Napoleon, Bobby Lee and Mustangs

P38 at the top escorted by (from left to right) a FW190D (“Dora”), a FW190A and a Me109G (“Gustav”)

Today saw the arrival of the 1:300th aircraft I ordered from Heroics and Ros so my 1944 “Over the Reich” set up has all that I need for the board game Mustangs. As mentioned previously they are organised in flight of four and for the US I have P38s, P47s and P51s - the latter two having the ‘bubble’ canopy so are both ‘D’ variants. The Luftwaffe are rather better served - purely so as to extend the choice - and so have Me109G, FW190As and Ds and of course, the Me262. There is a fan made control card for a Me163 if I wanted….

Blasts from the past - 2004 to be exact - and yes, the light strip on the right hand side of the box lid to Bobby Lee is ‘Sunning’ - the scourge of book collections everywhere!

I also took delivery of a couple of old boardgames that were both still in shrink wrap and with the blocks unlabelled - Napoleon which covers the 1815 campaign and Bobby Lee which covers the American Civil War in the East. There is a companion game - Sam Grant - that covers the war in the West which, if I am honest, would have been of greater interest but hey ho - I will certainly be able to use it anyway. Both of these games came to me from a chap that used to run an online gaming business but had given it up some years ago. When he did he held on to some stock and has gradually been disposing of the same. The boxes are a little storage bashed but the contents are fine. 

The back of the boxes. Napoleon uses a ‘point to point’ movement system whilst Bobby Lee uses far more conventional hexes.

I used to own a copy of Napoleon but this was passed on many years ago during one of my periodic (and usually dangerous) reorganisations. It is now here to stay though, mainly because the later 4th edition of the game (mine is the 3rd) changed the order of battle somewhat. The big advantage of the 3rd edition is that each block is a division which translates well into the Portable Napoleonic Wargame. For both games, Napoleon and Bobby Lee, I have some plans for….

In other news….

I am getting a small order together for Warbases of some bespoke items. For the most part they are related to the ACW collection but there is something else in the mix - more of which later.

And finally, Remember….

The force will be with you, always….