I've been Tangoed!

 Last month while scrolling through The Miniatures Page I saw a post for Donnybrook GNW. Certainly a period and rules I'd be interested in. I clicked on it and was a bit surprised it was a post about one of my own blog posts. I then realized that I hadn't posted in quite awhile and needed to get back into the blogsphere. So here's a bit of a gaming update to start with.

As part of the get the figures we have and rules we own onto the table we started out with Fireball Forward and some Pacific figures.

We've enjoyed the games and found the scenarios gave a tense game. Out came the Americans and Germans.

After 5-6 games we took a break and went with A Gentleman's War set in the AWI. 

Then with only a short time to play we went with One Hour Skirmish Wargames. The first game took a little longer but we got the hang of it and knocked out a couple of more. Interwar with Mark's Little Soldiers and East Front WW2.

The Last few weeks have been the Wild West with Ruthless and Warhammer Legends of the Old West.

While there hasn't been much blogging there has been three new rulesets played and six armies either new or not used in several years out on the table. Yes we did play a game of Donnybrook but set in the AWI and I didn't get any pictures.

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"The Bear" Fireball Forward Guadalcanal scenario.

One of the games on the the list to try this year is Fireball Forward.It's for company level actions similar to Crossfire. Using a card activation system players alternat moving units but all units get to activte each turn. The firing system seemed a bit fiddly at first but once we became accustomed to it worked well. You roll a white D6,a red D6 and a D20. The white die is what's used to determin hits and can be modified. The red die only hits on a 6. The D20 adds range to the base fire range. Movement is anywhere in a 12" radius contingent on terrain.The system takes a lillte bit to wrap your head around but seems to work well. They have a few videos on YouTube explaining the game seaquence and an iogroups. Last night we played our second game using The Bear scenario from the The Marines at Guadalcanal book. The Japanese had to eliminate more Marine units than they lost and exit a squad and platoon leader off the board. The Mairines had to not let that happen.

I was a hard fought contest but I believe the Marines eeked out a victory. More photos from the Japanese view point here Thanks for reading.