HKSW Club Day

Saturday was HKSW club day again.
This was was the C&C competition day, there was supposed to be 16 people in the competition but understandably life got in the way for many this weekend and we ended up with only 8 (just!).

However it was good fun, I always enjoy C&C preferably with miniatures but the board game is good as well, I lost 8-6 but had some appalling luck with the dice, my heavies with leader were ready to decimate my opponents light troops on the left flank and they drew a blank - well thats my excuse.

I also played my first game of Maneuver (and won!), this was prep for next months competition.
Can't say I liked the game though, it's probably great as a beer and pretzel game with a heavy emphasis on the beer but even though I am a Napoleonic fan this left me cold.

Talking of C&C I will have to get my act together and get that game of BattleLore using GW LOTR miniatures going.

HKSW Meeting - Beijing Wargame Club

Saturday was HKSW club day this time at the Kowloon Bay venue.

I played a couple of rounds of C&C Ancients with Angus from the Beijing Wargame Club who has been here for the last couple of weeks. We played the Cannae scenario swapping sides so we both got a chance to try each side.

As I found in my recent post on TMP about the Beijing Wargame Club stereotypes are very hard to break down. Many still see China as a heavily controlled police state with little freedom, but as Angus confirmed there are no 'taboos' in wargaming in Bejing. If you really want to wargame the invasion of Tibet you can do so without any worries, it was telling that he actually found the whole idea that there might be a problem somewhat amusing.

He's a great guy and if you ever pass though Beijing I recommend getting in touch with him and seeing if you can join in one of their club meetings. See below for more info.

Oh and for the record I won both games.

There was also a very interesting 15mm Waterloo game using Peter's A Near Run Thing rules.

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Beijing Wargame Party Club (北京战棋党 in Chinese) was founded in 2006. There are currently around 20 core members, 7 of which form the executive committee. It has weekly gathering on Saturdays (unless there is special arrangement of "long holiday" as announced by the State government, then usually the gathering will be arranged on the second day of the holiday.) and usually there are 12 to 15 members attending each gathering. You are welcome to visit its (new and revamped) website (forum) at chinawargames.com (mainly in Chinese).

Angus can be contacted at angus_darius@yahoo.com.hk

Robbed... Again...

Another great game with Andrezj's new Romans and Celts, our house variant C&C Ancients rules and a HexCloth.

After allowing Peter to beat up the Roman right flank pretty badly the center finally got stuck in. Attacking in three waves supported by the Druids my Celts managed to bleed Erics Romans dry.

I think this works well as a tactic against the Romans, their heavies have a movement allowance of 1 vs. the Celts 2, so move the Celts up to 2 hexes away from the Romans so they can't get caught on the Roman turn, then attack on the Celt turn which gives them the initiative during the attack. Make sure you have the Druids up in support and a leader there . First wave just tries to damage as many Roman units as it can, the second wave tries to start eliminating them, the third wave mops up whatever is left.

I had refused the right flank so that I could use as many of my command cards as possible in the center/left to make up for the 4 vs 6 deficit the Celts have against the Romans. This worked for the most part, I only got caught in the last couple of turns with a stray Roman unit breaking into the right but by then the main battle was decided so it was more or less irrelevant.

However once again I had a decisive victory snatched away by getting on the wrong side of the morale rule due to some lousy dice throwing. With the Celts down just over 25% whilst the Romans were well over 50%, I think it was 17 die thrown and not a single flag pulled, sigh.
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