Rapid Fire! D-Day

Today I dug out my 20mm Rapid Fire D-Day models and had a game.

 Here are the British about to hit the beach.

 There is a lot of barbed wire and tank traps on there.

 German defenders await the assault.

 Naval gunfire was ineffective... I think that I misread the rulebook.

 There is a Pak40 in there.

 The Germans shoot down at the British and very few of them make it to the wire.

 The tanks are immobilised by mines but crucially are still able to shoot.

 The RAF arrives to bomb one of the German trenches.

 After running out of soldiers I recycled them and brought on a second wave.

 They charge ashore.

 And up the beach, German fire is less effective as casualties mount.

 The British surge forward.

 They reach the wire.

 This German trench has only two men left.

 But the MMG's in the pillbox are still blazing away.

 It takes a move under fire to get through the wire.

 The only tank to make it off the beach has a lucky roll and silences the pillbox!.

 Then races for the crossroads.

 The infantry follow.

The PaK40 bunker is assaulted.

Not a bad game, I did make some mistakes with the rules but nothing too important. It is a long time since I played Rapid Fire!.

Pike and Shotte

I played an English Civil War battle today using Warlord Games Pike and Shotte rules.

I adapted their Thirty Years War scenario " Blood on the Danube " in which the army pay chest has to be defended until nightfall. In order to play this solo I selected 3 playing cards, Jack, Queen and King, shuffled them up so I didn't know which one was the King (the pay chest) and placed them under the three buildings in the Parliamentarian deployment area.

The Royalist then had eight turns to capture the money!.

Here are some photos from the action.

 The Royalist centre advance rapidly.

 Old Robins Foote in their tawny coats prepare to give fire.

 The Royalist left flank advance.

 The Royalist commander.

 Hampdens Greencoats defend the ruined church.

 A view of the battlelines.

 Hard fighting but time is running out.

 By this time many of the Royalist battalia were broken.

 The roundheads kept up a spirited defence.

The only building that the Royalists were able to capture didn't contain the pay chest. Hard to bear!.

I enjoyed the game, I'll try to get another soon.

Lately, I've been...

playing Air War C21.

I copied the missiles from this gentlemans blogpost,  glueinthecarpet.blogspot.co.uk

 Painting up a couple of 1/1200th scale ships.

 USS Hornet

 HMS Duke of York

 And spending a lot of time thinking about recreating the Grant armies in 6mm. I think it would be very nice to command such famous fictional regiments.

 Some unfinished Irregular Miniatures SYW in 48 man units look quite like the real thing on the front of The War Game.

 The Lorraine army is fairly easy to copy, being very similar to the historical French army.

The VFS was a real mixed bag of uniforms... blue, grey, green and yellow!. I own a copy of The War Game Companion too, but info on the VFS is a bit sketchy.

I have this lot here and probably as many again of Marlburians both Heroics and Irregular.

I would use Black Powder rules using centimetres as inches and go for a real old school look.

I might do it, or I might not. I have too many projects on the go, but most of us do!.

Modern Wargame Rules v2

Here are some scans of version 2, I hope they make sense.