Yesterday I managed to get along to the Woking Wargames Day, once more an annual event since the passing of the Covid pandemic lockdown (that seems a long time ago now!). Organised by Mike Lewis for members of the Little Wars Revisited Forum it seeks to promote wargaming with 54mm toy soldiers. I could only stay for the morning session but 5 games were in play and this is what they looked like:
I took part in this North West Frontier game using "The Men Who Would Be Kings" ruleset, and jolly good fun it was too, a bit dice heavy for my tastes but the system is easy to pick up and quick to play once you get the hang of it.
The Armies in Plastic figures have appeared here before but the Armoured Train is a new addition and is very impressive, the scenario has the train ambushed and immobilised by the tribesmen who must hold off a flying column of British infantry and cavalry that are riding to the rescue.
The game opened with both sides sniping at each other from cover while their artillery kept up a desultory but largely ineffective covering fire.
Afghan tribesmen and irregular infantry made good use of cover to move in on the train from both flanks but took casualties which resulted in four units running from the field, despite this they eventually overran the train to narrowly win the game but at great cost.
Anthony brought along his Expeditionary Force, Dark Ages collection for a game using a grid terrain and the "Age of Penda" rule system designed by Daniel Mersey.
It was great to finally meet Mark, who brought along his Snowball Fight game, ably assisted by the Tradgardmastre. I didn't get to watch the game in play but you can see more about it here on Mark's Man of Tin blog
Pat brought along his collection of Anglo-Normans for another Daniel Mersey designed game, this time Lion Rampant.
And finally the other Brian C brought along his skirmish game of Smugglers and Revenue Men which uses his own rules, the figures above are Charbens and Replicants.
More of Brian C's beautifully painted figures, these are Marx and Historex.
