The Pikeman's Lament - First Game

[Leigh Metford]

I sympathise with your aversion; mass battles are much more manageable and affordable, and by the figure painting is much quicker and simpler, in the smaller scales. Like its immediate predecessor FoG was written primarily with 15mm figures in mind.

[Wirelizard]

We had our first game of PL last weekend. The forces were kind of odd, based on what figures we had at hand.

Side A consisted of two units of Elite Gallopers, two Field Guns, and nothing else. Side B had a unit of Pike, two Forlorn Hope units, a unit of Gallopers, and a unit of Trotters.

The Trotters got shot to pieces by the two guns and then ran over by one of the Elite Galloper units; the regular Gallopers got chased away by the other Elite Galloper unit. The Gallopers then ran into the Pike and one of the Forlorn Hope units, which was tucked into a small patch of woods, and generally got roughly handled.

We didn't really pay any attention to the victory conditions of the Ga Pa basic scenario, but it was close to a draw.

Good fast play system, anyway, and we're looking forward to more games! I've got a bunch of stuff on the painting bench to put more full size Pike and Shot units on the table soon.