Recon 2017 or Bust!

Well the day has finally come, Recon 2017 in Orlando, Florida!  Tomorrow morning Bill of Bill's Gamer Garage and I are hitting the road starting here in Denver.  This time we will take a more southern route through Houston, then along the Gulf to the convention site.  Half the fun is in the Journey.  We are already planning a visit to the Civil War Naval Museum in Atlanta on the way back.  Can't wait!

Bill and I are bringing the usual stuff; Loads of excellent terrain, Dhows, Gunboats, Congo Boats, 15mm Dhows and Gunboats.

I will also be putting on two scenarios.  The first is a Sudan Bombardment. A kind of introductory river battle using my Gunboat and Dhows! rules.  Gunboats will be subject to entrenched batteries and maybe a couple of Dervish boats might make an appearance.  There will be plenty of boat action in this one.  

The second scenario called Get to the Boat! will be using modified rules from The Sword and the Flame.  We will be using small units in this one where the Government staff are making a run to the docks.  The heavy Gunboat Cairo has disembarked units to clear an escape path.  It will be an interesting city fight where the Dervish can appear from hidden locations around the board.  As the battle rages on the Dervish attacks will of course become more intense.  Should be a lot of Bloody fun.

Hope to see you there...Last Stand Dan

Gunboat to the Rescue! (A Sudan Battle)

I hosted another battle here in my basement for my cousins who have never played a miniature battle before.  I think they are hooked.  We had a blast.

Using The Sword and the Flame and my new river rules Gunboat and Dhow which will be released soon, we had a hard close fight.  With Commander Lloyd and Lt. Commander Ian leading the British and Egyptian forces I took on the role of the Dervish.

The battle was scheduled for eight (8) turns and using both sets of rules for river and ground combat we had no problem completing the battle in around 3 hours.  The Gunboat and Dhow rules are being written to provide a means of maintaining the flow of TSATF and not slow anything down during play.  There will be more on that later.  To the battle!

The Anglo/Egyptian Force:
B Class Gunboat 77 with two main guns, a squad of Marines lead by Lt. Cmdr. Ian
Shore party of a Royal Marine unit plus a Screw Gun lead by Cmdr. Lloyd.

The Dervish Force:
Three Jihadiya units
Three Handendoah units
Two Kordufan units
Two Krupp 6pdrs
One Rifle unit

The premise of this scenario is that the Egyptians are under siege all over the Sudan.  This is a battle where a Colonel Rashid with a unit of regulars fled to the river and setup camp.  Here they wait for an   evacuation.  The British are on the way to their position but are going in slowly.  A Dervish trap is suspected.  The gunboat has made its way into the area, deployed Marines and a gun and will steam up the river to the Egyptian camp cautiously.

I setup VPs for destroying units, capturing Rashid, etc.  It ended up some something like 94 to 127 in favor of the...oh yeah, take a look at the pictorial After Action Report.

It was a fun and great way to spend a Saturday morning, fighting with the family...

I hope you enjoy the blog...

Last Stand Dan

Note: Gunboat is scratch built model from Last Stand Boatyard, the hills you see on the table are from Bill's Gamer Garage.

World War One Bolt Action at Recruits

I just wanted to post this up for my good friend Bill of Bill's Gamer Garage.  He put this on at our club a few weeks ago for the big play test.  He will be putting this game on at Recruits this coming weekend.

Using a modified WWI variant on this professionally done board was loads of fun!  I hope you get to play it this weekend.  Definitely, visit Bill's dealer table if you get a chance.  He will have some very nice terrain features for your table.  He will also have some of my boats there as I will have some of his terrain at Recon in Orlando.

Have fun,

Last Stand Dan