February 28 meeting

A good turn out of players on Sunday, most getting themselves organised for the start of Craig's and Jim's Historical/Fantasy campaign using the Hordes of the Things rules. More from Craig on that shortly, including the start day.

Welcome to Gregory Batchelor who was at the club for the first time and is interested in the campaign.

The Hordes of the Things games played included:

Craig (the army of Hos Hostigos from the H.Beam Piper Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen novels) vs Jim (Goblins); Neil (Bretonnians) vs Ross (Minas Morgul) and then Neil vs Andrew (Tyrannids); and James was there sorting through boxes and boxes or Dwarfs to organise his army for the campaign. Peter and Rex were also there getting information they needed to get their armies ready.

Callum (Space Marines) and James (Orks) played Warhammer 40K.

Thank you to Craig for the notes, any errors are my misunderstandings. Sorry there are no pictures, on Sunday Mim and I were in Marton looking at a dog.

January 31 meeting

Craig and Jim organised a series of practice games to help people learn the Hordes of the Things rules that will be used in the club campaign. A good number of people turned out and Craig provided these notes, with David taking the photos.

• Craig using Lizardmen (attacker) (just) beat Jim using Goblins (defender).
• Dave using Lord of the Rings Goblins (attacker) beat John using Early Imperial Romans (defender) - John lost his general.
• John using Early Imperial Romans lost to Rex also using Early Imperial Romans, despite Rex losing his general.
• Ross using a double-sized Army of Minas Morgul (defender) beat the Graham brothers, Peter and James (attackers).  Peter used  Goblins, and James used Lizardmen.
• Craig using the Army of Hos-Hostigos (from the novel Lord Calvin of Otherwhen by H Beam Piper) (attacker) lost (badly) to Dave using Lord of the Rings  Goblins (defender).
• Rex using Early Imperial Romans (defender) beat Jim also Early Imperial Romans, killing Jim's general along the way.

Rex and Jim, both using Early Imperial Romans

Jim, Early Imperial Romans

Rex, Early Imperial Romans

James (Goblins) and Ross (Minas Morgul)

January 10 meeting - Happy New Year!

Our first meeting for 2016 was a great start to the year: Eleven people have already signed up for Craig’s and Jim’s campaign; Neil brought along one of his naval games, Attack Sub; Vince and Andrew played 25mm Ancients; and it was great to see various people coming in to catch up and see what was happening.

The yet to be named campaign will use the quick play Fantasy rules, Hordes of the Things, and will be set in an ancient-medieval-renaissance-fantasy Italy. Each player will have a city state and all campaign moves and battles will take place at one club meeting a month. Craig is emailing details to all who have signed up. If you would like more information, please contact Craig at craig@nzulm.org.nz or on 027 224 8958

My apologies for the quality of the pictures, I took them with my phone.

Andrew and Vince played DBMM Ancients. It was the first time Andrew had used this particular configuration of Early Achaemenid Persians and it was the first outing for Vince's Early Byzantines. Craig and Neil are in the backgroound.

Some of da boyz talking toy soldiers. Jim, Davie, Todd, James and John.

Part of Craig's and Jim's campaign meeting. Tracey, Peter, John, James, Jim and Craig. 

Peter, Neil and James playing Attack Sub.

Historical-fantasy" campaign - come and join in

Craig and Jim are planning a simple "historical-fantasy" campaign based loosely on Italian city states. Come to the club on Sunday January 10 to join in the planning meeting.

You can use your own Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance or Fantasy armies but you do not need to have your own army. Loan armies will be available. Armies do not have to be Italian but should be "Italian-like", an enemy of, or  "traditional" fantasy armies (Dwarfs, Elves, Undead, Empire, etc. and you could say Horsemen of Rohan are sort of like Lombards).

The starting idea is that all campaign moves and battles would be at club meetings with minimal book-keeping required. The rules will be simple enough for several campaign moves and two or three battles to be played at a meeting. The battle rules will probably be either DBA 3 or Hordes of the Things. Respectively, these are fun, quick-play Ancient and Fantasy rules.

Come to the meeting on January 10 to find out what the campaign will be about, join in the discussion and find out how you could get involved. The meeting will, of course, be an ordinary gaming day too, and you are welcome to bring your armies to play games.

December 13 meeting - World War 1 dogfights

The last meeting of the year saw Craig bring squadrons of his World War 1 planes and the Wings of War rules. Three multi-player games were played.

Game 1: Craig, Andrew and Jim (Allies) vs Peter, James and Ross (German)
Game 2: Jim Andrew and Peter (Allies) vs Rex, Craig and James (German)
Games 3: Jim and Andrew (Allies) vs Rex and Craig (German)

The Germans won all three games.

Carl, Jono and big James also came along.

December 13, last meeting of the year

The last club meeting of the year will be this Sunday, December 13, at the Masterton Croquet Club, 1pm to 5pm. I understand Craig is bringing Wings of War and his large collection of aircraft for multiplayer dogfights. Others will be there too with their games. So, come along, join in or just catch up and talk toy soldiers.

Please note there will not be a meeting on the last Sunday of the month, December 27.

Meetings will resume on the second Sunday next month, January 10.

And remember, if you don't hear Snoopy's Christmas at least once, it isn't really Christmas!

Story in this morning's Times-Age

The story in this morning's Times-Age. The story does not include club contacts. I have written a letter to the editor thanking Chris Kilford for the photos and providing club contacts.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11553891