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Mustering for A Gentleman's War

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September is almost upon us and with it is our 3rd annual get-together with some  old longtime wargaming friends. This year I'm going to give the lads a chance to try 'A Gentleman's War' using a 'proper' gentleman's army of glossy old toy soldiers.  Having reviewed the troops on hand, I've decided to go with smaller than usual for AGW but acceptable units of 8 infantry or 4 cavalry. The armies will each have a pool of 9 units: 2 cavalry, 1 artillery and 6 infantry, one of which can be light infantry. Some of my units had not yet been upgraded to 8 so I cast up a few recruits to bring them up to strength. While you're waiting for the battle,  here are links to  last year's ECW game , and the ACW game from the year before .

Yorg 0.11 released, now with split-screen multiplayer!

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Yorg , the Panda3D based arcade racer has been updated to version 0.11 which includes some long awaited features. Most notably split-screen multiplayer: Really cool is also the new controller support and awesome particle effects (a pet-peeve of mine in previous versions ;) ). Add to that some significant performance improvements due to an update to the latest version of Panda3d . Read the full release announcement on the Yorg website here . And download it from itch.io . Comment on this in our forums here.

Assault on Hastee House Crossroads

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The 60 Minute War, as it has come to be known, is over. The captioned photos illustrate the flow of the battle while the rest of this article will be dedicated to comments by our technical advisor. The Government First Brigade begins an assault on Hastee House Crossroads. Rebel reinforcements are rushing to reinforce their outpost. This battle was actually the second attempt by the Government forces to sieze the crossroads. In the morning both armies, well versed in Developed Portable Warfare, were quickly going to ground under effective fire with very few units choosing to retire to a safe position. Once again, as we saw two years ago, in close terrain opposing troops would close in then take cover and could not be persuaded to even stick their heads up once in a while to shoot at an enemy in cover or to retreat but held on waiting to be rescued. Eventually at the end of the day the government forces pulled back after light casualties and no success. The ruins of the village has been ...

Preparations Continue

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The Green, or Government, forces are ready to go with 12 units. I've got a slight hiccup with the other side though since  it turns out that the Herald & Lone Star figures who are going to form the bulk of the Rebel infantry are actually rather green themselves, I had thought they were more khaki-ish like the Crescents were before I painted them. Oh well, the Crescents were smaller like the $ store figures I wanted to use in the Green army and its done now so it'll be the ragtag Government forces with a mix of obsolete and modern weapons and uniforms against a well equipped up to date Rebel force.  I smell foreign support in the air! Not sure I have the Oomph ( technical term ) to refurbish the rebels before I play a game, especially since I'm now planning to leave the WWII Canadians intact and see if I can find them a new home. This'll mean eventually finding/making about a dozen replacements to reach the planned OB but there's no rush. I have sabots ready so t...

UN Observers Ordered Out as Peace Talks Break Down

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It has been nearly 2 years since hostilities between the Red Badge Rebels and the Ducal Army broke out and were swiftly halted but it seems the two sides were largely using the peace talks as a cover for their efforts to organize and prepare for war. UN peacekeepers pass a Red Patch outpost on their way to the border. Will last minute peace efforts have any effect or can we expect hostilities in the near future? To avoid confusion with the Red Patch Brigade's Khaki Drab uniforms, the Ducal army has just adopted Olive Green uniforms and equipment .

Road Block

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On the 24th of August, 1919, the Dominion of Faraway declared war against Oerberg claiming that Oerberg had violated the peace treaty in February when their troops ambushed a Dominion convoy in the disputed zone.  Within hours a column of Faraway  troops crossed the border from the Kapelle into Oerberg. The column consisted of a light tank, a squadron of cavalry, 7 companies of infantry including 2 machine guns and three batteries including one light mountain gun. No enemy were in sight but the Oerbergers were well known for their ability to hide their entrenchments and make good use of dead ground. The advance guard was hit hard by fire from artillery and an advanced post of Frontier Mounted Police with a Pompom gun. As soon as the squadron of Larsen's Lancers came within rifle range of the farmhouse a furious fusillade followed by artillery fire tore into them causing heavy losses. They pulled back as Ross's Rifles deployed to attack the farm supported by the light tank. As...

Ready to Roll

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The Square Brigadier Rules  ( click to view ) have been updated and the table is set.