Ngoni Dawn

[Hammers]

come on, @plynkes
please show off Your african armies please
this is the purpose of this forum, right?
to see painted miniatures

I have a suggestion: set an example and show us your armies.

[Remington]

Another suggestion would be to follow Mr. Plynke's blog:

http://misterplynkes.blogspot.com/

Full of inspiration I tell ya!

[airbornegrove26]

Thanks Plynkes the new thread looks great!!!

[former user]

I have a suggestion: set an example and show us your armies.

yes, why not actually
unfortunately I am not able to meet the LAF standards
firstly, very bad pictures (good ones only with occasionally borrowed camera)
miniatures mostly WIP and not painted, a lot of 40K vehicles (I must have linked the pictures I have somewhere)

so sorry to disappoint - unless I misunderstood something and diverted here, sorry

so for the time being, I'll keep staring in awe at what  the pros are showing  

and thx very muck @Plynkes for the link collection - very inspiring

[Hammers]

unfortunately I am not able to meet the LAF standards

I don't think there is such a thing as LAF standards. There are a lot of individual talents here but we would be doing something wrong if all efforts don't feel welcome to post their efforts. We can't all be Titians but our strife can be encouraged.

Sorry, back to topic.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

yes, why not actually
unfortunately I am not able to meet the LAF standards

There aren't any standards. There are painted and not painted miniatures, that's the only "standard" that I would accept on LAF.

Whatever. I'd say we better let it be, too off-topic. Back to Africa.

[former user]

I apologize
I indeed preffer admiring Plynkoid excellence, since I do not own any painted Africa mininatures

please feel free to remove my diversions

[Ray Rivers]

"Links to Colonial Battle Reports"

Now that is a very useful sticky with some great AARs.   

Well done Plynkester!

[Plynkes]

Ran the scenario again last night, for the Friday Night gang. Made a couple of changes to balance it out a bit. The whole thing was done in daylight to give the defenders more opportunity to use their firepower, and the Ngoni arrived piecemeal, in dribs and drabs from the march, rather than all swamping the table at once.

Chronoglide, never one to sit on his hands, actually charged out with his Ruga-Ruga, hoping to make the most of the combat benefits I gave them when they act aggressively. He managed to tumble the Ngoni musketeers to ruin, but at the cost of half his men. He then had to speed back to his defences when more warriors turned up.



But once the main assault began they overpowered the defences almost as quickly as in the first game. Chrono decided that Winkelmann and Munyuse would flee. Even though it would still be a crushing defeat for the DOAG, at least true love would win out (bloody coward!). But it became clear that they would be cut off and there was no way to escape. So after saying "look over there" he shot Munyuse in the back of the head, and then turned the gun on himself. 

All good fun, but this scenario is definitely a bit of a Kobayashi Maru for the German player.

[Remington]

So after saying "look over there" he shot Munyuse in the back of the head, and then turned the gun on himself. 

Yikes!

So, any rule specific insights from these two scenarios what T&T is concerned? Was it obvious the second time that the Ngoni will win once more?

[Plynkes]

Yeah, I think so. The Ngoni move too fast, and the defenders just don't have enough firepower to stop them. Once it gets to melee, which it does very quickly, the Ngoni numbers tell. But they did lose a few of rounds of melee, so if they had failed their Morale tests things would have been very different. But apart from the Ngoni musketeers, they didn't fail a single test, in either game. Even the raw unit was blessed with good morale rolls.

The Germans need more troops in bigger units for it to be a more balanced game. I've got some Copplestone Seesoldaten knocking around somewhere to bolster this force. Need to get painting.

[Malamute]

The nephew is all into last stands, the Little Bighorn and all that right now, so he suggested we do a desperate 'against the odds' type of fight, and volunteered to be the doomed European folk facing overwhelming odds. So we rustled up this little tale...

Yep, I'm a sucker for last stand scenarios, overwhelming odds etc as well, great stuff Monsieur.

[Hammers]

The nephew is all into last stands, the Little Bighorn and all that right now, so he suggested we do a desperate 'against the odds' type of fight, and volunteered to be the doomed European folk facing overwhelming odds. So we rustled up this little tale...

Yep, I'm a sucker for last stand scenarios, overwhelming odds etc as well, great stuff Monsieur.

I alsay enjoy seeing y troops mowed down to a man. I supposed it is the cowards riskless trill...