York historical and conflict simulation boardgame meetup
An opportunity to meet fellow boardgamers to play historical boardgames, conflict simulations and other strategy games.
Our fourth event took place at Stamford Bridge Village Hall. I’d hoped to get some 1066 games to the table but in the end wound up playing two of the Great Statesmen series plus a couple of quick games.
I hope we can attract a few more gamers for our next event in Saturday 22 November, this time back at Heslington near the University of York.
Unhappy King Charles (second edition)
An all day Civil War campaign using the Phalanx edition. This has been languishing on my own shelf so I’m encouraged to try and get a play in the near future.
Task Force: Carrier Battles in the Pacific
This gets played at Unfurl a bit. Beautifully produced version from Vuca Simulations. I think four introductory scenarios played. It’s a fairly accessible naval game with a good teaching manual, nothing too dense but you need to be good at maths.
Poland Defiant: The German Invasion, September 1939
Gosh. Another updated game – Plan West was the original, BGG tells me.
I do like Revolution Games. Small publisher that does take a lot of care in development and publishing. I’ve just picked up the my first Blind Swords game, Gettysburg: the first day.
Don’t know how this game unfolded as I had my back to the table. When I did check, they were still setting up!
Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa
A quick blitz through while waiting for opponents who didn’t arrive. 🙁
Gosh, I’m terrible at Twilight Struggle.
Churchill
Another outing for this classic at Eboracon. Think I’m beginning to appreciate it more than previously. Perhaps that was influenced by me winning!
Stalin was grumpy because the western allies took Berlin first. So, he decided to pussyfoot around in the Far Eastern theatre and concentrate on winning conferences and Pol/Mil.
Versailles 1919
Several plays now at Eboracon. Churchill’s Euro-y cousin though Scott did say it’s less a Euro because at least there’s interaction between the players, rather than three/four people looking solely at their tableau.
Britain won a stunning victory, hoovering up a ton of issues, the strategy card adding a small amount of gravy.
Thanks to Nicholas for having his first crack at this.
In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943 – 1944
Scott and I bumbled through this again. And, again, we (well, I) got the rules wrong, forgetting to remove the Alert markers.