Bromhead: You
mean your only plan is to stand behind a few feet of mealie bags and wait for
the attack?
~ Zulu movie
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| 1st interplanetary Regulars lead by an officer mounted on a V-Rex |
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| Baron Bomburt's Grenadier Clampers! |
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| General on personalized mount |
This past weekend was DunDraCon,
where I ran two scheduled and one invite-only games of Wooden Wars, the Queen Victoria's Robot Wars variant.
The timing was a bit tough with me working scads of hours on Neverwinter Online,
and then pulling a couple of full on all-nighters to get troops painted. But I
made it through, and said troops will be shipped out next week as one of my Kickstarter
reward armies, after I get some close up pictures of them, that is - and all in all were a joy to paint. I am happy
that they will be going to a good home!
Special thanks to my good friend
Peter Grose who also painted up his army of QVRW for the convention. His work
is stunning, as you will see below.
This posting is chock full of
pictures of the game in action, and light on narrative. I hope you enjoy!
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| Tesla gun battery by Peter Grose |
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| Steel Dragoons |
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| More Steel Dragoons! |
The Battle of Hypzig II
The two scenarios I ran were
classic Wooden Wars "capture-the-enemy-flag" set ups, with the
additional objective of capturing and holding the ancient "alien ruins"
in the center. If players captured a flag, they got the medal sitting next to
it. Likewise, whoever had possession of the ruins at the end of the game got
the medal for that as well. As you will
see, many a unit was sent to the knocked-over pile over a piece of shiny.
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| A hard fought battle for the prize |
O'Rourke's A'Drift
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| Very hasty defenses! |
Later in the evening we did a playtest based upon Rourke's Drift.
As I had forgotten my wooden blocks, hasty works were created with some
cardboard and stones found in the hotel's garden. One side was made of all
humans, with two units of infantry, two batteries of Tesla guns and one
squadron of Steel Dragoons. The attacking force was comprised of three robot
units, one squad of Steel Dragoons and 25 reinforcement tokens to replace
troops. I also allowed the first robot unit that was fully wiped out to come
back on the board.
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| The Domino Formation lives up to it's name! |
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| Dragoons charge a square |
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| The aftermath- only the foot officer remains. |
One unit of elite Robots were
armed (literally) with nothing but attack clamps (claws). This unit could not
fire, but did twice the attacks in melee - very scary! Thinking that speed was the best bet, the
commander of this unit kept putting it in march column, aka the "domino"
formation, with not unexpected results. Said commander has perhaps learned his
lesson, although now thinks that with a Mounted Officer in front to take the
brunt, this tactic is still valid. Only time (and pointing and laughing) will
tell.
I'll run this again, but next time we need at
least 100 robots and two cavalry on the attacking side.
That's all for now - thanks again
to all that came to play, watch, and cheer in general. Thanks also go out to the staff at DunDraCon,
especially Roderick, who were super accommodating.
