W ostatni piątek (26.07.2024) miałem przyjemność zagrać z Markiem, znanym również pod pseudonimem „Duderson” dwie gry po 1500 punktów na stronę. Niestety tego dnia spóźniłem się na grę, ale nie wpłynęło to na jakość naszych rozgrywek, ani tym bardziej na to co zamawialiśmy na barze w Bolterze, czy były to świetne napoje czy tosty. Z racji tego, że mieliśmy okazję zagrać nie jedną a dwie wyrównane gry – cały opis znajdzie się pod zdjęciami i w podsumowaniu.
On Friday, July 26, 2024, I had the opportunity to play two games with Marek, also known as „Duderson,” at 1,500 points per side. Although I arrived late, it did not diminish the quality of our games or our order at the Bolterbar, which included excellent drinks and toast. We enjoyed the chance to engage in not just one, but two closely contested games—further details will be provided in the summary and accompanying photos.
1# Archipelag Claudette nasza pierwsza gra z Dudersonem saperem. Archipelago Claudette our first game with Duderson miner.Unikanie pola minowego to klucz do sukcesu w grze Dudersonem saperem. Avoiding mine field is a key to success when playing against Duderson miner. DudersonObie floty w szyku. Both fleets are in formations.Pole minowe – z miarkami. A minefield accompanied with a measure tapes.Przednie działa Borodino – Suworowa plunęły ogniem zatapiając japoński okręt flagowy celnym ogniem. The forward guns of the Borodino-Suvorov discharged volleys of fire, successfully sinking the Japanese flagship with precision.Jedna z grup trałowców którą zdążyłem zatopić. One of the minesweeper groups that I successfully sank.Bardzo blisko wyspy. So much close to the island.Trałowce postawiły pole minowe. Minesweepers set minefield.Borodino – Suworow próbujący przepłynąć pole minowe. Borodino – Suworow attempting to go thru minefield.O parę min za dużo. Too much mines. Finał tej rozgrywki zakończył się zwycięstwem cesarstwem Rosji (49) nad Japonią (28). The final of this game concluded with the Russian Empire securing victory over Japan, with a score of 49 to 28.2# Kolejna gra, inna rozpiska. Another game, another list. Kiedy mój Borodino próbował wiązać ogniem okręty admirała Dudersona, reszta okrętów próbowała dążyć do taranowania czy torpedowania. When my Borodino attempted to engage Admiral Duderson’s ships with fire, the other vessels sought to ram or employ torpedoes.Próba taranowania przez Variaga. An attemp to ram by Varyag.Moment przed tym kiedy straciłem okręt flagowy, to było świetne zwycięstwo Dudersona nademną 68 do 15. A moment before I lost my flagship. It was win for Duderson over me 68 to 15.
Podsumowanie: – dwie świetne gry z Dudersonem w piątkowy wieczór to coś fajnego, mieliśmy grać jedną, ale wyszły dwie. – jestem w szoku, że udało się nie przegrać na Dudersona sapera. – więcej o Bogach Wojny: Togo możecie przeczytać na stronie wydawcy TUTAJ oraz na oficjalnej grupie na Facebooku.
Summary: – The two games with Duderson on Friday night were enjoyable; we initially planned to play one, but it ultimately resulted in two. – I am surprised that we successfully retained the sapper despite Duderson’s involvement. – more about Gods of War: Togo you can read HERE and on official page on Facebook.
On July 13, 2024, a local event pertaining to the game „Gods of War: Togo” was conducted, organized by the publisher, Maciej „Torgill”Molczyk, representing GM Boardgames. The tournament took place at the Bolter club in Wrocław, the official publisher of the „Gods of War” series. This event was structured as a tournament, which garnered significant interest from participants engaged in naval battles within this gaming system. The competitions involved naval engagements formatted to a limit of 2,200 points, constrained to the first and second classes of ships.
The participants arrived in Wrocław from Głogów and Sosnowiec, regions formerly encompassed within Silesia, which is now partitioned into three voivodeships. The ambiance was exceptional, and I engaged in three matches with esteemed admirals, namely:
The participants arrived in Wrocław from Głogów and Sosnowiec, regions formerly encompassed within Silesia, which is now partitioned into three voivodeships. The ambiance was exceptional, and I engaged in three matches with esteemed admirals, namely:
1. Mateusz „Condottiero” representing Spanish Armada. 2. Karol „Gingerhead” representing the Royal British Navy. 3. Łukasz „Alfalock” representing the United States Navy.
The outcomes of the tournament are detailed at the following link: LINK to Tournykeeper. The first position was secured by the Imperial Japanese Navy, led by Rafał „SigThorna.”
I extend my gratitude to Karol „Gingerhead”Lemański (https://www.instagram.com/gingerhead.cam/) for providing the photographs. I have received all the images except for the final one from Karol. Due to the limited number of my photographs, I promptly contacted Karol, who possesses expertise in photography.
W sobotę (13.07.2024) mieliśmy lokalne wydarzenie w Bogów Wojny: Togo zorganizowane przez wydawcę tej gry czyli Macieja „Torgilla”Molczyka z GM Boardgames. Turniej został stoczony we wrocławskim klubie Bolter – oficjalnym wydawcy gier z serii Bogowie Wojny.Wydarzenie zostało zorganizowane w formie turnieju, co przyjęło się w środowisku graczy toczących morskie boje w ten system. Morskie boje toczyliśmy w formacie 2200 punktów, z ograniczeniem do pierwszych i drugich klas okrętów.
Gracze przyjęchali do Wrocławia z Głogowa i Sosnowca – czyli dawnego Śląskiego rozbitego na trzy województwa. Atmosfera była świetna i osobiście zagrałem trzy gry z świetnymi admirałami takimi jak: 1. Mateusz „Condottiero” i jego hiszpańską Armadą. 2. Karol „Gingerhead” i jego Królewską Marynarką Wojenną Wielkiej Brytanii. 3. Łukasz „Alfalock” i jego Marynarką Stanów Zjednoczonych.
Wyniki na koniec turnieju prezentowały się następująco – LINKdo Tournykeeper. Pierwsze miejsce zajęła Cesarska Marynarka Japonii pod wodzą Rafała „SigThorna”.
Wielkie dzięki dla Karola „Rudeła”Lemańskiego (https://www.instagram.com/gingerhead.cam/) za udostępnienie zdjęć. Tak, wszystkie zdjęcia poza ostatnim otrzymałem od Karola. Moich zdjęć było na tyle mało, że od razu napisałem do Karola, który jest w kwestii robienia zdjęć specjalistą.
Summary: – Tournament results are accessible on Tourneykeeper.com HERE. – It is consistently beneficial to explore HERE – the Facebook page, where there are ongoing activities. – We extend our gratitude to the organizer, Maciek ‚Torgill’, as well as to the entire team who participated in the tournament, and to the Bolter store for their assistance in organizing the event and providing an enjoyable venue for participants. – The complete offering of Gods of War: Togo can be accessed on the Bolter store website.
Podsumowanie: – wyniki turnieju są dostępne na Tourneykeeper.com TUTAJ. – zawsze warto zajrzeć także TUTAJ– na stronę na FB, na której zawsze coś się dzieje. – dzięki dla organizatora Maćka ‚Torgilla’, całej ekipie która przybyła na turniej oraz sklepowi Bolter za wszelkę pomoc w organizacji turnieju i miłe miejsce do spędzania czasu. – oczywiście pełna oferta Bogów Wojny: Togo jest dostępna na stronie sklepu Bolter – TUTAJ.
Congratulations to SigThorn and his victorious Nippon Kaigun – Japanese fleet. Gratulacje dla SigThorna i jego zwycięskiej floty Cesarstwa Japonii.
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.
Another wave of Imperial Japanese Navy painted for a friend. Those models are part of GMBoardgames offer avaible at Bolter which is official distributor of this game and Gods of War: Lee of this Wrocław tabletop games studio. Now we are waiting for Royal Navy which was one of the targets of Kickstarter. Another target was rulebook in English for this interesting naval game of the end of XIX century.
Today I got important information from GMBoardgames – they will be on 13.04 on Salutein London, so you will had a chance to see this game during one of the most important events related to tabletop games.
Battleship Shikishima.Naniwa cruiser.Group of Hayabusa torpedo boats.All six on one photo.
Today I was able to provide fleet done not for me but to one of my friends. I painted ships during one evening and then I had few months quest with doing bases. I’m happy that I gave back ships and scared about time I losed for doing bases, which can be done doing two days. At least some experience for the future paintings.
All ships are from Gods of War: Togo system, which soon get English version of rulebook and English Navy.
Mikasa.Kasuga.Niitaka.Hayabusa torpedo boats.
Summary: – it was interesting to paint some other fleet than my Russians. – tried to use some gel to make water more alive and I’m happy with effect, at least look better than first time.
Today is a last day of Kickstarter campaign for Gods of War: Togo – in addition to main goal which was release rulebook for game in English along with Royal Navy fleet several more achievements were achievedand maybe some more will be achieved – there are still four hours for doing it.
Yesterday with Duderson we played one more game in our never ending campaing of Japanese Empire vs Russian Empire. Today we played classical game – to destroy as many enemy ships as we can. Game lasted for around two and half hour and our fleets at the end were shadows, of what we had at the start.
We played our game in Bolter, local Wrocław game store/club with everything tabletop gamer, boardgames gamer or RPG player needs. Gods of War: Togo is again on Kickstarter – English version will be releasead as it was said after day of Kickstarter – HERE you can read about it. A lot of materials about this simple but not trivial system are HERE.
Varyag and Pernov class torpedo boats.Japanese Empire of Duderson.Few more Japanese ships.Both sides visible with part of admiral Duderson.I tested different placing of my Suworow and Borodino battleships.Eight Russian heavy guns from both battleships were able to shot on Japanese.Duderson has two fleets of smaller ships with ability to spread minefield.Here are both Borodino-class – Borodino and Suworow – I have to buy three more Borodino class to make them all.Nowik class and Aurora move on the right flank. Varyag turns left.Both fleets coming closer, both Borodino and Suworow changed positions.Japanese first lose, ship close to island on the right, have to remember name of this one.Both fleets after some turns.Both Borodino class ships had too much work to do.Almost ramming, jet they were able to evade. We had to end, our time was over. It was again great game, thank you Duderson.
Summary: – another great game with Duderson – it was my big victory 28:4, but one more turn and probably it could be a draw, as my flagship was burning and received too many shoots on close distance. – again I’m thinking that two battleships on two thousands points are must to have in case of my own Russian fleet, deploying them is another question.
Today we played with Duderson our never ending naval clash of empires of XIX/XX century – on my side tzar Empire of Romanow dynasty and on Duderson side Japan Empire. We played scenario called „Clash on the counter-courses”, where both fleets had to cross board on the opposite corner of the table. As always we played in Bolter, official partner of GM Boardgames – studio which released Gods of War: Togo and older Gods of War: Rober E. Lee and Gods of War: Napoleon.
If you are interested in this great game – we have one important news – rulebook is under translation to English and Royal Navy will be another fleet in this simple but not trivial game – HEREare more informations about it.
After first turn both fleets were in such positions.Japanese torpedo boats moved to cross path of Russian navy.Island made our hitting harder, as we shot over it.Japanese torpedo boat sent torpedos, but none of them scored a hit.Massive fire from Russian fleet sunk one group of torpedo boats.Other group of torpedo boats succesfully passed beetwen Russian ships.First ramming, Buynyi class started getting water, with it crew trying to safe ship from sunking.Second ramming, succesful – ship which got many hits before from Russian Borodino class ships: Suworow and Borodin sunk after being rammed.Third ramming… Aurora rammed Suworow, both ships survived, but started sunking.Torpedo boats captain decided to surrender – were destroyed by they own ship, as Japanese do not surrender.Japanese fleet moving into the correct exit corner.Russian ship also preparing to leave board.Aurora being flood by water.Last ship on the table which missed crossing corner was Aurora.
Summary: – great game, thank you Duderson! Waiting for one more game soon. – this time it was my victory – 70 to 43.
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.
Today we played with Duderson battle on 2,000 per side – I played with Russian Baltic fleet composed of the same fleet I played last time. Duderson played Japan Imperial Navy. Both of us participate in Gods of War: Togo – league 2023 – so our result was send to organizer after game was over.
Japanese Navy deployment zone. Russian Baltic fleet was on the opposite corner.Both fleets after first turn. On the top left is Japanese minefield.Turn two, were Duderson torpedo boats left one more minefield.Somewhere during turn three – one more minefield was set up…… but miner was destroyed by combined fire of Russian fleet – especially Varyag.I losed Pernov class torpedo boats.Got some fire on my admiral flag ship Borodino class „Knyaz Suvorov”.During fire with „Aurora” Japanese ship got several fires. Aurora sunk.Japanese navy heading to opposite part of table.The same was done by Russian Baltic fleet.Ramming by accidents happend several times, including accidents not only with other ships but islands as well.
Summary: – at the end we counted points and it was 44 for Duderson and 56 for me meaning minor victory for my fleet. – another great game, when I was taking care about mines in the water. Thank you Duderson!
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