We finally played "1066, Tears To Many Mothers" last night and it was good! It'd work well as an introductory wargame (it's really a very interactive tableau building card game).
The artwork is amazing on the cards too, though some of the noble folks look a bit too clean & modern for the 11th century. I'm sure the artist based some of the characters on moderns actors too, Harold Godwinson looks suspiciously like Russell Crowe! :D
You start off with the appearance of Halley's Comet & progress through several objectives to get to the Battle of Hastings (strangely the Saxons took the comet as a bad omen, and the Normans took it as a good omen. Not sure how that's decided!). While you're doing that you can pick off/damage units that are being build in your opponent's tableau, move your cards around, & do other actions. The resources to buy cards are very tight in this game & it seems that it's best to get the resource generating cards out there as early as possible - otherwise you need to spend cards from your hand as resources & it's easy to run out of cards there! You're also somewhat at the mercy of the random draw to determine what is available on a turn - at the end I had some very high cost units in my hand that I had no way to pay for and put in play!
I started off pretty well as the Saxons, fending off Vikings in the north and then tromping down to the south of England to face the Normans. But I got stuck on later objectives as I didn't have a lot of cards with Zeal and so the Normans beat me to the Hastings objective and got a headstart attacking the wedges there. By the time I caught up I was already demoralised and I hadn't really arranged my units in the wedges very well - in the end the Normans took two wedges and won. I almost killed William with my archers earlier but he managed to shrug off all his wounds with a timely "heal one character" card!
It's a fun, clever, thematic game with lots of interesting decisions - worth checking out! #wargaming
Where my #miniature#wargaming friends at!?!
This table really is to die for.
Sadly, it's a display and not a campaign.
Check it out in the Medieval Museum
Fun #game my child came up with: Toy cars on a hex grid, but they are "#tanks". Cars arranged in strata on map from worst to best, but there are exceptions. Your goal is to go through all the strata, conquer and steal tanks by a) spotting the weaker ones you have a chance of defeating (trial and error) b) roll below x on d20 to shoot, d6 to d12 dmg, game involves positioning, cover, turning c) roleplaying to leave tank and trick other crew to let you in, h2h combat (1) #Wargaming#pnpde
Mark has terminal cancer, and has made a ton of #wargaming videos you should know about. Let's get him to at least 1000 subscribers, and push him past that milestone. It isn't much compared to a lot of #wargame content creators, but he deserves it. Go watch his videos, enjoy the #wargames he plays and talks about and go subscribe. #HexesForever
Heute geht's zur zweiten Partie Tanto Monta (oder Tante Monte wie ich sag) :D
Ich bin gespannt wie ich dieses Mal als Muslim abschneide. Fertig werden wir sicher nicht. Aber 4 Runden sollten drin sein.
So, Tanto Monta ist vorbei. Nach 4 Runden (7 1/2h) hat der Spanier per Dominanzsieg gewonnen. Für mich hat es meine Meinung gefestigt - ich mag es wesentlich mehr als Elisabeth - Virgin Queen und das fand ich schon spitze. In Tanto Monta ist immer was los, es ist immer extrem viel los. Überall Konflikte, heftige Events und Wendungen. Viele, viele Möglichkeiten, aber ohne das einer sein eigenes Ding durchziehen kann.
Ein Fest ohne Langeweile.
We had another game of Dirtside II, this time trying out a more infantry focused game. The take away is that I probably need more terrain. #wargames#wargaming
there is something utterly adorkable about H.G Wells' book 'Little Wars' (1913), especially considering the amazing reproductions of photographs featuring the author and his quite notable friends playing a serious game with toy soldiers... while dressed in what then was most likely considered leisure wear.
he even had himself featured in a painting in the illustrated London News, which I think was supposed to be an advertisement for the manufacturer of the toy soldiers
@zdl fair enough, although I don’t play video games either… because they don’t simulate what I want. A lot of games simulate cinematic action which, frankly, bores me. Each to their own, I say. 🎲🎲🎲👍
In the year 2246, a small group of Earth Alliance ships are trying to escape the clutches of the Minbari. We had a game of Babylon 5 Wars, a particularly crunchy set of space combat wargame rules.
@nyrath I played the EASB one. It used the cinematic movement for Minbari and other ships that had 'gravitic' drives, and vector for lower tech ships.
I've taught the FT vectored movement to a number of gamers who have never used anything like it before, and it was a lot easier than teaching the B5 Wars movement system.
It was time for another game of Full Thrust. The ESU with large ships against the FSE with a set of smaller, faster ships. It was an attempt to see if the manoeuvrability of the FSE could overcome the long range firepower of the ESU.
Another day of loving my job. (Which will compensate for all the marking this week.)
This is another run of Shell Game, the introductory scenario for A Balanced Fleet, my wargame for teaching warship designers and analysts about how warships do what they do. (And thus how to design better ones.)
