STNG: FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE.

 On Wednesday, David & Del played the 'For the glory of the Empire' mission twice. David was using Romulans against Del's Klingons. Del had to destroy the outpost (mission was delayed 70 years, as the cryo plant malfunctioned). David had to save the outpost by either persuading the Klingons to stand down, or by destroying them. To stand the Klingons down, David had to be able to attack, but give up his attack dice to take an objective token.

The Klingon ship evades the Romulan defenders to destroy the outpost.

In the first game, the Romulans managed to get an objective token, but were unable to stop the Klingons. This was mostly due to Del managing to save 6 hits with his defence dice. This won him a Counter Attack die for his efforts.

The Romulan Ship scores 6 hits, but Del's defence dice rolling cancels them all!

The Klingon ship damages the outpost at the start of the second game.

Already damaged and with auxiliary power tokens the Klingon ship is an easy target for destruction.

In the second game, The Romulans destroyed the Klingon ship after it had damaged the outpost. David earned an Elite Attack dice for the feat of scoring 5 hits in one attack, which destroyed his foe.

Two good, and different games. We are getting too attached to this game. Will we be able to move on?

THE GREAT WAR: LOOS 1915 HOHENZOLLERN REDOUBT.

Last Thursday, Rick and myself played a scenario from The Great War. This is the WW 1 version of  Commands & Colors/Memoir 44. This was the second time that we had played the scenario. I had played as the British and had almost won the scenario. Rick played the British this time. He was fortunate with the pre game bombardment and his initial hand, which allowed him to advance on a broad front.

The scene just after the No Man's Land Bombardment, just prior to the first move.

View from the German trenches.

 The British advanced en masse. the German bomber unit took out two British units in close combat, but was unable to stem the tide.

British advance in progress. The temporary victory medal shows the extent of the British gains. 

As the British advanced, the Germans concentrated their forces. to protect the high ground. Rick managed his hand well and managed to play three out of the four 'butts and bayonets' cards following close combat attacks by the Germans. This cost casualties that I couldn't afford.

The German forces concentrate to hold back the tide. A solitary bomber unit is left in no man's land after taking out two British units.

The British get a third temporary medal by taking all three trenches. 

The Germans were overwhelmed, but still had a good chance of winning, with the score at 5 medals each. Rick managed to take ot two depleted units to win the game.

End state.

The combination of Action cards and Combat cards is great. It gives lots of potential combinations which keep you on your toes and adds to the fog of war. This is another good game from the C&C stable.

ABERDEEN MODEL RAILWAY CLUB EXHIBITION 2015.

Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October 2015 saw my annual trip to the AMRC exhibition. As usual, there were a selection of well built displays with a smattering of interest groups and layouts under construction.

Long view of Elgin's layout.

Elgin's Cragganmore layout.

Another couple of views from the Elgin layout.

The first table encountered was the display by the Elgin Club. It featured a line from a whisky distillery to a mainline station. More in a future post.

This house is a veteran of several displays over 11 years.

Next up, Pentland Model Railway Group's Caithreay layout.

Lengthwise shot of the layout.

This is a family based group who tour all the shows. Indeed they had overcome a domestic crisis to attend the show.

Some detail.

Spot the famous TV character.

                    Some views of the Hardley Main Colliery layout. More of this in a future post.

View of the colliery.

View of the village.

Novelty!

Dundee MRC display.

Lego!

Fairground organs. These provided the background music on the Saturday. Not so much on the Sunday!

                                         

This layout was for sale. Didn't have the £450 to hand!

East Neuk MRC.

Aberdeen Wargames Club had three tables. These will be covered in a future post.

Waterloo using C&C Napoleonics with 20mm figures.

Mons Graupius using To The Strongest rules.

Battle of Berlin.

Battle of Berlin Bolt Action.

Aberdeen Modellers Club.

More from AMC

Scalextrics.

Mystery.

I ended up spending my usual amount on painting and other tools at the Squires stand. I also picked up some Vallejo paints and 4Ground terrain at ABZ Games. I attended both days because I had to pass some goodies to my mat, Iain, who had actually managed to get two days off to attend the show for the first time in two years.

It is always an entertaining day (or two) out. Next year is provisionally 29/30 October 2015.

PROTECT THE SENATOR! ST: ATTACK WING.

This was a variation on 'Protect the Chancellor' with a Dominion force trying to stop a Romulan senator reaching alliance negotiations.

David's Romulans took the direct route. My J'em Hadar attacked with two patrol ships from the left and a battleship from the right.The battleship took punishment, losing it's shields, during it's flight to intercept the senator's ship. The senator was in the act of beaming to the planet, when his ship was destroyed.

Late stages of the game. The battleship closes in.

The senator's ship uncloaks to beam him down.

Just in time for the battleship to roll its 7 dice. End of game!

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST.

Not having blogged for ages, I felt that the longer I left it, the harder it would be.

My return to blogging has been prompted by a question asked on a Facebook page, quoting a problem encountered in a game, stating that this blog was responsible for the questioner coming to the game in question. It brought home that the blog has a wider reach than the Facebook group that I have taken to posting to and has the ability to inspire others.

I have undertaken to post regularly again, Not the battle reports of the past, but just a few words an pictures to give a flavour of what I am up to.

Here a few photos showing recent activity.

Across The Dead Earth.

Battle is joined.

Wings of War/Glory

Star Wars Armada.

Warband.

The Undead attack.

Stalemate.

TARGE 2014.

Rather belatedly, here are my thought on Targe 2014, the wargames show held by Kirriemuir Wargames Club on 8 November 2014. 

I travelled down with Neil and Rick. After booking in my stuff for the bring and buy, we had a quick look round. I picked up some figures from Kenny at http://www.mutineer-miniatures.org.uk/ which I had ordered, even though they did not have a stand at the show. Great service! I got my mandatory shopping from  www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product-category/miniatures . I also bought some 28mm figures for charity http://jjs413-thegen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/doing-my-bit-at-targe.html.

After this, we decided that we would have a go at some of the participation games.Whilst waiting to let Neil & Rick have a go at the Leuchars Veterans 'Operation Chastise' game, spaces came up at a participation game of Chain Of Command, so we had a go at that instead. The scenario was Expanding the Mushkova Bridgehead from 1942.

Calculating the Jumping Off Points.

 This turned out to be a combination of participation and demonstration. We played for an hour and a half.

Early in the game, from the German perspective. The section that I am in charge of is readying itself to fight a Russian section beside the church, on the left. 

 I have the rules, but have never played. It was good to see them in action.

Mid game. Lots of fire fights and a German advance on the right.

We left before the end as we were having our traditional lunch at http://www.thrumshotel.co.uk/.

End game. German breakthrough on the right.
 

When we came back, the Germans had won.

Neil & Rick had a go at a participation game by the Angus Wargames Club showcasing Operation Cerebus, the Channel Dash.

The flight commanders.

Pre Game preparation.

Flights of Swordfish attack.

Close attack. Hits!

 Three photos of an Epic 40K game.

 The Iron Brigade's Operation Cherry Blossom, 1943 Pacific.

 Aberdeen's Battle of Benburb.

 League of Augsburg's Fraustadt 1706.

All in all a good show.