Games Night Report # 4
Actually, I’ve lost count of how many games nights we’ve reported on, but I figure this title needed a starting number, so here it is.
The games room – John has a double garage devoted to wargaming, and a very understanding wife devoted to feeding us – look at the pizza Chris H is feeding on! Thanks, Rose!
The venue was Irregular John’s games room, and we had 10 players in total. The plan was to run two Napoleonic games and a Flames of War game split up into 2 sides of the table.
The first Napoleonics game was a test of the new Foundry Napoleon rules. I ran this game against Keith, who kind of joined in because he was there. This was the first time he had ever played a wargame, so it gave us the chance to try out the rules without any prior prejudices influencing how we interpreted them. I have to say that the verdict is that these rules do need some clarification, that the game play was OK, but that there are a lot of areas to improve on. Keith enjoyed them, and even began to understand hope they worked, and we gained a result relatively quickly, which are important points in their favour. However, I will now go back to my plan to modify the 1644 rules for Napoleonics, I think.
Nathan looking not a little perplexed as to why the rules aren’t quite giving the right results.
Chris H’s game used his standard SLOT rules, but with a fast play dice chart in order to simplify the game a little. As usual, two quite large armies scuffled over the tabletop, with the French gaining a win over John’s Austrians. Sean joined in for this game to try out some Napoleonics and seemed to enjoy himself.
Chris H explaining the intricacies of Napoleonic rules to Sean.
The Flames of War games were played by Paul, Richard, Chris H, Terry and Pierre. This was Pierre’s first taste of wargaming, and from all accounts he enjoyed himself. It was another titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil (evil being whichever side Paul is on 
), with the forces of the United States taking on Nazi Germany’s big cats. And the winner – well Germany 1 – US 1. A one all draw!
Chris S and Richard – typical US commanders (where’s my artillery…?).
Terry, Paul and Pierre. Terry is wondering why burning Tigers smell so bad…
So another fantastic night, well-catered with inspirational surroundings and terrain. It is always fun to have John’s helmet collection nearby to get us into role – he just needs some Napoleonic headgear now!
Next game will be in November – sometime.
Nate
