Squarebashing 2025

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Square Bashing 1915 - URGENT!

This year Battlefield Hobbies are heavily booked. Nothing available in June or most of July. At the roughly same time of year we have only two options:

Sat 31 May 2025 or Sunday 6 July 2025.

We only have a provisional tag on these dates so please give me some feedback here on availability & preferences ASAP

Thanks
Ray 

[pigsticker]

Confirming that the Square Bashing Day 1915 is now booked at Battlefield Hobbies for Sat 31 May 2025

Many thanks for prompt responses to me via email.

Ray

[Colonel Kilgore]

Many thanks for organising this so quickly, Ray!

Simon

[Smiley Miley 66]

It will be good, just finished my AK 47 Arabs in time. Now to start on my BEF British force Early War with Caps.
Thanks for organising this I will be there.
I will buy my ticket at the end of this month.
Any suggestions on how I should have my British organised please ? Which is the better list to use ?
I am still very much learning this set of rules ?
Miles

[Sean Clark]

I'm sad to say that this is the same day as my god daughters 21st birthday party which inconveniently is a day time affair.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's OK Sean.

I'm sure she'd be most welcome to join in. Someone can probably lend her an army too?

Simon

[Smiley Miley 66]

Got my Ticket now. Also had a couple of reminder games. Won one lost one.
Nice to see I ve got a seemingly balanced force ?
Just got to paint 3 more Battalions and finish off the basing.
Miles

[Sean Clark]

Well done Miles 👍

[Colonel Kilgore]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to a very pleasant and friendly day's gaming.

Particularly to the BAD gamers who kindly loaned their scenery, and to Ray for organising us all.

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

Some photos from my first game, playing Chris P - my British against his Germans.







Despite things looking very good after the first few turns, I lost horribly. That's the beauty of Square Bashing!

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

Game two saw a British incursion into China. The Brits were defending and failed to get 5 of their units on table.
However, a stiff upper lip somehow prevailed, allowing them to cling onto enough Objectives to win.













Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

They both look like very good games. I am assuming the first game was using a lot of barrage markers. What sort of figures did you use for the Chinese? Or were they Germans in Tsingtao?

[Colonel Kilgore]

Bombardments of various kinds were indeed a feature of both my games!

I managed to gas myself (the same poor square, twice), but the lingering gas clouds prevented a crucial Chinese flanking manoeuvre that could have won them the battle.

I believe that some of the Chinese figures started life as Serbians, while others were Renaissance figures.

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

I was quite pleased with the barrage markers, made on a whim on Thursday. They're not quite finished, but will be shortly and should feature in my future games.

Simon

[Sean Clark]

Great photos Simon. Thanks for sharing. An article for the Mill for the barrage markers?