Running the Gauntlet

Was invited to a friends VSF wargame - played out using the In Her Majesty's Name rules.

This was suppose to be the 'final part' of an ongoing series of scenarios - naturally things didn't turn out as expected.

The Prussians, and their 'guest', Queen Victoria are hanging out up river at a friendly Sultan's palace. They are awaiting transportation back home. The British are, naturally, attempting to rescue her.

Victoria's Carriage is 'escorted' by a Prussian Heavy Tank and a four-legged 'Walker'.

Up The Pass

It was snowy winter #wargame time again at the weekend. This year's multi-player Colonial game taking a 'Kobayashi Maru' turn.

Afghan tribal warriors, who are lying in wait in snow speckled rough terrain.

It was a replay of Elphinstone's 1842 'Retreat from Kabul' disaster, and all the players got to be British officers.

Moving Again

Have switched locations for my sporadic not so Microblogging.

Facebook has turned into a bit of a backwater when it comes to engagement. It's just an unstoppable wave of clickbait and any posts such as I make just gets buried.

So I've decided to move to Mastodon, part of the Fediverse of independent social sites.

My location there is at Tel the Gamer.

Already getting more engagement on my posts despite Mastodon being seen as a smaller alternative to the newer Bluesky, and much smaller than Facebook. It does require a bit more work to get your network going so your posts can then spread more organical, but I've already got 20+ followers, compared to 3 on Facebook!

It's actually compatible with BlueSky due to the standards both are built on; and It looks like a number of smaller miniature and gaming companies are moving over to BlueSky due to recent goings on by the Facebook administrators. ¶

Relocated Kingdom

This Blog has been a bit quiet recently. That's mainly due to the fact I'm concentrating on posting to the Facebook page I set up.

https://www.facebook.com/TelsKingdom

I still intend to keep posting here for more verbose reports (which don't really fit with the Facebook short post format).
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Thawgrave Castle

Frostgrave. but in a not-so-frosty location. Bands of adventurers have been told about the treasure/princess/etc that needs liberating/rescuing from a castle and surrounding town that has fallen into the hands of some bad people. That's 'bad' as compared to the incoming wizards, who were mostly necromancers. 

(This post was delayed from February)

Frontier Bash

Back to the North-West Frontier and some modified The Men Who Would Be Kings, as Matt's British get some reinforcements in the form of Ben's Gurkhas.

Rapid Fire Gold Rush

A Tanks Only game of Rapid Fire loosely based upon everybody's favorite silly WW2 bank heist movie, Kelly's Heroes.

Britsh, German, Italian, and American are trying to loot some gold from a bank in the village. It is defended by some French, who don't seem keen on being friends with any of the approaching vehicles.