On last weekend we played a battle in General d’Armee, there were four of us, Bartek and Jędrzej were playing France and me and Tomek were playing coalition lead by Great Britain with Portugal, Russia and Spanish as here allies.
Many thanks to all participants for great game and for great time after, on dinner in SOTE pub close to Bolter. Of course I hope that we will continue our games and I will wake up again on Sunday mornings.
Both sides started in opposite corners of the table – here objectives – two stone bridges. Allied cavalry appeard first, British hussars and Polish Uhlans loyal to the Tzar.Our plan was to cross the river and secure bridge for infantry.French cavalry and horse artillery.Both sides visible next to great coffee served in Bolter Cafe.Mixed brigade of Portugal, Russian and Spanish. Had to finish bases and some details of my Russian Jagers.French cavalry advances toward Allied cavalry which crossed river.French infantry march to the other bridge.Combined Portugal, Russian and Spanish brigade march slowly.French cavalry formed into combat formation.Allied cavalry formed to fight as well.British are coming.Cuirassiers securing flank.First clash beetwen cavalry.Allied cavalry losed some combats.British advances forward.On the opposite side French march in the column to take position.Several French units are too much for this bridge.Most of our cavalry regiments ceased to exists, many Uhlans were lost in the river.French cavalry rule over the battlefield. French cavalry manged to cross water in the middle – coming in sight of allied infantry.
Summary: – at the end French succesfully secured one bridge, another one was still in hands of Allied troops. I think that we need more time to play such game – we played around four hours. – thank you to Rafał for showing me rulebook for this, after small talk why I losed interest in Black Powder ruleset, which is simple, but few things with really bad rolls can destroy your will to play. Then tests with Kuba and Tomek – that’s it, I’m waiting for second edition of General d’Armee.
Today we played final of the league started last year – more details HERE. We played in Bolter and we had a lot of fun enjoying our games. From me I want to say big thank you to Krzysztof, for taking seriously idea I throwed on tournament I organised last August, many thanks, you did great job!
Today there were five of us from eleven players involved – many thanks to Rafał – organizer of MISFIRE that he took place of person which cannot be there.
I played first game with Alessandro, my Tilean friend of many games – we had Draw 10:10, then I played my second game first time with Rafał and from start I was thinking to not do mistakes, I losed 15:5 – it was great game anyway, hope we will play again. For my third game I became photographer on my will.
Below is mix of photos of our battles:
Summary: – the first place belongs to Alessandro, second to Bartek and third to me – we had great fun, to be sure we plans another league, but first we need to take some rest after that. – thanks to all participants and I hope to see you again, as I find enough ideas and power to organise more smaller WFB events, probably for smaller points as well. – we turn back to 6/7 edition, at least we have such plan with some limits. – of course, I want to go to Prague from time to time to see and play with my Czech and German friends there.
Today we played three on three game in Mordheim – on one side were allied warbands of Orcs (Alessandro), Skavens (Marian) and Undead (Kuba), on the other side were Averlanders (Maciek), Bretonnians (me) and Dwarf Treasure Hunters (Kuba) warbands.
„After drinking at Happy Gallow close to the city gates three leaders agreed, that together they have better chance to clear merchant district from Chaos minions. Morning was really heavy to the Dwarfs who mixed Bugman Ale, Kislev vodka and Bretonnian brandy, but after all they promised on they beards, so they had to wake up. Three bands walked on empty, ruined streets to find evil minions and wyrdstone.”
Ruined city of Mordheim.Bretonnians…and more Bretonnians.Averlanders.Undeads.Skavens.Some Dwarf slayers waiting for combat and some brush.Undead generally looking for brains.Ghoul who wants to be faster than zombies.Orcs arrived, Averlanders and Dwarf crossbowmen from the tower attempts to stop them.Bretonnian archers ready to climb over ruined wall.They climbed above and started shooting.Brains, brains…Skavens hidden close to old graveyard.Rat Ogre and various members of Skaven and Undead warbands.Averlanders bravely fought with orcs.But orcs were hard fighters.Bretonnians prepare to take down as many enemies as they can. Vampire tried to jump from one building to tower, but failed his initiative test and fall down from high distance (9″).Remnants of Averlanders fled from this district.Fight beetwen slayers and Skavens.Ghoul tried to join fight on the street, but fell down jumping.Orcs run to fight Bretonnians.Surrounded by evil minions remnants of Bretonnians managed to perform tactical retreat.
Summary: – today there were six of us, we should slowly start playing campaing, maybe not next week, but we should be closer and closer. – some of the bands can still be done with actual Games Workshop offer, I had to look on that and probably write about it. – good side losed, as all our bands were broken at the end of this battle.
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Z wielką przyjemnością chcielibyśmy zaprosić Was serdecznie do wzięcia udziału w kampanii w serwisie Kickstarter, dotyczącej morskiej gry bitewnej Bogowie wojny: Togo.
W tej porywającej grze gracze obejmują dowodzenie nad własnymi okrętami, prowadząc je do zwycięstwa w epoce takich bitew jak Cuszima, czy Santiago de Cuba. Te niesłychanie ekscytujące i łatwe do przyswojenia zasady gry, są gwarancją wybornych emocji dla Ciebie i Twoich przeciwników.
Już teraz dostępne są aż cztery floty: amerykańska, hiszpańska, japońska i rosyjska, wszystkie w komplecie z misternie wykonanymi modelami żywicznymi, wydrukowanymi w technice 3D w skali 1:1200. Niezależnie od tego, czy chcesz dowodzić potężnymi okrętami Cesarskiej Marynarki Wojennej Japonii, czy przejąć kontrolę nad US Navy, Togo jest dla Ciebie idealnym wyborem.
Aby przenieść tę ekscytującą grę do anglojęzycznego świata i wydać nowe floty, potrzebujemy Twojego wsparcia! Rozpoczynamy kampanię na Kickstarterze, aby opublikować nasze fantastyczne modele dla Royal Navy z epoki predrednotów (1885 – 1905). To od Ciebie zależy, nad iloma z tych modeli będziesz mógł objąć dowodzenie. Ponadto naszym celem jest sfinansowanie publikacji angielskiej wersji podręcznika do gry. Przygotuj się na przeżycie wojny morskiej jakiej nigdy dotąd nie widziałeś i dołącz do nas, by stworzyć nowe okręty i spopularyzować Bogowie wojny: Togo na całym świecie!
W nadchodzących tygodniach udostępnimy więcej szczegółów na temat tej kampanii. Przygotujcie się na ekscytujące wieści 🙂
Zachęcamy do wsparcia naszego projektu i zagwarantowania sobie szybkiego dostępu do nowych modeli i dodatków!
🇬🇧 Now we have it – GM Boardgames – game developer studio from Wrocław will release fifth fleet to tabletop game on the sea – Gods of War – Togo. More informations coming soon. Fellow blogers – I will be glad of sharing this post!
It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to take part in the Kickstarter campaign for the naval wargame Gods of War: Togo.
In this thrilling wargame, players will command their own ships, leading them to victory in historic battles such as the Battle of Tsushima and the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. The rules are exciting and easy to learn, and playing this game is guaranteed to bring you and your friends a lot of good emotions.
We are proud to offer four fleets to choose from: American, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian, all complete with intricately crafted 3D printed resin models in 1:1200 scale. Whether you’re looking to command the powerful ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy or take control of the American fleet, we’ve got you covered.
To bring this exciting game to the English-speaking world, we need your support! We will be starting a Kickstarter campaign to publish our fantastic Royal Navy models from predrednought era. It’s up to you how many of these models we will create. In addition, our goal is to finance the publication of the English version of the Gods of War: Togo rulebook. Get ready to experience the excitement of naval warfare like never before, and join us in bringing Gods of War: Togo to life!
Today with Witosław we played a battle on 2,000 of points per side, I played my Russian Baltic fleet and Witosław took his Japanese. Our game took around two hours, the losses were smaller than usually – I losed group of torpedo boats because of my mistake.
When we played a game designer announced new fleet – Royal Navy – some details of it on the bottom 😉 .
Russian fleet composed from top left: Borodino class – ‚Borodino’ and ‚Suworow’, Varyag, Pallada class ‚Aurora’, group of Pernows and Nowik.Japanese fleet composed of several big ships like Mikasa and three groups of torpedo boats and destroyers.Both sides on one photo.Just move and fire from heavy artillery of both Borodinos.Some shell hat ships rudder on Mikasa.Turn one finished.Borodino class – Suworow. Turn two started.Some ships started maneuvers to achieve main goal of scenario.Unfortunately I rammed my own Pernow class torpedo boats…… which was only group of warships sunken today.Closer and closer to leave this part of the sea.Japanese ships were leaving soon as well.Mikasa.Both fleets attempts to leave this part of the sea.Russian ships who left the table…… and Japanese. Only Aurora was on the table when we finished.Shelf with Gods of War: Togo.Place where we play – Bolter.pl
Summary: – it was great game in our never ending struggle with Witosław, at the end we counted points and it was 62 to 58 for Japanese – it was a Draw. – one good thing I can say – Royal Navy is on sight and there is incoming project for it on Kickstarter HERE and some words on GM Boardgames on they Facebook HERE. Plus some words about it on my blog HERE.
We played another games in Mordheim. First game was a clash beetwen Dark Elves and Dwarf treasure hunter around Sigmar temple occupied by bandits shooting at closest warband. Seconde game was a struggle of Bretonnians, Dark Elves, Dwarfs and Pirates of Sartosa.
„Hans, I spoted several warbands, coming from differents directions, I can smell Dwarfs, sounds that wine drinkers Bretonnians, roar of something big and maybe Tilean? Karl – let say to everyone to take position and aim crossbows – they will not take us.” a talk beetwen Hans and Karl, Stirland tax collectors
So we played Warhammer in smaller scale again in a row.
Alessandro band lead by Orek Brassgaze.Ruined temple of Sigmar in the center, occupied by bandits shooting everyone who came to close. Lone Slayer run forwards.Group of Dwwarfs around they leader.Bartek band lead by Lileath Heart Tearer.Cold Ones looking for some fresh meat.Bandits took haevy toll on this band of Dwarfs.One more game with four players battling each other. Pirates intrested in old graveyard.This time Dwarfs avoiding temple and bandits inside.Dark Elves marksmen on the tower.The rest of the Dark Elves warband.I splited my Bretonnians to look on Dwarfs and Pirates as well.
Summary: – we tried something new, as four players on one table and it was good. We had to train before we start playing campaign. – we know we had to do some terrains for this skirmish, old houses or walls from Bolt Action perform well, but we need more. – I guess I will write some article about how to do warband for Mordheim without selling nerkeys 😉 .
W niedzielę 30.04.2023 tak się stało, Cornholio sprawił, że graliśmy w Pasażu Grunwaldzkim bitwę o Helmowy Jar. I zagraliśmy, był to festiwal mangi i anime, mnóstwo osób odgrywało różne role w Cosplay, a my z Łukaszem odgrywaliśmy nas, graczy, którzy w najważniejszym momencie na kości K6 rzucają 1. Mieliśmy trochę ulotek z miejsca w którym zawsze gramy i mieliśmy okazję rozmawiać z różnymi ludźmi, byli wśród nich fani twórczości Tolkiena, fani gier RPG którzy dowiedzieli się o nocy tych systemów w Bolterze.
On Sunday of 30.04.2023 it happend, with Cornholio we played in Pasaż Grunwaldzki battle of Helm’s Deep. We played, there was a lot of manga and anime, many Cosplayers and me and Łukasz playing as gamers, players who rolls in most important moments on D6 – 1. We had some hundresds of leaflets from place we play and we had many occasions to talk with different ppl, among them were fans of Tolkien, fans of RPG’s who were informed that there are nights of RPG in Bolter and among other events there.
Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas.Nasz stół pośrodku i organizator na pierwszym planie. Our table in the middle and organizer on first plan.Pierwsze orki wspinają się po drabinach. First orcs go on ladders.Mur został wysadzony, ale brakło nam waty by to ukazać. Wall was blown up, but we hadn’t had cotton to show effect.Three drunkers 😉 .
Summary: – it was great to be there anyway, but I see that I’m to shy for such events. – it was manga, anime and one of the greatest tabletop system Middle Earth: SBG – Cornholio and Tancred, it was great!
Podsumowanie: – było świetnie być tutaj, ale nadal widzę, że dla takich wydarzeń jestem po prostu wycofany. – tam była manga, anime i jeden z najlepszych systemów bitewnych – Middle Earth: SBG – Cornholio i Tancred, to było świetne!
Today with Alessandro we came back to ruined capital of Osternmark and we played three great games in city forgotten by Sigmar.
„I saw a graveyard and big temple around it, Lady told me that there is something important to her, to the king, to Bretonnia – my lord, there is nothing, we looked everywhere and we cannot found anything. Some steps on the street, some more steps and hearable Reikspiel. Etienne came to the Armand: My lord, they are coming!”
My Bretonnians lead by Armand de Beauville.Alessandro warband from Reikland lead by Heinrich Geyer.Graveyard in the middle was objective defended by Bretonnians. Some ruined city space including temple of Sigmar or Shallya, ruined tower of city watch.Bretonnians searching old graveyard, vision of the Lady headed Armand here. Lone archer running behind the wall.Empire mercenaries coming closer.Smell of black powder, arrows flew high.Hand to hand combat started, with Bretonnian men at arms armed with halberds were fastly eliminated.Knights joined combat, but it was over as scenario was won by Empire. Empire won, got more experience, but Bretonnians got four wyrdstones. Yeah!Another game, long street – both parties should go away on the opposite sides or one side shoul be broken.Follow me my friends, ethernal glory is before us. Both sides move forward, using as much cover as they can. Karl was hat by some nasty Bretonnian arrow, shouting bad things above onion eaters. Men at arms tried to stop enemy charge……but without success.Deadly combat started, again I had no option, but to retreat from the street. Our last game, we started in opposite corners. Even Bretonnians use cover, especially when they forgot about power of the Lady.Last remnants of Bretonnians fleeing the field, taking wounded comrades on they backs.
Summary: – it was great to visit Mordheim again, last time I had only bad memories about last game – facing hardly shooting Kislev with a bear wasn’t great experience with almost empty table without terrains, but it was ten years ago. – we have plans to play campaign in city of the damned, so yes, along WFB it will be my favourite system in Old World. – we played in Bolter as almost always we do and today we played next to really popular in Wrocław system Conquest, probably I could step in as I know players, but as I have WFB, Mordheim, Middle Earth SBG, Bolt Action/Chain of Command and Gods of War: Togo, I wouldn’t have time and time is some kind of value we cannot extend unfortunately.
On last weekend (22-23 of April) in Wrocław we had an tournament in Middle Earh SBG: Individual World Championship (in polish Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Wszechświata). In large hall of Politechnika Wrocławska were a lot of tables and 64 gamers of 68 formerly enlisted, playing each other six games for eternal glory and good fun. This event was organized by Marian supported by Pola and a group of people, responsible for different things from finding a place up to organizing some transport.
Event had following sponsors: Bolter – wargaming and rpg store in Wrocław Playmaty – shop with game mats and other accessories Unreleased Miniatures – shop with miniatures
In addition Bolter supported this tournament with numerous game mats and terrains, accessory for seven tables were provided byWarsaw team. To not forget – players from Wrocław community provided their own terrains and mats.
W ostatni weekend (22-23 kwietnia) we Wrocławiu odbył się turniej w Middle Earth SBG: Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Wszechświata. W wielkiej sali Politechniki wrocławskiej było mnóstwo stołów i 64 gracz z pierwotnie zapisanych 68, grających sześć gier dla zdobycia wiecznej chwały i dobrej zabawy. Wydarzenie to zostało zorganizowane przez Mariana, wspieranego przez Polę i grupę osób odpowiedzialną za różne rzeczy, od znalezienia miejsca do grania, po zorganizowanie transportu.
Wydarzenie miało sponsorów w postaci: Bolter – sklep z grami bitewnymi i rpg we Wrocławiu Playmaty – sklep z matami i innymi akcesoriami do gier bitewnych Unreleased Miniatures – sklep z figurkami do gier bitewnych
W dodatku Bolter wspierał turniej licznymi matami i terenami, akcesoria dla siedmu stołów przywiozła drużyna z Warszawy. By nie zapomnieć – gracze z Wrocławskiej społeczności dostarczyli także swoje tereny i maty.
Main prizes. Nagrody główne.Each player left tournament with a prize. Każdy gracz opuścił turniej z nagrodą.Some photos of the tables we were preparing on Friday. Trochę zdjęć stołów które przygotowywaliśmy w piątek.On a way to tournament on Sunday morning. W drodze na turniej w niedzielny poranek. Smaug.Cavalry Gondor of Łukasz against orcs.Beorlings against eagles. Beorlingowie przeciw orłom.Magic aura, but not spell. Magiczna aura, ale nie był to czar.Ents against Moria.Final countdown. Finałowe rozgrywki.After final game speech of organizer and announcement of winners. Po finałowej rozgrywce przemowa organizatora i ogłoszenie zwycięzców.Everyone was a winner! Każdy był zwycięzcą!Top 5 players. Top 5 graczy
Summary: – this year I was there only as a support, usually observing Cornholio battles and moving around with camera, original plan for me was to go to Prague for WFB – event done by my friends. – it was great to be there and next time I would like to participate as player. – Wrocław will organize Master next year, so if you want to come, just come! – thanks to organizers and participants – Lublin, Warsaw and others! Hope to see you again! – if you want to know about events in Wrocław – HERE is our Wrocław group.
Podsumowanie: – w tym roku byłem tutaj jako wsparcie, przeważnie obserwując bitwy Cornholio i włócząc się z aparatem dookoła, oryginalny plan był taki, bym był w Pradze na WFB – wydarzeniu organizowanym przez moich przyjaciół. – było wspaniale być tutaj i następnym razem z chęcią będę uczestniczył jako gracz. – Wrocław zorganizuje Mastera w przyszłym roku, tak więc jeśli macie ochotę wpaść, wpadajcie! – dziękuję organizatorom i wszystkim którzy brali udział – Lublinowi, Warszawie i reszcie! Mam nadzieję zobaczyć was znowu! – jeśli chcecie wiedzieć więcej o wydarzeniach we Wrocławiu – TUTAJ jest nasza wrocławska grupa.
„One more beer for our friendship said Rurik Brassgaze, one more said his new fellow, young knight Louis de Beauville! – camp was full of Bretonnians knights and they servants and Dwarfs they meet during travel in wild area of the Albion. Both parties agreed that they will rejoin they forces, to achieve they mission together, both were tracking Dark Elves who catched they kinsmen in area close to small port Neue Reikdorf in Albion. Both sides had many common in tracking they enemy”.
Today we played smaller game in WFB with army books from 6th and rulebook from 7th edition. It was game played two on two with 600 points per gamer. Together with Alessandro Dwarfs we played on one side, on the other were Dark Elves of Bartek and Krzysiek.
Our deployment, of course Bretonnian Knight prayed to the Lady in hard morning after drinking Bugmans beers.Right flank and the middle. Yes, there are a lot of commoners – I love those models.Left flank of Dark Elves. Cold Ones were great in bitting they tails for most of the game as they failed many stupidity tests.Beast tamer on Manticora hidden behind some ancient tomb.Bretonnian and Dwarfs first turn.Turn two started with brave young knights charging a vile owners of repeater crossbows.Young knights losing ground in fight with crossbowmen.Dark Elves spearmen charge on Knights of the Realm…… but were beaten in combat.Knights of the Realm charged again, when remnants of the Knights Errants rallied.Archers moved into position and spread volley of arrows onto enemies.During running after spearmen knights charged into Cold One Knights.Brave archers stood they ground.Men at arms marching against they opponents on good side left flank.Brave archers broken, few of them came back to the camp.Men at arms get into the combat.Brave unit sir Henry of Knights Errant issued challenge, heavily wounded was taken back by a horse to the camp.Dwards hand gunners runned away from Cold One Knights charge, to fight another day.The end, remnants of Bretonnian and Dwarfs runned back to the camp with Dark Elves pursuing them during night.
Summary: – good to hear before game, that I’m looking happy – strange, as I’m looking for some interesting job – not remote anymore. – It was nice game and we will repeat it with maybe more points, next time we want to just give a try to old Mordheim. – we are open to play smaller points, I’m still thinking about some form of campaing, where everyone have a castle and three random places like a town, village, mine, shrine, forest etc. so troops can be a little bit different – still no idea how to organize it. – next WROHammer will be probably something different to previous one, but anyway, we have to talk about it, in small team.
„Do you smell they fear? Yes, it’s delicious – we have more captives, but we should go for more – release Cold One Knights, they smell them! Yes, let’s start hunting for hummies and davies, run! Catch them all!”.
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Tancred’s Tabletop Tales 