Rome ! Civil war and barbaric hordes.

Phil , Bruce , Mike and Darryl.

Mike and Bruce suffered from barbarians and minor kings . Phil and Darryl dealt with the northern tribes especially benefiting from limes in Pannonia and Gallia for Phil .

Then Mike attacked Britannia so Phil stole Hispania . Finally Phil made the move on italia becoming the first emperor and grabbing the extra victory points just before the end .

Bruce Red . Mike blue. Phil Green and Darryl yellow. We played Britannia . It was fun to get the old board game out again . Green did well because of the Welsh despite losing both the Jutes and the Caledonians from attacks by Red .

We stopped at turn 13 and green was in the lead by then.

Mike brought round his Legendary game. We played as characters from the tv series . First time round we solved the clues but lost just before the big reveal when an event caused my character to kill Mike’s.

Second attempt we got completely wiped out without achieving anything useful and then my character died all of a sudden in one attack .

Bruce came round and we played through three scenarios from the new scenario book for the MESBG. Campaign Two. Mainly because we wanted to use Elves and Beornings for the Good Team after the hobbits had such a hard time previously. Also because I am behind in painting up the crazy new Easterling figures from GW which are needed for Campaign 1.

These scenarios track the endeavours of Razgush (my team) as he attempts to stop the Elves of Mirkwood from sending aid to their allies in the other campaigns.

First Scenario the Escape of Gollum.

Gollum is being held prisoner by the Elves of Mirkwood. A party of rangers are attacked by Orcs and Gollum sees his chance to get away!

Outcome:

Gollum escaped. Victory for Evil. Very close scenario.

Second Scenario: Denizens of Evil.

Outcome:

Razgush and his cowardly orcs become spider food. Victory for Good. Not that close. Evil could hardly charge the Terror causing Spiders never mind get a hit on the Queen.

Third Scenario: The Attack on the Beornings.

The evil Orcs have attacked a group of Beornings mustering in a clearing. Grimbeorn however is enraged by this and races to the rescue.

Outcome: A close scenario. Evil managed to get Good down to 4 Beornings with 1 wound each but the Bear form Grimbeorn literally wiped the floor with them before they could achieve the final kill. Victory for Good.

Review: Fantastic fun. Great scenarios with lots of theme and mainly well balanced. Recommended. Next time the Elves of Mirkwood come out to fight Razgush and his army.

It is April 1809 and the invading V Corps of the Imperial Austrian Army clashes with the VII Corps of the Grand Armee at Pfaffenheusen. A small municipality in Bavaria.

VII Corps of the Grand Army

Commander: Marshall Francois Joseph LeFebvre, Duke of Danzig

Bavarian Army

GL Wrede 1st Brigade.  

Brigade Skirmish Line

3rd Herzog Carl Bavarian Line

                3rd Herzog Carl Bavarian Line

                13th Bavarian Line

                13th Bavarian Line

                4th Bavarian Light

                Foot Artillery

GM Beckers 2^nd Brigade

Brigade Skirmish Line

4th Bavarian Line

                7th Lowenstein Bav. Line

                7th Bavarian Line

7th Bavarian Line

                6th Bavarian Light

                Foot Artillery

GL Deroy 3rd Brigade.   

                Brigade Skirmish Line

1st Leib Bavarian Line

                1st Leib Bavarian Line

                2nd Kronprinz Bavarian Line

                8th Bavarian Line

Bavarian Light Infantry

GM Zandt Cav. 5th Brigade.        

1st Minucci Dragoon Reg.

1st Kronprinz Chevauxleg

2nd Konig Chevauxleger

                Freiwillige Hussars

                Bavarian Horse Artillery

Confederation of the Rhine Det. VIII Corps

Scharfenstein 4th Brigade.          

Brigade Skirmish Line

Wurttemberg von Puhll

Wurttemberg Fuss Gard

                Anhalt 5th Rhinebund

                Lippe 5th Rhinebund

                Konig Jager

GM  Walsleben 6^th Brigade

Wurt. Cuirassiers

                Polish Uhlans

                Wurt. Konig Hussars

V Corps of The Austrian Imperial-Royal Army

Commander:  FML Archduke Louis Joseph Anton Johann Habsburg-Lorraine

GM Thierry                         1^st Infantry Brigade

Kaiser Infantry Reg. 1

                Kaiser Infantry Reg. 1

                Kaiser Infantry Reg. 1

                Lindenau Infantry Reg. 29

                Lindenau Infantry Reg. 29

                6 pdr brigade battery

                Brigade Skirmish Line

GM von Berenberg          2nd Inf Brigade

Austrian Landwehr 1^st Reg.

                Hiller Infantry Reg. 2

                Hiller Infantry Reg. 2

                Starrai Infantry Reg. 33

                6 pdr brigade battery

Brigade Skirmish Line

GM Radetzky                     3rd Adv. Brigade

Creuzer Grenz

                Jager 1st Reg. Lutz

                Jager 1st Reg. Lutz

Broder Grenzer

                Grenzer Bn. deployed as +4 SK

                Ardk Charles Uhlans Reg. 3

                Ardk Charles Uhlans Reg. 3

                6 pdr horse artillery

                Brigade Skirmish Line

GM von Hammer              4th Inf. Brigade.

Bissingen Grenadiers

                Kirchenbetter Grenadiers

Line Infantry Reg. 33

Brigade Skirmish Line

GM v.  Schneller               5^th Reserve Cav. Brigade.

Gottesheim Cuirassier Reg. 6

                Kaiser Cuirassier Reg. 1

                Levenhr Dragoons

                Hessen Homburg Hussars

                Rosenberg Chevauleger.

                Rosenberg Chevauleger.

Link and Gwalchmai pick up their questing once again. This time our level was 8 so perfect for the different difficulty of the supplement.

Next was the pit of ghouls.

Gwalchmai and Link swung across the pit using the ropes and worked on the wheels . They despatched the ghouls trying to interfere.

In the pit the companions fought against the horde of ghouls . Birdo did try to swing across but fell flat on his face and needed healing.

Finally the doors opened and our heroes made it out from the pit of ghouls .

Austrian Hussars . A colourful unit from Hesse Homburg. Chosen because they make a contrast to the other units and this regiment famously hated the Bavarians. Plus two officer bases such as brigadiers and an aide de camp or officer depending on which rules. The grenadier officer base is based on an actual drawing found in my source book from osprey . Essex must have seen it as of course it is from an original when they made the officer figure . In the picture he is next to a grenadier officer in front of the unit of grenadiers .

Contrast paints as usual and the simple basing style to match the other units .

Contrast paints. Gor grunta fur and Akhelian green.

Online gaming with Darryl . We continued our gloomhaven campaign using the new characters from jaws of the lion . Our other team is taking a break .

We played the first two scenarios in the jaws of the lion quest line . They were good . A challenge to use the new characters first time . For example with the void character I focused on curse and heal rather than getting other people to make attacks .

Also playing as a team with hatchet guy was definitely harder because other characters keep attacking or killing the mob with the favourite and then getting in the way so it takes an extra wasted turn to go and retrieve it .

Really enjoyed these two scenarios and our new jaws of the lion characters .