have a lot of details on this game but hopefully David McClellan or Fred Askew will chime in and let us know what happend.
Leftmost: Here is an overview of the table setup. This was a very terrain-crowded table with several fields, hills, a big copse of woods in the center of the board, and a village.
Left: Bob and Alvero look quite happy at the start of the game. They are running the French and are defending.
Right: This French Chevauleger regiment has wandered into a veritable firestorm of Russian fire.
Rightmost: The Russian cuirassiers finally wander onto the table on turn 9 and make thier presence felt.
This was a very interesting battle. Bob Huey and Alvero Erize (Francisco’s brother who was visiting from Argentina) ran a Liberation period French army with an organic light cavalry support option. Francisco and I ran Russians with a corps cavalry support option. The French were defending and they had a lot of channeling and blocking terrain to help them. However, since they had all their troops at the start of the game and we had to roll to bring in our cuirassier brigade the French boldly advanced out to attack the Russians and make them earn their way to the objective. There was a lot more jockeying around for position than I had seen in previous Lasalle games and casualties were very light. Sadly my heavy cavalry did not make it on the board until turn nine. I blew past Alvero’s lightly held flank and destroyed one of the french gun batteries, but a plowed field slowed my advance to the objective and the game ended on turn 19 with me a good two turns away from capturing the objective. The game was a draw and it took about 3 and half hours to play.
Finally, after many years, we seem to have stumbled on a set of Napoleonic rules set that more than three people will play. Do you want to find out what all the Napoleonic hubbub is about? The guys at GreatHall Games will be running a game day dedicated to playing Lasalle the last sunday in February. We will have several loaner armies available and plenty of sub-commands for those who want to give the game a go but don’t have any troops based for the game (yet )
Come on out and give Lasalle a try!!!
Dave da Happy Nappy
By Dave da Webhead
I was really suprised at the club turnout on Valentines day. There were about 15-18 folks at GHG and four different games were being played. Kevin Dunn set up a 28mm Edgehill battle using playtest version of Field of Glory Rennaisance. William ran the latest version of Frank Chadwick’s Command Decision game in 10mm. Several guys from Austin and some vistors from San Antonio played a big Field of Glory ancients game. Finally, Jim, John Annhaiser, and I played Lasalle.
The seven pictures above were taken during the big English Civil War game. Kevin Dunn set up Edgehill. We have played this battle several times over the years using several different rules sets. Lance, Dave Allnutt, and Rob Smith joined in the fun for this game. I talked to Rob briefly after the game and he said the battle was inconclusive but a lot of fun.
William, Francisco, Bob, and Frank played the new version of Command Decision with 10mm figures. The GDW edition of Command Decision was all the rage way back in the early 90’s when we playing on the UT campus. It will be intersting to see if this new edition makes in inroads into the Flames of War crowd. They were still playing when I left so I didn’t get to ask them how the game turned out and if they liked the version of the rules or no.
There was a four-player game of Field of Glory ancients and we had a couple of guys from San Antonio pop in to join in on the fun.
Last, but not least, Jim, John, and I played Lasalle. Jim ran a British infantry force with Brunswick allies and John played a Bavarian force. I ran the Brunswickers for Jim. Like all the Lasalle games I have played so far, this one was a lot of fun. I even managed to end up on the winning side for a change. John held out as the defender till turn 19. He had lost all of his infantry around turn 15 and was reduced to sending in piece-meal cavalry assaults to continue to contest the objective. Eventually his luck ran out and he blew his army morale.
by David McLellan
We played the first two scenarios of the Cactus Air Force campaign last Sunday. Francisco has provided a description of the battles. Here are a few photos of the first engagement. I’ll post more from the second battle later.
Taking the Measure
4 Wildcats (one Vet) against 6 Zeros
1. Wildcat formation close up
2. Zero formation close up
3. Initial setup long view
4. Closing for action – long view
5. Head on pass – turn 6 first firing– one Zero receives airframe damage
6. The furball grows
7. First blood to the Americans. Guess which plane had airframe damage and failed a maneuver check?
8. But the Japanese strike back
9. And strike again for two more kills.
At this point the Wildcat vet dove out and we moved on to the next scenario.
I forgot all about this but the Millenniumcon 12 photo album is on the Millenniumcon 12 website… I put it up in November but forgot to tell many people …
http://www.millenniumcon.com
It took a little experimentation but I finally figured out how this version of Wordpress works with the ‘target=_blank’ image attribute. It seems to change with each new version but I have it figured out now and can update other folks posts so their images pop up in a new window when you click on them. Wordpress has a plugin that is supposed to do this by default. I installed it but its not working so I have to edit posts by hand to make the target=_blank work at the moment.
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.
