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Desert mini-campaign
There was some time on Saturday afternoon for SP to come over for a spot of gaming. I'd had a hankering for something WWII after our recent ancients binges and decided to turn to the Memoir '44...
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Trebia - the fight
Without further ado, here is the report of our Lost Battles playthrough of Trebia from the other weekend. SP took Rome, DS took Carthage, and I was umpire (preparatory post is here).The battle begins...
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I have a Trebia report to write up but have been somewhat distracted by the ongoing All Blacks' tour of South Africa (the Springboks being the holders of the World Cup and the best rugby team in the...
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Trebia preparation
It has been a very pleasant Friday evening spent setting up a Trebia battlefield for tomorrow. SP and DS are coming over for a game of Lost Battles, this time a scenario with some extra chrome - a...
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Tunis 310 BC with Lost Battles
Tunis is an interesting battle. You have an all-infantry Syracusan and mercenary army led by an inspired leader in the person of Agathocles fighting a Carthaginian force of infantry, cavalry and...
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Upcoming Lost Battle: Tunis 310 BC
It has been a while between Lost Battle(s), but SP is coming over tomorrow so I've set up Tunis 310 BC for us to play out. It has chariots, hoplites, veterans, levies, assymetrical forces, and two poor...
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July 1st, finale.
Turns 8 and 9. 3:45 - 6:15.With the battle in the balance (see here for part one and here for part two if so inclined) and the Union aiming to defend below the Culp/Cemetery heights while...
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July 1st continued, 8:15 am - 3:45pm.
The Gettysburg game continues with leisurely turns conducted in the evenings. It has been very enjoyable. Here is a record of what has happened.Turn 2: 8:15 - 9:30Heth's Division advances along the...
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July 1st
As all wargamers know, there is only one thing to do on July 1st. In my case the game is Battle Hymn Vol 1: Gettysburg and Pea Ridge. Heth's Division comes down the Chambersburg Pike. My favourite...
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The mighty Ben Stokes
As a New Zealander who loves 'the thwack of leather upon willow,' it would be remiss of me to not mark the retirement of the great English cricketer, Ben Stokes.Ashes winner, World Cup winner, 20/20...
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Market Garden
SP popped over this afternoon for another game so I set up Market Garden for Memoir '44. It has an interesting mechanism to reflect both the Germans having been initially caught napping and the Allied...
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Littoral Commander Australia arrives
Got home from work tonight and there it was, sitting in a box by the back door. It is up to the same high production standards as the first two games of the series. Four large maps (Port Darwin, Kokoda...
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ANZAC day game, Operation Lightfoot
We had a beautiful sunny day in Tasman yesterday for ANZAC day. It was a happy-busy day for me - dropping the lady of the house at the airport at 5am for her trip to Japan; coming home for a two-hour...
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There has been some movement in the wargaming room since Easter, including some painting, which has been a welcome development. The day job's intensity has recently risen and as a way to declutter the...
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Dominion of the Spear
I picked these rules up last year when they were getting quite a few nods of appreciationaround the traps, and while I haven't done them to death I have played a few games, mainly using scenarios from...
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Asculum for beginners
As mentioned in my last post, I was fortunate enough recently to get four players together for a crack at my old favourite, Lost Battles. Right up until the night before I was unsure of what scenario...
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There has been a slow move back towards a figure gaming focus at the house of Prufrock. I placed a couple of orders with the excellent Potbelly Miniatures (elephants, if you must know!) and have been...
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Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship test game
I finally succumbed to the hype and picked up Fate of the Fellowship from Z-Man games. As a youth I loved Lord of the Rings but as this game uses the Pandemic system I was a bit leery of it at first (I...
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Learning rules well
When I look back on some of the better gaming experiences I've had, they have either been planned and executed extremely ably by the game organiser, or they have been with rules that I know well.The...
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NAVCON 2025 - Picton
It's the Labour Day long weekend in New Zealand and I've just got back from a two-day trip to Picton to take part in Navcon, a new naval wargaming convention organised by Picton local Paul Dalley. Paul...
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