Maida 1806
Robert and I had today a very good game playing the historical; battle of Maida. The game used the BBB ruleset, which turns out to be an excellent ruleset even of a small affair...
Category: Battles
Big Battle of Oldendorf, 1633
We just finished playing the game on a big 12’x6′ table. The table size matched the terrain scale and all units present in the battle were represented, down to the single cavalry squadron. The...
Preparing for Oldendorf
A few pictures to the two armies just deployed on the table, ready to clash.
Battle of Oldendorf
We might soon play the Battle of Oldendorf, which was fought in 1633. A Magweb article may be found here. An imperial relief force of the besieged town of Hameln (nowadays Hamelin) was countered...
The great battle of Hochkirch
This week we had a very enjoyable game, my good friends Arturo, Diego, Leonardo, Riccardo and I. We played a bathtubbed version of this iconic Seven Years War battle, a fighting retreat which the...
Neil Thomas revival with a test game
I made a quick test game using the Neil Thomas Ancient Wargame rules. Mario made me discover these rules when he gave me the Neil Thomas book as a present, it had been just...
Never Mind the Matchlocks, action in Moëns
Here some photos of the great game we had yesterday, Robert and I. The rules from Andy Callan are rather nice, they feel like playing a large skirmish game. The command system and cards...
BBB Vimeiro
Today I had a great game with Robert. We have played the Battle of Vimerio using the BBB rules frommChris Pringle. The figures we used were superbly pained by Robert, 6mm from Baccus. Overall...
Curtatore e Montanara
Tutto merito di Marco il resoconto della battaglia, organizzata appositamente mentre ero oltralpe. Sabato 11 Gennaio Curtatone e Montanara 1848 Regolamento: Neil Thomas (One-hour Wargames: Practical Tabletop Battles) Contrariamente alla successiva retorica patriottarda lo scontro...
