1809 Napoleonic Battle Report Part 1.

....or the day the Dutch blogger MiniMike turned up for a 15mm Napoleonic game with Posties Rejects and survived.

The invitation to come and game with the Rejects is open to all, we just need a little notice as we're old.

Mike follows myself and Rays blogs and he blogged that he was coming to the UK (Broadstairs, an hour away by car) for a holiday with family and friends and Ray invited him to a game that Postie organised and I catered for (we still don't know what Ray did) and what follows is a little batrep and a lot of pictures of the day.

It's 1809 and the Austrian empire is on the ropes after several major defeats at the hands of Napoleon and a French (Lurker) and Saxon Army (Dutch Mike) has been commanded to finish off the remnants of the Austrian army (Surjit and Ray), the game was set up and deployed before we turned up, dicing for reinforcements along the way. Both sides were of similar size and similarly deployed and battle commenced. Would have had more detail but Ray took the sheets with the details of the battle and units and has lost them and mislaid his camera, Ray will be eventually doing a batrep on his blog tomorrow from the Austrian side.

The Rejects with Mike at the far right, not a lot of Rejects as the richer ones were on holiday.

Initial set up, French and Saxons on the left.

My line regiments move forward, the white marker denote first fire (a +1 to your firing dice, only allowed once).

The Austrians and Surjits arms await.

Contractual Postie shot with evilness and maniacal laughter present.

Tried to be a bit windswept.

Artillery had to roll for ammunition as they had not been resupplied, so a 1 got you 2 shots and no cannister for the game or a 6 got you 10 shots and 2 cannister (I didn't get anything near a bleeding six).

Postie the git made me roll 3 times until I got a 6 for this wood and this number and then it turned out to be nothing (I was expecting militia and deployed accordingly).

Austrian elite cavalry try it on with my column, they would eventually break, disperse and the attached general would be shot from his horse.

Saxon cavalry and elite Austrian cavalry clash.

If a general was attached to or within 2 inches of a unit that took casualties, you rolled a D20 to see if the general was a casualty (usually a 1 or a 2) we took 4 Austrian generals out of their saddles.

Things are not going well for the Saxon cavalry.

In fact going really badly.

Classic French deployment, 2 columns protected by a line unit for the assault.

Saxon reinforcements getting lanced.

4 Saxon columns attacking.

Nothing better than a bit of artillery, more ammunition would have helped.

The blue marker shows captured colours from that Austrian cavalry unit.

Doing a bit of birds eye, the Saxons (Mike) were an aggressive lot and should have paid a far higher price but Mike was a lucky guy with the dice at the right times.

French birds eye view.

We stopped for lunch, it's called "Marry Me" pasta.

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?

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 46: SALT 2010 (3 STARS)

Evelyn Salt (Anjelina Jolie) is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber). Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning?

I like Angelina Jolie for a couple of reasons, well enough about that but never really that much as an actress but she was in some OK movies (Tomb Raider, Mr & Mrs Smith, Wanted, Gone in 60 seconds etc..) but this isn't too bad. It's a movie about Russian sleeper agents being activated and an attempt to start WW3 by Russian radicals and Evelyn Salt (Jolie) being accused by a defector as being a sleeper agent, it's a quick (set over a couple of days after the accusation) action movie in the style of a Bourne movie, there's a lot of coloured herring being thrown about and who is who and what?

I spotted the real herring part of the way through but that's because I'm a cynical shit but the movie entertained, Jolie's looks are not relevant as the movie is fast paced (a little unrealistic at times and the ending is good but predictable). Reminded me of the story from Charles Bronson's cold war movie "Telefon". A movie where there is no focus on her looks (she looked slightly frumpy if that's possible ) just the acting and action.

So anyway the story is interesting, the action is good enough and you feel non cheated out of your time at the end.