Sunday, May 22, 2011

Old School Napoleonics at Hotlead 2011

This is what I think of as 'Old School' gaming. Serried ranks of masses of 20mm Airfix plastic figures (although he must have some of the newer HaT releases and stuff from the Russian company whose name I can't remember too, there are models here that I would've given my sister for back in the day). A father and son team have run a Napoleonic game the last few years using their pretty attractive plastic collection and some homebrew rules. This is what my games aspired to be like when I was a lad, but they didn't quite make it.

Andy took 91 pictures of this game alone, so it was rather hard to find just a few to give you an idea of what it was like. but it seems we have an allied force of Austrians, Russians and Prussians versus the French somewhere in Germany in 1813.












OK, now my mouse hand is sore from selecting all these pictures. So I think that's enough for now.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 22, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    Here are all the game photos for this battle:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28981624@N02/sets/72157626276280349/show/

    And luckily it was right beside my other favourite game of the day, the Pondicherry SYW one, so I could photograph between the two of them whenever there was a lapse at one table.

    /andygamer

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  2. JamesMay 23, 2011 at 5:43 AM

    Thanks Andy! Once again I'm sorry it's taken so long to get around to posting some of these.

    But maybe my tardiness will help keep Hotlead on everyone's radar during the year? :^D

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