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Escaping from Stalag Luft, Part 1

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Phew, it's been a while since I wrote anything here, isn't it? So, for reasons of life circumstances (i.e. graduate school) I've temporarily relocated, and my time will be split across there and home for the next few years. The combination of time commitments and complex logistics are necessarily making it a little harder to do big, ambitious projects like the Boshin War, but I've not been idle! I have some friends over here who have mostly done 28mm WW2, and so that is the direction I too am (temporarily) heading in until I have a decent pool of forces for that, and can then turn my attentions back to other periods. 02 Hundred Hours , which I first encountered at the club near my old university back in the early summer of 2022, seemed like a good way to ease into the period and get some games going. After a quick intro game earlier on, we agreed to have a go at the Escape from Stalag Luft scenarios when an opportunity became available. Said opportunities are a little c...

Practicing Sharply

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Back to Sharp Practice this week, with a relatively simple setup as Gareth took charge of an Imperial attacking force going up against a Shogunate defender, using the 'Defence in Depth' scenario out of the rulebook. I decided I'd bring out the temple terrain again, a decision with... fateful consequences. We rolled quite high for support (16), so Gareth upgraded his main infantry over to breechloaders, upgraded his light infantry Leader, and got a Musician as well. For my part, the Shogunate force was 1 point lower, so I decided to spend 16 support points on a unit of Yugekitai Skirmishers and took a Holy Man with the leftover point. Suitably fuelled with some churros from a local confectioner's, we set our sights on the battlefield. The table: Imperial DP in the upper right corner, Shogunate Primary DP behind the main shrine building, and secondary DP in the theatre (roof removed). The Imperial force: two Groups of Regulars with BL rifles led by a Status III Leader (bl...