Hi everyone!
I try to post something once a week if possible but this past week I have been feeling sick. I think it is the long hours at work and a bad reaction to some medication that I was prescribed at the Doctors office.
I did finish painting up 6 bisowers for my Swedish Medieval club game of Håtunaleken.
I will start working on the 12 foot troops to make up my unit of Foot Serjants. Once I am done painting and basing all of them I will post a picture of the total force. I did not take any pictures of the figures yet.
On a positive note my daughter Annabell will be graduating college in May. Here is a picture I took of here when she was a Freshman just starting college at Emory University in Atlanta GA. It has a fitting quote on it too.
I will be traveling back to the good old US of A in May for her Graduation. I will be a proud Dad.
Well I hope everyone will have a good week.
Mark
History
Monday, January 26, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Pictures from Black Powder Big ACW Game Number Two
Hi again!
Well yesterday we had a game at the club. I wont' go into many details as Jesper over at The Miniature Mayhem did an AAR for the game!
BLUF: great fun and a tough fight for the Union. It was close run but the Confederates were able to fix and flank the Union position.
Enjoy the pictures!!!
Mark
Thank you for reading my blog and I should have some more pictures of my painting up this week!
Well yesterday we had a game at the club. I wont' go into many details as Jesper over at The Miniature Mayhem did an AAR for the game!
BLUF: great fun and a tough fight for the Union. It was close run but the Confederates were able to fix and flank the Union position.
Enjoy the pictures!!!
Mark
The Union Line fights to hold the sunken road |
A view of the mass of Confederates crossing the field |
A view from above of the battlefield |
A view from the Confederate lines |
Great painted figures |
When things were simple before the flanking took place |
Artillery in action |
Great terrain and miniatures |
Early stages of the game |
The first wave moves in |
The Union line at the beginning of the game |
Here comes the first wave |
Close up of the Union line |
Part of the first wave moves on the board |
The Union line ready s itself for the coming fight |
The confederates close in on the Union Line |
Great view of the Rebels |
The second wave starts moving in on the left |
The Union was able to hold off the early flanking force |
The Confederates push hard and take a lot of casualties |
Moving in some Union support |
Another view of the Rebel battle line moving across the field |
A view from above |
The second wave hits the Union flank hard |
Another view of the battlefield |
The Rebels start to break the Union line |
A Union gun is attacked by a Rebel unit |
Meanwhile on the right flank....more confederates!!! |
Stopping for some prayers before going into the fight |
The Union Left is being pushed back |
The Union right gets rolled up by a huge Confederate force |
The table at the end of the game! The Rebels were able to break over half the Union units |
Saturday, January 10, 2015
First game of the year!
Hi everyone!
Well this past Wednesday I played my first game of 2015. It was a good game of Naval thunder with Soren, Jesper and myself. We played a what if scenario with the US and the British fighting a German force that included two Zeppelins. Soren came up with the scenario and also the rules for shooting down the zeppelins.
We meet up at our favorite burger place near the club and then we headed to the club and dove straight into the game.The initial set up had was per the map and the US player, me came in on turn 3.
We started to maneuver our ships and the British was set to take on the zeppelins that were being protected by the two Battleships as the Battlecruisers broke formation and headed out to slow the American squadron coming on from the NE corner of the board.
I was not long until we all started to fire and find our targets. At long range there were not many hits, but that was going to change soon.
First blood was scored by the British on the Battleship Fredrich Der Grosse and a normal flooding situation turned bad for the German Battleship. Because of heavy flooding she began to list to port and this reduced her speed and ability to accurately hit targets.
Because of the flooding and reduced speed the Battleship Fredrich Der Grosse had to break out of formation to allow the zeppelins the speed they needed to reach the coast before the American Battleships could get close.
This is the first game we experienced Rutter damage and it added some unique situations for both the British and German fleet! in the end the US Squadron was the only ones able to maintain formation throughout the whole battle. The USS NY started to take damage and an engine room hit meant the US squadron could only move at a rate of 3 instead of 4. This prevented the US from getting to the coast to help the British deal with the German force.
As you can see from the image below the British were trying to slow down the German force heading for the coast and the US Squadron was engaged in a gunfight with the German fast Battlecruisers.
With damage adding up on all sides the ships started to sink, the first was HMS Indefatigable. Here you see one of my newly made sunk ship markers being used.
After some time the HMS Lion was able to score some hits on the Zeppelins and eventually one of the blew up and created a second sun for a short period of time.
The US Squadron was having a hard time hitting the fast German Battlecruisers and they were slowed down again from additional damage to the USS NY. Things were looking like the British would not get any help from the US Squadron.
Shortly after scoring a killing shot on one of the zeppelins the HMS Lion is also sent to the bottom by the German battleships. At this point two British Battlecruisers had been sunk and only on Zeppelin had been destroyed by the allies.
Soon things were going to change the German Batlleship Fredrich Der Grosse had another problem with flooding and the ship capsized ending the German winning spree. Here is a shot of the sunk ships near the coast.
At this point we were all tired since it was the first day back to work here after the holidays and it was getting late. We tallied up the damage and it was agreed that the Germans would have lost the two Battlecruisers as they had taken a lot of damage from the American Battleships. It was also agreed that the last German battleship would survive and the Zeppelin would reach her target and make it off the board. The US Squadron was too slow and too far out to stop the battleship and zeppelin from going off board.
We tallied up the points and it ended as an allied victory. I did not look so good for the allies but the point value of the lost Zeppelin and the Battleship and Battlecruisers made it an Allied Victory.
Here is a chart with the starting and ending hull points for each ship in the game.
Here is the overall starting and end hull points for all the forces involved in the battle.
Well thank you for reading my blog and have a great weekend.
Cheers!!!!
Mark
The scenario description |
The rules for shooting and hitting the Zeppelins |
The map |
We meet up at our favorite burger place near the club and then we headed to the club and dove straight into the game.The initial set up had was per the map and the US player, me came in on turn 3.
The German force of two Battleships, two Battlecruisers, and two Zeppelins |
On the left side of the zeppelins are the Battleships Fredrich Der Grosse and Ostfriesland. To the right are the Battlecruiser Derfflinger and Moltke |
The USS squadron coming on board, USS NY in the lead followed by USS AZ and in the rear is USS RI |
The British squadron of Battlecruisers, with HMS Indefatigable and HMS Lion |
We started to maneuver our ships and the British was set to take on the zeppelins that were being protected by the two Battleships as the Battlecruisers broke formation and headed out to slow the American squadron coming on from the NE corner of the board.
The Germans starting to break up there fleet |
The target for the Zeppelins |
The shells started to rain down early and often in this game |
US Ships under fire for the first time |
The British did a great job of holding off the Zeppelins and the Battleships |
Still steaming along heading to the coast |
Massive flooding damage! |
Here you can see the British and US Force at the far end of the board, the coast on the left of the picture and the two groups of Germans as they head to the coast |
To slow!!! |
Wrong turn!!! |
Steady as she goes!!! |
The British also lose control of there steering. |
Here you can see the British Battlecruiser Indefatigable with 4 rudder damage markers, that was the least of her worries as she was taking massive damage from the German Battleships |
A view from the American Battle wagons on a German Battlecruiser |
The Zeppelins are getting close to the coast. The HMS Lion moves in to shoot at the zeppelins |
Abandon ship!!! |
The Germans keep coming on! |
One of the Baby Killers is taken out of action! |
Only one Zeppelin left to complete the mission! |
A view from the German side on the American Line of Battle |
The British grave yard |
All three of my new markers in use. I should make more. |
At this point we were all tired since it was the first day back to work here after the holidays and it was getting late. We tallied up the damage and it was agreed that the Germans would have lost the two Battlecruisers as they had taken a lot of damage from the American Battleships. It was also agreed that the last German battleship would survive and the Zeppelin would reach her target and make it off the board. The US Squadron was too slow and too far out to stop the battleship and zeppelin from going off board.
We tallied up the points and it ended as an allied victory. I did not look so good for the allies but the point value of the lost Zeppelin and the Battleship and Battlecruisers made it an Allied Victory.
Here is a chart with the starting and ending hull points for each ship in the game.
Here is the German Data |
British Data, not so good for the British.... |
Here is the US Data |
Here is the overall starting and end hull points for all the forces involved in the battle.
You can see here the Germans lost the most Hull points in this battle. |
Well thank you for reading my blog and have a great weekend.
Cheers!!!!
Mark
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