Weymouth Wargames Weekend

[martin goddard]

Your brain should be "racing" Les.

[Leslie BT]

Yep.

Family visiting this weekend so a bit of a relax.

Articles and reports next week.

[Sean Clark]

Just finished uploading my pictures to TinyPic so report coming over the weekend. Only now have I realised I took too few pictures. Need to make more effort next year.

[Stewart 46A]

Obviously to busy enjoying the games

[Colonel Kilgore]

Obviously too busy enjoying the games

Clearly not good form - fancy enjoying oneself...

I have been too busy this week to post my pictures, but will hopefully remedy that at the weekend.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Finally some of my photos from last weekend.

First up, Duncan's rather spectacular ECW mega-game in 6mm, using PP rules, of course:

[Colonel Kilgore]

Next, Big Mike's Spanish Civil War game:



including that infamous dice throw:

[Colonel Kilgore]

Stewart's very nice 28mm Rorke's Drift game (sorry that I didn't come back and take more pictures when the building roofs were back on!):

[Colonel Kilgore]

Game 1 of the nearly-there-now Pieces of Eight sea game.

The start, featuring an island and shallows. The merchant fleet in the top right is moving towards the camera to escape off the table, pursued by pirates (far right) as well as an attempted interception by more pirates (bottom left):



Getting a bit messy as the pirates get stuck in. The red pipe-cleaners indicate broadsides having been fired:



More action near the end of the game. The little grey ship outline marks a ship's starting position in each turn, while the Struck marker indicates a ship that has given up the fight:

[Stewart 46A]

Glad you enjoyed the day

[Colonel Kilgore]

Game 2 of the sea battle game featured the island again, as well as a shifting fog bank, which added to the fun (ships can't do much when stuck in fog).



The merchants are in line astern, with the pirates attacking from both sides.

The dark blue hex indicates prevailing wind direction: this may be rotated by one hex side on each term, if player throw the appropriate dice.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Chris' tidy AWI game:

[Colonel Kilgore]

Happy gamers preparing for the afternoon's games in the dining room:

[Colonel Kilgore]

One of the Pirates land games, featuring Les's lovely pirate figures raiding a village of peace-loving natives (but who gave the invaders a bloody nose in two out of the three games we played):

[Leslie BT]

Great pictures Simon, you got round most games.