What's on your table right now?

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Quote from: mirth on July 16, 2017, 10:02:42 AM
Pics from last week's play test of the Coral Sea game my group has been planning. This is was a large, double-blind game with 3 players on each side and 2 GMs. The IJN and USN players were on separate floors. Each side had it's own map for plotting ship movement and air searches. The GMs had a master plot with the exact locations of each side. The GMs resolved the plotted air searches and gave each side information accordingly. Once contacts were made, we fought the actions out on table using the Topside minis ships.

The game lasted over 12 hours. We fought the raid on Tulagi, the Shoho group was attacked and sunk, and various small air battles were fought.  In the end, the Japanese got the jump on TF 17 and launched a full strike of Vals and Kates. They had to send it in largely unescorted beacuse most of the Zeroes were on CAP and they didn't have time to recall/rearm them for the strike.

The Japanese strike aircraft were decimated by the US CAP and AA fire. The strike went in though and Lexingtion took heavy damage that left her unable to recover aircraft. Yorktown took multiple bomb and torpedo hits, but was still afloat and able to conduct flight ops. On the final turn of the game, a last, errant Japanese torpedo found the mark and tore the bottom out of Yorktown.

With no carrier able to recover aircraft, the US planes still airborne were forced to ditch. The Japanese air groups were not in much better shape though and would have been hard pressed to conduct a second strike.

As with the historical outcome, it was a Japanese tactical victory. However, the Port Moresby invasion force had turned back to Rabaul after the loss of the Shoho support group and the Americans achieved their overall strategic goal (at a much higher cost than historically happened).



That's awesome!  How did everyone find it?

ArizonaTank

On the virtual table...  2 player game of Time of Crisis.  I am blue and am getting my shorts beaten off....  I have the emperor's seat and a strong position in Gallia, but between a rival emperor in Syria, a growing Frank barbarian problem, and an aggressive opponent who has a ton of legions (in the yellow), my emperor is currently shopping for the best sword to fall on....

Johannes "Honus" Wagner
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mirth

Topside Minis Midway Battle Set arrived this week (full set is 83 surface ships & 125 aircraft).














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bbmike

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mirth

Gonna take a while to cut and base them all  :crazy2:
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat


mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bbmike

What will the base be? (is that wood or cardboard?)
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

Quote from: bbmike on July 30, 2017, 09:05:35 AM
What will the base be? (is that wood or cardboard?)

They're wood. They've been cut to the exact dimensions of the ships/planes.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

#1569
Couple of pics from my Friday night game. Battle of Lech from the 30 Years War. Imperials attacking a Swedish bridgehead. Swedish cav shows up on the Imperial flank. I ran the Imperial cav and had to hold off the Swedes while our foot assaulted the bridge head. I only got pics of the cav fight which ended in a bloody stalemate.


My cav at start (mix of Curaissiers and Reiters). Some of the Imperial infantry can be seen in the upper left of the pic.





Swedish and Imperial Cav units locked in battle. We each made a number of charges/counter-charges and became locked in several fights where we inflicted heavy losses on each other. The result was a stalemate which gave the Imperial Infantry time to assault the Swedish bridghead. Unfortunately, that attack went very badly for my Imperial companion player.


"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bbmike

^Did you seal 'em with Krylon clear finish?  ^-^
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

Quote from: bbmike on July 30, 2017, 01:56:45 PM
^Did you seal 'em with Krylon clear finish?  ^-^

Mod Podge spray sealer. Gotta protect the investment!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Barthheart

What did that batch set you back?

mirth

The Midway set was $100. Those planes in the pic are some extras I picked up. After the Coral Sea game, we found we were short on planes. The plane counters from Topside are meant to represent squadrons. The General Quarters rules use flights of three, so we didn't have nearly enough to represent all the flights. A couple weeks ago, I did an order of just planes (you can order individuals of anything). I'm just now getting them mounted though.

We're probably going to do Midway and/or Santa Cruz sometime in the fall, so we won't be short planes again.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus