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The Wars of Religion - A Question of Honour

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Deployment: Both sides are arrayed with their infantry vanguard's opposing each other on one side of the board and their mostly cavalry rearguards in echelon behind. The Spanish Catholics also have their artillery setup in a dominating central position on a hill. Victory will be achieved by destroying enemy units and by advancing more units into the enemies half of the board. Turn 1: Both generals push forward their rearguards energetically, whilst making only a cautious advance with their vanguard's. Turn 2: The Spanish tercio steamrolls into the hugeunot musketeers, but they are greeted with a withering and well timed fusilade, nearly crippling the cream of the Catholic army. Elsewhere the Spanish artillery badly disorder a unit of argoulets on the flank, leaving the hugeunot dragoons to race forward on their own. In the centre the Catholic gendarmes and hugeunot cuirassiers clash indecisively. Turn 3: The gendarmes charge once more, and luckily catch the cuirassiers unprepar...
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Desecration: Normans Vs Anglo Saxons

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Deployment: For this game we are using the 'Desecration' scenario. Both sides are trying kill their opponents, but the points they can earn are capped. To raise the cap they must desecrate and destroy their opponents objective markers. The Anglo Saxon's have placed an objective in the central woods and one in each back corner of their deployment zone. They have a unit of levy bowmen in the wood with mounted hearthguard in reserve behind. Stretching right out of the woods and into the rocks they have their warlord and three units of levy spearmen.  The Normans have placed one objective in the central ruins, one behind the ruins, and one behind the hill. Guarding the hill they have their mounted warriors with javelins and a weak unit of levy bowmen. In the ruins they have their crossbow armed warriors backed up by more levy bows, and yet more levy bows over in the woods on the right. In the centre they have a strong unit of 8 mounted hearthguard alongside their warlord.  Norm...
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Straights of Sicily - February 1941

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Setup: The Vichy French have a vital convoy they must escort from the safety of Algeria to their far flung colony of Syria, through the contested waters of the central Mediterranean. In this campaign we are using an adaptation of the Nimitz 'straights of Sicily' scenario. The French have a small airstrip at Bizerte whilst the British have a more substantial airfield on Malta. British naval assets are assumed to be arriving from the direction of Alexandria.  Day 1 Morning: The British win the initiative and launch an overwhelming first strike. Eight flights of Hudson bombers take off from Malta and proceed to destroy the entirety of the French bomber wing whilst they are still on the runways at Bizerte.* Day 1 Afternoon: Four more flights of Hudson spot the lone French cruiser Gloire scouting the Tunisian coast. She is badly damaged in their attack run.   Day 1 Night: Storms roll out east of Sicily. The hidden British naval assets remain uncommitted off the Libyan coast,...
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