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Offline Cessna

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Quick photos of today's 1918 game.
« on: 07 June 2015, 05:56:28 AM »
Here are a few photos from today’s WWI game.

This was a meeting engagement between two small units, British and German. It was intended to loosely represent one of the numerous battles around Amiens in August 1918. I don’t have any consistent narrative, unfortunately; I just took these photos during play.

The game was played on a table out in my back garden. Sadly, this resulted in the game being called off early due to rain, which is strangely fitting for a WWI wargame. We used the Bolt Action Rules.










All told it was a fast, fun game. The game is intended for small unit actions in WWII, but it worked fine for WWI. I want to tinker with the WWI rules a bit, probably by making make the infantry sections a little larger. It worked fine for this little skirmish, but this represents about a third of my WWI forces, and I’d like to get more on the table.

Offline scrivs

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Re: Quick photos of today's 1918 game.
« Reply #1 on: 07 June 2015, 05:49:50 PM »
Very nice collection of terrain and figures.
Being in wet England I put a Gazebo up if we are playing in the garden.
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Offline Steve F

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Re: Quick photos of today's 1918 game.
« Reply #2 on: 07 June 2015, 05:56:24 PM »
I'm not sure which is more impressive: Cessna's lovely display of figures and terrain or the fact that scrivs has a collapsible gazebo.
Back from the dead, almost.

Offline Cessna

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Re: Quick photos of today's 1918 game.
« Reply #3 on: 07 June 2015, 09:52:58 PM »
Very nice collection of terrain and figures.
Being in wet England I put a Gazebo up if we are playing in the garden.

Thanks very much!

This was played in an area in my back garden that is normally shaded with a trellis with vines; my wife loves gardening and I am more than happy to have the benefits of such a nice space. Unfortunately the vines won't stop pouring rain - normally not a problem here in Colorado, but lately we've been having near-daily rain that I didn't anticipate when I scheduled the game.

 

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