Just a few photo's to show as far as this week's game went. We decided on 550pts the week before for a WAB game at the club. My aim was to write a full AAR/Bat. Rep. but for a couple of reasons I couldn't manage that this week- juggling the AAR with playing the actual game, being present tactically and the simple fact that with all of us crowded around the table it's hard to flit about taking pictures due to lack of wriggle room!
In the game the week prior to this, it took much longer to deploy so we decided to get to the club a little earlier than normal and draw up "Hidden Deployment" maps. We must have saved us about at least an hour and a half and resulted in much more realistic and challenging deployments for both armies. The result of our efforts was thnat we more or less completed the game. A few more turns each would have yielded a more decisive outcome but the seven turns each we managed, at 5500pts, was very good going.
Deployment? The Crusaders refusing one flank whilst the Byzantines did the same as last week where units were almost matching their opposite numbers! Extremely "unrealistic" but perhaps worse; they take the guesswork out of the game which I find enjoyable with the "Hidden Deployment" method.
Here's a few snaps of the game. There really isn't any point in attempting to write anything up as the photo's are quite disjointed ergo the tale they might tell would be amorphic. I'll do my very best to get the right pictures together for next week's game (probably a change of rules over to Rapid Fire). AAR's/Bat. Reps. are one thing i need to start to do a lot better as they are usually a lot of fun to write up.
It was a close game with the fortunes of both sides ebbing and flowing. In the end, thanks to some excellent dice rolling, the Byzantines probably just tipped it past the post. Just.
As per. All the photo's are "clickable" if you want to see more detail.
Cheers
