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.
„Somewhere in the north Bretonnia Khorne warriors party landed from the sea and were looking for long forgotten tomb of ancient Khorne warrior, which name was cursed in past and only in they sagas is sung as ‚Bloody whip for Bretonnians’ – damsel of the lady Eleonora had dream about horrors buried in ancient grave, she warned duc Tancred de Beauville to ride forth, as they were on the road in area of tomb – so Bretonnians ordered by they duc had to investigate a tomb, when they appeard – another party emerged from the forest.”
Today we played with Basiorek in Bolter on one thousand points in classical 6th edition of WFB with 7th edition rulebook. Basiorek was playing Khorne army from Norsca or even more to the north, while I was playing my classical Bretonnians from barony of Beauville. As I have to mention some armies from Old World and areas far beyond can be still done with use of current Games Workshop offer – look HERE.
Photos done from Khorne side were done by Basiorek, from my side were done by me.
Both sides deployed, Bretonnians praying to The Lady of the Lake.Knight of the Realm with full command group.Archers in skirmish with full command group.Men at arms with full command group and Joanna – army standard bearer.Both armies from my side.First turn belonged to worshipers of Khorne, then Bretonnians send they infantry forward, while knights were waiting.First charges belonged to Bretonnian side.On Bretonnian left flank mounted squires fought well and pursued Chaos Hounds.If knights do not broke they enemy, they will be fastly overruned…… which happend.On left flank of Bretonnians Grail Knights broke Chaos Knights and mounted squires deal well with Chaos Hounds.Turn four, when Chaos started winning on Bretonnian right flank. Battles standard tried to stop them, finally fled joining Knights of the Realm.Charge!Archers tried to shoot Chosen Chaos Warriors…… but finally decided to flee and live another day.Final 6th turn.
Summary: – at the end we counted scores and Basiorek owned 732 to my 712 – so with such love difference it was draw. – great game on smaller points, hope to repeat it in the close future. – it’s funny, I know Basiorek because of our common friend Klocek for many years and we played a lot of Warhammer: Invasion card game, but it was first time we played tabletop game and it was WFB 🙂 .
„When the dust of battle settled, the crypt was found empty, and the Chosen of Khorne withdrew into the forest with the coffin. Duc Tancred ordered his squires to scout next day, as night fell, a few of the best have convinced the duke to move now.”
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!
Today with Witosław we had game on higher points – 2,000 points per player. I used fleet of two Borodino class battleships, three cruisers – Varyag, Pallada class – Aurora, Novik and one group of torpedo boats. On the other side were Mikasa, three cruisers and three fleets of torpedo boats. We spend good time playing on „Wieczór weteranów” (in en – veteran evening) – day when Bolteris opened longer and all different games are played, today also painting evening was organised.
Somewhere in Pacific Ocean the story begun.
Russian Baltic fleet.Japanese Imperial Navy.Both sides after turn one.Turn two, faster vessels get in contact, one group of Japanese torpedo boats were sunk by Novik and Varyag.One of the torpedos scored hit on Varyag.Another group of torpedo boats was sunk.Heavily damaged Varyag rammed last group of Japanese torpedo boats.Both sides had to sail into opposite corner of the table.Novik turned left to achieve that.Mikasa scored critical hit nad Varyag sunk in a moments.Whole Russian fleet started turning.Japanese did the same. Mikasa was hit several times by Borodino main guns, losed rudder…but her crew managed to repair it.Moment when Aurora also losed control, as her rudder was damaged…… and started circling around island…Going around and around to the end.
Summary: – good game which resulted as Draw – I had 50 points to Witosławs 54. – we agreed to play revenge game in next two weeks.
Nothing related to navy, rediscovered this great song.
Today, 01.04 in Bolter, Wrocław we played tournament organized by Marian on 1,000 points – with Legendary Legions – at least I had opportunity to paint my Three Hunters – Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas which I did yesterday. Reassembling Aragorn without instruction yesterday was my greatest success anyway.
I’m still learning game and I know that Dunharrow is not army for tournaments, but maybe I will discover how to play it on tournaments. Anyway good time spend there, all game were great with Wojtek, Jan and Piotrek. So it begun somewhere in the Middle Earth.
Wrocław Master is here. I’m not sure, but probably there are some places to be enlisted.
First game with Wojtek, unusual for me as good vs good is civil war in the Middle Earth.Second game against Jan Mordor, at least good vs evil. Great game as game before.Again good vs well fighting good. Thank you Piotrek for great game!Hitting, not wounding… ehh, Legolas.Thank you Łukasz, for just going out after and few beers. We should repeat all sequence anyway. Three good games and few beers after.
Summary: – thank you to Marian as organizer and Piotrek from Bolter. – three great games, not a winner, jet I want to come back. – still do mistakes, I’m glad that I play with great people who helps me in things I don’t know. – I guess I could be journalist, as I write what I’m thinking. My life should be much shorter 😉 . – wish everyone great weekend and wish peace, just peace!
On last Saturday in Bolter we had event organized by „Torgill” – Maciej Molczyk in system developed by GM Boardgames – company from Wrocław, Poland. They have two great systems I had possibility to own Gods of War: General Lee and Gods of War: Togo.
So it was – I had three great games before I went to my another birthday party, great time spend with several admirals including Torgill with whom I played our first game in Togo ever. If you want to ask any questions about Gods of War: Togo – here you can try to find answer – they Facebook profile.
So it begun!
My Russian fleet against Torgill Spanish.My 2nd game against Miłosz and Mateusz Russians.Third one against Paweł Russians.
From Torgill – GM Boardgames – organiser of this event:
Summary: – it was great to play my first tournament in Togo with many great people, wish to play again and one more time I had to do list before event, mines were waiting and did critical job. – thank you Maciej for patience, but this time as I was a little bit late, I had to talk with my great neighbour and go back home for token orders.
Today I played my first game in Chain of Command (CoC) with Kris in Wrocław Bolter. It was nice game in system which is at some points similar to Sharp Practice which is also from Too Fat Lardies, but during Napoleonic/American Civil War era.
We played a battle for bridge in the are of pre-war Polish Wohlyn (Wołyń) – there was objective in the middle – a bridge allowing trucks and wheeled vehicles to move without problems. German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) had to secure it and Soviet Russia had to blow it up or at least held enemy away on the other side.
Soviet platoon without lsenior officer with messangers, BA-3/6 and engineers with demolition charges. Four squads of 11 men each plus light mortar.Bridge which should be blowed up by Soviets to slow down German advance. In this game game starts when patrols of both sides starts from the table edges. Four patrols were on both sides.Patrols came closer, blocking enemy patrols on they way.Patrols moved away from enemy view changed into unit’s which were those patrols.Two Soviet squads, leader with messengers and light mortar – on the other side German FJ squad.Take a point of view, we will cover you!German M-34 just waiting for they pray. Soviet DP-28 section eliminated by enemy fire.On the other side section of Soviet squad equipped with famous PPSz submachine guns move around, from tree to tree.They own squad layed fire on enemy with they DP-28 and rifles.German elite against Soviet number. Mortart moved closer, to be in range.More Germans paratroopers came from hidden out.More Soviet troops came to stop more Germans, who came from the field of gold.Soviet infantry without chance to response, just get down under fire. BA-3/6 arrived in time and was fired by AT rifle from the window on the opposite side of the brook.Hidding from enemy fire, PPSz section.Light mortar scored hit on German squad on left flank.Soviet squad on the hill losed they morale and fled.Move and fire, Russian infantry try to destroy enemies on the other side of brook.Fleeing Russians from the hill over the brook and bridge.Broken section of PPSz fled as well.DP-28 opened fire from they window.BA-36 shooting from laser 😀 . Kidding.I ordered my engineers with demolition charges to go to the bridge, but Germans were waiting.Hand to hand combats are brutal, as they should be.I losed my section during melee combat.One more team attempt to take bridge.Germans expelled from my side of brook. To be continued.
Summary: – similarities to Sharp Practice are well visible, jet only similarities. – it was my first game, hopefully not last, still learning it. – it was great game, moving patrols is important to create deployment zone, vehicles starts on the road, soldiers cannot shoot stayin behing they friends and probably some more things I don’t know now. Need to play more games, to know such things.
Compared to Bolt Action: – it’s just different and I can say that I like both systems. – big plus is that models from ‚Bolt Action’ can be used in ‚Chain of Command’. – don’t be affraid to jump from one ruleset to another, I like both – one from Warlord Games and other one from TooFatLardies.
Today I played with Generał on smaller points around 50 to 60. Most time we were looking in rulebook as last time we played together around three years ago and it was my last game, jet in last 10 months I bought two books to my small force – Soviet Union army book and rulebook.
Some river crossing and crossroad in the Western Europe.Spearhead of both forces arrived to take control over important strategical points.Soviet Union forces move forward with long column of BTR armoured transports.On the right flank one of my T-72 companies go to the bridge.Several British tanks were destroyed in tank battle.Then British opened fire destroying most of company number one.Company number two losed one tank.Russian infantry disembarked from they transports. Soviet HQ tank tries to give example.Lone recon vehicle move around Soviet flank.Capturing one of the important objects.
Summary: – it was great game and we agreed that we should read rules and also to check other set up of rules. – thank you Generał for great time in Bolter. – I know that I will add some more things to my force, to have battle group on 100 points. – as we hate parkings our tanks were moving as they should move in real battle, not side by side.
Today we played with Łukasz a game on 1,000 points. We used rules for Juggernaut with one exception – bamboo armed soldiers of Japanese Imperial army weren’t limited. We had village with some houses, some walls and some almost open terrain on left and right flanks.
Both armies on plates, one Łukasz plate is not visible. I had 12 order dices and Łukasz had 17.Russian heavy mortar observer hidding on the top of building.Gaz-AA which is really good on enemies like bamboo spear armed Japanese.Japanese heavy howitzer.So it begun! Russian sniper hidding in the building.Centre of Red Army. They got pins from inexperienced mortar.Inexpierienced Soviet infantry, mortar and M3 White Scout Car.Japanese are coming, but Red Army tries to counter them defending walls and other kind of obstacles.Veterans with famous pepeszas and flamethrower team in action.Hand to hand combat started.One brave Japanese soldier left after melee combat.Many hand to hand combats.Russian infantry charged on bayonnets…… and won combat.BA-3/6 armoured car just go to place where was need.Tankodesantniki jumped down from a T-34.Then moved to open massive fire on incoming Japanese.Gaz-AA clearing left flank from Japanese treaty. Left flank and middle was almost cleaned.Another combat won by Russians.FUBAR – Łukasz got it.Japanese charged on T-34 and immobilised it.Another Japanese charge was too much for encirled Russians.They comrades on the other flank charged and wiped out Japanese.On left Russian infantry was hat by howitzer, unfortunately something was wrong with ammo.I losed two red dices, other losed dices belonged to Japanese.
Summary: – great game and I’m pretty sure that bamboo spearmen army can be much better with some more technical stuff like tank, armoured car, sniper, unit of cavalry – not only bamboo spearmens..
Today with Duderson we played in Bolter bigger game on 2,000 points per side, I had Russian fleet composed of Borodino, Varyag, Aurora, Novik, Ushakov and two squads of Buynyi destroyers – two on one base. My oponent has Japanese fleet composed of Mikasa, Niitaka, Izumu, Skikishima, Takachiho and one squad of Hayabusa torpedo boats. We played scenario number one – line battle with exiting on the opposite corner of the table. So it begun with setting our fleets on the table.
I had some plan with such setting of my navy.Admiral Duderson Japanese Imperial navy.Orders placed a way I should use in my next game. Why two orders – look at the end of how it looked on civilian transatlantic – ‚Titanic’.Several warships had chance o ramming my own fleet.Japanese fleet.I tried to hid behind island and then turn right to shoot all guns from right sides.Coming closer to minefield.One of the Buynyi class destroyers group tried to sunk enemy with torpedos. One of them scored hit on Mikasa.I losed them soon, then I losed Novik. One group of destroyers tried to clean minefield, but without success.Aurora moved thru minefield, unfortunately she was hit by mines and exploded.Borodino lost half of it strenght, including all artillery on right side because of some mine exploded.Varyag was hit by mine, but survived till enemy opened fire, sunking it in one successfull salvo.Victory belongs to Japanese mine of our biggest fun of using them in this game.Without many of it’s guns Borodino shared fate of the other warships.Admiral Ushakov still standind, firing salvo after salvo.Finally our Japanese fire focused on brave battleship finally sunking Ushakov.
Summary: – next time I should avoid mines, I tried to clear them, but without success, so I losed Aurora and Novik on minefield, Borodino and Varyag were heavily damaged because of them. – we have plans to play big game again 🙂 . – thank you Duderson for great game. – in case of result, it was achievement on the level of Tsushima for Japanese.
Stopping ship or warship weren’t simple, it was time costing opearation involving many people.
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Tancred’s Tabletop Tales 