Origins Game Fair 2024 – featuring the Wargame HQ with the Armchair Dragoons – will be held 19-23 June, 2024 ~~ More Info here
Recent Posts
1
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: HISPANIA wargame on Gamefound
« Last post by DracoIdeas on Today at 04:14:23 AM »With all the Stretch Goals have been unlocked, we enter the last days of the campaign.
Today we want to talk about Tetrarchia, a game also by Miguel Marqués, in which we must to defend Rome from the barbarians that threaten the Empire from all the cardinal points.
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/draco-ideas/hispania/updates/14
Today we want to talk about Tetrarchia, a game also by Miguel Marqués, in which we must to defend Rome from the barbarians that threaten the Empire from all the cardinal points.
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/draco-ideas/hispania/updates/14
2
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Metaldog on Yesterday at 11:15:00 PM »Damn right. That's a long time to wear a codpiece that doesn't fit.
That explains your winning personality
3
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Sir Slash on Yesterday at 10:34:29 PM »Damn right. That's a long time to wear a codpiece that doesn't fit. 
4
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Gusington on Yesterday at 02:48:14 PM »Nice. Been waiting for this for what feels like 800 years.
5
Pre-Gunpowder / Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by bayonetbrant on Yesterday at 02:00:17 PM »First Impressions of Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
Field Of Glory: Kingdoms is a welcome transport ahead in time for the very well-received, eminently-approachable, extremely intuitive Field Of Glory: Empires wargame series
https://wp.me/pae4WL-9bi
Field Of Glory: Kingdoms is a welcome transport ahead in time for the very well-received, eminently-approachable, extremely intuitive Field Of Glory: Empires wargame series
https://wp.me/pae4WL-9bi
6
History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by besilarius on Yesterday at 10:11:00 AM »1264 Three day battle of Lewes begins: Earl Simon de Montfort of Leicester defeats & captures King Henry III of England
1382 Giovanna I Queen Regnant of Naples, having runthrough five husbands and numerous lovers while ruining her country, murdered at 56
1670 Elector Augustus I of Saxony was born, who was also King Augustus II of Poland and Lithuania, known as “The Strong”, with c. 350 children, including Marshal Saxe
1725 Jacques de Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, later Captain, Regiment de Picardie, Brig. Gen., d. 1817
The unreliability of the old smooth bore musket is notorious. As one British observer once observed, " . . . a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, provided his antagonist aimed at him."
An excellent demonstration of this fact occurred during one battle in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). It seems that, having routed the enemy, some French troops were pursuing them off the field, which was rather shrouded in gunsmoke, a commonplace of battles using traditional black powder.
One of the French soldiers, Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, imprudently donned the headdress of a fallen Hessian grenadier. At that, about 50 of de Beauliue's comrades, mistaking him for the enemy in the smoke, opened fire, some of them at perhaps not more than 30 paces. Amazingly, de Beaulieu emerged completely unijured, despite a ball that had passed through his coat and another that had clipped his bayonet.
1780. The city of Charleston, S.C., falls to the British when Continental Gen. Benjamin Lincoln surrenders during the American Revolution. Three Continental Navy frigates (Boston, Providence, and Ranger) are captured; and one American frigate (Queen of France) is sunk to prevent capture.
1797 Mutiny in the British Fleet at the Nore (subdued June 16)
1900 Joseph John Rochefort, U.S. naval officer, cryptanalyst. who broke the Japanese code, d. 1976
1941 Charles Henry George Howard, the Earl of Suffolk, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden, his chauffeur Fred Hards, and five assistants, defusing a bomb
1382 Giovanna I Queen Regnant of Naples, having runthrough five husbands and numerous lovers while ruining her country, murdered at 56
1670 Elector Augustus I of Saxony was born, who was also King Augustus II of Poland and Lithuania, known as “The Strong”, with c. 350 children, including Marshal Saxe
1725 Jacques de Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, later Captain, Regiment de Picardie, Brig. Gen., d. 1817
The unreliability of the old smooth bore musket is notorious. As one British observer once observed, " . . . a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, provided his antagonist aimed at him."
An excellent demonstration of this fact occurred during one battle in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). It seems that, having routed the enemy, some French troops were pursuing them off the field, which was rather shrouded in gunsmoke, a commonplace of battles using traditional black powder.
One of the French soldiers, Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, imprudently donned the headdress of a fallen Hessian grenadier. At that, about 50 of de Beauliue's comrades, mistaking him for the enemy in the smoke, opened fire, some of them at perhaps not more than 30 paces. Amazingly, de Beaulieu emerged completely unijured, despite a ball that had passed through his coat and another that had clipped his bayonet.
1780. The city of Charleston, S.C., falls to the British when Continental Gen. Benjamin Lincoln surrenders during the American Revolution. Three Continental Navy frigates (Boston, Providence, and Ranger) are captured; and one American frigate (Queen of France) is sunk to prevent capture.
1797 Mutiny in the British Fleet at the Nore (subdued June 16)
1900 Joseph John Rochefort, U.S. naval officer, cryptanalyst. who broke the Japanese code, d. 1976
1941 Charles Henry George Howard, the Earl of Suffolk, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden, his chauffeur Fred Hards, and five assistants, defusing a bomb
7
Intel Dump / Re: Wargame Design Studio News Thread + Latest Sale Titles
« Last post by rahamy on Yesterday at 09:47:00 AM »New Game of the Week announced, the freshly updated Campaign Leipzig! Read all about it in todays blog post:
https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/game-of-the-week-may-13-19
https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/game-of-the-week-may-13-19
8
Arts & Crafts & 3D Printing / Re: Bison's Tales of Hobby Crafting
« Last post by thecommandtent on May 11, 2024, 09:10:13 PM »They look great!
Thanks, Bob!
I am working on several VTT maps on Campaign Cartographer. Unfortunately, I cannot share them here just yet. I don't want to ruin TheCommandTent's experience during our group's next VTT session.
9
Saturday Night Fights & Tabletop Simulator / Re: Eggmuhl Week
« Last post by bayonetbrant on May 11, 2024, 08:02:00 PM »"Eggmuhl Week" is stretching into "Eggmuhl Month" (and coming soon "Eggmuhl Season")
The current game right now is General D'Armee 2
https://wp.me/pae4WL-90p
The current game right now is General D'Armee 2
https://wp.me/pae4WL-90p
10
Intel Dump / Re: Whats on Your Table?
« Last post by Putraack on May 11, 2024, 04:53:06 PM »On My table: Saipan: the bloody rock, from Compass Games one of the Company Scale Series. This has been suspended for a month, as we prepare for running Brazen Chariots at Origins. That's just been set up on someone else's table.
Also on my table: Kesselring's War, as a solitaire exploration. I've played 7 of 8 turns, and have learned a few things, but not quite how to make a big amphibious landing in this system. I pulled off the Sicily landings and the Italian "toe" landing, but my Salerno attempt was thrown back by the Germans. I think I learned a few things, as I followed with Sardinia and Corsica landings, which led to a landing adjacent to Rome instead of Anzio. As it uses alternate impulses, I think it would run better as an opposed game than a solitaire one.
Also on my table: Kesselring's War, as a solitaire exploration. I've played 7 of 8 turns, and have learned a few things, but not quite how to make a big amphibious landing in this system. I pulled off the Sicily landings and the Italian "toe" landing, but my Salerno attempt was thrown back by the Germans. I think I learned a few things, as I followed with Sardinia and Corsica landings, which led to a landing adjacent to Rome instead of Anzio. As it uses alternate impulses, I think it would run better as an opposed game than a solitaire one.