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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: TWD on October 11, 2019, 10:01:04 PM

Title: A Pair of NWF games of TMWWBK
Post by: TWD on October 11, 2019, 10:01:04 PM

Last night James and Matt came over and we played a couple of games of The Men Who Would Be Kings set in the NWF.

In the first a punitive British expedition set out to destroy a Pathan village. The second game the British were trying to dislodge some tenacious Pathans from a hillside.

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3xUXNuMirEY/XaBe7pzvxnI/AAAAAAAAYF0/fbhygXgbfoIV4sY6zgR4NXf9FXGDh7fIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/P1030022.JPG)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_ea7rQxN3Y/XaBe8saUf2I/AAAAAAAAYGI/cL5Z1g4IZVwRP07lJ1gOWar5xD31ci_nQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/P1030026.JPG)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2xOvaPjlX0/XaBe-80XoGI/AAAAAAAAYHw/gX4lk6YGQfcDadcAXrYeFHqs-V-YEDCXgCEwYBhgL/s1600/P1030035.JPG)

Fun was had.

More pictures and some desultory words over on the blog:
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2019/10/two-games-of-men-who-would-be-kings.html

Title: Re: A Pair of NWF games of TMWWBK
Post by: Arundel on October 11, 2019, 10:18:29 PM

Deeply inspirational, TWD. Have to say I just love the look of your figures and table; the latter has a clean, somewhat stylized style that I find very appealing. Well done, sir!   :)

Title: Re: A Pair of NWF games of TMWWBK
Post by: Atheling on October 12, 2019, 08:40:01 AM

Nice Tom (and James too!) :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: A Pair of NWF games of TMWWBK
Post by: OB on October 12, 2019, 01:14:08 PM

Like a North Western Wellington!  It looks like fun was had.  I like TMWWBK.

Title: Re: A Pair of NWF games of TMWWBK
Post by: TWD on October 13, 2019, 03:28:58 PM

Quote from: Arundel on October 11, 2019, 10:18:29 PM

Deeply inspirational, TWD. Have to say I just love the look of your figures and table; the latter has a clean, somewhat stylized style that I find very appealing. Well done, sir!   :)

Thank you - more by accident than design I think, though I'm certainly not aiming for a hyper realistic effect.

Title: Re: A Pair of NWF games of TMWWBK
Post by: James Morris on October 13, 2019, 10:03:47 PM

Thanks Tom for hosting and umpiring! In an uncharacteristic twist, I provided 0% of the toys and terrain on display - all are Tom’s.

I enjoyed many of the mechanics (I certainly don’t miss the ‘flunk one Command roll and your turn is over’ of the earlier Rampant games) but playing with just four units (4 x 6 points in the case of the British) didn’t feel like enough. Will try again soon with slightly bigger forces - I’d like to get my Ethiopians back on the table!