When I think about it this first half of 2025 has like 2024 been dominated by AHPC – analogue hobbies painting challenge. By contrast I managed only two shows yet one yielded one of the few games I have played.
That was a cowboy shootout using homemade rules…..
Not surprisingly it was Hammerhead at Newark.
Then I had a game of “what a cowboy”. My opponent loved “what a tanker” and reasoned WAC should be as enjoyable. Well that proved not quite the case. We will play again but it has slipped down the list.
Actually there is no list and until today my gaming had been quite limited.
Then I had a spur of the moment, moment no doubt brought on by quite a bit of reading about battles fought.
In this case ACW – I am reading western theatre actions at the moment.
I also have been reading my Colorado purchase – a soft cover book of maps showing the whole ACW war.
In the book are some contemporary maps by a certain Robert Knox Sneeden. He was a Union mapmaker who not only spent time as a confederate prisoner but was also a watercolour artist. Clearly he had a good eye! And by good fortune his maps and diaries have survived.
So taken with his work was I that I simply made an entry for today’s game in his style.
I played using one hour Wargames book, rules and scenario plus solo options for set up. Figures were what I fancied fielding!
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So you’re not a fan of What a Cowboy?
I’ve not played it, but would be interested to know why?
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We have played twice so that’s not enough to say. It was more the comparison with tanker so maybe it’s the period not the rules!!
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Ok.
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I like the game write-up! 🙂 I used to record all my games in a similar manner but haven’t done so for years!
P.S. I know a lot of people like What A Tanker but I’m not a fan myself!
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Hi John, thanks for stopping by – I do like to read battle reports but not all of them. And in this era of very short attention spans in humanity it’s a bit much to ask of people to read pages of action and indeed I am not sure the image by image or even video much improves things as we sink into the oceans of data available to us. Crikey that was a long response- sorry.
What a tanker – I think they call it marmite- I enjoy it occasionally as a good pick up social game.
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Hi
Just found your site, it shows I don’t do much on blogs, I was amazed at the quality of the pictures from my 1848 game a couple of years ago thanks for the comments I have started to sell them through Pendraken at the moment by word of mouth, its come about when I suddenly released I’ve nearly 12 pages of codes
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Hi Dave,
I was a pleasure to meet and talk to you that day. It certainly emboldened me to pursue 1848 era wars in miniature!
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Yes, I’m impressed with your figures keep it up Dave
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