As usual after Crisis Point, the last thing I want to do is sit down and blog about it at length. But here's a brief over view of the games. The weekend went very well; I'm really pleased with the number of people who came and the spirit in which the games were played.
On Saturday we had three games. On table one we had my Menton 1940 Chain of Command game, of which more anon...
Table two was occupied by Jamie's game of Song of Drums and Shakos. This was set in 1794 and saw two groups of revolutionary French up against a combined Austrian and Sardinian-Piedmontese force.
From what I could see, this seemed to go very well, with four players engrossed right up the the close of play.
Finally on day one we had big table depicting part of Malta in 1942. This used Will McNally's excellent terrain on which a fictional German invasion was played out using the Battlegroup rules.
On Sunday, I switched to running a game of To The Strongest! set during the Second Punic War.
Jamie was keen to play in this game and as there were three other games to hoover up players, Jamie and I ended up playing this game with just the two of us.
Surprisingly, for such a fast-play set of rules we didn't quite reach a conclusion. I think my Carthaginian left was going to collapse before my right wing captured Jamie's Roman camp.
The next game on Sunday was Kevin Tingle's Beirut Force on Force game.
Kevin's game was a masterpiece of low-cost city building, using cardboard and balsa wood instead of expensive resin castings.
Neil Mc and Andy T from the Cold War Commanders group brought a 6mm 1989 Soviet landing at Gallipoli game. Again lots of cardboard construction was in evidence...
I didn't get to see much of this game in action but the idea of Soviet airborne troops landing at a half-constructed airport was a fun one.
Finally on Sunday, the Malta game continued, this time moving on from the initial airborne attack to a German seaborne invasion.
I'm very pleased with how Crisis Point went. it was a pleasure to welcome attendees both old and new and in particular to see how the younger gamers (four this year) coped well with a whole weekend of intense table-top action.
5 comments:
Great to be there, hopefully see you next year
Enjoyed, thanks for putting the pictures up.
It was a great weekend. Already looking forward to next year!
Thanks for the comments guys.
And thanks for being there if you were. I have some thoughts about next year that I'll share soon.
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