Angels 20

I bought myself the Axis and Allies Angels 20 starter set at the weekend, it arrived on Monday and I've had some exciting dogfights since.

 The six planes are very nice.

 The rules give a fast and fun game.

 Years ago I planned to make a similar game using 1/72 scale model planes but it wouldn't have been as good as this.

 The maps are thin but they look pretty good.

 After shooting down a Me 109 the Spitfire gets himself on the tail of another!.

 And rolls well enough to shoot him down too.

 I use small dice to show altitude and damage rather than the markers supplied with the game.

 This shot features a home made cloud.

I do like the planes, £20 well spent I reckon.

Tracks of Fury!.

I had a nice tank battle today using Bolt Action. My son John and I are planning to see the film "Fury" soon and this was the inspiration for the game. Here are a few shots of the toys...

 Corgi Shermans advance.

 A Corgi Tiger lurks.

 Tamiya Hetzers.

 A Corgi Panther.

 Tamiya M10 Tank Destroyer.

 Corgi Kubelwagen with the Panther.

 A Corgi Halftrack with Warlord crew.

 Westwind motorbikes.

 Corgi jeeps with Westwind crew.

 A Bandai halftrack, a gift from a friend.

 Westwind PaK 40s.

 Another shot of a Corgi Tiger.

 Tamiya Hetzer.

Tank battles play well with Bolt Action, I plan to make some markers for the game soon.

Lion Rampant roars into life!.

I received my copy of Dan Merseys Lion Rampant medieval rules the other day. Today I tried them out with a pair of 20 point forces.

 The pig headed Baron Sanglier is the leader of one retinue.

 While the well known braggart Sir Roget Megently leads the opposing force.

 I played scenario E: Hold on Tight.

 All of the toys are Games Workshop.

 Sangliers foot serjeants hold the objective hill.

 While the battle raged around them.

Even though Sanglier was killed* in a duel with Megently his retinue held on for victory.

*He was only wounded, he will be back.

I like this game, particularly the boasting bit.

Commands and Colors blocks used for Black Powder.

As I was driving home from work last night the ABS warning light came on. The brakes were ok and I made it home alright. This morning though, when I set off I found that I had a grinding noise and very little in the way of brakes. Luckily the roads were quiet and I made it to the mechanics safely. Well I couldn't get to work, what could I do...

I had this game set up since the weekend. I had planned to play it tomorrow (day off) but I'll make up the time then.

 The inspiration for this was the maps in Bruce Quarries classic book.

 I used my Commands and Colors blocks for the armies and used the lists from the Napoleonic scenario in the Black Powder Rule book.

 I used centimetres instead of inches for all ranges and movement.

 French marching columns.

 As always I forgot about the broken brigade rules until too late, ah well.

 The lying down artillery pieces signified limbered guns.

 At this point I decided that I should check brigade and army morale and marked the broken brigades with a red counter.

 Both armies were beat. I called it as a narrow French victory.

I will do this again probably on a 4x4 board rather than 2x4 with a bit more forethought, a proper scenario with objectives.

But as an experiment the little blocks work very well in my opinion. I could even use my ancients blocks for Hail Caesar.
What do you reckon?.