Wor Lard Day, Saturday 4th May, 2024 There were two games using 54mm plastic figures, and the Too Fat Lardies rules “Sharp Practice” (2nd Edition)- here are some pictures of one. The game is set in northern Spain, in 1834 or 1835. This was a long way from what the game designers had in mind-or…
Category: Battle Report
Battleground Display Game: Medieval Ships (November 2023)
Durham Wargames Group put on it’s annual extravaganza on 25th November 2023, at the Stockton campus of Durham University, at the always-popular BATTLEGROUND show. The pictures should (more or less) speak for themselves. There has been a set of late medieval rules for big skirmishes, Never Mind the Billhooks, which some of us saw in…
Goblins vs. High Elves – We Are Going On a Bear Hunt…
Tonight me (Graeme) and Bob tried another game of Age of Fantasy: Skirmish, from One Page Rules. We were playing the Beast Hunters scenario from the Proving Grounds scenario book, 400 points per side, using v3.1 of the rules. I took Goblins, using the following: Leader with a Great Weapon Leader with Caster (2), Dual…
One Page Rules – Age of Fantasy Skirmish
One game we have been playing a lot over the last few months is Grimdark Future, from One Page Rules. Over the last few weeks, we have been trying out their skirmish game “Age of Fantasy: Skirmish”, so with the recent release of v3.1 of the rules, it was time for another try out to…
Encounter at McDonald’s Farm – A Pickett’s Charge battle
Having played a few games of Dave Brown’s Pickett’s Charge at the club I decided to give the rules another run out with a few new players. The Union army consisted of 4 brigades. 1st, 2nd & 3rd brigades – each of 4 infantry regiments plus 1 artillery battery. 4th brigade– 3 infantry regiments plus…
The Battle of Leipzig 16 October 1813 – the Battle
On the weekend of the 18/19 November 2022, we staged the refight of the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars. We had 16 players at various stages and the event went well. History Repeating Itself? Map of historic army positions on 16 October 1813 by Andrei Nacu from Wikimedia Commons The game was staged using…