Muskets & Tomahawks-Battle in the Wilderness

Last Thursday week, myself and Luis got together for a game of Muskets and Tomahawks. It is always good to get in a game with Luis as he is a spirited player. It was also important to get in this game as I was doing a demonstration game with 2 new players three days hence and I had not played for a while. It was good that we did this as I had really forgotten some of the mechanisms but after a couple of turns we were good to go.

We decided on a 500 point game with the following warbands.

We diced up for the type of game, it was going to be in the Wilderness, and we both ended up getting Battle as our victory condition and deployment criteria. Luis was the attacker.  I will let the photos do the talking.

Terrain

The British Assault

Compagnies Franches de la Marine

The Coureurs Devi Bois and Canadien aligned Indians advance

I was able to sneak up a unit of Rangers which gave the Canadians some trouble

The battle line, the river made it difficult.

It was a fun game, with a marginal British victory but we did make an error in set up as I initially gave myself a Sachem with only 6 Indians giving me a bit of an advantage with the Avant Garde card, so it was ultimately a draw. Certainly this outing confirmed what a good rules this is.

 

Historical Gaming at the Abyss-July 2, 2023

 

Last Sunday we had a gathering of 6 of our Club members at the Abyss for demo games of Congo and Muskets & Tomahawks. Graham was testing out his Congo scenario with Korrigan and Iannick which is being played at Historicon next week and I was demo-ing M&T for Gabriel and Camille to introduce them to a French Indian War ruleset. Both games went well, here are a few photos.

Muskets & Tomahawks

British vs Canadiens

500 points

Wilderness Setting

Battle Set up both sides 

Canadien Victory 

Lesson learned: maybe not a good idea to use a river on the long axis of the table as it prevented a good demo of the spotting rules.

Congo

3 columns

3 player game

Hopefully we will have another get together at the Abyss in the latter part of July. 

Games Day at the Abyss-June 4, 2023

 

We had our first games day a week ago and I would judge it a success. We now have 21 members to our club having attracted quite a bit of attention. Rather than using Facebook, we have decided to use Discord which seems to be working well for us. Here are some photos that were taken of the event, I may add some as more come in.

It was a lot of fun!