Three years ago, as I documented on my 12 June 2023 post, I went to Partizan and spent quite a while watching and drooling over David Imrie and Dave Andrews' lovely ACW demo game. So impressed was I that I started, or rather re-started a collection for myself. In the intervening time I have built up a reasonable force of around a dozen regiments a side plus supports and done a quick play home brew set of rules as well. Since then it has become a firm favourite with the Monday Night Gamers and we have had quite a few really enjoyable encounters. Whilst the collection was by no means finished, other projects had taken the spotlight and I hadn't done much with it recently. Until Partizan.
This year David, Dave and the other Bodkins put on another beautiful looking game based on the early clashes on the first day of Gettysburg. Buford's cavalry, supported by a couple of infantry brigades were trying to hold back a growing tide of advancing Confederate infantry and a great scrap it was. The game and the supporting information, which was also very nicely done, looked great. The very friendly Bodkins were only too happy to stop and chat not only about the game but how they had done the figures, terrain and so on. A great advert for the hobby.
The unintended consequence unfortunately was that I had another rush of blood to the head; a rush that seemed to bypass my brain, and I ended up somehow with an armful of Perry plastics boxes and dismounted Union cavalry and horseholders to add to the alpine pile of shame in my wargames room. Will I never learn!
Never mind. Below is the evidence I offer in mitigation for my actions m'lud.
Case dismissed on the grounds of intolerable provocation!
Back to WWII next after this little diversion. See you next time.
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