Hammerhead 2018

[levied troop]

A few snapshots of the games just before it got very busy - 60 participation games, all getting use from the moment the doors opened it seemed.

Our game, Rommel, Your Part in His Downfall (although out of the 5 games played, Rommel won every time!):


A very annoying game (they had some of the Grand Manner buildings I used at Salute but they’d painted them better than me….grrrr):


Dam busters, complete with sound effects:


and just some of the others:
















Edit: Just spotted plenty of good pictures here:
http://themadtinhatter.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/hammerhead-2018_29.html

[Dags]

Dam busters, complete with sound effects:

Can still hear them now 

[Driscoles]

Thanks for sharing.

[dhtandco]

We were running the Zombski game,were very busy and had a great day .

Lots of friendly gamers . and some good laughs.We will be back next year!

[Marine0846]

Excellent photos.
Would love to some more pics of the Rommel game.
Please if possible.

[tin shed gamer]

I feel for you Dags,

(it was opposite you all day ,I only had to walk past it.) In all honesty I just didn't get it. Such a big table with feck all on it.

[levied troop]

Would love to some more pics of the Rommel game.
Please if possible.

How could I refuse 

Actually we didn't take many, a little too busy, so this is all I have (a decided French bias!):




We have run the game before, using commercial rules. This time I knocked up a very quick and simple set, I think each game took about 30 minutes with the umpires running the French and players taking the part of Rommel and his sergeant with the aim of getting through the village asap.  It's based on Rommel's first ever engagement, in 1914, the future Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was a 22-year-old Lieutenant commanding an infantry platoon and leading it into action in the early days of World War 1. He wrote up this action (and his other experiences in the book ‘Infanterie Greift’ (Infantry Attacks) as an aid to his students in 1937. There's an excellent Skirmish Campaign book based on this.

[redzed]

still looks a fantastic game