Adventures on the Wargames Table

Squeezed in a bit of Early War Chain of Command with good friend George, continuing our Gembloux Gap pint sized campaign.  For various reasons this series of games, started back in the late Summer, had stalled, so it was great to get things going again!  After breaching the front line at Perbais , George’s Germans squeaked a very close win at Noirmont .  The next phase of the campaign sees my brave French trying to stem the German tide at Villeroux.  Here’s the map of the table from the PSC (copyright TFL, no infringement intended). George kindly hosted the game in his spacious and well equipped gaming room — which is also technically the local post office, where George greets his valued customers with a cheery smile and a jolly wave. Anyway… we played the game using the now familiar-to-many means of zoom and FB messenger with a wide battlefield view and a roving mini-tripod mounted camera.  I plumbed the laptop into my TV for a better view. Now, I don’t have an...

No, it’s not a another Gerard Butler action movie.  It’s the first instalment of the Gembloux Gap pint sized campaign that good friend George hosted via Zoom and Messenger yesterday.  Here are a few pics of the action. I’m not doing a report here as George has already described the action .  Safe to say that it was a fantastic game and a real tussle as my French doggedly refused to give ground right up to the end.  A big thank you to George for sorting things out.  Apart from a few initial sound issues the tech worked well.  I’ve hosted games before but this is the first for me as a remote player and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I’ve also picked up a few handy tips for when I next host virtual games.