DBM 25mm - Nick's Frankish warbands overran the dismounted knights of Grant's Free Company. The French Knights who remained mounted put in a good effort for their side though.
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WHFB - Aaron's Empire army had a great victory over Matt's Orcs and Goblins. One pesky goblin unit held up the Empire commander for three turns, but it still didn't save them.
WHFB - Jono (Empire) and Nick (Dwarves) played to a draw.
DBR 15mm - John's Maximilian Imperialists beat Scott's Spanish Imperial army.
DBR 15mm - Brett using a Muslim Indian army defeated Philip with Maratha Indians.
A very quiet end of year meeting, with just four players, four spectators, and two dogs.
WHFB - Rob and Aaron had a battle with two Empire armies. It turned out to be something of a mutual massacre, ending in a draw.
DBM 25mm - Nick's Frankish warbands overran the dismounted knights of Grant's Free Company. The French Knights who remained mounted put in a good effort for their side though.
More info about the BattleCry 2007 convention (10/11 Feb) is on the website www.theamericaclub.net.nz/battlecry2007. BattleCry has competitions in 40K, Flames of War (Early and Mid), 6mm Moderns, and several fantasy and roleplaying games. There's also a 25mm DBM doubles tournament with 12 teams (with at least 3 teams from the NSWC), the largest field ever in the sixth year of this competition.
The following games were played:
WHFB - No details at present.
DBM 25mm - Lawrence and Paul played a medieval battle, Burgundian Ordinance vs Italian Condotta Venetians.
DBR 15mm - John's Maximillian Imperials went head to head with Craig's Valois French in the latest instalment of their long running feud over that vexing theological question- wine and cheese or beer and sausage? It was a massive 500AP, 5 hour stabfest. Despite (or due to?) all four Imperial generals being slain, the Empire managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat to take out the French 8/2. Primary lesson learned by the Empire- demoralising French Gendarmes just makes them cross.
DBR 25mm - Brett, using the DBM Medieval German list, and Philip (DBR Early Tudors) fought to a mutual break. The German's Swiss allies were targeted by the English artillery, and, despite losing enough pikemen to become beaten, still broke through the English centre.
We at Otago Miniature Tacticians Society are pleased to announce the basic details for SouthCon 07. It will be held over Queens Birthday weekend in Bayfield High School Hall, cnr of Shore St & Musselburgh Rise, a larger venue than 06.
The main competition will be held on Saturday & Sunday, with an extra Monday for any non competition games, demonstrations, daft missions, what have you. Game formats are Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Flames of War, & DBM. Fully detailed game formats & tournaments information will be posted & circulated early February 07.
We seek expressions of interest in the shape of the DBM competition. (25mm would look pretty spectacular, just quietly).
We expect that the various format organizers will arrange something for the third day, but offers to get a demonstration game, small competition, or similar under way we could look at. Any enquiries at this stage please forward to me at brucedeluxe@yahoo.com
OMTS is a small club promoting & supporting wargaming in Dunedin. Revenue from SouthCon enables us to cover our basic expenses for the year. We greatly appreciate your involvement in it.
The following games were played:
WHFB - Nick (Empire) vs Mark (Dwarves) Victory to Nick.The 1859 Grand Tactical Rules have just been published. Look out for more Italian Wars games at the club. And look out for Mathew and Andrew's names in the playtest credits for the book. More details on the author's website www.grandtacticalrules.com
WHFB - A narrow win to Rob whose Goblin army fought Brett's Orcs.
DBM 25mm - Nick's barbarian conspiracy of Picts and Saxons defeated Andrew's Early Crusaders with their Byzantine allies. The Crusaders were hindered by two unreliable allies, and could offer little resistance to the Saxon warbands who broke through the knights and made their way into the baggage camp.
Principles of War Ancients - Kendall's Mycenean Greeks defeated Philip's Sea Peoples and Libyans.
Flames of War - Mark (DAK) and Michael (US Recce) played one game in the morning. In the afternoon Michael took on Kit's Panzergrenadiers. The Tiger did well holding out on one flank, but the rest of the Germans were left without a C-in-C after the first couple of turns and suffered a 6-1 defeat.
These were the games played at the club today:
WHFB - Matt (Orcs & Gobbos) v Dan (Skaven) Dan won
WHFB - Aaron (Snr (Vampire Counts)) v Simon (new guy) (Tzeentch Demons)
40K - Nick (Space Marines) v Mark (Necrons) Nick won
DBMM 25mm - Rob (Snr (Medieval Portugese)) v Andrew (Crusader) Rob won
DBR 15mm - Ian (Scots Common) v Danny (German Bastards (according to Ian!)). And from the Germans' point of view: "The protestant Hesse Kessalians (OK< German Bastards ) successfully repulsed the skirt-wearing deviants and sent them back to their straw huts and squeezing cats "
DBR 15mm - Grant (Free Cossack) v John (Later Danes)
John's small (58ME) but gallant Later Danish army successfully defended Denmark against Grant's vast horde (86ME) of Free Cossacks. Steady volleys from the outnumbered regulars ripped through the furry-hatted masses, who in a last desperate charge flung themselves on the bayonets of the Danish foot Regiments before melting away in defeat.
Rob Snr (Dwarf), Aaron Snr (Empire), Dan (Beastmen) and Matt (Orcs & Gobbos) went to the Orcland Cup and bought home the Club Competition.
Some news from the club meeting. Anyone who can fill in the details please let me know.
WHFB - There were four games of warhammer.
Rob Jnr vs Nick both Empire not sure of victor.
Mark (Brettonian) vs Daniel (Skaven) not sure of victor.
Rob Snr (Dwarf) vs Aaron Snr (Empire) - Rob won.
Rob Snr (Dwarf) vs Matt (Orcs & Gobbos) - Rob won.
Shattered Lances - Brendon ands Danny played a positional battle with Komnenian Byzantine attacking Ghaznavids. The Ghaznavids successfully defended the ridge line, holding out the Turk and Norman mercenaries long enough to win the game.
One of the quietest meetings we have had for a while. There were three warhammer games (Dan and Aaron, Rob and Mark, and Rob and Gervais) and one game of Principles of War Ancients between Kendall and Philip. Despite misgivings about Principles of Everything rules, it turned out to be a good game. The two armies were Mycenean Greeks and New Kingdom Egyptians.
The second Flames of War grand tournament was held this weekend. We had three players from our club in the competition, Kit, Rob and Brett who took 15th, 17th and 25th place out of 49 in the competition. The tournament results weren't outstanding for our club, except all the FoW hats we won in the quiz!
There was a good variety of games at the club today, including several practice games of Flames of War getting ready for the grand tournament next weekend.
WHFB - Rob's Dwarfs won a quick victory over Nick's Empire. The firepower of the Dwarfs overcame the mobility of the Empire cavalry. Notably their boltshooter destroyed six riders in one shot.
WHFB - Matt's Ogre Kingdoms won a solid victory over Nick's Empire.
WHFB - Aaron's Lizardmen and Mark's Brettonians fought to a draw.
DBM 25mm - Brett and Paul played a 500 point game using Medieval Germans and Italian Condotta (Venetians in Italy). By the end of the day neither army was broken. The final result was 7-3 to the Italians. Although there were two Italian commands within an element of breaking, they also had an Italian handgunner rampaging through the German's baggage camp. The Italian baggage was within two shoves of a German/Swiss pike block before some dismounted condotta would interpenetrate it and disappear off-table, or if they got lucky the other way push back the German's Swiss ally who was not able to recoil... High drama all round in a very long game.
DBR 15mm - Lee (Early Tudor English) beat Philip (Neapolitan Spanish) 9-1. The Spanish using the latest fashionable pike-and-shot formations were taken apart by the olde English longbows.
DBR 15mm - Andrew and Ian had a game, and both sides used Venetian Italians. Andrew's army was much smaller, with lots of points spent on fortifications and 8 elements of naval. Despite losing his C-in-C Andrew still managed to take the victory.
Flames of War - Rob's British Rifle Company beat Steve's U.S. Rangers.
Flames of War - Kit and Ian played twice in desert terrain, using Indian infantry against Italians.
Pictured below: The Medieval Germans' Swiss mercenary pikemen, one flank protected by wagons and cavalry, advance against Venetian artillery.
WHFB - Matt won a solid victory using Ogre Kingdoms against Rob's Beastmen. The new 7th edition rules were used, and the Beastmen celebrated their return with a double-one roll to make their break tests. Didn't prevent them from being crushed by the ogres though. Unfortunately for Matt it wasn't a challenge game so Rob retains top place on the ladder.
DBR 25mm - Andrew's Manchu Chinese played Philip's Early Tudor English. The reversion to 10AP Art(F) and the use of DBM style deployment helped the English defenders. A sneaky archer ambush on one flank, and jammy dice rolling elsewhere, completed Henry VIII's repertoire of tricks to win a 10-0 victory. The picture below shows the Chinese centre advancing on the English, whose Burgundian cavalry almost single-handedly defeated them.
FoW - Brett's Russian guards won 5-2 against Kit's Germans in the fighting withdrawal scenario. The German forces didn't have the firepower to deal with the Russian armour. They did however find the Russian C-in-C alone in a barn, and his revolver wasn't enough to repulse a half-track assault.
Congratulations to John Way for his victory at Push of Pike, with a narrow win over Craig Love in the final game. Details of all the games on the PoP webpage and some more pictures will be there in a day or two.
Thanks again to Urban Warfare for supporting the tournament. We have four players from the NSWC and four visiting from other clubs. Pictured below is one of the games, Neapolitan Spanish on the left and Scandinavian Union on the right. The Swedish artillery demonstrated its superiority and helped the Swedes to a 9-1 victory.
WHFB - Nick's Dark Elves were decisively beaten by Dan's "cheesy chaos goats".
WHFB - Brett played Ian, both using Orcs and Goblins.
WHFB - Russell (Slanesh Chaos) played Aaron (Dark Elves with a friendly dragon)
WHFB - Mark (Bettonians) played Brett (Orcs and Goblins)
WHFB - Russell and Dan, both with Chaos armies, played to an inconclusive draw.
DBR 15mm - Philip's Neapolitan Spanish defeated Kendall's Japanese 9-1. The cavalry of both armies gamely charged, but were mostly destroyed by opposing firepower. The Spanish infantry, though close to demoralisation, fought their way through the dismounted samurai and musketeers.
Moderns 1/300 - Bruce's Brits beat Kieran's Russians in a 1960s era game. There was a very nice armoured train on the battlefield (although I suspect it was only there for scenic effect not part of the game).
WHFB - Dan's Chaos Beastmen defeated Matt's Orcs.
WHFB - Dan's Chaos Beastmen fought a second battle against Russell's Chaos Mortals.
DBM 15mm - Paul (Pyrrhic) beat Al (Spartans). The Galatian warbands in Pyrrhus's army did some damage to the Spartans, but were themselves destroyed demoralising a command. By the time the Spartan army was broken, the Pyrrhic phalanx was only a couple of elements away from defeat. There's a name for that sort of victory.
Medieval Naval - Andrew and Matthew sailed, paddled, shot and boarded a lot of medieval cogs and galleys.
DBR 15mm - Today's DBR was a 500AP stabfest between John's Maximillian Imperial with English Allies and Craig's Valois French. After a long and bitter struggle, with a big Landsknecht v Landsknecht punchup in the centre, the Imperial flanks crumpled under the fire of artillery on one flank and (oh the shame) archery on the other. The Valois scored a 10/0 victory. Note to Imperial staff- find out the English for "When you have quite finished your crumpet, go and shoot a Frenchman please".
PoW Colonials - Scott and Philip played a Zulu War scenario with the British attempting to both hold their own camp and attack the Zulu kraal. Although the regular British units were still fighting at nightfall they had failed to hold either of the objectives. The Zulus took very heavy losses, but the survivors were happily plundering a nice orderly stack of unopened ammunition boxes in the British camp. The picture below shows the camp defended by the 2/24 British line. Ahead of them is a mounted infantry unit flanked by a couple of units of NNC, with a rocket detachment back in the camp.
Flames of War - Kendall (U.S. Armored Company) fought against Kit (SS Panzergrenadiers).
WHFB - Warhammer news from the Goldsbury Information Bureau:
I played Nick s Empire Army with my Orcs and Goblins. Nick made a great start, humming the theme of that great 1980s soap The Falcon s Crest and killing my Giant in his second turn! Nick then got very ambitious and started humming the Dynasty theme at me. At this his luck became truly awful as his main unit of Empire knights, including his General and army standard bearer, was drenched in troll vomit, eaten by a Wyvern, cut up big Big Uns or stomped by my Warboss. After this development, and assisted by some fortunate dice rolling for Night Goblin Fanatics (they must have been followers of Falcon s Crest), the other Empire units were mercilessly hacked down. A victory!
I then played the really nice Bretonnian army that Mark has. No theme humming in this one. We persisted until the bitter end. I was left with about 20 Night Goblins (out of an army that had around 60 to start with, 60 Orcs, 4 trolls, 1 Giant, 1 Chariot and a Wyvern mounted Warboss so, no, I didn t have a lot left) and he had 1 Etheral being, 4 Knights and 4 Pegusi left (out of an army that had 25 knights, 10 peasants (mounted), 15 peasants (foot), 1 trebuchet) so yes we slaughtered ourselves, but I ll give the win to the Bretonnians (the captured standard count was even and we both lost our general) as a feel in a good mood and the Bretonnians can t help it if they re French.
Dan (Skaven) and Matt (Orcs & Gobs) fought a nasty draw. There was no theme humming or anything else of interest.
Nick then turned around and thrashed a new comer, complete with interesting Elf/Bretonnian army (in record time) with his Empire army, rebuilding his fellow s morale with a stirringly hummed rendition of Dallas .
DBR 25mm - A titanic struggle between John's Samurai and Andrew's invading Manchu Chinese. The game was in the balance until the Japanese C-in-C charged off into the enemy line all by himself and slaughtered the Chinese artillery, at one point while surrounded by angry Manchus.
WHFB - Several Warhammer games were played at the club today:
Nick (Dark Elves) beat Aaron (more Dark Elves)
Aaron (Dark Elves) beat John (High Elves)
Nick (Dark Elves) played Mark (Brettonian)
Dan (Tomb Kings) played Matt (Orcs)
DBMM 25mm - Andrew B (Carthaginians) played Brett (Medieval Germans)
DBR 15mm - John (Later Danish) beat Ian (Venetian). Not a good day for the Venetian lancers who were destroyed by the Danes with their new-fangled bayonet-equipped musketeers.
PoW Colonials - Scott (Egyptians) beat Philip (Mahdist). This illustration shows the Egyptians advancing on a position held by the Mahdists. The entrenched riflemen repulsed an Egyptian assault, but were later destroyed by the machine guns and rifle fire of the Egyptians.
WHFB - There was a four-player game with Aaron, Dan, Matt and Rob.
DBMM 15mm - Jono and Brett played a rather belated finals game for the 2005 club competition. Both players used an Alexandrian Imperial army, with the win going to Brett.
DBR 15mm - Ian (Venetian) v Philip (Neapolitan Spanish). 9-1 to Ian
DBR 15mm - John (Later Danish) v Benny (30YW French). A win to the Danes.
Moderns 1/300 - Al (British) and Bruce (US Marines) played to a draw. Their game is pictured below.
Quite a few Warhammer games played today, mostly friendlies rather than club competition games. The current standings in the ladder are on the Competitions page. The approach of Push of Pike has brought out a few early DBR armies for practice games.
WHFB - Matt (Orcs and Goblins) beat Nick (Empire).
WHFB - Dan (Skaven) beat Rob (Empire).
WHFB - Matt (Orcs and Goblins) played Glen (Wood Elves).
WHFB - Kit (Orcs and Goblins) played Ian (Orcs and Goblins).
WHFB - Matt (Orcs and Goblins) played Dan (Skaven) in a skirmish game.
DBM 15mm - Paul's Ottoman Turks gained a near-run victory over Lawrence's Hungarians.
DBMM 25mm - Andrew (Early Crusader) v Robert (Medieval Portuguese). This was the first outing for Rob's new Portuguese army without English allies in this game. The Portuguese knights charged the great masses of crusading infantry inflicting lots of casualties. However, the crusaders held on and managed to destroy enough knights to defeat the Portuguese army.
DBR 15mm - Ian (Venetian) v Scott (Swiss). Both armies took lots of damage, resulting in a 5-5 mutual break.
DBR 15mm - Lee (Early Tudor English) beat Andrew (Neapolitan Spanish).
Flames of War - Kieran and Michael had a game, both using Italian armies, with the win going to Michael.
WHFB - Ian (Orcs and goblins) played Nick (Elves)
WHFB - A doubles game with a crowded battlefield. On one side was Dan and Rob, and opposing them was Aaron and Matt.
PoW Napoleonics 15mm - Scott and Philip played a game of Principles of War Napoleonics using the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801. The British were defending a line of hills with a small village located at each end. The attacking French army was larger than the British, but some parts of their army arrived later in the battle, too late in fact to take any of the objectives. The piecemeal French attack was defeated by the British firepower.
The North Island convention was held in New Plymouth over Queen's Birthday Weekend. Our expeditionary force was competing in DBM 25mm, DBR 25mm, Warhammer and Flames of War. Robbie's Beastmen won First Place in WHFB and Nick was Second with an Empire army; Brett's Medieval Germans won First Place in DBM; Grant was 1st in DBR, Andrew second, and John also picked up several good wins that would have won him a medal if he was competing rather than umpiring.
The convention was held in a very nice venue at the racecourse, with plenty of space and light making for pleasant gaming surroundings. Catering was excellent too, and a ravenous Beastman reported himself satisfied with the cakes and ginger slices. The Bring-and-Buy was rather sparse this year, other than Andrew's No Mans Land terrain which did good business as usual.
NICon 2007 will be held in Cambridge.
A 25mm DBR game between Kelly's Indians and John's Japanese.
WHFB - Three games of Warhammer today, but not many details to report right now. Games between: Brett and Ian, Rob and Glen, and Mark and Dan.
DBR 15mm - John (Italian Wars French) played Philip (Knights of St John). 10-0 to the French.
DBR 15mm - Lee (Lancastrians) played Philip (Knights of St John). 9-1 to the Knights.
DBR 15mm - Lawrence (Spanish Imperial) played Scott (Swiss).
The CWC has a new online forum http://www.chchwargaming.org.nz/forum/index.php The forum is by no means only for Christchurch wargamers, it is intended as a place where gamers can go to ask questions about a particular gaming genre (including role playing and non-GW games) as well as painting, modelling, off-topic, etc.
One forum topic that might be of interest to some ancients players is "How to beat Martin."
The Battle of Salamanca, replayed using Napoleon's Battles rules and 15mm figures based for Principles of War. The British and Portuguese infantry are about to complete the victory sweeping away the remnants of the French infantry defending a ridge line.
Thanks to Andrew and his band of helpers who sorted out the storeroom today. The broken tables and trestles have been removed, and the remaining gear is now tidily stacked on racks on the wall. There is also a club noticeboard, which looks very like the old red tabletop.
Napoleonics made a return to the club, with a couple of rule systems being used, Grand Arm e and Volley and Bayonet. The period has been dormant at the club for several years, although many of us have Napoleonic armies. There seemed to be enough interest in the games that we might expect to see more in the coming months.
WHFB - Ian's Orcs massacred Aaron Jnr's High Elves.
WHFB - Daniel's Skaven beat Russell's Empire.
WHFB - Matthew's Ogre Kingdoms beat Rob Jnr's Empire.
The last two games were ladder competition games. The top three placings are now Rob Snr, Matt, and Rob Jnr.
DBM 25mm - John M made the trip over from Auckland bringing his Middle Imperial Romans to play against Philip's Kushite Egyptians. Very early in the game some Roman horse archers mobbed an Egyptian sub-general, and his command disappeared in rout. The main body of Egyptian cavalry defeated the opposing Roman cavalry, but too late to affect the outcome of the battle which was decided when the legionary centre advanced and defeated a couple of Egyptian commands without loss. 9-1 to John.
DBR 25mm - John W and Andrew played a 200AP DBR game, illustrated below. The armies were modelled on the Oda clan Samurai army and the Monks and fanatics of the Kaga Ikko-Ikki sect from the Hongan-ji monastery fortress. True to the historical result, it was a win to the monks.
Grande Arm e - Kendall and Brett tried out these rules for the first time. The game was a win to the French over the Prussians.
Volley and Bayonet - Grant (French) defeated Rob (Duchy of Warsaw).
There's a new set of wargames rules for modern war that have just come onto the market... Metal Storm... by Hammer-Wargames. They include armoured vehicle points builder system that allows any vehicle to be created, so doing away with the need for huge lists, also a big part for civilians and even the media, intriguing? The rules also include ultra-modern style of warfare, with special forces, insurgents, terrorists, rapid deployment, etc. If you would like to pop into the yahoo group and have a nose around the files and photos and a few of the posts you may be interested in the period. If you play AK47 you will feel very comfortable with these new rules, you may even be a member of the RFCM group if so you will definitely know Roy aka Hammer. The rules are very different but easy and very playable as you will gather from the many posts on the forum. It's worth a quick look for the photo files alone .
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Metalstorm/
It was good to see a busy club meeting today with some new members as well as us old timers. There were three games in the Warhammer ladder competition, and we saw the first 25mm DBR game at the club.
Game reports from the meeting at the club today:
WHFB - Aaron's Brettonians took on Dan's Skaven.
WHFB - The Empire under Russell's command was defeated by Matt's Ogre Kingdoms. "I ground their bones, and ate them, and stuff."
WHFB - Rob Snr (Beastmen) played Rob Jnr (Empire). While the Empire cavalry were galloping across a fairly open plain, the beastmen arrived on the flank and emerged behind the Empire lines. The win went to the Senior player.
DBM 15mm - Lawrence (Later Hungarian) beat Scott (Ottoman Turks). One Hungarian general came to grief against Turkish horse archers, but otherwise it was a great Hungarian victory.
DBM 25mm - Brett got out the old plastic club Roman army and took on Paul's Burgundians. A win to Charles the Bold and his band of Burgundians.
DBR 25mm - Andrew used a Manchu Chinese army to defeat John's Japanese. There was mist throughout the entire battle, which hindered the Chinese plan for a double envelopment and restricted the benefits of their long range artillery. Nevertheless it was still a comprehensive victory to the Chinese army. This was the first 25mm Renaissance game played at the club, and we are expecting to see many more this year.
Flames of War - Kit's Sikh Rifle Company got a 6-1 win over Steve's German panzer force. It was a fine performance by the Blacker Bombard.
The card game Illuminati also made an appearance which kept us amused for a while (but without a clear result at the end).
This year's national convention was held in Hamilton. We had a good contingent attending from the NSWC playing in DBM 15s and 25s, Flames of War, Moderns, and as usual making up most of the DBR competition. Warhammer was a very small competition, and had no North Shore players this year.
Rob's won second place in the Early War section of Flames of War, using a NZ Rifle Company.
Andrew's Early Crusaders picked up the prize for Best Painted Army in 25mm ancients. Our other Ancients players missed out on the medals this year and got some of the middle places in the competition.
The final of the DBR competition was between Philip (Muslim Indians) and John (Later Danish), with the win going to Philip. If there was an award for the best baggage, it would have gone to Stu's Alwa camp! There was a good variety of armies in the competition: Muslim Indians, Later Danish, German Catholic, Scots Covenanters, Valois French, Swiss, Persians, and the Alwa.
Natcon 2007 will be held in Upper Hutt.
Less than a week to go before the Nationals at Easter, and there were several training games happening at the club, and some games in the new Warhammer competition as well.
WHFB - Dan's Skaven won a solid victory over Aaron the Elder's Empire. The Empire's foot wasn't of the highest quality other than a unit of Greatswords adding some strike power. The flagellants spent a lot of time flailing around against the rat swarms.
WHFB - Aaron the Younger's Brettonians got a minor victory in a game against Matt's Orcs and Goblins. Brettonian horse won 'Man of the Match' award in this battle.
WHFB - Rob the Younger and Russell had a battle both using Empire armies. It was a minor victory to Rob.
Shattered Lances - Brendan (Fatimids) had a battle against John (Crusaders). Early success by the Crusader centre was turned around as the flanks were gradually worn down by the Fatimids. Casualties were high on all sides before the Crusaders succumbed.
DBM 25mm - Andrew (Early Crusader) beat Nick (Patrician Romans) 9-1. The crusader foot did very well to defeat the warbands and knights attacking them, although the pilgrim hordes on the flank were beaten by the Roman auxilia.
DBR 15mm - Philip (Muslim Indians) beat John (Later Danish). Lots of sixes and cheap shots to give an undeserved win to the Indians.
DBR 15mm - Ian (Scots Covenanters) and Kendall (30YW Protestants) fought to a 5-5 mutual break. The Scots made a successful attack on their left flank sweeping away an opposing command. In the centre a slogging match ensued in a large area of rough terrain. While all that was going on, a cuirassier force was marching around the Scottish right flank. It fought its way through a blocking force of Scots pikes and was then into the Scottish baggage camp.
Flames of War - An early war game between Rob's NZ infantry from the Greek campaign with British armour against Kit's French army. On one flank the artillery were having a hard time of it, being attacked by six Char Bs. Meanwhile the British light tanks made their way to an objective on the other flank, their way cleared by a successful infantry fight. A 4-3 win to the Kiwis.
NICON - IN THE NAKI Sat 3rd & Sun 4th JUNE 2006 (Queens Birthday Weekend)
The Taranaki Miniature Warfare Society Inc (aka Taranaki Old Guard) invites you to New Plymouth to join us for the 2006 North Island Wargaming Convention. Venue: La Mer Lounge - New Plymouth Racecourse (Members Grandstand), Pukekura Racecourse Function Centre, off Coronation Ave, New Plymouth. Centrally located, onsite Catering/Bar, Sunday Prizegiving Dinner on site.
Today was a cold and rainy day, ideal wargaming weather. There were a few more historical games at the club today, and a lot of Warhammer games going on too. The details of this year's Warhammer competition were discussed and the competition format will be posted here soon. Here are the results of the games we played at the club today:
WHFB - In the Final of the 2005 club competition Rob Snr used an Orc and Goblin army to defeat Aaron's Wood Elves.
WHFB - Rob Jnr used Dwarves to beat Matt whose Orcs and Goblins were shot to pieces. The picture here shows some of the shooters deployed safely on a hill at the back of the table.
WHFB - Dan's Skaven defeated Russell's Empire army.
WHFB - Nick's Empire beat Brett's Orcs and Goblins.
DBM 25mm - Lee's Macedonians (under the command of King Philip with Alexander as a sub-general), defeated Andrew's Early Crusaders 10-0. The crusading hordes made a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to contest a hill on the flank against Thracian auxiliaries. Meanwhile in the centre of the table the Macedonian phalanx and Greek hoplites eventually wore down the Crusading infantry.
DBR 15mm - Philip (Muslim Indians) beat Scott (Dutch Rebellion) 10-0.
DBR 15mm - Philip (Muslim Indians) beat Ian (Scots Covenanters) 9-1.
Mostly Warhammer at the club today, with the semis of the club competition being the highlights of the day.
WHFB - Semi-finals of the Club Competition:
Rob (Orcs) beat Grant (Blood Dragons)
Aaron Jnr (Wood Elves) beat Dan (Beastmen)
In a couple of other games, Russell's Empire beat Matt's Orcs and Goblins, and Nick and Mark had a game (no other details to report at the moment)
DBR 15mm - Philip (Muslim Indians) vs Scott (Spanish Imperial). A very closely fought game (only 1 element in it at the end) finishing with an 8-2 win to the Indians.
The end-of-day boardgame was Riddle of the Ring. The three hobbits outplayed the four black riders and eventually Frodo threw the ring into Mount Doom. Nice to see the rules can produce a historical result.
The Annual General Meeting was held today, and it was a fairly low key affair. There was some discussion of club terrain and tables, competitions, and membership fees. Membership for 2006 is $30, or $5 a meeting for casual visitors.
WHFB - Some games between Aaron and Dan - sorry, no more details at the moment.
DBM 25mm - The Ancients Competition semi-final between Lee and Brett is illustrated to the left. It is a stirring sight to see the phalanx advancing in echelon, but they never made contact as both their flanks were broken by the Germans and their Swiss allies. Brett now goes on to play Jono in the finals.
DBR 15mm - Philip (Muslim Indians) beat Ian (Scots Covenanters) 9-1. On one flank the Scots' Royalist allies were enveloped and destroyed by Sipahis. The Maratha allied contingent attempted to do the same on the other flank but were swept away by musketry. The battle was decided in the centre where the Indian blades with a few cavalry in support defeated the main Scottish command.
Flames of War - Rob (Brits) played Mark (DAK).
Flames of War - Kit's Sikh Rifle Company defeated Kendall's Germans. Things were not going well for the Sikhs until the German Stukas began bombing their own artillery, and then the British Matildas arrived and turned the tide.
It was a very quiet meeting indeed, as many of us were at the Battlecry tournament. There was just one game played.
WHFB - Aaron Snr (Empire) beat Russell (Tomb Kings). The Imperial artillery instrumental in holding off the horde of Undead chariotry. The Tomb King army crumbled after the Heirophant was shot down by handgunners.
Battlecry 2006 had over 120 participants and featured Warhammer 40K, Flames of War, and the 5th DBMM 25mm doubles tournament. There was also a lot of roleplaying games happening at the convention.
Our club was represented by Kit in Flames of War, and he won First Place with a mid-war Sikh Rifle Company. We had three teams in the DBM 25mm Doubles competition: Andrew and Philip (Early Crusaders) who won 3rd place, Brett and Nick (Hungarians), and Stu and Ian (Swiss).
The Early Crusader's fleet and baggage camp. The ships, fortifications and tents are Andrew's own No Man's Land models, and the Crusader army is mostly Old Glory models. On the other side of the battlefield are the massed flank-marching crusader pilgrims, including the much admired Morris Dancing element!
Carthaginian elephants and Gallic warbands advance on Swiss pikes and Milanese knights. The paper - scissors - stone aspect of DBM is clearly evident here!
There were a few visitors from the AWC today, and we had a good number of games happening.
WHFB - In the Warhammer Competition Rob's Orcs and Goblins knocked out Matt's opposing force also of Orcs and Goblins.
WHFB - Nick's Empire fought Dan's Undead.
WHFB - Rob and Nick then played a second game.
WHFB - Glen's Wood Elves fought against Aaron's Orcs and Goblins.
DBMM 15mm - Club Ancients Competition semi-final. Jono (Alexandrian Imperial) beat Philip (New Kingdom Egyptian). The Egyptian superior chariots did well, but not quite as well as the Companions, and Tuthmosis III turned out to be not quite as brilliant as Alexander. Jono progresses to the finals, where he will play the winner of the game between Lee and Brett.
DBM 15mm - Michael (Three Kingdoms Chinese) played John (Italian Condotta).
DBR 15mm - Scott's Swiss fought against Stu's 17th Century Royal French.
DBR 15mm - Andrew's Neapolitan Spanish first took on Ian's German Minor States.
DBR 15mm - In a second battle Andrew and Ian fought to a mutual break, this time Ian used Scots Covenanters with Royalist allies.
Flames of War - Kendall's new German force fought against Kit who was using Kendall's U.S. Airborne. The town of Hunterville (pictured above, and scratch built by No Man's Land) featured in the battle.
Next meeting coincides with the Battlecry tournament, so is likely to be a quiet meeting.
Today we had a couple of visitors from the AWC, and Scott returned to the club after a long absence overseas. Al brought along some copies of the new moderns army lists, and there were a couple of micro-scale moderns games.
WHFB - Dan (Mortal Chaos) and Aaron (Empire) played a game in the Warhammer competition. Although it was a drawn battle, Dan progresses because he had a 150 point margin in the game.
DBM 15mm - Philip's New Kingdom Egyptians beat Ben's Abbasid Arabs. An Arab flank march failed to appear and the Egyptian blades defeated the centre of their infantry line. The Arab archers were having the best of an exchange with the Egyptian bows, until some Egyptian chariots and blades came to their rescue. 10-0 to the NKE.
DBR 25mm - John and Grant had a battle with Samurai and Monks. Monks won.
DBR 15mm - Stu's Montrose Scots defeated the Austrian Imperial army of Ian.
DBR 15mm - Scott's Swiss took on the Maximilian Imperialists of John. A resounding win to the Swiss.
Moderns - Al (British) and Rob (French) played a game
Moderns - Kendall (Germans) beat Kieran (Russians).
Dr Lucky met his untimely end twice more today.
As is usual for this time of year, it was a quiet meeting.
WHFB - Aaron (Snr) Dark Elf, Rob (Snr) Dogs of War Cavalry and Daniel Beastmen play a mutltiplayer game of Warhammer, eventual winner being Aaron with his Level Two Mage getting the better of Rob's Steed Mounted Paymaster, leaving the mage as the sole remaining model.
Flames of War - Kendall Late War Grenadier Company including a King Tiger against Garth's German Paras with Kendall winning 5-2.
Modern air combat - Matt and Andrew played with pretty fighter jets. Matt shot down Andrew's planes but was full of holes.
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