Wooden Ships and Iron Men

 

In a last-minute change of plan, I've brought my copy of Avalon Hill's classic Wooden Ships and Iron Men on holiday, in order to learn the rules and play some Age of Sail naval games. I've had this for ages but just didn't get round to punching it out and getting started, so now seems like an ideal opportunity. I'm working on some 1/2400th scale Napoleonic ships at the moment too, so it all fits together nicely. I've only just arrived at the holiday destination, so will give it a couple of days before I get cracking, but there will be some game reports on the blog soon as!

Battletech

 

Here's the game for the summer holidays, the new edition of Battletech, complete with some really nice plastic mech figures, full colour rules, cards, counters and hex maps. I saw the game while browsing the model shops in Cardiff the other day and thought it would be good fun to relive my university days, playing the second edition with cardboard counters, pencils and pads of paper. Good fun!

Star Wars Imperial Assault

 

I bought a second hand copy of Imperial Assault yesterday in the local charity shop for a tenner, expecting it to have bits missing, tatty sheets and so on, only to find it was mint and unpunched. What a bargain! I have some holiday time coming up so will crack it open for some solo games and to learn the rules. The Force is definitely with me on this one!

Sherwood Scenario 1

 

I punched out the counters for Sherwood today and set up the first scenario, in which Alan Adale has to escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham's men with the help of the local peasants. This was good fun and he almost got away with it but was captured in the very last turn after all of the peasants had run off. It's a really simple system, made even more so by the revised combat rules that use differentials instead of combat odds ratios as in the original Cry Havoc. A few more games are definitely on the cards this week!

Sherwood

 

I ordered my copy of Sherwood way back before Xmas as a present and it finally arrived today. I'm really impressed with the production values of this Cry Havoc based game and can't wait to try it out. Brilliant!