Games and stuff in April

 Blog posts have been a bit thin on the ground over the last month or so.  

A combination of work stuff, family crises, a trip away to Glasgow and being knackered after trying to get the garden looking less like a jungle and more like a messy semi-wild garden have meant I've had little time or energy to do any painting.  

Work has become very busy as people become more confident in coming back out into the world (I work in charity-sector community development so being out there is quite important).  On a plus side we did manage an actual, real-life team meeting for the 1st time since 2019.  Much gin was consumed and it was great to see everyone in-person rather than in a little box on a screen.

This doesn't mean there hasn't been any actual gaming though...

The fortnightly role-playing game that we started online back in 2020 is still going strong.  We're playtesting a world-setting and rules which will eventually be published and having great fun in the process.

There have also been a couple of games courtesy of Eric the Shed.  We finally played out the last of our Wars of the Roses games with a refight of Stoke Field.  There is a great write-up here on Eric's blog  This was one of the best games in the series and definitely the closest.  At one point both armies had run out of morale tokens and a single loss could have swung it either way...

All photos shamelessly nicked from the Shed Wars blog!

We also played a great game of Muskets and Tomahawks.  I managed to throw away my 2 British regular units who were caught in the open and were quickly whittled down by fire from the French and their Native American allies.  

My plucky band of locals who should have proved ineffectual actually fought much better, holding off a French column until the Rangers arrived.  Sadly the other relieving force was badly mauled so victory went to the French. A great set of rules that I ought to play more often.