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
Jeff, this was a very enjoyable retrospective of your group's gaming past. How many years ago was this?
ReplyDeleteOff the top, roughly 2003ish to 2009ish?
DeleteYes the first pics were stamped 2003. I started with the group in 2006. The last pics were from 2015
DeleteThere were some good games and good company in those days.
ReplyDeleteI'd almost forgotten there were photo archives for the yahoo group!
I agree. I remember travelling 2 hours each way to make the games. It was worth it to make friends in a new province.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteSend 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?
ReplyDeleteNo. 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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