*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 28, 2024, 05:41:05 PM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Recent

Author Topic: A Close Run Thing!  (Read 2536 times)

Offline Mad Lord Snapcase

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 5030
  • Snapcase Hall, Much-Piddling, Devon
    • The Life and Times of Mad Lord Snapcase
A Close Run Thing!
« on: August 11, 2019, 07:28:02 AM »
I played a game of The Men Who Would Be Kings and it was indeed a close run thing. It's September 1879 and a small British force has to seek sanctuary in an old watch-tower near Kabul. The only problem, they have to pass through a village occupied by hostile Afghan tribesmen first.

Full AAR on my blog: A Close Run Thing!

A couple of teaser pics here.





Offline Mike1879

  • Scientist
  • Posts: 282
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2019, 07:31:30 AM »
Beautiful painting on those Afghans, great set up and scenery 😀

Offline Mad Lord Snapcase

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 5030
  • Snapcase Hall, Much-Piddling, Devon
    • The Life and Times of Mad Lord Snapcase
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2019, 07:39:22 AM »
Beautiful painting on those Afghans, great set up and scenery 😀

Ah, I can't take the credit for that. The Afghan and British minis and scenery are by Silent Invader of this forum. The Flashman figure was painted by robh. I am just the lucky owner of all this beauty!   :)
« Last Edit: August 11, 2019, 07:43:57 AM by Mad Lord Snapcase »

Offline Captain Blood

  • Global Moderator
  • Elder God
  • Posts: 19305
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2019, 09:17:12 AM »
I’ve played on that very terrain when it was still in Steve’s possession. It’s spectacular. And works as brilliantly for the NWF as it did for WW2. You lucky beggar. Looks great  :)

Offline Malamute

  • Prince of Darkness
  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Elder God
  • *
  • Posts: 19310
    • Boot Hill Miniatures
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2019, 09:38:09 AM »
What a fun scenario, a real nail biter.  ;D

Very jealous of the Terrain, I missed playing on this when I had the chance. Now I want to do the NWF!  :)
"These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but go on age after age, feeding on the blood of the living"  - Abraham Van Helsing

Offline Silent Invader

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 9636
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2019, 09:56:27 AM »
Glad you’re enjoying it Martin. It’s great  to see it being used as it should be .  8) :)

My LAF Gallery is HERE
Minis (foot & mounted) finished in 2024 = 0
(2023 = 151; 2022 = 204; 2021 = 123; 2020 = ???)

Offline Mad Lord Snapcase

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 5030
  • Snapcase Hall, Much-Piddling, Devon
    • The Life and Times of Mad Lord Snapcase
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2019, 10:49:27 AM »
I’ve played on that very terrain when it was still in Steve’s possession. It’s spectacular. And works as brilliantly for the NWF as it did for WW2. You lucky beggar. Looks great  :)

I do feel lucky to own it, it's a superb piece of work. I have quite a few plans for games coming up.   :)

Quote
What a fun scenario, a real nail biter.

It was very close at the end. I had made the British leader the worst possible by giving him a +7 which 2D6 had to equal or beat for most activities. It went against the British at the start with them failing to move two or three times but they made the rolls at the end when it really counted.

Quote
It’s great  to see it being used as it should be.

Thanks Steve, I am really pleased I bought this from you. (Got a Romans vs. Ancient Britons planned for your Dartmoor terrain, soon!)  ;)

Offline Romark

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 4472
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2019, 12:00:46 PM »
Superb write up on the blog :-*
Minis and terrain look great  8)


Offline Doug ex-em4

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • *
  • Posts: 2485
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2019, 03:02:56 PM »
A splendid episode in the continuing saga that links the fortune of those three, appalling dynasties - the Snapcases, Scrotums and Spankhursts. The pages of British history are littered with tales of heroics and derring-do; and then there’s the sorry story, running from the earliest recorded time to the present day, of the Devon triumvirate....

Once again we see Snapcase leading from the rear unless he’s heading the terror-fuelled scramble for safety. And how extraordinary that the only other survivors should be Scrotum and Spankhurst. Doubtless these three, combining as they do, incompetence, shirking and debauchery, will effect a miraculous escape, leaving behind the bones of worthier men.

Great AAR, Martin - I really enjoyed it....

Doug

Online Plynkes

  • The Royal Bastard
  • Moderator
  • Elder God
  • Posts: 10212
  • I killed Mufasa!
    • http://misterplynkes.blogspot.com/
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2019, 06:18:22 PM »
Nice one, Snapcase!  Lovely looking setup and models.


With Cat-Like Tread
Upon our prey we steal...

Offline Harry Faversham

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 3986
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2019, 06:56:13 AM »
Absolute spiffing wheeze your Lordship. Young Snapcase has added even more lustre to the family name, what!

:-*
"Wot did you do in the war Grandad?"

"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"

Offline Mad Lord Snapcase

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Galactic Brain
  • *
  • Posts: 5030
  • Snapcase Hall, Much-Piddling, Devon
    • The Life and Times of Mad Lord Snapcase
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2019, 10:47:14 AM »
Many thanks, Romark, Doug, Plynkes and Harry for your kind remarks.

Once again, the reputation of the Snapcase family has been upheld. Even if it meant running away from the nasty shouty men! Let's hope 'Bobs' turns up soon to rescue them or they'll probably start eating the dog!

Quote
Once again we see Snapcase leading from the rear unless he’s heading the terror-fuelled scramble for safety. And how extraordinary that the only other survivors should be Scrotum and Spankhurst. Doubtless these three, combining as they do, incompetence, shirking and debauchery, will effect a miraculous escape, leaving behind the bones of worthier men.

Absolutely spot on, Doug. These three charmless nurks  have a habit of winning through at significant moments in history, whilst better men end up pushing up the daisies!   ;)

Online OSHIROmodels

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Elder God
  • *
  • Posts: 27707
  • Custom terrain a speciality.
    • Oshiro modelterrain
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2019, 10:54:38 AM »
A splendid outing  :D
cheers

James

https://www.oshiromodels.co.uk/

Twitter account -     @OSHIROmodels
Instagram account - oshiromodels

http://redplanetminiatures.blogspot.co.uk/
http://jimbibblyblog.blogspot.com/

Offline italwars

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1118
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2019, 11:01:28 AM »
Nice setting and scenario...from which manufacture are the NWF tribesmen...they look like realistically done plastic conversions?

Offline Mad Guru

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 711
    • Maiwand Day blog
Re: A Close Run Thing!
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2019, 06:39:25 PM »
Awesome battle report -- equal parts exciting and amusing -- of a simply great scenario which I will borrow/steal for my next intimate size NWF game, all fought with beautiful figures on gorgeous terrain!  Lord Snapcase you do the "Mad" monicker proud!
"We shall see what wisdom lies beneath my madness!"