The second face-to-face Covid-19 era wargaming meet-up in the garden under a gazebo saw the intrepid gamers travel to Iraq after their tour of duty in Vietnam. This time a four player area control game that was tense and down to the wire (see below, it's obviously Covid-19 times as it's a blue latex glove):
The counters may look like tiddlywinks but child play it was not. Great fun and this time I remembers to bring both Danish pastries and mosquito repellent.
The diagram and blurb is not a lot to go on although the stylized nature of the pre-game (?) justifies more!
ReplyDeleteIntriguing looking game- where is it from?
ReplyDeleteChyeers,
Pete.
Hello Pete,
ReplyDeleteThe game is from the fertile mind of one of my co-partner in my wargaming crime and the result of a lot of lock down time spent "idly thinking" in a productive manner. I hope he takes his ideas further and perhaps to a wider audience; I hope he can give it an airing in the WD Nugget, a magazine of self-publishing as "despite cooling temperatures" of the garden we played two games or demanded a second after playing the first ;)
Fair comment Bankinista,
ReplyDeleteApologies as I was simply euphoric at being able to get out and play a game, which is understandable in these Covid-19 times
No this was not a pre-game but the whole tightly contested (and bloody) "game-space". Small is beautiful in a mathematical crafted maze of deceit - aka three wargamers in a bed and a fourth "bot" player leads to plenty of opportunistic back stabbing ;)
It was an area domination game , of resource grabbing (yellow counters), distance shooting and move to close quarter melee with a home base grabbing "winner takes all" and "last man standing rule-set". And I lost in both games ;) but I'm not bitter (but I will get even).
On the previous Nam theme I did regale everyone bout your pace Marine and Mushroom-Fungi men game (which was legend at the Exiles) that replicated the counterinsurgency quandary of "whose side is that on" - friendly or not so friendly - "they all look the same to me"! Apologies if that is not strictly PC terminology.
PS: Bankista I hope it was not the surgical gloves that caught your interest as they played no part in the game but rather contributed to the heightened Covid-19 sterile(?) socially distanced environment