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Post by carl on Aug 9, 2009 22:18:16 GMT
well guys, 2009 is over and 2010 is round the corner.
what ideas / scenarios would people like to put forward for next year?
warlord games are coming with us again and hopefully running a HUGE game based around the ECW battle of Naseby, so we will need a few club members on that one. perhaps thats Kieran and i sorted, but we'll need one or two more. well maybe 5 more actually
i have had an email from the top EH organiser and we have been invited back next year and should have more space as well.
so, come on guys run your thoughts by us on this post and we'll see what everyone thinks.
next year i hope that those members who have not been able to make the event before can come along, if only for one out of the two days.
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Post by wstevens on Aug 10, 2009 1:46:43 GMT
Well you know all about what I've got in mind.
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Post by Kierons on Aug 10, 2009 11:21:04 GMT
English Civil War
Mmmm smell the shotte!
On a seriouse note: I know Warlords talked about Naseby, which is THE battle of the ECW, but the table for this would be very boring as it would consist of just two large hills, one either side of the table.
Would it be better to a slightly earlier battle like the Battle of Marston Moor, which would have buildings either Flank, or Cropredy Bridge... with a bridge obviously... Something that would lend itself to a more scenic table??
Just a thought.
Kieron
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Post by Stephen Mawson on Aug 10, 2009 12:49:35 GMT
Actually Naseby has a little more on the battlefield than that, there were some hedges, at least one large one on the left flank that the Roundheads lined with some Dragoons.
Marston Moor would be interesting, partly due to the mix of forces, and partly as a large portion of both armies were in flight at the same time.
If you wanted a nice variety of terrain, then First Newbury would also be fairly good. Several large hills, plenty of hedges a few farm houses and the edge of the town in the corner of the table.
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Post by carl on Aug 10, 2009 16:30:44 GMT
good thoughts guys.
Warren; lots of Zulus!
Kieran / Steve; perhaps we can chat this through with the Warlord guys when they come to the club, hopefully within the next few weeks
Darrell is talking about doing Trafalgar, perhaps with Simon etc.
keep the ideas flying in people
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Post by carl on Aug 13, 2009 17:48:08 GMT
Steve; what about a wild west town shoot-out game
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Post by wstevens on Aug 13, 2009 19:55:52 GMT
That's more painting then if you want to do this. Just a thought though someone at Kelmarsh did remark about the tables without British History on it - mine, the Fow table, the Spanish table, - I think we should really make it British for Kelmarsh. What about a Victorian gang shoot out in the smog of London instead of a wild west one. Ah Mr Holmes!
Also we are not really making much use of the models from previous years. What are the Romans and British celts be doing? For FoW I would like to see a British force involved.
For the zulu war I was thinking that Rorkes Drift is a good idea but its one that's been done and done so many times. I was thinking of something else perhaps where the zulu's completely wiped out the British - Islandlwana in 1879. There is quite a lot of painting for this though so I might just stick with RD.
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Post by wstevens on Aug 13, 2009 20:05:27 GMT
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Post by carl on Aug 13, 2009 20:50:05 GMT
i think we had enough BRITISH themed stuff this year to appease the harshest sceptics to be honest, with Wings of War (british planes), romans v celts (british), english civil war (the clue's in the title).
that leaves only two out of five with no britsh on them so more than half of the games did have a british connection.
who made the comment, was it a member of the public, or a club member?
next year should see more ECW, perhaps more romans and celts if someone wishes to run that game it would be great. rorkes drift from you and a Trafalgar rules game done by Simon and Darrell hopefully with british ships.
yes we had few tables of non british conflicts but to be honest theres only so many you can do before they become boring.
we could do a victorian shoot out but think of the buildings etc to be made, phew.
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Post by wstevens on Aug 13, 2009 21:26:36 GMT
Member of the public!
Another did also remark about the untidiness of bottles and wrappers of food around the tables. He said I do quite a number of demonstration games and I always ensure that the table is very tidy without bottles etc..
I then said to him "Demonstration? That's a lot different to participation. You are constantly on the go and when people are using your models you have to be quite vigilant. Also we did camp here overnight. Keeping an eye on the peripheral presentation of the battle boards comes sort of second when we consider the time and effort put into the models painted. We have had some stolen over at the FoW table already."
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Post by carl on Aug 13, 2009 21:52:29 GMT
well said mate.
completely agree, demo games are not a patch on participation games, as like you said the hassle of keeping an eye on everything is blooming tiring, certainly more than just playing a game while joe public can only watch.
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Post by Simon Robinson on Aug 13, 2009 23:15:04 GMT
As I've mentioned already to a few I was thinking of something along the lines of "The War Of Jenkins' Ear" - a minor conflict between Britain and Spain in and around the West Indies (there was even a failed attempt to invade cuba) and Florida / Georgia - There is also the battle of the nile - but it's big and having fought the spartans for 2 days I'm thinking of a game that can be played quickly and simply. With scheduled start times so people can come back to join in at the start and not miss too much outside
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Post by darkangel1(Darrell) on Aug 14, 2009 16:19:13 GMT
ooohhh aaargh!! the battle of the nile sounds good me harty lets teach those scurvy french dogs a lesson. hoist the main sail and splice the mainbraces anchors away and all that
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Post by Simon Robinson on Aug 15, 2009 10:49:49 GMT
I'm looking that the Battle of the Nile, but it's quite large - if we want a fun and easy participation game that we can get people involved in then a more "generic" scenario might be better.
Does anybody at the club have a copy of the old "Wooden Ships And Iron Men" board game? If I remember corectly it has a BotN scenario which I could adapt possibly
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Post by wstevens on Aug 15, 2009 14:26:40 GMT
I've been doing quite a lot of research into the zulu wars and it strikes me that whatever battle you do there is going to be a lot of zulus to paint. I thought about reducing the numbers but found that I would have just 10 or 20 british troops against 2000 zulus in one case. I realise that you can recycle but d**n that's still a lot and quite frankly the British would be totally swamped! Regardless I am going to devise a game play based on WAB or Warhammer rules that Julie and I are more confident with. I have researched mmost of the weapons used - especially the gunpowder and can see a lot of references to the Empire/ dwarf army for their use. The zulus did use some of the stolen/trophy rifles from past victories but were very poor at using them (no training). Apart from that melee is pretty easy, however I may lend some of the "go to ground" rules from 40K for them if they get shot at too much.
The painting is going to be a bug bear and I would like to ask Jon if he could help out with the zulus as he has had experience with the dip method. He painted those Gauls fantasically - so how about it Jon - do I get first dibs on your labour?
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