Black Powder: France vs Prussia&Russia (🇬🇧EN/🇵🇱PL) Sobota, Kwi 23 2022 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Polish and Prussian and Russians and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 22:11

🇵🇱 Dzisiaj planowaliśmy odtworzyć bitwę nad Kaczawą (niem. Katzbach), ale Rafał, który był pomysłodawcą, nie mógł się pojawić. Zamiast tego rozegraliśmy grę, w której Prusy (Jakub) i Rosja (ja) zmierzyły się z siłami napoleońskiej Francji (Jędrzej).

Graliśmy w Bolterze i korzystaliśmy z pięknych terenów dostępnych w ich magazynie. Dziękujemy Adamowi i Rafałowi za wszystko dzisiaj. Obie strony musiały kontrolować kluczowe skrzyżowania oraz cmentarz w centrum, aby wygrać bitwę.

🇬🇧 Today we planned to recreate the Battle of Katzbach (Polish: Kaczawa), but Rafał, who came up with the idea, couldn’t make it. Instead, we played a game with Prussia (Jakub) and Russia (me) against the forces of Napoleonic France (Jędrzej).

We played at Bolter and used all those beautiful terrain pieces from their storage. Thank you, Adam and Rafał, for everything today. Both sides had to control the key crossroads and the graveyard in the center to win the battle.

🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Było to zwycięstwo sojuszu prusko-rosyjskiego,
– Świetna gra – dziękuję Kubie, Jędrzejowi oraz ekipie Boltera,
– To jeden z najprostszych i najtańszych systemów na start,
– Niestety, dzisiaj było nas tylko trzech.

🇬🇧 Summary:
– it was victory of Prussian-Russian alliance,
– great game – thank you Kuba and Jędrzej and Bolter staff,
– it’s one of the simplest and cheapest system to start,
– unfortunately there were only three of us today.

 

Black Powder: France and Prussia vs Albion (EN🇬🇧/PL🇵🇱) Środa, Mar 2 2022 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Prussian and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 20:53

🇵🇱 27 lutego 2022 roku Francuzi i Prusacy stanęli do bitwy z Anglikami. Tym razem siły kontynentalnej Europy zwyciężyły nad Anglosasami. Starcie rozegrano w Bolter.pl we Wrocławiu, w Polsce.

Kluczowym celem dla obu stron było opanowanie skrzyżowania.

🇬🇧 On 27 February 2022, the French and Prussians faced the English in battle. This time, the forces of continental Europe prevailed over the Anglo-Saxons. The clash took place at Bolter.pl in Wrocław, Poland.

The key objective for both sides was control of the crossroads.

 

Black Powder: Let’s start in Anno Domini 2022 Sobota, Sty 22 2022 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Perry Miniatures and Polish and Russians and Spain and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 20:07

Today we played on small battle (only three of us arrived – me, Jędrzej and Karaś) in Black Powder 2nd edition. On one side were French and on the other Spain and Russia. We played in Bolter.pl – Wrocław, PL. Many thanks for Bolter crew – today Basiorek and Rafał, as we got all terrains we need (today I was there around 6th hours).

Russianns came first and started shooting at French column with they gun battery.
Russians in column to attack.
French cavalry arrived on right flank.
Russians turn right to welcome enemy cavalry.
More and more French – Russians try to secure crossroads.
Polish Uhlans Regiment in the Tzar service.
French battalion took Russian battery during fight on bayonnets.
Russian muskeeter batallion march to other flank…
… too late to savve gun battery.
Polish Uhlans charged and was countercharged.
Spanish arrived in columns.
Uhlans retreat after fight with cuirrasiers.
French charged on unpreapared Spanish marching in column.
Cavalry regiments meet again.
One Russian infantry batallion was finally broken by French artillery batteries.
Uhlans regrouped.
Russian main battalion broken French battalion during fight on bayonnets.
Spanish in column do not knew what was going on at the head of they columns.
Brave batallion run for they lives…
… as French batteries foccused all they fire on them.
French cuirrasiers advanced.
The battle was over. French lead by sir Błażej won over my Russians and Karp (if I’m correct) Spanish.

Summary:
– great game as always, thank you developers from Warlord Games for it (many old game developers responsible for my belowed WFB).
– we had some mindfuck with some rules, as we missed Krisu and Damian, still we had fun.
– Wrocław, PL – is open to play with ppl from other countries 🙂 .
– I know I had to paint more, thank you Marian for friendy reminder! To be shure, when I’m happy with painted batallion, Marian paints army.
– wish all great weekend!

Music I love, even if policy sucks I like Russians and normality in contacts with Russia and Bialorussia. Let’s remember tragic fate of Romanow family.

 

Black Powder: Battle for a river crossing Sobota, Paźdź 30 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Polish and Russians and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 19:30

Today in Wrocław we played our monthly Black Powder game. Today we played Great Britain against unusual alliance of France and Russian Empire. Today British side focused on crossing river (cross it with 13 infantry battalions/cavalry regiments) in four places (two bridges and two fords), French and Russian tried to stop them.

  • Two bridges, in addition there were two fords – one on far left and other on far right.
  • HQ of allies inside monastery tower.
  • British are coming!
  • Russians with supporting French on right flank.
  • Left flank belonged to French, middle belonged to French plus cavalry reserve (including Polish uhlans on tsar service).
  • French marching.
  • Time to start.
  • French send screen of skirmishers ahead of main units.
  • More and more soldiers of the British Crown.
  • When right flank had problems with understanding orders, middle and left flank on allies side moved. Artillery took hill and hid behind a fence.
  • Russian artillery got orders to shoot British battery on the other side of the river.
  • British crossed bridge in the fron of Russians.
  • French moved into the forest.
  • HQ send small regiments of light cavalry to aid Russians and French.
  • British crossed also other bridge. French tries to send them back.
  • More British in front of Russian flank.
  • Charge on bayonnets with supporting charge of uhlans on the flank.
  • Both lines shooting they opponents.
  • British also want to pass river by the ford.
  • Few units of French-Russians alliance were broken and left field .
  • Hussars are coming.
  • Uhlans charged unit in it rear and unhappily were broken and fled.
  • Taking position to shoot on the flank of hussars.
  • The end.
  • Russian brigade remained unbroken with maybe some more French.
  • Something is coming back probably?

Summary:
– again great game played in Bolter.pl.
– thank you all for today game.

 

Black Powder: Albion vs European alliance Niedziela, Wrz 19 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Polish and Prussian and Russians and Spain and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 21:34

Today we played big game in Black Powder on one side were Damians and Tomeks British, on other side were Kris French, Grzegorz Prussians, Jędrzej Spanish and Portugals and my Russians with Polish uhlan regiment. Our target was to secure both bridges. We played our game in Bolter.pl.

  • Beginning of the game.
  • Only one Russian batallion arrived and soon British started shooting on them.
  • French infantry and cavalry charged British.
  • One battalion of sons of Albion was routed and fled the field. More British were coming passing the bridges.
  • British forming battle line.
  • Uhlans encouraged by French action…
  • … charged.
  • Several hand to hand combat took place. One of our cavalry regiment was routed from the field by British artillery battery.
  • Uhlans first time worked well.
  • After destroying infantry batallions Polish Uhlans charged guns.
  • Russian and French infantry moving, to take the bridge.
  • Cavalry charge in the middle.
  • Uhlans broke cavalry regiment.
  • Kris French charged on bayonnets.
  • Tomeks columns in the forest.
  • Bloody fight to control bridge.
  • British cavalry on the flank destroyed infantry and charged uhlans on the flank.
  • Uhlans routed from the field.
  • Scottish batallion send Russian batallion from the field.
  • Kris cavalry took bridge after routing of British infantry.

Summary:
– it was good game – we played around 3,5 hours.
– I missed few photos, as Grzesiek cavalry brigade was looking for a ford and they charged on Damians cavalry, routing them.

 

Black Powder: Battle of many nations Niedziela, Lip 18 2021 

Austria and Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Italia and Polish and Russians and Spain and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 00:20

Today we played a battle which we play monthly – big battle with many participants – there were two Russian brigades my and Michał, Marian’s Austrian brigade, British brigade of Bartosz and on the other side French brigades of Mikołaj, Gargamel’s Italian brigade and Spanish brigade of Grzegorze. Thank you Bolter.pl for terrains and place we played. Our brigades started marching on the roads – each player came from different direction. There were three sides of conflict – Austria and Russia, United Kingdom and Spain and French with Italy. There were also Krzysiek as gamekeeper.

  • From bottom – on right Russians, then tin the middle Italians, after them on left British. On the top left Spanish, in the Middle Austrians and on top left French.
  • Russian brigades arrived.
  • Austrians came too.
  • British advanced.
  • Uhlans scouting area.
  • When Russians marched forward to the crossroads, Italians crossed bridge using one batallion, the other one took objective – which was farm animals.
  • Italian batallion took animals.
  • Uhlans charged by Spanish counter charged and won. In the middle Austrians took positions to the front and also left and right flank.
  • French cavalry arrived.
  • Uhlans galloped after Spanish cavalry fled.
  • Battle for the bridge started, also Russian on north realized that Spanish took a village.
  • The last action of uhlans, defeating Spanish cavalry – then they started reading map and squabling.
  • British valiantrly fighting against French.
  • Austrians took cavalry charge in they flank.
  • One of the Austrian batallion started shooting on fortified Spanish.
  • French cavalry in action.
  • Russian artillery started shooting on the Spanish inside village.
  • That way! No that way – this village is not so big on the map. I guess that four rounds of game I failed giving any order to move.
  • Austrians repelled French cavalry and waiting for infantry. Clash for a bridge going on.
  • British standing against French.
  • Battle for a bridge going on, one Italian batallion was broken.
  • Russians crossed bridge, another Russian brigade charged Spanish fortified in the village.
  • French fighting with English and Austrians.
  • Heavy hand to hand combat going on.
  • French surrounded by British.
  • Russians crossed a bridge – Italians left with farm animals.
  • Fight beetwen Austrians and French.
  • My third batallion stayed there due to a problems with issuing orders.
  • Heavy fighting going on.
  • British close to a farm.
  • Russians came too late, still crossed a bridge.
  • Hand to hand combat beetwen Austrians and French.
  • Generally end of battle with a score: Draw.
  • Need to learn how to roll low on orders. My brigade was staying for four turns at least.

Summary:
– It was great game, thanks everyone – will try to update some informations about this battle soon.
– Next time need to split my brigade on two – one composed of infantry and another one of cavalry, as I had all time issues with giving order. Need to paint more cavalry – not sure if I can do it, I have a month.
– in Wrocław we are avaible under this page: Wrocławscy bonapartyści.
– After game with Bartosz we went for some lunch to the nearest pub SOTE – wine pub & food and next to Tacos Locos – hope next time more people will go with us.

 

Black Powder: Hold the ground! (EN🇬🇧/PL🇵🇱) Sobota, Czer 26 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Italia and Neapol and Polish and Russians and United Kingdom and Warlord Games and Württemberg tancreddebeauville 19:39

🇵🇱 Dzisiaj rozegraliśmy większą bitwę w Black Powder. W centrum wydarzeń znajdowały się dwa dwory – jednego broniły moje oddziały rosyjskie, a drugiego Włosi Gargamela. Po naszej stronie walczyły również dwa kontyngenty brytyjskie dowodzone przez Damiana i Tomka. Naprzeciw stanęli Francuzi Mariana, Wirtemberczycy Krisa oraz Neapolitańczycy i Wirzburczycy Bartka. Ostatecznie nie pamiętam już dokładnie, jak rozstrzygnęły się losy obu dworów.

🇬🇧 Today we played a larger Black Powder battle. Two manor houses were at the centre of the action – one defended by my Russians and the other by Gargamel’s Italians. Fighting alongside us were the two British contingents commanded by Damian and Tomek. On the opposing side stood Marian’s French, Kris’s Württembergers, and Bartek’s Neapolitans and Würzburgers. In the end, I do not clearly remember how the fate of the manor houses was decided.

🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Black Powder to naprawdę świetna gra – dzięki mojemu dealerowi od bitewniaków, Marianowi, wkręciłem się na dobre, choć niestety z malowaniem nie idzie mi już tak szybko. Na przeszkodzie stoi niestety Cyberpunk 2077.
– Myślę, że mamy szansę zbudować świetną społeczność wokół wszystkich systemów związanych z epoką Black Powder – mam na myśli Black Powder, Sharp Practice i podobne gry.
– Od Bartka wiemy, że w Pradze istnieje lokalna społeczność grająca w Black Powder; mam nadzieję, że uda nam się z nimi nawiązać kontakt.
– Dzięki Rafałowi za tereny i Bolter.pl za udostępnienie miejsca do gry.
– Dzięki Bartkowi, Damianowi, Grześkowi, Krzyśkowi, Marianowi i Tomkowi za świetną grę.
– Bistro Narożnik ma świetne pierogi – to mój ulubiony lokal na Nadodrzu we Wrocławiu. Dobrze, że przetrwał tę całą „plandemię”.
– Chcę wspierać nasze hobby we Wrocławiu – Bolter.pl, Planszóweczkę.pl, Adę i Agę. Gdziekolwiek będziemy grać, będę to dopisywał pod raportem. Brakuje mi Centrum Gier Bitewnych, starego Barda i Sfana, ale pojawiły się ich godne zastępstwa.

🇬🇧 Summary:
– Black Powder is really nice game, thank you to my game dealer Marian – I’m involved, jet not so fast with painting – unhapilly there is Cyberpunk 2077 which is blocker.
-I guess that we have a chance to build great community in all systems related to Black Powder era – I mean Black Powder, Sharp Practice etc.
– from Bartek we know, that in Praga there is local community playing Black Powder, hope we can find a contact with them.
– thanks for Rafał for terrains and Bolter.pl for place to play.
– thank you Bartek, Damian, Grzesiek, Krzysiek, Marian and Tomek for great game.
– Bistro Narożnik have great dumplings – they are my favourite pub on Nadodrze in Wrocław. Great that they survived plandemy.
– I want to support our hobby in Wrocław – Bolter.pl, Planszoweczka.pl, Ada i Aga – whenever we will play, I will add it under raport. I miss Centrum Gier Bitewnych, old Bard and Sfan, but they got great replacement.

 

Black Powder: Unexpected alliance (EN🇬🇧/PL🇵🇱) Sobota, Maj 29 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Polish and Russians and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 16:53

🇵🇱 W sobotę, 29 maja 2021 roku, Marian, Jędrzej i ja graliśmy po jednej stronie, dowodząc siłami francuskimi, polskimi i rosyjskimi, podczas gdy Tomek i Damian objęli dowództwo nad armią brytyjsko-hanowerską. Każda ze stron wystawiła sześć brygad. W tej alternatywnej wersji historii zakładam, że car uznał panowanie Napoleona i wspólnie podzielili między siebie Europę – jednak Zjednoczone Królestwo nadal stawiało im opór.

🇬🇧 On Saturday, 29 May 2021, Marian, Jędrzej, and I played on one side, commanding French, Polish, and Russian forces, while Tomek and Damian took command of the British and Hanoverian army. Each side fielded six brigades. In this alternate version of history, I assume that the Tsar had accepted Napoleon’s rule and that together they had divided Europe between them – yet the United Kingdom still stood against them.

🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Bardzo przyjemna gra z dużą liczbą figurek na stole – nadal muszę uzupełnić swoją rosyjską brygadę o jeszcze jeden batalion.
– Dobra lekcja na przyszłość: nie rzucać kością, zanim faktycznie wyda się rozkaz jednostce.
– Mam nadzieję, że następnym razem będę miał do dyspozycji jeszcze więcej pomalowanych żołnierzy, być może także rosyjskich ułanów.

🇬🇧 Summary:
– A very enjoyable game with lots of miniatures on the table – I still need to complete my Russian brigade by adding one more battalion.
– A good lesson for the future: do not roll before actually giving the unit its order.
– Hopefully next time I will have even more painted soldiers available, perhaps including some Russian uhlans.

 

Black Powder: Wrażenia z pierwszej gry (🇬🇧EN/🇵🇱PL) Sobota, Mar 20 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Polish and Portugal and Russians and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 16:17

🇵🇱 Dziś rozegrałem swoją pierwszą partię w Black Powder oraz pierwszą grę w sklepie Bolter. Zagraliśmy scenariusz trzy na trzy, w którym głównym celem było zdobycie i utrzymanie klasztoru. Ponieważ nie mam jeszcze wielu pomalowanych rosyjskich modeli, skorzystałem z pożyczonych figurek, uzupełniając je moim jedynym w pełni pomalowanym batalionem wraz z dowództwem.

To była bardzo ciekawa rozgrywka. Grałem w drużynie z Damianem (Portugalczycy) i Rafałem (Brytyjczycy) przeciwko Adamowi (Legia Nadwiślańska), Marianowi i Mikołajowi (Francuzi).

🇬🇧 Today I played my first game of Black Powder and my first game at the Bolter shop. We played a three-on-three scenario where the main objective was to secure and hold a monastery. As I don’t have many painted Russian models, I used some borrowed ones along with my only fully painted battalion and its command group.

It was an interesting game. I teamed up with Damian (Portuguese) and Rafał (British) against Adam (Vistula Legion), Marian, and Mikołaj (French).

🇵🇱 Podsumowanie:
– Moja pierwsza gra w Bolterze i zarazem pierwsza rozgrywka w Black Powder. Lista świetnych miejsc do grania we Wrocławiu wciąż się wydłuża – zawsze z przyjemnością gram w Planszowka.pl (to tam wróciłem do hobby, zamawiając WFB/Bolt Action jeszcze przed startem AoS) oraz u Agi i Ady. Mam nadzieję wrócić do Boltera, przynajmniej po to, by pograć i nauczyć się więcej Black Powder.
– Miły powrót do epoki napoleońskiej. Myślę, że warto byłoby poczytać więcej o tym okresie i jego jednostkach.
– Gra napisana przez Ricka Priestleya i Jervisa Johnsona nie może być zła – jest naprawdę przyjemna i nieco inna od systemów, do których jestem przyzwyczajony.
– Wstyd się przyznać, że większość mojej armii nie jest pomalowana – poza dowódcą, jednym batalionem piechoty i dwoma działami. Najpierw muszę dokończyć trochę WFB, a potem wrócić do Black Powder.
– Mam nadzieję, że to nie była moja ostatnia gra. Graliśmy we Wrocławiu, na Dolnym Śląsku – działa tu grupa na Facebooku „Wrocławscy Bonapartyści”.

🇬🇧 Summary:
– My first game at Bolter and my first game of Black Powder. The list of great places to play in Wrocław keeps growing – I always enjoy playing at Planszowka.pl (I got back into the hobby by ordering WFB/Bolt Action from them before AoS started) and at Aga and Ada. I hope to return to Bolter, at least to play and learn more Black Powder.
– A nice return to the Napoleonic era. I think it would be a good idea to read more about that period and its units.
– A game written by Rick Priestley and Jervis Johnson can’t be bad – it’s really enjoyable and a bit different from the systems I’m used to.
– Shame on me that most of my army isn’t painted, apart from the commander, one infantry battalion, and two cannons. I need to finish some WFB and then get back to Black Powder.
– Hopefully, this won’t be my last game. We played in Wrocław, Lower Silesia – there’s a Facebook group called “Wrocławscy Bonapartyści.”

 

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