Yesterday (April 11th) was the SJCW (South Jersey Confederation of Wargamers) monthly game day and today the mailman dropped off a new game. (Amazon deliveries come on Sunday!)
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| I have Command and Colors Napoleonics and am looking forward to giving this game a try! |
For the game day there were four games played during the day. A Colonial skirmish with Zulus and Brits, A WH40K game, a Pike and Shotte game (I think, forgot to ask exactly which rules), and a 15mm game of Angriff. I was in on the colonial game and the Angriff game.
First up the Colonial Skirmish game.
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| The Umpire setting up the game. The Green felt is hills (so are the little hills...), the little scrub things are just for show, the village is a Zulu village, I think the building is a farm or some such (we Brits were supposed to make it to there as a VC condition - more on that later), and the building near the road had Molly Sugden (OK, maybe not her) waiting for a rescue. |
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| The British column, led by native troops with cavalry off to the side. 15mm figures and a 10 foot long table or so) |
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| The Brits advance to Molly's place. The cavalry in this picture (top center) or Boor Riflemen. |
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| Zulu Riflemen appear on the hill to the British Left! More Zulus rise up in front of the column! The native troops rush to guard Molly and a British officer comes in on a horse to carry her to safety. |
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| A turn or so later and Molly is rescued while the native troops are overwhelmed by Zulus... Off to the right you can see the British Gatling gun setting up while farther to the right a Screw Gun is also setting up. (or set up - when they fire massive swaths of Zulus are mowed down). Also - the Zulu right horn appears and readies to charge. |
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| Zulus charge the Queen's colors! Almost all the Brits die except the color bearer! |
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| A little further back the Brits form up the rest of the column while other groups try to get into the fray. The template on the top right is the Case shot template... |
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| The Zulu Left Horn appears and moves in. The Gatling gun and the Screw Gun do some massive damage but they keep on coming... Also, this time the Brit player (me) gets smart and steps back to form a line so that the Zulus are out of charge range. |
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| The Last group of Brits get to form in an L pattern, the previous group of Brits did major damage to the remaining Zulus but were destroyed. The final line of Brits (left of the road) were charged by the remaining Zulus and the Brits manage to mow them down. The color bearer is dead, he would be about where that white box of Zulus is on the road. |
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| Final Pic of the game showing the situation from the last pic at a slightly higher angle. The Zulus are in the boxes and though they have been hurt (5000 to 1000 casualties) they claim the field and a Gatling gun (lucky for us they do not know how to use it) |
At the same time I was playing in this game they WH40K game and the Pike and Shotte game were going on. Since I did not participate in these there are no comments.
First up the Pike and Shotte Game.
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| Setting up |
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| End of Game. |
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The figs for the game.
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And the WH40K game. (sorry guys, I thought I had taken a couple more pictures!)
After these games were done the Angriff game started up. A US and German rumble in Normandy.
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| US Forces |
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| My (blurry) Panthers taking up position - with Eric's Stug to the right. I have two more Panthers on the left (one just off the frame) |
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| A Better focused pic. |
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| Panthers move up toward the town. |
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| First shots. The Stugs took out the armored cars and a the Sherman. A Panther took out the Halftrack near the church. So far on this flank no Germans have been hurt while on the left flank it is a different story with Panthers being blown apart by 75mm armed Shermans. (I have a problem with the penetration charts in the game). |
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| Three Panthers destroyed in one turn by three 76mm armed Shermans at 1750 meters range (yup, I have a problem with the penetration charts in this game, I don't think they take the slope of the Panthers armor into account at all). To be fair the game was balanced the way it was but I would like to see armor slope better accounted for and more Shermans on the board. A fun game with Excellently painted up miniatures! (15mm). |
Finally a shot of the game club meeting area.
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| This is held at the Cape May Court House (that is the name of a town - not a building in the town) Senior Citizen's center and went from 1pm to 9pm. |
