Project for Spring '23: Shimonoseki 1864 (2024 Coda)

[Mudyinsquall]

Looked like a great time!

Shame to see poor Choshu get smashed though 

[traveller]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[Emir of Askaristan]

Missed this til now - what an excellent game. Lovely figures and nice terrain too.

[EnclavedMicrostate]

So, as a final coda to all this, I've just been zipping 'round Meiji Restoration-related sites on Kyushu, which included a quick visit to Shimonoseki. Unfortunately the battlefield my specific scenario was based on is now a suburb, but there's some (reproduction) guns overlooking the bay:



As well as a monument to the 1185 battle of Dan-no-oura:



And a cracking view from Mount Hinoyama:



Complete with the remnants of a later battery from 1885:



Incidentally, I forgot to mention it at the time, but my game managed to make front page in the local paper (supposedly!) (https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23379581.wargamers-fight-overlord-game-show-abingdon/)

[Mudyinsquall]

  Bet that was some huge inspiration for the project! And great to see some exposure in the local news.