Categorie: Horse & Musket

Our club icon mr Eltjo Verweij organized for the second time now a Sharp Practice event, in our wargame palace in Amsterdam. Two full days. Fun multiplayer games, not a tournament in a strict sense, loose on rules, the outcome of a game influenced your rating. Some highlights:

• we had visitors from Belgium and even 6 players from the land behind the horizon, far away, even outside the European Union… The UK!
• we had visitors from outside Amsterdam! (as Amsterdammers, we consider everything east of IJburg Asia, desert, or (Ant)Artica. We also had our Hungarian expat In Da House.
• Mr 2FatLardies Richard Clarke joined the event and played both days. He didn’t win. He even scored quite low :-). [please keep this silent]
• We had a wonderful Surinamese dinner, also very international.
• A Dutchman with an Italian army won the ’tournament’. Dutch cheese with spaghetti, always a winning combination.
• We celebrated our 8th birthday. We love the smell of red velvet cake in the morning.
• Great to see so many painted Napoleonic figures on so many tables.
• You missed the show? No problem. This will not be our last event. We want more!

I hope everybody enjoys the sunny weather this week. We Amsterdam6shooters hope to reopen soon, but as you may have noticed, our requests to our government to proclaim ‘wargame clubs’ an ‘essential service’ have not been honoured. Yet. We don’t surrender.

In the meantime, just to show you we’re alive and kicking and share fun, keeping digital distance, a link to two blogs.

The Amsterdam Battle Brothers (Dino Kho’s 40K tournament organization) published a ‘TableTop Journal‘, dedicated to 40K. Incredible painting examples. A few pics, from Amsterdam gamers.

I will ask Dean to share his knowledge about making ‘online magazine publishing’, so that we can make a true A6S clubzine, some day. His magazine looks good.

Beyond 40K I painted 1,8K. I slowpainted a showcase model, ‘Napoleon à Fontainebleau’. In March 1814, 207 years ago, he lost Paris. He went to his Fontainebleau palace and abdicated in April (probably thinking ‘I’ll be back’ as he did in 1815, when he found his Waterloo). I finally had time to paint this 90mm (!) miniature. Tutorial here.

Send us your pictures or post your current project in our Facebook forum. In the meantime, have fun and live life to the fullest! A true Emperor (Grimdark or Napoleonic) never abdicates, but drinks champagne!

Uw drie desperados – El Martino, El Jur Y Jano en El Tjo – kwamen heden bijeen voor spel annex playtest General D’Armee.

Wat kan ik er van zeggen?

1. GdA houdt in het midden tussen Sharp Practice (een Napoleontisch skirmish game) en Blücher (Grand Battle). Het is bedoeld om grotere slagen te spelen en toch iets met tactiek en formatie en skirmishers te doen.
2. Hoofdkenmerk is dat je een – gelimiteerd – aantal ‘opdrachten’ aan je brigades kunt geven. Of de opdracht doorkomt hangt af van de dobbelsteen (50% kans) en of je een re-roll inzet. Je kunt daarnaast opdracht geven om iets gerichts te doen (gericht aanvallen, gericht schieten, extra snel bewegen). Maar niet alles kan tegelijkertijd dus je moet prioriteiten stellen.
3. Drie voelt leeg als je acht, tien of vijftien gewend bent. Ik wil het oude normaal. Ik wil dat de bar open is, dat iedereen gewoon kan binnenlopen, dat leden niet bang zijn, ik wil geen mondkapje moeten dragen, ik wil gewoon kunnen hoesten als ik een kriebel in mijn keel heb zonder bezorgde blikken. Erg jammer, deze tweede lockdown. Zorg en ziekte en flatten the curve snap ik best, maar ik wil gewoon gezellig kluppie zijn. Ik hoop op gezond verstand en dat het gauw niet meer hoeft. Coronamoe.
4. Het scenario was net schaak: pak de beste centrumpositie en woon de tegenstander uit. Ging goed. Iets met Oostenrijkers, Napoleon en Beieren. En Fransen. En een brug geloof ik. Oktoberfest.

Fotootjes:

5. Recensie? Ik haal deze aan:

These are not grand tactical rules in my view which is what you really need to handle battles involving Corps and Armies. I know that DB uses them for large multi-player games, but I would tend to equate that to playing a Big CoC game with Chain of Command. Effectively you are playing a series of parallel Divisional level games (…)

Having said that, the command, fire and melee systemas are great and the Napoleonic feel is definetivey therein GdA, and I won’t stop playing.
Clearly I’m on the side of large games and probably must continue searching and investigating other rules. This is the reason why I also stopped almost totally playing Sharp Practice, not that I found the rules badly designed or whatever (on the contrary, they are brilliant) but it was not the scale I wanted to play Napoleonics.