Mark -
It's all right there. Everything that miniatures wargaming should be, is right there in your pictures, as it was right there on that table. At least to my way of thinking.
The scenario is exceptionally well crafted. I expect you had to do a bit of work to turn what you found in the book into this battle.
The table is exceptionally well laid out. No bowling green for a bucket-of-dice contest there. Enough detail to smack of realism, but still not cluttered. I can see those walls, laid out at somewhat imperfect angles as they are in European towns. I see those trees, the small hedges between the farm fields, the phone poles. It's just beautiful.
And it seems to have played well. Looks like it confronted all the gamers with challenges, not challenging them to know or look-up arcane special rules, not challenging them to just throw more 6s than the other side, but challenging them tactically, forcing them to think like small unit COs.
The pics and the storytelling of the AAR are of course the icing on the cake. But wow, Mark, you never disappoint, do you? Every time I see another AAR posting, it's like "find some time, get comfortable, and you're going to have a good read."
Thanks for posting. Could hardly have found a more interesting and entertaining use for my time.
-Mark (the other)
(aka: Mk 1)
proves that you don't need to be a master painter or invest hundreds of hours working to get good results.
