A Sandbox

I bought a copy of Adeptus Titanicus a while ago, having always wanted it. Me and Andy had huge forces of Eldar, Orks, Imperial Guard, Dark Angels and Space Wolves for Space Marine in its second incarnation and played a bit of Epic 40K although I never got to grips with that last version, although I'm sure it warrants revisiting. So, once we'd cleared off the 18th century forces and the farmhouse, we got an Eclipse and a Death Bringer Warlord and a brace of order counters and had a quick Duel to the Death in a game that we haven't played since Friday night games at our school Wargames club in 1989!  i got the worst of it in about 4 moves. The Void Shields were stripped out by auto cannon fire, then the generator was destroyed, followed by the defence laser. I tried to close the range to bring it's las cutter to bear in close combat, but the damage rolls turned to critical and then the Mind Impulse Units burned out and the crew were killed or turned into gibb...

Andy T made the trip over the passes from the Palatine County to South Yorkshire. We had a game of Maurice planned and used the scenario from the last issue of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy magazine of the Battle of Hubbardton - part of the Saratoga campaign.  We fudged the forces to suit our favoured ruleset of Maurice. I was the Americans, with a force of 6 Regular line battalions and 3 Irregular skirmishers (1 of which was represented by some Woodland Native Americans). Andrew brought a force of Brunswick grenadiers, British regulars, some light Highlander infantry and skirmishers plus a cannon. We added some Notables to represent the traits of the various forces. More details of his own account of the ection will be found on his  blog Lavrenti accompanied one of the skirmisher units who had a range of 6 BW's, which was to prove incredibly useful.  The Earl of Bragge was somewhat incongruously attached to a unit of American regulars. Who knows ...