"The Battle of Fulda", the what if Napoleonic wargame after Leipzig part 2!

Everything was in place for the game to go either way............but the dice gods were watching!

Every turn you had to roll to see who moved first, fired first etc...., Richard charged his Legere into the Schutzen, they were lucky they were able to form before they were hit but the main issue here is his Corps commander is within 2 inches and any casualties caused on his unit will cause a D20 to be rolled and the amount of casualties caused is rolled could kill him, they were lucky.....

This is something that tickled me, these casualties on a Russian column are from his own rocket battery, fired 7 times and it only caused two friendly casualties....... 

Here they come again, Russian spirit, Lee's frustration............

All that cavalry and a big gap..........

Trying a little David Bailey, ruined by a Russian........

The Prussians crest the hill..........

The scene of battle at this time, the Prussians are steaming ahead.........

John throws caution to the wind and launches his cavalry forward against lines of infantry and squadrons of cavalry............

He slowly dismantles the entire Prussian left flank, wins round after round of melee, the only fly in the ointment was a drawn result which he won next round, we couldn't believe the Prussians run of luck on the dice, when he had to roll for pursuit checks he would pass them comfortably and retire in good order..........

We then felt a disturbance in the force and the mood changed, we had joked that we should wake Ray as he was on nights but we needn't have worried as Surjit had rang him earlier and woke him not realising he was not at the game, how we laughed...........

A morale check has gone badly and a hole has appeared in my weak lines, at this stage it was about exchanging volleys............

Lee steadies himself again for another assault, 3rd or 4th time is the charm?...........

Still waiting on a charge on a very weak point of my line, they never came.......

French cavalry rush forward to fill gaps.......

Ray sides with the Prussians, smug shit.........

The Legere after a Russian artillery barrage finally hits and morale causes them to fall back, is the way finally open for the Russians......

John has now caused routing and Brigade checks for the Prussians, entire brigades are falling back, Surjit has rolled nothing higher than a 3 on two dice 3 times........

I drop my Poles back to form a secure line..........

The Legere (disordered) rush forward and slam the door shut on the Russian columns.......

Ammunition on most artillery had run dry for me and the Russians by this stage (only cannister left) but what's this.......an ammunition wagon appears but too late......

A deflated, grim looking, couldn't roll well to save his life, blogging, sweating but in his natural environment blog whore......

Richard charges but is met by two Prussian squadrons.........

Lee and his Russians threw himself and them forward time and time again but to no avail, no luck again with the dice or in fairness his position, I actually started to feel pity for him near the end, this infuriated Lee no end........

Richard has routed both the Prussian squadrons and pursued and smashed into a trailing unit behind.........

A better view and the two routing Prussian cavalry.........

Richard routed the third cavalry squadron........

2 of these routing units would disperse after failing another brigade check which if the game continued would have brought on another divisional check............

John received man of the game (failing at not looking smug but I don't think he was trying not to), never lost a melee and caused brigade and divisional checks within the Prussian army.......

The game ended there with Postie adding up the victory points, 1 to 5 points difference is a minor victory, 6 to 10 points difference is a major victory, we got a 12 points difference (18-6) and Postie declaring a bloody thrashing victory!

In fairness the Prussians and their allies had no luck, never won a melee, failed so many morale rolls, failed brigade checks and got their asses handed to them and then we (the French) started to feel sorry for them, I think this hurt the most........

Good game, great result, well for the French anyway............poor Lee's dice luck continues, the only thing that could have made this better if Ray had been a Prussian.....hold on he was for a while!!!!!!!

28mm Hinterland Princess Viktoria-Luise, Anonymous Book, Dice Shenanigans and........

...........how will you die if you found yourself in a slasher movie!

28mm figure from Hinterland Miniatures of a Princess who is a colonel in a Hussar regiment hence the death's head emblem, nice figure but deserved better, far nicer painted version on the Hinterland site.....

Andras found this picture!

Received this book from Edwin but not..... as when he ran his competition I was interested in this book in the give away but did not win as my luck with most competitions is atrocious, so anyway this arrived in the post with a note......

The note.........and thank you to my anonymous giver......much appreciated, half way through it already........

BigLee and his awful, awful dice rolling..... incredibly awful luck with dice and usually when I'm on his fecking side in a game and the challenge issued by Ray was is he the worst dice roller ever? I tried the challenge and yes he still is!!!!!

This little picture challenge tickled me.........

Seemingly I would end up as"The sinister stranger who is taken hostage at the very start of the film (pre-credits!)".

Compared to some of the outcomes this is not too bad..........

Have a good week if you can and don't forget the Google+ button for sharing and more communication between blogs,,,,,,,,,,,

BLOG-CON draws closer and Sidney Roundwood has asked for some help, BLOGGERS FOR CHARITY has had some good news and PR due to our mate Loki!

Still not started painting but getting there, just found out where I left my Mojo:D

...and the winner is! Dice Give Away Result!

I was going to get Ray to pull the winners but photographic evidence has come to light concerning some dodgy dealings.....

Lurker: What are you up to mate!
Ray: Nothing!
Lurker: Seriously what are you writing?
Ray: None of you business...
Lurker: Where are you going and why are you running?
Ray: Keeping fit!
Lurker: Now I know you're up to something.....

Well the results are in and I'd like to say I'm delighted with the response to the give away, there were just over 100 entries and after Ray was beaten for his actions (I trained a squirrel to do the draw with the promise of nuts...Rays!) I got the 3 results and the winners were in order........

Michael Awdry from 28mm Victorian Warfare

Vampifan aka Bryan from Vampifan's World of the Undead

Anibal Invictus from Gaming with TooFatLardies

Some of the entries.......

.......even Anne..........

I found these before the prize drawing was to be done by Ray......

The box of entries.......

Winners!

I need some details from the winners and then the dice will be on their way!

Will probably do another one soon but for something different!

Don't forget the dice give away.......reminder.....post!

Just a quick reminder of the specially anointed DICE give away draw on Wednesday when we get back to work, make sure you've entered!

You don't need to leave a comment unless you really need to leave a comment as this is a post I set up on Saturday night and Monday morning as a reminder about the dice but just to let you know Ray has 6 more entries for his dice give away and he was bragging at SELWG about it like a baboon!

Even those who don't know what to do with them can enter and give them away again!

I also may have photographic evidence of his cheating and sabotage shenanigans of my draw, stay tuned!

The Rejects Lurker Dice Giveaway!

I've promised to give something away for a while especially for my two year anniversary in July, myself and Ray decided to get these reasonably unique dice made (some for the giveaway and some for us), they turned  out well, a bit expensive (we shared the deal with a couple of other Rejects) and they took quite a while to sort out with the company.

So we're both giving dice away, Ray here (gives you two chances to win the dice!).

Anyway here we go with my three lots to give away, 15 for 1st prize, 10 for 2nd prize and 5 for 3rd prize, they're 16mm in size and who doesn't like to roll a dice (well most people!), so to enter leave a comment (it would be nice if you were a follower as well but not a deal breaker!). The draw for both blog giveaway's will be noon-ish on Wednesday the 17th of October.

We just wanted something a little different to give to much appreciated readers, followers and commenter's...thanks to you all!

My Angry Dice?

The Sleestak (some Sunday posting weirdness) loving Tim over at Gothridge Manor (go have a look)has started a dice viewing/posting post with the means of it going nuclear which it should and probably has by now, keep the dice hot, rolling and angry (thrown harder).

Tim is a nice guy with alien visions but his missus is the real joy Happy Whisk (go have a look aswell)

Now everybody has dice, from a game of Monopoly at the very least, so get them out and take a picture and why are they angry dice it's the way I throw them and how they make you feel most of the time when you look at the result and wargamers have always have the most.

The ultra rare Salute dice from the Warlords. 

D12 within a D12...kinky.

Saruman's dice.

Sauron's Dice.

Flames of War Dice.

Casualty Dice.

Loads of Dice, too many to photograph.

Ivory or bone dice from Hong Kong, brought back by a long gone relative a long time ago of the SWMBO.

This made me chuckle yesterday over at Hello Rosie.. (give her a visit). Courtroom Testimony (seemingly true which is dreadful and even more funny).

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.


Gaming this Sunday with the Rejects and a fellow blogger MiniMike from Holland, if he turns up?