More games from HMGS Cold Wars

Well no matter the weather many people seemed to attend Cold Wars and I would say things seemed to go well. I had a good time gaming, I will save my comments about the Lancaster Host until another time. I did yesterday receive an email from the Host asking me about my recent stay. I will let them no just how I feel about.

For the games I played in an interesting World War I game put on by the HAWKS, Brusilov Offensive 4 June 1916: Sudarmee Counterattacks. The game was 10mm with nice figures and paper terrain buildings. The trench system was nicely done as well. The rules were a home set called All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front. Rather than get into the blow-by-blow of the game I will just say it was fun and show photographs.

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Some place on the Easter Front

Austrian Troops Hold the Trenches and Town on Right Flank

Russians at the Trench Line

German Troops in 10mm

Black smoke Russian Artillery pounding trenchs

Black smoke Russian Artillery pounding trenches

Russians steamroller breaking through

Austrians going to lose

Rail station under Russian gas attack

Austrians hold the train station

Del Stover of the Wednesday Night Gamers of Alexandria put on the Battle of Piedmont: 1864, ACW game on Friday. Del used his nice 10mm figures and Johnny Reb III rules and got a variety of players as the pictures below show.

Will the Confederate Line Hold

Rick watches and awaits the marching troops

Del’s nice trees with the troops

Saturday morning I was fortunate and got to play in a really fun game. A new set of rules being written by Bruce Weigle called 1871 or Blood & Iron. If you don’t have his 1859, 1866 or 1870 set of rules you might want one depending on the period the information on battles is great. The Rules are a fast play version of his rules in the previous mentioned books. I found them very entertaining and the battle The Bavarians Again in Bind: Villepion, 1 Dec 1870 was fun and tense. The battle was decided in the last turn and both sides did things unexpected. I want to say Bruce really puts on a great game with both nice figures and terrain that is just crafted masterfully.