Let's Roll Game Day II
Remote Historical Miniatures Gaming: 5-7 February 2021
In December we ran a weekend-long virtual remote gaming event, and it was a success, so we thought we would try it again! In the tradition of the Let's Roll, Cyber Wars, and Cyber Wars Redux virtual conventions, we are hosting a game day of more limited scale.
As we said last time, it may not be in-person gaming, but there's no reason not to get a game in. Come join us for a few hours, pandemic be damned! (But safely, of course: all participants are required to stay well out of musket range, at the far end of an internet connection!)
Interested players should contact the organizer at ilg21@yahoo.com. Please indicate which games you are interested in playing. Seating is first-come, first serve, and will be limited. Games will be conducted using remote conferencing platforms such as Skype and Zoom, based on the game master's preference. Details for connecting will be sent to players once their interest and participation has been confirmed. Participation is free - if you have a web browser, a microphone, and an internet connection, you can play! Participants under 16 years of age should be co-located with a responsible adult (or at least a parent or legal guardian... ;-)
If you would be interested in running an event at future game days, using miniatures and web cameras, or a virtual platform such as Tabletop Simulator, please contact us at the e-mail given above.
Note: The after-action report is now available here.
[F1] Bridgehead on the Dnepr, 1943: Kursk is over, and the Soviets are pushing the German invaders back through the Ukraine to a defensive line along the Dnepr. As they establish multiple small bridgeheads on the western bank, the Germans attempt to blot them out with aggressive counter-attacks. This scenario is based on these actions, with each side fielding a division-sized force. The rules are operational-level, tracking ammunition and fuel as the battle progresses.
[F2] RAVENFEAST - Hunt the Beast: You and your cousins have ventured west across the sea and made landfall on a foggy isle that once held a Roman outpost. There are tales of great treasure on this mysterious island, but few have ever returned to speak of it.
These rules are easy to follow and designed for introductory play while offering complexity to challenge more experienced players. The scenario is a fictional one which begins as a cooperative game but may end in carnage. The rules are freely available as a PDF from Little Wars TV.
Rules: "RAVENFEAST Viking Age Rules" with the "Myth & Magic" supplement[F3] Et Sans Resultat! Learning Game: Come join an introductory scenario for Et Sans Resultat! If you have not had an opportunity to play ESR, now is the time to come and push some virtual troops. If you cannot play the whole game or you just want to stop by and say hello, please stop by our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/M3Z9mjQ. Players use this same link and search for server Yakubovo.
Rules: "Et Sans Resultat!" [SA1] The Battle of Yakubovo: July 30, 1812, Napoleon sent Macdonald's X Corps d'armee towards Riga and dispatched another corps under Marshal Oudinot to take Saint Petersburg. To counter this French move against the city that effectively served as the second Russian capital, Barclay de Tollly has broken off Wittgenstein's I Infantry Corps, accompanied by cavalry and cossacks, to intervene. This is a learning game of Et Sans Resultat! If you have not had an opportunity to play ESR, now is the time to come and push some virtual troops. If you cannot play the whole game or you just want to stop by and say hello, please stop by our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/M3Z9mjQ. Players use this same link and search for server Yakubovo.
[SA2] Nine Men's Misery..... or is it?: On March 26, 1676 during King Philip's War, Captain Michael Pierce led approximately 60 Plymouth Colony colonial troops and 20 Wampanoag Christian Indians in pursuit of Narragansett Indians who had burned several Rhode Island towns and attacked Plymouth, Mass. as part of King Philip�s War. Pierce's troops caught up with the Narragansett Indians but were ambushed. He had sent word to Providence that he was in need of assistance. Historically Capt. Edmunds waited until after Services on Sunday to muster his men and aid Capt. Pierce, only to reach Pierce in time to bury the dead. The history behind Nine Men's Misery is varied, the accepted story is that some of Pierce's men got separated and were ambushed and caught. These nine men were tortured and killed by the Narragansett.
In this scenario, Edmunds musters his men right away and sends an advance scout of nine men (one of the variants of the story). The nine get ambushed and hold up against and behind an outcropping of rocks, fighting to the last man. Edmund's men arrive (historical story is that they didn't make it on time), but are cut off from the nine... can they save them before they are wiped out?
[SA3] Battle of Bir Hakeim: In the spring of 1942, the British Eighth Army held the Gazala Line, reaching from the Mediterranean coast in the north, 50 miles to the crumbling remains of the Ottoman fort of Bir Hakeim in the south. General Marie-Pierre Koenig's 1st Free French Brigade defends a fortified box that marks the southern tip of the line. Rommel has sent two divisions of Italians to overrun this fortified box to clear a path to bring supplies to his panzers, which had flanked the British line and are now in their rear.
This scenario represents the overrun attack on May 26. Historically, the badly outnumbered Free French surprised both friend and foe by holding out against the armored assault, leading to a two-week siege of Bir Hakeim that robbed Rommel of his opportunity to surround and capture most of the Eighth Army.
As the Free French, can you hold out as in the historic event? As the Italians, can you overrun the small group of defenders so Rommel can capture much of the Eighth Army?
Rules: "Active Armor WWII" (computer-assisted) [SA4] Et Sans Resultat! Learning Game: Come join an introductory scenario for Et Sans Resultat! If you have not had an opportunity to play ESR, now is the time to come and push some virtual troops. If you cannot play the whole game or you just want to stop by and say hello, please stop by our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/M3Z9mjQ. Players use this same link and search for server Yakubovo.
[SA5] Tossing Ceasar�s Salad in Gaul (Or Protect the Oil and Vinegar!): It is the Winter of 57 - 56 B.C.E. on the eve of the Battle of Octodurus during the Gallic Wars. Servius Sulpicius Galba is tasked with protecting the important pass of Poeninus high in the Alps. Caesar's young favorite Publius Crassus is on his way to northern Gaul. To keep supplies moving through the pass and to stay out of Publius Crassus' shadow, Galba must succeed in a big way. The local Gauls have other ideas.
Galba will split the town of Octodus in half. He assigns one half to the local Gauls for shelter through the Alpine winter and takes the other half for his troops. He started fortifying the Roman portion of the town with a ditch and rampart and prepared for winter. However, a few days after they moved into camp, a Gallic army attacked the partially built fortifications. This attack is what our fictional scenario is based around.
A force of Roman troops under Arvina Flacus are tasked with protecting a small Roman settlement located on the southern road outside of Octodurus until the fortifications are complete and citizens and critical olive oil and red wine supplies hidden there can be safely moved to the town. Unfortunately, the Gauls are planning a rear attack on the town via this road to support the main assault. Two warbands of Gauls under brothers Axrotalus and Orgatarix seek to use this road, and if the Romans can stop or delay the Gauls it will greatly help the developing battle in town. And of course they must save the amphoras of precious culinary ingredients! The Gauls must move through, and if they can capture or destroy the Romans amphoras of olive oil and red wine along the way, ruining future salad production, all the better.
Rules: "Infamy, Infamy" (modified) [SA6] The Fall of The House of Lancaster - Tewkesbury, 1471: The War of the Roses was an epic struggle for who would rule England. The Battle of Tewkesbury took the Lancastrians out of the contest for good, their heir to the throne dead on the field of battle, and his mother - the redoubtable Margaret of Anjou - imprisoned in the tower. This scenario is a refight of this decisive contest: Can you lead the Lancastrians to victory, ensuring further, indecisive civil strife and bloodshed? Or will you lead the Yorkists to power, and the subsequent blood-thirsty antics of Richard III and Henry Tudor? (Does it really matter?) Late-medieval warfare in all its pointless glory!
[SA6A] Outremer Battle Royale: During the Crusades, it was almost as common to find factions fighting their presumptive allies as it was to find them fighting their presumptive enemies, which brings us to the Battle Royale: four warbands, no friends, one winner.
A scenario from the Saga Book of Battles with Mutatawwi�a, Saracen, Crusader and Milites Christi warbands to choose from.
Rules: "Saga" [SA7] The Battle of Yakubovo: July 30, 1812, Napoleon sent Macdonald's X Corps d'armee towards Riga and dispatched another corps under Marshal Oudinot to take Saint Petersburg. To counter this French move against the city that effectively served as the second Russian capital, Barclay de Tollly has broken off Wittgenstein's I Infantry Corps, accompanied by cavalry and cossacks, to intervene. This is a learning game of Et Sans Resultat! If you have not had an opportunity to play ESR, now is the time to come and push some virtual troops. If you cannot play the whole game or you just want to stop by and say hello, please stop by our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/M3Z9mjQ. Players use this same link and search for server Yakubovo.
[SA7A] RAVENFEAST - Hunt the Beast: You and your cousins have ventured west across the sea and made landfall on a foggy isle that once held a Roman outpost. There are tales of great treasure on this mysterious island, but few have ever returned to speak of it.
These rules are easy to follow and designed for introductory play while offering complexity to challenge more experienced players. The scenario is a fictional one which begins as a cooperative game but may end in carnage. The rules are freely available as a PDF from Little Wars TV.
Rules: "RAVENFEAST Viking Age Rules" with the "Myth & Magic" supplement [SA8] The West Indies Convoy: French and American Privateers (with some help from the USN) have joined forces to strike at a British Convoy under Royal Navy escort. There are rich prizes available for capture If you are skilled and lucky enough to get them away from the English Men of War!
[SN1] Scorched Earth: Masséna's Retreat from Portugal: It is the end of 1810, and the French army under Masséna is retreating from Wellington's position in the Lines of Torres Vedras. He travels through a barren landscape, searching for an area which can provide his troops with forage. He has another objective, too: the sacred Banner of Santa Esmerelda is purported to be hidden in a decaying Templar castle high in the Serra de Estrela. In an unravaged village there, French scouts and their German allies run into their enemies - guerillas and Portugese and British soldiers - with a range of conflicting goals, only some of which involve livestock...
The game will be conducted using 54mm miniatures, enhancing the visibility of the figures on the table in this Hollywood-style Napoleonic romp.
Rules: "Sharp Practice 2" [SN2] Battle of Bir Hakeim: In the spring of 1942, the British Eighth Army held the Gazala Line, reaching from the Mediterranean coast in the north, 50 miles to the crumbling remains of the Ottoman fort of Bir Hakeim in the south. General Marie-Pierre Koenig's 1st Free French Brigade defends a fortified box that marks the southern tip of the line. Rommel has sent two divisions of Italians to overrun this fortified box to clear a path to bring supplies to his panzers, which had flanked the British line and are now in their rear.
This scenario represents the overrun attack on May 26. Historically, the badly outnumbered Free French surprised both friend and foe by holding out against the armored assault, leading to a two-week siege of Bir Hakeim that robbed Rommel of his opportunity to surround and capture most of the Eighth Army.
As the Free French, can you hold out as in the historic event? As the Italians, can you overrun the small group of defenders so Rommel can capture much of the Eighth Army?
Rules: "Active Armor WWII" (computer-assisted)[SN3] Et Sans Resultat! Learning Game: Come join an introductory scenario for Et Sans Resultat! If you have not had an opportunity to play ESR, now is the time to come and push some virtual troops. If you cannot play the whole game or you just want to stop by and say hello, please stop by our Discord server at: https://discord.gg/M3Z9mjQ. Players use this same link and search for server Yakubovo.
Rules: "Et Sans Resultat!"
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