| Justice and Rule | 07 Mar 2012 3:01 a.m. PST |
We went down to Texas for a battle, and man it if wasn't Texas-big. Here's our Battle of Borodino, as fought with Battalions as the basic unit on a 25x8 table with 15mm figures and a custom ruleset. The biggest game I've ever been a part of, and probably the luckiest I'll ever be in a wargame. link By the by, feel free to comment at the end; we are looking for more opinions on what may have occurred due to how our battle turned out. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me; I'm not sure how well I can answer, but I did leave out some details to keep the review… shorter than it previously was. |
 Flashman14  | 07 Mar 2012 3:40 a.m. PST |
Winner! Best game room .. and an impressive dedication to Jack Daniels! |
| nsolomon99 | 07 Mar 2012 4:02 a.m. PST |
Looks great, you need a flocking party to work on those bases for next time. LOTS of Minifigs by the looks but noticed a few more modern brands. Done in a day too. Lots of fun. Thanks for the report. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 07 Mar 2012 5:58 a.m. PST |
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Chortle  | 07 Mar 2012 6:54 a.m. PST |
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| Doc Karl | 07 Mar 2012 7:08 a.m. PST |
OMG that is how it should be done. Epic and beautiful. |
| BoomBoomBoom | 07 Mar 2012 7:27 a.m. PST |
WOW Great game. Please can you post the OOB used for the game? |
| yorkie o1 | 07 Mar 2012 8:16 a.m. PST |
That games room is most definitely bigger than my house! Lucky so and so….. Steve |
| Gonsalvo | 07 Mar 2012 11:24 a.m. PST |
Very nicely done indeed! We will be running Borodino at Historicon in 28mm on a tabl;e roughly the same length and not quite battalion scale but close. You state the table was 8 feet wide… not quite sure how the players could maneuver troops in the center of the table (obviously, they did – I'm 6'4" and even at that 6 feet is usually considered about the widest practical for a wargames table, and for conventions we've learned to try to use 5 foot wide tables wherever possible. Peter |
| Justice and Rule | 07 Mar 2012 11:33 a.m. PST |
Good luck with your game! Hopefully Bagration and Barclay don't get as lucky with their rolls to convince the army to work together and get to grips with the French. The table was set low enough that you could lean in and reach your figures with stretching, though those of us with longer arms had to help out a bit more at times. While I agree that 6' is generally the ideal width, we game on a table that starts out as 8'x6' that we often modify out to 12'x8'. I suppose the years of practice finally paid off when we hit the big time! ;-) |
| Sparker | 07 Mar 2012 2:19 p.m. PST |
Now that is gaming in the Grand Manner! |
| The Centurian | 07 Mar 2012 3:03 p.m. PST |
I really like how the hills were modelled, especially the slopes. Were these purchased, or did you make these yourselves? |
| Gonsalvo | 07 Mar 2012 5:07 p.m. PST |
They look like Geo-Hex, but I could certainly be wrong. |
| Berzerker73 | 07 Mar 2012 5:55 p.m. PST |
That is a great looking game room. I am jealous but have a goal! |
| Justice and Rule | 07 Mar 2012 6:41 p.m. PST |
They are indeed Geo-Hex, which is sadly out of business. If you want to see more of what we did over the weekend, feel free to check the blog, which as some of the pictures of both his house and some of the other games we played. Most of the games only got a few pictures taken, but we did a very nice 1/285th Blackhawk down game which I believe had a lot of pictures. I'll see if someone will post that in the future. |
| wrgmr1 | 07 Mar 2012 11:32 p.m. PST |
Great looking game, thanks for posting!! |
| Manflesh | 08 Mar 2012 6:32 a.m. PST |
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| Maxshadow | 10 Mar 2012 8:09 p.m. PST |
To be apart of that. What a dream. :o)
Max |
| HandLCreator | 03 May 2012 8:34 p.m. PST |
Great pics and what a collection of spent Jack Daniels bottle. Now thats a place to game! |
