Hurricon 2016 - Last Stand's Full Ahead to Metemmeh Scenario

So here is the installment of the first of the Sudan trilogy at Hurricon.  The objective of this battle was to get boats off the south end in order to join the fight at Metemmeh.  It was a hard fought battle but overall the Dervish did what they set out to do and that was to slow down the Anglo/Egyptian flotilla.  Thanks for all of the players that participated.  I hope you had as much fun as I had putting it on.

Last Stand Dan

Hurricon 2016 - Sgt. Guinness's Aba Island Scenario

After a long but nice drive to Orlando I was able to play in multiple games and most importantly meet up with my friends in the East.  It was a great time!  One of the first battles that I played in was put on by Sgt. Guinness (Jeff Baumal).  He dusted off a board that Bill Moreno of Good Ground miniatures (http://crackerlineminis.com) made for him many, many years ago.  It still looked great as you will see!

The scenario had the Egyptians looking for the so called Mahdi who was on this Island.  They deployed a couple of steamers loaded with various Egyptian troops to land to search and bring the Mahdi back to Egypt.  Like that was going to happen...

We didn't get too many pictures of the battle but it ended up with Mahdi still running free on the Island with Egyptian troops still looking for him. So it was a victory for the Dervish who were able to inflict casualties on the Egyptians who happened to land a force on one side of the island right in front of the hiding Dervish.  We did get pictures of that of course...

It is a very good scenario that Jeff put on and I look forward to playing it again in the future.  Everyone had a great time.

Last Stand Dan

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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

Full Steam to Metemmeh! (Terrain and Rules rehearsal)

Just thought you would like to see the last dress rehearsal before all of this has to be packed up and moved to Florida (Hurricon) and Kansas City (Recruits) next week.

The final hours of laying out the terrain, cutting the foam, figuring out if this scenario will work.  This time the boats will not be on a wide piece of the Nile but a narrowing section where we have the Dervish waiting for them.  The boats will have to make a couple of tricky maneuvers to get out of this part of the rocky narrow.  Along with three British/Egyptian boat Captains and a crazy Lt. leading a landing party there will be four players.  The Dervish are divided up into the Western shore line (right side of picture) of Forts and Rifle pits, Eastern shoreline (Left side) with the same, along with a Tribe of Dervish disembarking from the docked Dhow and a Dervish gunboat taking the last shots at the boats before they try to break through.  I might if there is time run another battle the last day with the usual wide Nile for some gunboat and dhow blasting provided they are not all blown to bits.

Hope to see some of you at Hurricon.  An AAR will follow in a week, stay tuned.

Last Stand Dan

NOTE: Those hills, forts and gun pits come from Bill's Gamer Garage.

Getting the shoreline layout.

It's going to be tight, Captains be careful you don't run aground!  Stay focused while the Dervish guns are blasting you!

Packing for the dealer table

New stern and side wheelers along with some small stern wheelers for the Congo (far right).

Overall final layout