Yesterday with admiral Cornholio we played a game in Gods of War: Togo, our game was played in Bolter on 2,000 points of they own navies. So I took my Russian Navy and Łukasz played his Imperial Japanese. Our game was typical for games we play with Łukasz in any system we are playing.

In historical case I want to dedicate this post to general Jerzy Rusiło-Wołkowicki, hero of Russian Navy during Russian-Japanese war 1904-1905, after that he was a hero of Soviet Russian Navy as well – one of two Polish generals who survived Katyń – only 500 hundreds of more than 20,000 Polish officers, policeman, border guards, priests survived. Yes, Jerzy Wołkowicki is my countrymen and it wasn’t anything special to be a part of Austrian, German or Russian armies in times, where Poland wasn’t on maps (yet it was always in hearts of Polish people).

Our scenario was – counter-courses, which was interesting to play (again and again it’s interesting).

Lone island.
Russian Baltic Fleet.
Japanese Imperial Navy.
Measure according to ship speed and the order.
Orders are planned before they are taken.
So be it.
Both fleets coming closer.
Torpedo boat released torpedos, they were brave…
and died.
Almost ramming, almost.
Few against power of Russian Navy.
Novik crew manage to sail as fast as possible.
Varyag was lost.
Just meters from hitting island.
Borodino Suworow was rammed by Borodino Borodino…
Unfortunately it was my biggest success.

Summary:
– another great evening on Wieczór weteranów in Bolter, Friday weekly event, when Bolter is opened to late hours. A chance to meet many good people at once.
– we are waiting for second edition of Gods of War: Togo with English version of rulebook and one more fleet – Royal Navy. More about it HERE.
– as a sneak peak I can say, that interview with GM Boardgames are on the way!

OFFTOP
– anyway wish you all good weekend and peace, no matter where you are or who you are – my mind is going to Ukraine&Russia, Palestinians, Yemen. As I mentioned Jerzy Wołkowicki who was and maybe still is hero for Russian Navy, we had generals Kazimierz Puławski or Tadeusz Kościuszko who were heroes of Independent War of USA. How many heroes do we share as people? Are they always soldiers? Most probably many of them are not military, like Ludwig Pasteur, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Henry Ford and many, many others. From Sokrates to Tolkien beyond artifical divisions; engineers, merchants, psychologists, scientists, writers etc.