World Cup of Wargaming Pet Hates - Preliminary Round

After two years of World Cups and neaely 40,000 votes we know your favourite rules and figure manufacturers, now its time to find out what you really dont like ! 

This is the Preliminary Round of the Yarkshire Gamers World Cup of Wargaming Pet Hates.What drives you nuts in the hobby ? 

No matter how tolerant you are there will be something and now is the chance to get it off your chest.

Wargames Room 101 has been a regular feature on the Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast.

RULES 

Vote for no more than 5 choices

If you don't see your personal pet hate, first check its not one of the 8 seeds (Competition Games, Round Dice, Points Battles, Painting Portaloo, Dice with unclear faces, Unpainted Flag Edges, Factions, Sabot Bases)If it isn't there DONT ADD IT YOURSELF, please comment on the post starting with "I nominate" and only nominate one subject per post.

The top 16 pet hates will go through to the 1st Round Proper (the draw for which will be on the Summer Brews Podcast on the 6th June). Each pair of hates will then play off against each other in a knock out cup format, the winners of the 1st round will meet the seeds in Round 2 and then its a straight knock out until we have a winner.Ties (yes we have had one) will be settled by a live one hour penalty shoot out.

Get voting and share far and wide

Voting is on the Yarkshire Gamers Facebook Reet Big Wargames Group 

VOTING LINK https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ARB3LNusA/

Apologies to those not on FB but after 3 years of doing this there are no other viable alternatives that reach such a wide audience.

Regards Ken 

The Yarkshire Gamer

Troops on Parade - Papal / French Army for Mentana 1867

 

I've put together a video covering the 28mm Army I put together for the Papal French Forces at the Battle of Mentana in 1867 available now on the Utubes 

I've used figures from Wargames Foundry, Perry Miniatures and Gringo40s to put the army together and had to go to various ranges outside of the Risorgimento to get the figures I needed. A lot of them have been released by Shako64 since which is a real pain !

The French are from the Perry Miniatures Franco Prussian War range, part plastic part metal.

The Papal Zouaves were made from Perry ACW plastic Zouaves with Steve Barber head swaps

I used figures from The Perrys Triple Alliance to represent The OIC of the Papal French General Kanzler

I'll do a similar thing with the Garibaldi next week

Germantown 1777 and 2025 at Partizan

 

A few pics and a bit of chat from the Germantown game at Partizan yesterday, I haven't done a proper blog post for a while so here goes.

Firstly thanks very much to Andy, Steve, Steve and Geoff from Leeds Wargames Club  for running the game and keeping the figures moving whilst I did my usual front of house. Above is a pic of the table at the start of the show.

I ended up feeling a bit ropey first thing and spent most of the day sat down, I still managed to speak to loads of people however and had a great time. It was lovely to see loads of friends and have people come up and say how much they enjoy the Podcast, I even had a donation of "snow" to the Narvik Project, thank you very much for that.

I can't mention or even remember everyone but I want to say it was wonderful to see brother Ken Hanning and Charlie Walker looking well. I had a lovely chat with Dave Tuck planning a Podcast, the Brews boys Iain McDonald and Alex Sotheran came over. Henry Hyde stopped by a couple of times and it was wonderful to see him looking happy and enjoying the day.

We raised a bit of awareness for Dogs Trust the chosen charity of my friend Dave Parrott, and it was lovely to have his figures (all the Americans) out on the table again. Dogs Trust supplied us with some bunting and flyers for the table.

The game looked great, my Chew House really stood out as a centre piece, even if you couldn't see all the subtle plank shading, I'd picked up quite a few Charlie Foxtrot Models from their New World Range a couple of weeks before the game and managed to get them all finished in time. i'd been down the DIY Store as well and as only wargamers can do I saw an Arris Rail, and rather than thinking "that's a good addition to my fence" I though that would make a good Game Title Board added something and the bunting from Dogs Trust looked good.

I used the plans from the British Grenadier 2nd Scenario Book with a few minor alterations, mostly to get more figures on the table and we used the British Grenadier rules which we are familiar with. Lots of people commented at the table that the rules are 'a bitbslow" but we absolutely cracked through the game even with public engagement.

The figures where all sculpted by the Perrys. Most of the British had been painted by me and were from the Perry Miniatures Range, mostly metal (these were started before the plastics came out) although there are a few plastic units.

The Americans are from the Collection of Dave who left them to me when he passed away. I've done the odd bit of rebating and adding flags but they are all painted by him. The collection is entirely metal and mostly the Perry Wargames Foundry sculpts, Dave was a huge fan of that company.

As for the game itself, the lads really cracked on even with the "slow" British Grenadier rules and the Americans were really Agressive pushing the British back from Chew House towards Germantown but the Firepower of the Brits told and Greenes column broke at the end of the day.

Pendants Corner - in the excitement of the game some of the British flags have ended up their ongoing way round, I shall chastise those who are responsible in due course.

Regards Ken

Yarkshire Gamer Podcast 69 - Arran Johnston - Jacobite Rising

 

Hello all and welcome to Episode 69 of the Reet Big Wargames Podcast.

My guest today is Arran Johnston, Arran works with the Scottish Battlefield Trust and the Battle of Prestonpans Museum increasing awareness of the History of conflicts in the Highlands, Lowlands and Isles.

The episode is available on all major Podcast hosts or via the link below 

https://kenrtai.podbean.com/e/episode-69-arran-johnston-jacobite-rising/

A specialist in the Jacobite Rising Arran has had a number of books published on that subject as well as Cromwells earlier campaigns in Scotland. On top of his day job he has also done some historical re-enactment, so as my grandma would say " He knows his eggs"

Arran has a personal website covering his historical work here

https://www.arranjohnston.co.uk/

The work he does with the Battle of Prestonpans Museum can be found here

https://www.battleofprestonpans1745.org/

Recently Arran has begun to use Wargaming as a tool to tell the story of the Jacobite Rising and has chronicled the Campaigns in a series of "What If" videos on the museums YouTube Channel.

The decisions made, by the Jacobites in the first run through and by the Government in the second have been made by members of the public which has been a really interesting experiment. You can tune into the campaign here

www.youtube.com/@Prestonpans1745

I think all wargamers would love to be involved in such a well run campaign.

My next guest will be Jared Fishman from the US Wargaming Podcast, 20 Sided Gamified Podcast.

See you soon

Regards Ken

Here's the video version of episode 68

Yarkshire Gamer Podcast - Episode 68 Martyn Kelly - Wargaming Pavia

On the 500th Anniversary of one of the most pivotable battles of the Great Italian Wars, what better to do that a deep dive into the battle of Pavia, with a specific slant on recreating the battle on the tabletop.

The episode is available on all major Podcast hosts or via the link below 

https://kenrtai.podbean.com/e/episode-68-martyn-kelly-wargaming-pavia/

I'm joined by Martyn Kelly who has last on the show 2 years ago. He is well known for his exquisite Big Games at Historicon in the US and this year he will be putting on a huge recreation of the Italian Wars classic.

Neither Martyn or myself are historians, just enthusiastic wargamers, we give our own briefing introduction on the history of the battle before moving on to a deep dive on the orders of battle and figures used in Martyns game.

After that we talk about the terrain for the battle and how that is recreated in miniature before eventually getting to the battle itself and how that presents challenges on the tabletop.

Martyn has an excellent blog College of Kings on which he posts updates on the project.

https://www.collegeofkings.com/ ​

Please like, subscribe and leave a review wherever you see the show.

I'll be back in a couple of weeks when I will be talking to Aaron Johnston who works for the Battle of Prestonpans Trust and runs the What If, 1745 Jacobite Campaign on the YouTube.

See you then

Sithee

Regards Ken

The Yarkshire Gamer

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Here's the last episode on the utubes