Work in progress - St. Germain-du-Pert

Church and village buildings all tiled and some high walls made.

All set up for scenario three in the TFL pint-sized campaign '29 Let's Go!'
Unfortunately my German defenders suffered a crushing defeat - two sections caught under a mortar barrage did for my Force Morale!  Have rethought my defensive tactics for the next game in the mini-campaign.

The buildings are all Sarissa and the walls homemade with Warbases' pillars and gates.  Next job is adding some texture to the walls and houses.

The Games Bunker is too cold!

The Games Bunker (aka the garage) is too cold for gaming so have had to use the kitchen table for some 'block action'!  Command and Colours Ancients - The Battle of Zama set up for a game against gaming buddy Pete.  After initial success with the elephants, my gallant Carthaginians were defeated 8:7.

Have braved the Bunker for some shorter sessions working on the Sarissa Church and some of their houses - photos of WIP to follow.

Blog Resurrection

I have not abandoned Block Games - just never got posting.   I am planning to resurrect this blog and record my wargames activity in the New Year.   Over  the last 12 months or so I have been mostly playing 28mm WW2 using Chain of Command - hence today's activity detailed below!


Christmas Eve Church Building

My daughter was not feeling too well today so we spent the day at home, this gave me chance to sneak out and work on the Sarissa Church that I treated myself  to - bought with some Christmas gift money from my parents.

Flat Pack Church

The kit went together very easy - if only real flat-pack was as easy!

Now comes the trickier part of adding details/ rubble and then painting.  A job for the New Year.

First Post!

Positional Defence (1)

Scenario taken from C. S. Grant's Scenarios for Wargamers.
Rules used: Neil Thomas's C19th Rules.
Homemade blocks - scaled-up Kriegsspiel blocks.

Red's defensive positions

 

View of the advancing Blue forces

 

Blue cavalry charge the guns! They ride over the guns, but are destroyed in the process.

 

 Blue Infantry advances.

Blue attempt to dislodge the Red battalion holding the village - and storm the redoubt.

The scenario played out well - Blue failing to take the Red position in the end.