Monday 23 January 2012

Planning for an Inaugural Game

This coming weekend will hopefully see the first game taking place on my Hexon set up (assuming it all arrives in time). I have given a lot of thought to how I shall be using this terrain over the coming months and have decided that the first game I use it for will be something rather special and rather out of the ordinary. I am not going to spoil the surprise but suffice it to say it will feature the blocks, the Town in a Bag buildings and the musket based variant of Bob Cordery's Memoir of Battle rules for the 19th century. Essentially these will be the rules I used for the Belgium fracas (both of them and should the plural of fracas be fraci?). Fairly obviously then, it will be a horse and musket era game.

For reasons that will become obvious I am really looking forward to this action as in many ways it represents the completion of a circle in my war games career so to speak.

More to follow as the week goes on but I should point out that if the Hexon does not arrive then this particular game will have to be postponed - it would not look as good on the Axis and Allies maps to start with. I do have a plan B though so at least one game will feature on the blog over the weekend at some point!

2 comments:

Robert (Bob) Cordery said...

David,

I am looking forward to seeing your battle report ... especially as you will be using your Hexon II terrain for the first time.

All the best,

Bob

David Crook said...

Hi Bob,

I have three possible games in mind - so at least one of them will get played! Two are land based and the other is naval.

Naturally MOB and MoBaS will feature - possibly even the Musket version!

Can't wait!

All the best,

DC