Last Wendesday we played a game on 450 points with Łukasz, I played with The Dead of Dunharrow and Łukasz took his Easterlings cavalry.
My two bands – one with the King of Dead and another with Herald. Łukasz had one big band and one composed of two models.Rolls for initiative – my dices are blue.Our objectives were four white dices placed on the table.Many of slaves of Sauron were affraid to charge on the Warriors of Dead.Still some of them charged on left and right flank of ghosts host.Spirits of ghosts collapsed under hoves of horses. King was among them.Duel beetwen King of Dead and Amdur, Lord of Blades were full of just ordinary rolls in such a moment.Ghost warriors bravely survived cavalry charge and started repelling Saurons minions attacks.The final moment, before few more Easterlings left the field. Final score was 3:1 for me.
Summary: – it’s time to start painting Rohan then Gondor and Mordor to have some bad boys and getting some more models to those armies. – Dunharrow – like it, but some times losing with it is spectacular, the same as winning. This army is expensive in points and with eniemies with higher weapon skill there is problem to win combats. Anyway I will try to play with them, as I like this army.
I had three great games – first against Roberts Canadians – it could be a draw, but I managed to win. Second against Jędrzej Soviet Union, I’ve been massacred, jet it was great game and our civil war were are bitter game to the end. The last game I played against Mateusz US, it was game which result wasn’t sure till the end. I losed it, but we weren’t sure to the end who will win.
Today we played bigger game on ‚Early war’ 1800 points per side – where army of IInd Republic of Poland were securing railroad depot in area of Lwów, waiting for a train with important officials. Unfortunately German Abwehra and Soviet intelligence got information about that fact. In the railway station were half of Polish troops. Germany start on the one table side, Soviet started on the other with half units in reserves.
Inexperienced infantry advances and starts fire.Polish troops helding railway station.Fubar on medic – great job Łukasz! He just run away in wrong direction.Soviet mmg arrived.Order is to go forward, so they advance and shoot.Veterans of Polish army charged Soviet infantry…… but losed and were taken as prisoners.First time I used light mortar prepared for campaing in Stalingrad.NKVD troops bought after Stalingrad campaign. Models painted by Bonapartist Paint Studio.7-TP of Polish army, Poland had 132 of them, including 24 with twin targets with mmgs. Bayonnets fixed! Uraaa!Fubar rolled by me on my best infantry unit – reduced Soviet inexperienced squad to five models.An attempt to take and secure station. Still some Polish troops defending.BT-7 finally arrived, trying to take out Wz.29 Ursus – Poland had around ten of them.German Heer infantry having problems with 7-TP tank.At the end of the game there were still Polish troops.
Summary: – Axis and Soviet Union got victory 12:6. – great game during early war period of time, need to paint more Soviets for early. – thank you Maciej and Łukasz for good game, with 3600 points of table – we managed to play it during 2h 30 m – we were really fast, as we played till turn 6 and turn 7 hadn’t arrived.
Today I played a game on 450 points against Dawid’s Dol Guldur – it was great game and again I know that I had to paint some more army than Dunharrow, as they are limited to two units and two heroes – King and Herald of Dead – of course, in legendary legion I can take Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas – but on larger amount of points.
Our target was to secure objective points – white and orange markers.Still learning how to play it more competentive – my force at the start were facing both enemy warbands.Having cavalry is big plus – you are fast and can be everywhere. Fight started, as I tried to reduce Dawid’ force.Wolfs joined fight in the middle.Less and less spirit host.Saying fight to death is something wrong in case of long dead warriors.At the end – only sword wielding warrion on top right survived.
Summary: – it was great game, thank you Dawid! – I’m still learning and I know that for 450 points games I should just paint Gondor or Rohan. – have to paint Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas for Dunharrow – on higher points I need them.
Last days I had too much free time, sometimes things happen unusual way. Still there are positives – I can play more games including WFB – today 7th edition. With Bartłomiej we played game on 1250 points per side, I played my Empire and Kislev, my opponent played first time his Bretonnia.
Both sides after turn one.Tried to hit, but cannon ball started bouncing to far.Pistoliers tried to shoot down some Knights of the Realm.Kislev Ungol riders tried to disturb some other Knights of the Realm.It was too much for Knights Panther to hold ground, losed three of them and was broken in combat and fled.It could be good charge, but I did almost nothing and archers scored three pistoliers, winned combat and cought them. Situation out of control, as cannon crew fled because of broken unit.Panic after losing two winged lancers, but they…… managed to rally.Before unit was destroyed – handgunners managed to eliminate whole unit of Grail Knights.The end.
Summary: – it was great game and it’s nice to see that younger generations are intrested in file and rank system, especially WFB. – need to paint some meele infantry and more missile armed handgunners and crossbowmens, maybe hellblaster, as again I saw that I have too much cavalry which should fight with enemy weakend by my own fire.
Yesterday we played with Łukasz a game against the game – first time I was playing in cooperative way in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare and it was good experience. It was a long time ago, when I last played with Łukasz. So it was nice to play again and even some plan of playing campaign was born. I had to finish some more USA style building – the church on the table was painted by me around 1,5 year ago and finally it was used in Fallout. I got this church for Sharp Practice during American Civil War, but happilly it can be used in one more game.
We played it on Monday evening in Bolter. Need to play more often in this game, still need to change one important think in my life, as something collapsed week ago at the end of Monday.
On one side of table were ghouls and mutants.In the centre was a church and supposed technology of past.Mutants came close to survivors.Feral ghoul did chaos among our team.Mutants were hard enemy on left side of the road.Part of our team in Power Armor after receiving to many hits fled the field.Survivors escapes as they found some ancient stuff.The main target which resides in the church was out of range of our team.
Summary: – great time spend on playing with Łukasz against the game. Thank you Łukasz! – have some inspiration to finish more building and paint some more miniatures for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. – hope we will start some campaign against game, I bought book for it in past. Now book is under milimeters of dust. – need to find STL. files I bought several years ago and ask someone from my friends to print some appropriate terrains. – our team were looking for something, part of some engine or maybe a Holy Christian book – we don’t know it jet, as we weren’t able to get inside the church.
War never changes – which is quote used in Fallouts – yes, war never changes.
Last Saturday I played another game in2022-2023 league of WROHammer, which was started due efforts of Palen. I had chance to play against Piotr’s Skaven’s. We played with rules attached to page mentioned on the top. We play 7th edition rulebook and army books are generally from this edition as well.
Lines of Bretonnians – among them Knight’s Errants, Grail Knights and men at arms.Skaven’s centre including Doomwheel.Many jezzails on the top of the hill.Doomwheel is coming. Those rats want’s more than slices of cheese.It’s end of first Skaven turn.Bretonnian first turn started. I tried to shoot on Doomwheel and ratling gun but without success.Doomwheel was faster and charged on Knights Errants. It’s second Skaven turn.Skavens fled which was wise to live to fight another day.On the right flank Knights of the Realm routed Skaven unit, but I failed rolling on pursue really low. Plan was to a little bit more.Trebuchet tried to dropped stones on important things and usually hit low rank Skaven slaves.One more inch and I could avoid this situation. Most of Knights of the Realm fled, jet they losed they banner.Slaves charged mounted squires, but horse mounted noblemen held.Abomination and Skaven general charged Grail Knights.Bowmen took they short swords and daggers and charged to help squires.Abomination did most of job against Grail Knights, but I managed to even broke Skaven general in combat.Bad boys came out of board.Knight Errants managed to broke Doomwheel and charged Abomination.Doomwheel driver losed control over his engine and runned of the battle.It was the end. Bretonnian army in full retreat.
Summary: – it was great game, although I have to rethink how to play against such monstrous things like abomination. – some more days to thinking about changes, not only in tabletop games.
One common thing with my battle, one side was tablet from the field.
On last Saturday we played bigger battle in General d’Armee – on one side were British and Portugal led by generals Damian and Tomek, on the other side were mix of many different European nations represented by French, Prussia and Russia led by Bartosz, Jakub, Piotr and me.
British are coming.British centre.Part of our centre were secured by Russian infantry and Polish Uhlan regiment.Left flank secured by several cavalry regiments.French securing other part of the centre.Prussian took right flank of our combined force.British left flank opposed by Prussians.Battle for a tawern and crossroads.Russian artillery ready to open fire.Chapel – silent deponent of battle.Among British were Portugal regiment.British right flank secured by cavalry and artillery.Close range fire beetwen Russian Jagers and British artillery.British seized defensive position in tavern.Prussians taking positions behind hedgehod.British slowly advancing on left flank.Cavalry charged on British cavalry.British cavalry after short clash turned tail and fled.Polish uhlans in full speed charged British cannon battery…… and in advance galloped toward British sharpshooters.One of the Russian batallions had enough and retreated.British cavalry regrouped into squares.In act of bravery uhlans charged British square.Left flank secured and British reorganized to defend against massed cavalry regiments.
Summary: – it was great battle – from initial four players we grow up to six generals around the table. – victory belonged to continentals and cavalry did great job on the left flank.
Today I played my fifth battle in Togo, with Witosław we played in Wrocław Bolter – official distributor of GM Boardgames games. Today I was asked – do we play at night? I said ok, whatever it means. Then we read how it works and we started deployment of our fleets – Spanish Armada and Russian Baltic fleet. We played on 1200 points per side and had some observations about night fight.
Dzisiaj zagrałem moją piątą grę w Togo, z Witosławem zagraliśmy we wrocławskim Bolterze – oficjalnym dystrybutorem gier z stajni GM Boardgames. Zostałem zapytany – czy gramy w nocy? Odpowiedziałem – czemu nie, cokolwiek to znaczy. Po tym przeczytaliśmy jak działa walka w nocy i zaczęliśmy rozstawianie naszych flot – Armady królestwa Hiszpanii i Bałtyckiej floty carskiej Rosji. Graliśmy na 1200 punktów na stronę, mieliśmy kilka obserwacji o walce w nocy.
Both fleets deployed for battle. Obie floty rozstawione do bitwy.Novik securing right wing. Nowik zabezpieczający prawe skrzydło.Aurora (Pallada), Borodino & Varyag.Novik found enemies. Nowik odnalazł przeciwników.On left Spanish Armada, on right Russian Baltic fleet. Po lewej Hiszpańska Armada, po prawej Rosyjska flota Bałtycka.Novik received several hits and catch fire. Nowik otrzymał kilka trafień i zaczął się palić.Novik torpedo scored a hit. Torpeda z Nowika trafiła.Several explosions on Novik, only few of her crew survived. Kilka eksplozji na Nowiku, tylko kilku członków jego załogi przeżyło.Aurora turned right and started fire. Aurora skręciła w prawo i otworzyła ogień.Her guns splited fire on two warships. Jej działa podzieliły ogień na dwa okręty.One of them was sunk. Jeden z nich został zatopiony.Varyag fighting artillery duel. Wariag walczący w pojedynku artyleryjskim.Fires on both warships. Pożary na obu okrętach.Varyag sunk after getting many hits. Wariag zatonął po otrzymaniu wielu trafień.Spanish survivors. Ocalałem hiszpańskie okręty.
Summary: – we played nice game, first time my Russia was victorious – 24:7 – big victory. – waiting for some sunking warships, as they could look better on photos in place of nothing.
Podsumowanie: – zagraliśmy fajną grę, pierwszy raz moja Rosja odniosła zwycięstwo – 24:7 – duże zwycięstwo. – czekam na tonące okręty, one mogą wyglądać znacznie lepiej na zdjęciach niż nic.
Last Saturday (28.01.2023) with the team from Wrocław we were participating Juggernaut Warsaw 2023, with Kuba, Łukasz, Patryk, Sławek, to see this event and play against all odds. For me it was great event – all three games were great, organisers did a great job from simplest ones like providing a bottle of water and a chocolate Prince Polo for every participant to organizing a place to play – Warsaw club Dragon. For the first time I was in Warsaw not for business purpose🙂.
W ostatnią sobotę (28.01.2023) z drużyną z Wrocławia byliśmy na Juggernaut Warszawa 2023, z Kubą, Łukaszem, Patrykiem, Sławkiem, by zobaczyć to wydarzenie i zagrać. Dla mnie było to świetne wydarzenie – wszystkie trzy gry były wspaniałe, organizatorzy zrobili świetną robotę od prostych rzeczy, takich jak butelkę wody i wafelka Prince Polo dla każdego uczestnika po zorganizowanie miejsca do grania – warszawski klub Dragon. Jestem szczęśliwy, że pierwszy raz byłem w Warszawie nie w celach biznesowych🙂.
Spirit of Warlord Games was here. Duch Warlord Games tu był.What can I say, many beautiful tables! Co mogę rzec, wiele pięknych stołów.I was there during my first game against Filip Canadians. Byłem tutaj w trakcie mojej pierwszej gry przeciwko Kanadyjczykom Filipa. I was there too, in our fight for Mandżuria with Jarem Japanese! Tutaj też byłem, w naszej walce o Mandżurię z Japonią Jaremy.Table from Ostrów Wielkopolski. Stół przywieziony do Warszawy przez Ostrów Wielkopolski. So it begun – Łukasz playing at the entrance. Tak więc zaczęło się – Łukasz grający przy wejściu.I see me, Kuba, Kuba my last ‚enemy’ and Łukasz. Widzę siebie, Kubę, Kubę – mojego ostatniego ‚przeciwnika’ i Łukasza.My first battle against Filip’s Canadians. Moja pierwsza gra przeciwko Kanadyjczykom Filipa. Fubar!Canadians reserves came into battle. Kanadyjskie posiłki wkraczją do bitwy.I had simple Soviet plan. Miałem prosty, Sowiecki plan.Which was destroyed after artillery barrage. Który został zniszczony po artyleryjeskiej nawałnicy. 21:5 for Filip. 21:5 dla Filipa. Jarema and me have luck, to play second battle on all three tournaments we were. Jarema ze mną mamy to szczęście, by w trzech turniejach w których grałem zawsze grać naszą drugą grę.10:6 victory belonged to Jarema. 10:6 zwycięstwo należało do Jaremy.My last battle against Kuba playing Poles 1939. Moja ostatnia bitwa przeciw Polsce 1939 Kuby.My comrades from Wrocław visible on this photo. Moi towarzysze widoczni na zdjęciu. Beginning of the End. Początek końca.From this time, scenes not from my table. Od tego momentu sceny nie z mojego stołu.Łukasz Japanese. Japończycy Łukasza.Awards! Nagrody!Me in green. Ja w zielonym.All participants were winners! Wszyscy uczestnicy byli wygranymi!
Summary:. – should you participate in such event? Yes – I had three great games – many thanks to Filip which was my first enemy and one of organisers, to Jarema we played for Mandżuria third tournament second game all the time and to Kuba (last game which was up to the end game we weren’t sure who will win it). – I said it shaking hands on farewell, but why not here – many thanks to organizers: Andrzej, Bogumił, Filip and Maciej – great job, wish to be there again! – meeting friends from Ostrów Wielkopolski and Kalisz always good thing. – from my side – I want to be there again!
Podsumowanie: – czy powinieneś grać w takim wydarzeniu? Tak – osobiście miałem trzy świetne gry – wielkie dzięki dla Filipa, który był moim pierwszym przeciwnikiem i jednym z organizatorów, dla Jaremy z którym gramy o Mandżurię trzeci turniej z rzędu drugą grę i dla Kuby (gdzie gra była do końca i do szóstej tury nic nie było pewne). – powiedziałem to żegnając się, ale czemu by nie tutaj – wielkie dzięki dla organizatorów: Andrzeja, Bogumiła, Filipa i Maćka – świetna robota, mam nadzieję, że tu wrócę! – spotkanie przyjaciół z Ostrowa Wielkopoleskiego i Kalisza zawsze fajne. – chcę tu być jeszcze raz!
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