"Back from Little Wars" Topic

I attended Little Wars over the weekend and had a great time. I put on one game and played three games. Crowds seemed down a little on Saturday but there were more on Friday and Sunday but that is only my observation I may be wrong. Lots of vendor so I bought a lot of toys to work on in the coming months.
Pico Armor was there, they weren't listed. I asked him if he had any of the Monopoly houses with him, John said no but could bring them on Saturday. Saturday morning he tossed a couple bags on the table I was setting up on and said he'd send a Paypal invoice if that was ok. Deal I said and gave him my business card.
Games
I played the Battle Prestonpans Friday morning, nicely done. I played on the Highlander side my friend Steve King played on the Government side. The game was fun, maybe because I was on the winning side. Small battle 4 players.
In the evening I played a Napoleonic Naval Battle, Battle of Basque Roads. Stritax put it nicely in his review. about the game and the French side. I helped a player guide his frigates through the waters shooting at the French frigates and at the end crashing and breaking the boom. Good game, next time the french won't up anchor and leave.
Saturday Evening I played an All Quiet on the Martian Front Game. I was in charge of three Martian assault tripods and three scout tripods I lost two of each with one of my Assault tripods blowing up and destroying a scout. One of my scouts had a laser illumination device that increased the likelihood of hits. I illuminated a very large land Ironclad for four turns. The Americans tried their best to knockout my Scout firing on it every turn. They shot at it seven time the first turn, eight the next 6 the next and 4 the final turn. The result was one point of armor lost. Alas the martian were overwhelmed by the American forces.

Saturday morning I put on a Napoleonic combined game of Ligny and Quatre Bras in 6mm. Had about 400+ stands and 3500 to 3800 figures on a 11 by 6 table. We eventually had seven players. The players all had a good time the French had pushed the Prussian and British. The Prussian and British losses were around 700 points while the French lost 500. Over all it was a good game, and there was a lot of interest in the rules I was suing, Orders to Eagles.

I had a good time as usual met old friends and made new Friends. Got some good deals from vendors and as noted previously great service from Pico Armor. I will post pictures later.

Terry

Sounds like you had a great time. I played in Friday nights game and was a little dismayed by the dominance of the Land Dreadnoughts…

They may be rather dominating, but they are impressive to see on the table. In the three playtests for the game, the US/Brits suffered 80% losses, and the only thing holding off the Martians were the two Dreadnaughts. Hope you enjoyed.