Wednesday 20 February 2019

Memory Lane

I was surfing the interwebs recently and was inspired to find an old Yahoo Group that was very active from my days gaming with the Nova Scotia Historical Wargamers. The site had a huge photo section where the players dumped their photos of our table top exploits. I have pulled a few out for this post and hope you enjoy. The group had some excellent photographers!

Ancients:

The group played a lot of ancients and the rules of choice were Warhammer Ancients Battle.

 This is a shot down the line of my 400 model Celtic Horde
 Gary's lovely Imperial Romans
 Gary's Assyrians fend of the Celts

 Giant Rome vs Carthage game
 Celts vs Ross' Persians
 The Flank Attack Rolls in


 Setting up

Ross's Greeks


ECW

The group embarked on a few projects where all players agreed to collect and paint figures for a period. ECW was one of the more successful projects. Unfortunately one of the main troop providers moved to Ontario causing my Royalists to sit idle for many years. They were eventually expanded and divided into two armies and based for Baroque. Rules we used included WRG ECW, Warhammer ECW, 1644 and Victory Without Quarter.


Revolutionary War and War of 1812

As a group, we collected 40mm Sash and Sabre figures for AWI. I only collected a few units as I was leary of getting into another scale. They were fun to paint and the battles were HUGE.


















Napoleonics

The group had collections in 28mm and 15mm. Rules too numerous to name including Ross' excellent homebrew rules.

Russians defending against Brits in a Black Powder scenario for Crimean War
 Put all the figures on the table game.
 Gary's amazing basement game room kept the quality of the games high
Shako Caldero Scenario 

 15mm Aspern Essling using Grande Armee



Friedland with Commit the Garde
 Waterloo with Napoleon's Battles 1400 figs in 15mm
 Raab with Shako
 Austrian Grenadiers capture Essling
Crimean War Cavalry clash 



Colonials

A few of the members had large colonial collections so it was heavily played. Here is a scenario of getting the releif column through the ambush to relieve the fort.


 Ross' pirate raiding game

Franco Prussian War

Mike was probably the most prolific painter and collector of figures in our group. Below are pics of his Franco Prussian War games in 28mm. He had excellent terrain and a lovely game room to play in. Also moved to Ontario...





World War 2

This period did not see too much action with the group but I found a few pics of my German infantry troops in 15mm as well as some Command Decision Desert War pictures





 






8 comments:

  1. Jeff, this was a very enjoyable retrospective of your group's gaming past. How many years ago was this?

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    1. Off the top, roughly 2003ish to 2009ish?

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    2. Yes the first pics were stamped 2003. I started with the group in 2006. The last pics were from 2015

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  2. There were some good games and good company in those days.

    I'd almost forgotten there were photo archives for the yahoo group!

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    1. I agree. I remember travelling 2 hours each way to make the games. It was worth it to make friends in a new province.

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  3. I enjoyed your photographs, good to take nostalic look back, though suddenly you wonder why it is you can actually look back as far as 4 decades! I seem to remember a gamer who I think was from Nova Scotia, who ran a blog / website that had AAR’s on 1/72 WWII battles. the front page to his site had a montage of pictures, part of which was something llke a man-o-war.

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  4. Send a link if your find the NS blogger. I have added a picture of our group page picture that has a man-o-war element on it. Its at the end of the post. Could that be the one you saw?

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  5. No. I can see it in my minds eye, i think it had around 5 elements in it and was a simple montage, no flags etc. I am on a mission now to find the thing :-)

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