"Wooden Wars: La Haye Block" Topic

I was lucky to attend Kublacon game convention this weekend and run a couple of games. This is by far my favorite con as it is super family friendly, fairly laid back (almost always a space to do a pickup game) good location and a fantastic and helpful staff. The Hotel is pretty cool, and the con food is- well- it's con food. I highly recommend this convention to anyone.

La Haye Block is an homage to that pivotal farm house and Orchard on the battlefield of Waterloo. At the start of my scenario, the British/ KGL forces had the farmhouse and orchard in their command, with the French pounding away with two batteries of guns as the Leger and grenadiers advanced.

The British had lots of infantry but no cavalry, and only one battery of two (heroic as we shall see) guns. The French had a decent amount of infantry but not enough to squander, backed by afore mentioned batteries of 3 guns each and two regiments of Hussars- the 7th and the 5th. French forces were commanded by Murat himself, as My Ney was not finished and, well, Murat is such a sharp dresser!

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Cheers!
Ths

Very cool game Ths
I always stop for a look when I see your games.
It was good to see you.
Clif

Thanks Clif, always a fun game to run!
Cheers
Ths

Do you throw dice at em for cannons then?

Vayasen- for the most part rubber balls are used to be tosses at the soldiers, knocking them over. But once in "cannister" range, aka one baton's length, it is hard to toss a ball, so instead each gun gets 5 dice, hitting on 6's.
Here's an "action shot" of some poor cavalry getting hit by a battery of 3 guns. The entire unit went down…

In melee after first contact, if there is anyone left they dice off. Simple, and hopefully elegant :)

So- no, we throw balls, not dice in this game.

Cheers
Ths

While I have moved on from this now as im older, I would have loved his as a young un ;]