Black Powder at EWG

 Last night Richard ran a game of Black Powder in 15mm. There were 4 of us playing.

Bruce & George ran the British Forces who were heading towards the Mahdist held hill.

Chen & I played the Mahdist forces. We decided I would handle the ones at the objective (as well as what was hidden behind the hill). Chen would handle all the reinforcements.

Some of Chen's Mahdist forces arrive on the flank of the British Advance.

In reaction George started trying to place his British troops in a Brigade Square.

Meanwhile on the other side of the table, Bruce finally got his British moving & encountered Mahdist troops.

It's likely a good thing I was holding the objective, as I flubbed a lot of my command rolls. The Mahdist spearmen armed troops were getting defeated on the one side & allowing the British troops there to begin moving forward again. But time had past & the game was going to end soon. Perhaps the Mahdists had delayed the British long enough...

The British Lancers finally got a great roll & dashed forward into the waiting Mahdist Rifles. The Rifles were forced to withdraw, losing the fight, which then allowed the Lancers to continue to charge into the Gatling gun.

The Gatling gun got off 2 successful firing rounds before running out of ammo. It had succeeded however in disordering the Lancers.

The battle ended with the Lancers being wiped out by Arab Cavalry & Mahdist Cavalry hitting them on the flank & rear. The British did not take the objective, however they had pretty much wiped out the Mahdist reinforcement troops, so figure it was a draw. The next morning would likely have found the remaining Mahdist forces had withdrawn to fight another day.

Thanks for running the game Richard.

Frostgrave Campaign - The Road to Felstad

 With a new year comes a new gaming campaign. I've launched a new Frostgrave Campaign at my place once a month & have 6 total players participating. For those who have followed my blog in the past, you will see that my 1st scenario is quite similar to what I launched in 2019 (yes its been that long!) Of course the scenario has been updated (I take notes after each game to see what improvements can be made should I run it again)

So for the warbands participating, we have no band names yet, but will use the players names.

Chen's gang

Craig's gang

Dan's gang

Kurt's gang

Rolland's gang

Terry's (My) gang

Also I will be generating the Comic's to showcase our mis-adventures. With 6 bands, this is making for a rather lengthy comic! 

So what happened as we crossed the mountain pass & began our journey?

Grab a drink, have a seat & enjoy!

So there are some tweaks I will be doing as we progress. For one, I will need to determine what happens to the figures who are taken out of action...did they die? Lose an eye? That will make my game description better.

I will also need to clip images prior to the comic & also work on adding some of the smaller panels for close in shots. I do find that the standard 3 panels work well as most images are taken landscape anyway.

There are some omission's from the games as the figures are quite far apart & the images just don't work. That will be taken care of once we get to Felstad & sight lines are quite reduced.

So there you have it. Feel free to comment & provide some advice on ways to improve the story side (comic book) of the campaign.

Thanks for taking the time.