Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Summer Intermission

Its the height of summer, a hot time, a family time, and not much hobby stuff going on to feed the blog but there are nearly 2,000 posts published over the last 10 years  so time to bring a few back for a look.

I'll start with the Raid on St. Michel from 2010 when the blog was new. Rob and I had decided that for the HAWKS room at Cold Wars 2010, we would play through the scenarios from Charles Grant's recently released "Raid on St. Michel" using the HAWKS' collection of homecast 18thC troops, set during the Not Quite The Seven Years War (NQSYW). Rob and I acted as Impartial (or balanced bias) game masters with convention gamers signing up to play the battles helped out by some of the HAWKS where there was space.
The posts can be pulled up by clicking on the Raid on St. Michel label but they come up starting with the end so here are separate links in the proper order.


Not Quite The Raid on St. Michel
(Link to Preparation)
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CW2010 1st Battle of St Stephen
( Link to Game 1 The Raid on St Michel)
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CW 2010. Battle of Walmar River Pass
Game 2 The Raid on St Michel





CW2010 The Defence of St. Michel
Link to Game 3 The Raid on St Michel



CW2010: Counterattack!
Link to Game 4 The Raid on St Michel



CW2010: Retreat from Rosmark.
Link to Game 5 The Raid on St Michel




CW2010: The Raid on St. Michel Summary

(I won't reproduce my captured enemy flags and canon here, you'll have to follow the link.)

10 comments:

  1. Nice to look back for people - and of course a lot of current readers probably haven't checked all the back posts and won't have seen them anyway. You're giving me ideas.. my own blog goes back six years, doesn't time fly?

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    1. It does. These games aren't ad because I am still using them but it's nostalgic or sometimes surprising to see games played with figures now long gone.

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  2. Ooh, I quite like those figures. Home cast, you say?

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    1. Yup.Let me know if you ever want to try it.

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    2. Depending on how enthusiastic you get, you wouldn’t have to have *that* many molds to start...but molds are like potato chips once you get started. (Fair warning...)

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  3. I love these posts, there's a part of me that thinks we should all have a collection of these figures and doesn't really understand why we don't?

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    1. I don’t understand why you don’t either. :D We have changed up the rules occasionally (currently playing a fair bit of A Gentleman’s War with these figures) but I tend to feel like 18th century imagi-nations is sort of the Platonic “form” of the wargame.

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  4. That was a good effort...I enjoyed doing it at the time, and have been back to look through the posts for inspiration from time to time. We sort of did linked games in 2011 with the siege set up (which you linked in recently in your medical retrospective post), but I think it’s been stand-alone games at cons since then. Huzzah is short enough on GM space that I don’t know that we could convince them that we wanted to run 5 linked scenarios...

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    1. This was 10 yrs ago and pre heart thing. I'm not sure I'd want to run 5 big games in 3 days even if we could.....3 smaller, linked, Fr Rev ones, maybe.

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