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General Roundup for Early August

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It's been a fairly hectic period with a lot of games for me, so rather than spending lots of time writing lots of detailed battle reports I thought I'd just go over everything I've done since the last post. 18 July: Test of Honour With my dad back from overseas we had a couple of games of ToH, with me taking a samurai+ashigaru force and him taking warrior monks; the first round was just the base game and then we did it again with the Sengoku expanded rules, with me taking some ronin allies and him some ninjas. Both scenarios were the Control mission from the core rules. Final result was 1-all; I conceded the first game after he slew all my characters, but the second game featured a staggering number of fumbled rolls in the second half, and despite heavier losses I won through controlling more objectives. 21 July: Traitor's Toll Gareth joined us for a round of Traitor's Toll with the main plot being the Phantom; a thief of uncertain identity masquerading as one of th...
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Hunkering Down – Burma, 1944

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I swear I play other things sometimes, but it seems like lately my Burma games are the only ones where I take photos... I had actually planned to have a go at a three-player game of Traitor's Toll this week, but my dad had to bow out last minute, so instead of teaching both him and Gareth the rules in two separate sessions I decided to do another Burma game, but using the jungle terrain rules and having Gareth go on the defensive. We played Mission 5: Flank Attack, with my British platoon bringing 16 points of support and his Japanese having 11. I brought an Adjutant (1), a pre-game barrage (2), a replenishment point (1), an engineer team (2), a Red Die (2), and a Sherman (4), while Gareth brought a squad prepared position (4), a Ruse (2), an extra submachine gun (1), a rifle grenade launcher (1), and a section of conscripts (3). I rolled rather poorly for morale, and had just 9 against Gareth's 11. What would make things even more of an uphill climb was the aftermath of the pa...
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