Dr Who

Got in a 3 player Dr Who using the Dr Who Miniature Game rules . The 2nd Dr and Jamie had to try and take down an ancient monolith which could be used as a dangerous power source for any alien race that came across it ,unfortunately for the Doctor The Cyberman had discovered it and unfortunately for them so had the Ice Warriors . Luckily for the Doctor the 2 Alien races took offence with each other and concentrated on destroying each other so the doctor got straight to work on fixing the problem ,on the last turn the Doctor had to deal with a Cyberman and Jamie got to grips with a Ice Warrior . The cybermen were wipded out completely and the Doctor and Jamie managed a escape but only just ....

Drop Zone Commander

Played agame of Johns latest purchase TT combats Drop Zone Commander . Really nice model's and a great rule set easy to pick up and lots of choices of tactics ,weapons etc great fun and we ended up with a draw so both happy

BattleTech alpha Strike

Managed to get all the minitures painted and had aplaytest trying out different rules to make sure I had read them Correctly , then had a

game versus John I had the Highlanders and John had the green Jade ,we played the first scenariuo in the rule book and john stole the day his surviving Mech took down my last 2 . A rally good game easy to pick up and most imprtantly it was fun .

BattleTech Alpha Strike

I played Battletech a few years ago and the paperwork put me off getting into it but came across this quick play version "Alpha Strike " , all the info you need for your Mechs are on pre printed cards and the rules are cut back to a minimum and best of all you vcvan play large numbers of mechs ,not had chance to play yet but it looks like it could be an ideal afternoon or evening game . The box set comes with the 40 page rule book , a 16page Primer covering the different forces and brief background of the universe and a24page Novella . It comes with 13 Mechs ,51 cards a card reference sheet card stock trees and counters plus 15 card buildings , also included are 2 dice which seems abit of acheat has each player needs 2 dice . Some Pics of the contents below and hopefully get agame or 2 in in acouple´of weeks .

Combat Patrol -ww2

Dug out our Combat patrol ww2 rules and using the Falklands supplement did a game where a SAS forward obsevation post is discovered by a Argentinian Patrol ,Johns Argies scraped aluck Victory 10 points to my 6

More escape from Stalingrad

As we were running out fo time we pled another 5 scenarios from the Escape from Stalingrad game , really good funand some how my Little Siberian scout armed witha shovel is doing really well whereas Johns German manages to scrape through each game . a

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Torpedoes & Tides

Doing a clear out I came across my coastal warfare collection of Royal Navy , Regai Marina and Kreigsmarine craft . I originally bought these for Warlords Cruel Seas which turned out to be areally rubbish set of rules ,so at that time i started to rewrite them playtesting ech set of changes each week and we got a really great game ,not to indepth but historical enough for a decent game ,so I tried to find these but only succeded in my rough layout and all the notes we made at the time , which I will sort out and get it all together but in the mean time I heard about Torpedoes and Tides . A set of quick play rules by Thomas Brandstetter available in PDF or a couple of print options ,I went with the Coil bound printed set . A very basic set of rules by todays standards , a small size in B & W but the rules are clear give a faily realistic game involving MTBs ,MGBs and Escorts & Convoy vessels . the rules contain 8 scenarios and stats for over a 100 types plus there are free downloads of FAQs , Secenario bookelets ,templates etc . I payed asolo game with some vospers against S Boats which gave the RN a victory , then played a 2 player game with John taking the Italians andI ran the RN ,this time the Italians causing lots of damage to my Boats but I amnaged to steal a victory by recuing the downed RAF pilots Game play is fast and furious which the actual battles were as they were usually fought at Night and at fast speeds ,really reccomend these we were palying just using fast play sheets straight away and we both enjoyed the game . So far there are no rules for aircraft or submarines but bot are not really part of the actions these rules are meant to represent . A selection of pics of my Boats/Ships and from the 2 games