At some point in the next  few weeks, as yet to be arranged (watch this space!) there will be a small multiplayer game or two of the TFL Korean War rules, Bag the MiG. These are based on the same system as Bag The Hun but we will be using the First Edition of the rules instead of the Second Edition. There are half a dozen players already signed up, so I’m hoping to run at least two games with potential scenarios involving the USAF, USN, USMC, NKAF and the Royal Navy FAA. This will all be in glorious but very small 1/600th scale.

Tally Ho!

The 2018 Belgarum Field of Glory III
The tournament was held over the weekend of the 24th and 25th February 2018. 23 players started the tournament but one had to drop out, leaving 22 to complete the weekend.

The results were:

1 David Bannister 98
2 Dave Ruddock 92
3 Steve Brown 91
4 David Fairbrother 80
4 David Fairhurst 80
6 Ian Carbutt 76
7 Paul Bartlett 74
8 Phil Powell 73
8 Phil Jelley 73
10 Dave Morrison 65
11 David Putt 64
12 Ian Newell 62
13 Owain Simpson 61
14 Dave Massie 60
15 John Akers 57
16 Renfrey Pearson 54
17 Martyn Simpson 52
18 Lynda Fairhurst 51
19 Alan McFarlane 40
20 Colin Boulain 39
21 Richard Lindley 36
22 John Patrick 26

Its the season to be Jolly and for the Christmas Game!!!!

With Dickie no longer around to organise the Christmas Game (comeback Dickie), I have offered to step in and run the game. It will be based on the format that Dickie has pioneered in the Club with you trying to help or hinder Father Christmas. You have 10 hit points to allocate to your force and you will need a leader and henchmen/women. The leader must cost more than any other figure in your force. So you can have a leader worth 2 points and 8 henchmen worth 1 point each, or a leader worth 6 points and one henchman worth 4 points.

You should also have some transport to help your unit get around. In this game, size is irrelevant so your troops can be 15mm, 28mm or anything you like as long it will fit on the table and leave space to move around (no 6 footers).

This is a land of magic so anything may happen. Come prepared with some spells which must be in rhyme.

Hope to see you on the 19th.. And a Merry Christmas to all
Colin

It’s all going Napoleonic next Tuesday with a game of General de Brigade, featuring two real, live French and British  players.

‘Zut Alors!’ or should it be ‘Cor’Blimey!‘?

Anyway, the honour of France is a stake, so there will be no doubt be some close fought action, with plenty of colourful infantry and cavalry units to admire. A close run thing or a walkover for the massed French columns? We will have to wait and see!

Bof!

Gary is putting on his leather gear, polishing his helmet and whipping out his big forky thing to run a multiplayer game of Spartacus – A Game of Blood and Treachery on Tuesday this week. This has been a big hit at the club on a number of outings, with several players competing to be the top lanista, or the ‘host with the most’ (the most being dead rivals and top notch gladiatorial champions…..or at the very least a gladiator still in one piece by the end of the game).

All done in the best possible taste, of course.

This Tuesday we’re off to the North Atlantic for a 1/3000 scale multiplayer convoy vs. wolf pack game.

Convoy SC 75 was reported as sailing on the 18th March 1942 from Halifax NS with 30 ships and 5 escorts. This is a slow convoy, trying to maintain 8 knots. Wolf Pack Ziethen II is being formed in the North Atlantic all commanders in the area are expected to rendezvous as directed for an attack on the night of the 28th March.

A shock defeat for the Bolsheviks in Turn Four has the inevitable revolutionary consequences! A full battle report to follow, once they’ve found a replacement for the ex-Comrade Colonel.

We are now half way to Urga in the club Back of Beyond campaign.

The French are well in the lead being three steps away from the objective, the ancient silk road town of Urga in Mongolia. The British, Bolsheviks and Chinese are all in equal place at five steps away, while the Mad Baron and Japanese are trailing along in a cloud of dust at the back, six steps away.

The French are confident that they can sweep all before them using their superior firepower but the Chinese are now itching to give them a bloody nose, having been narrowly defeated in Turn Three.

The Bolsheviks are also keen to have a crack at the Japanese and the Chinese, avoiding the decadent capitalists with their modern weaponry and training.

The British are having a nice cup of tea while the Japanese and Chinese lick their wounds. Finally, the Mad Baron is doing his own unpredictable thing but may well pop up at some point out of nowhere to sweep all before him.

Anything can happen in the last three turns and there could well be some decisive battles to come in Turn Four!

A very hard fought battle this turn between the British Museum and the Japanese Expeditionary Force, won in the end by the stiff upper lip, derring-do and fluffy scones of the ‘Pankhurst Battalion’ (whatever next?). STOP. The Japanese did put up a good fight but were given a sound thrashing by Ms Miggins and her lady friends (ooh err). STOP. Unfortunately, a full report of the battle has been delayed due a strike by Yak herders on the trans-Gobi postal route, so this brief telegram will have to suffice. STOP.There’s only one other game to resolve this turn and then it will be on to Turn Four!