A Wednesday Night Game Update

The New Year seems to be whizzing by like a minnie ball. Halfway through January, already. So far, I've managed one French and Indian War game using The Portable Wargame rules and I currently have finished four turns of an ACW game based on Featherstone's "Action in the Platteville Valley", with Himself, General Jubilation T. Cornpone, leading a reinforced division of Confederates against a movement by Union General Hiram C. Pretzel, from the 1st Division, XXX Corps. Who does, indeed, have a pontoon train with boats.....

I shall have to see when I can pick up the action. But for now, last night saw Team Full Monty execute a training game night at the RAP Gamers in preparation for a team tournament for Art De La Guerre (ADLG) at COLD BARRAGE in March. 

I test drove my new Mongolian Golden Horde for the first time. My friend Neil P. was very kind and generous to send me a pair of Mongolian gers from Baueda in the UK. They arrived in time to be used as my camp, but, sadly were unpainted. 

Glamping a la Mongolian...I just need a 15mm gen set and tiki bar...

My opponent was Garth, who ran his Normans. He had a lot of "Impetuous" Knights. And a bunch of guys in armour with long pointy sticks. And some very, very annoying crossbow armed light infantry. 

Steve was paired with Bruce. They did something in the desert. One of them had chariots. The other did not. 

And our Team Captain, Phil G. did not play, but adjudicated for us. John called off, something about a birthday and his wife wanting him to spend his with HER instead of US.... 

Now, I'm new to all of this sort of Ancients and Medieval stuff, so it was about finding my legs with a minimum of support from Phil G., our adjudicator and ADLG Spirit Guide. 

I'm such a novice, I was even having a giggle over the names I gave my Generals. I had three, so I went with Jenga Khan, Chaka Khan, and Iffyah Khan. 

Not exactly an Assyrious ancients player (see what I did there?) is I.

Garth, starting on his way across the Plain, enroute to walloping me

Suffice to say, I did a lot of (mostly) paying attention to what I was doing, so I didn't take many pictures. The fact I managed to get schwacked wasn't helpful to recording the adventure, either. 

I tried to do a lot of that "shoot and scoot" stuff, but I tended to roll low when I was shooting and roll high when I wanted to evade. And apparently that's not Good in ADLG. Who knew? 

But it was bags of fun, even if I did manage to lose. 

There are a lot worse ways to spend a couple of hours with friends. 

Next Wednesday night will be another practice run at the RAP Gamers. I'll be taking my Golden Horde Mongols out for another spin. But hopefully with a spiffy new painted ger and a better battle plan.