Toowoomba Miniature Gaming Group

07/06/2023

Hi Joey RS. Your security settings are blocking chat. We normally meet on Thursday nights and try for 1 Sunday game a month. Cheers. Peter

27/05/2023

Germans deployed ready to defend Normandy from the British.

26/03/2023

Good game of Hail Caesar with the Romans taking another campaign against Mithraties and his Pontic army. The Romans had some early success but as more of the Pontic pikes arrived the battle swung. At the end of turn 6 the Roman’s had a broken division and their camp was about to be captured and sacked.

10/01/2023

Spencer Rigby

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23/10/2021

Playing Fkames of War D-Day beach assault tomorrow.

08/09/2021

I have moved house, but we are still gaming.

24/08/2020

24/08/2020

It was great to play some Napoleonic Black Powder. David and Spencer arrived at about 6:30 and we settled in with a coffee waiting for some other players. At 7:30 we decided to play a 1400 point game with my French vs Spencer’s Austrians and David’s Prussians.

The terrain was fairly open with gentle hills, light woods and a creek that was treated as an obstacle.

We raced through the first couple of turns as we cleared out some of the rules cobwebs. The French had a pretty good night with the dice and my columns advanced steadily towards the creek. David changed into line and advanced on the far left with his right held up by a wood. Spencer came forward in column and changed into line about 20” from the creek.

On my right I compressed almost a whole Division into a frontage facing just 2 of David’s brigades. In addition I had 3 * 6pdr guns with the columns firing as short range (under 16”). As we became fully engaged I started pushing columns forward into line. This increased my firepower and allowed me to step through shaken units so that they could be rallied.

On my left I forced the creek ready to advance on the Austrians. Spencer tried a cavalry charge that forced 2 of my units into square, but the French could not be stopped.

At 2200 we decided to play one more turn (turn 6). On my left I threw caution to the wind and charged into Spencer’s still fresh Austrians. I hit 2 Austrian units with a French column each with 2 support plus a cavalry unit supporting one. Spencer disordered both columns with defensive fire. The engagement that was supported by cavalry saw a French win with the Austrian unit falling back disordered. The other combat resulted in an Austrian win, but the French stayed in contact. Spencer then counter-attacked engaging 5 French units in melee..

On the Prussian flank, I was content to continue with a fire fight. I had already destroyed 2 units and the casualty markers were piling up.

Turn 6 saw some horrible dice rolled by me and David. I rolled 6 dice for combat and rolled 6 ones ☹ David rolled 3 shooting dice for 8 units and only inflicted 1 casualty.

At the end of turn 6 the Prussians had lost 3 units and were pretty well shot up. On the French left the Austrians and my second division both had multiple shaken units. The Austrian and Prussian general graciously deemed the battle a narrow French victory.

Thanks for the chance to put my French back on the table.

21/07/2019

Well I am sorry to report that the French suffered a defeat in Spain today. We played a 1400 point Black Powder game with Ross and David playing British and me commanding the French. Pete T almost made it along for a game but had to respond to a fire alarm ☹

We started with one division each on the table with the second division marching on to the table in March Column. Terrain was open with just a few rolling hills – no villages or trees.

The Brits occupied a ridge line and waited for the French to charge their line. My aim was to punch through the centre-left before my flanks were turned, but it turned bad early for the French. The French light cavalry brigade was destroyed by the British light cavalry. This put early pressure on the French right flank.

I assaulted the British left (David) and centre (Ross) inflicting some damage, but the British line was in 2 ranks plus they had first fire so I was facing 5 dice in the closing fire. Very nasty. I pushed into the British line but did not break the line. This gave Ross and David time to move around my flanks.

At the end of turn 5 I conceded defeat as my flanks were under threat and I had 3 brigades almost broken.

21/07/2019