My friend Glenn came to town a couple of weeks ago for a few days and we decided to find out how many games we could get off one table set up. With just a few modifications, the answer was four.....
ONE, I had a full house of 6 players for a rousing game of "All Quiet on the Martian Front". It was a really close run thing; when the Humans won the game they had two units that, if they had lost another vehicle or stand in either one of the units, the Martians would have won.....
TWO, the next day we switched to WW II. Even though we were on the Eastern Front we left the terrain and buildings alone (*cough* too lazy 😉). We played my published tank rules "Tigers and Stalins" in 15mm instead of the original scale of 1/285th. Bad die rolling and the Soviets decision not to close with the Germans lead to a Soviet defeat.
THREE, after lunch we did change some terrain around. We went back to the US for a 28mm ACW game. We pulled some of the smaller wooded areas off the table and added a farm house, cornfield and split rail fences. Using the "Firepower" rules from Perry Miniatures both sides fed their units into the fight piecemeal. Things didn't go so well for the Union at first, but again, the dice going cold doomed the Rebels.....
FOUR, For our final game of the weekend we decided to play rules that were new to both of us. They are called "Fictioneers: Legacy", published by RRB Minis and More The game revitalizes miniatures from a bygone era. They, along with the rules and the story behind them, are all available on the RRB website.
Glenn and I picked up all the ACW buildings and fencing and put down some "Sci-Fi" looking buildings that I quickly (3d) printed and painted. I guess you could say we were on "Barsoom" because I took the Sitan Giants (who look to me like Green Martians from John Carter of Mars) and Glenn took the Sitan Humanoids (who look to me to be the Red Martians from JCoM).
We played a scenario out of the rule book; there was a Scientist and tech documents in the building that we needed to find and get off the board. Glenn and I went at each other like a couple of Gamers trying rules out for the first time. When he opened up on me from all the way across the board with his Red Mar....I mean Sitan Humanoid Cannon of Doom (my words) I gulped hard. But then we discovered that the squishy stuff between the Green Mar....I mean Sitan Giants horse's toes was slow Sitan humanoids..... In the end the Sitan Giants found the Scientist and got him off the board. Then ate him.....Sitan Giants have no use for stoopid tech..... And Scientist are tasty!
Thanks for looking,
Dave
