Archive of Games We have Played
Date & Time Games played
Sunday 7 April 2013 (Games weekend)

Vietasia 1965 - A political crisis game - Jim
Simple Fantasy Role-play System - Dave B

Saturday 6 April 2013 (Games Weekend)

Summit At Gorilla - Universe - themed treaty negotiations and post-war recriminations - Jim
Cyber Warfare - Nick
Tank Duel - Jim
A Slight Disturbance - Some camp disorder in Etaples Sept 1917 - John S

Sunday 3 March 2013

Versailles 1919 - Brian
Champions de Tournoi - A knight's tale - John S

Sunday 3 February 2013

Operation Oak - "The Hunt for Benito" - Rob
ENDGAME : megagame playtest of the campaign in Tunisia 1943 - Jim

Sunday 6 January 2013 The Campaign of 1813 - Brian and Jim
Sunday 9 Decemeber 2012 WAR IN HELL - A special festive edition of the infamous fantasy game of ultimate conflict between 'good' and 'evil' - Jim
Colonial Whist - John S
Sunday 4 November 2012

Feet in the Fire - crisis in 1950s Indonesia - John B
Crech Rig - The Raid of the King, a Committee game about Scotland in 1014 - Andrew H

Sunday 7 Oct 2012 1812 - test session - Brian and Dave
Versailles 1919 design discussion (quite a bit of politics in this one...) - Brian
Crisis in Croydon - Very British Civil War Committee Game - John S
War In The East - Design session on an Eastern Front 1914 megagame- Mukul
Saturday 6 Oct 2012 Prelude to Armageddon - Balkan Wars design session- Peter
Urban Nightmare - playtest of the new 'combat' system - Jim
1014 - Come To A King -
Design session on an England 1014 megagame - Andrew H
Sunday 2 Sept 2012

Battle of El Alamein - megagame system tryout covering 7th Division's assault through the minefields. - Rob
Festung Alderney - a game of using unlimited resources to fortify a tiny insignifcant island.- Jim

Sunday 5 August 2012 Barricades and Borders - Brian
Sunday 1 July 2012

Air Wars - Jet fighter combat in the 1960s and 70s - Jim
Silver, settlement, shrines and the sea - la longue durée in the Ancient Western Med. 200+ years of trade, colonisation, warfare and culture in the Western Med Andrew H

Sunday 3 June 2012 De Mortuis Resurrexerit - Military role playing in ancient Rome, set in a distant outpost in a remote hill village - Jim
Sunday 6 May 2012

True Glory - Elisabethan crisis planning - John Bassett
Battle of Lepanto - Religious war..with galleys! Martin and Steve

Sunday 1 April 2012 (Games Weekend)

Clash of Titans Megagame discussion - Marc and Jurrien
Battle of Dombas - battle for the critical railway junction in central Norway April 1940 - Daniel
Seastrike - a blast from the past - Brian

Saturday 31 March 2012 (Games Weekend)

UNIVERSAL SUMMIT MEETING - Interstellar Great power politics committee game - Jim
War in 1812 - the important one in America - Brian
Unheroic Samurai - the struggle of valiant samurai against the Undead - Jim
Battle of Jutland - game system try-out - Brian, Dave and Mukul

Sunday 4 March 2012

El Alamein - tryout WW2 operational map game - Rob
Planet of Mystery - Role playing power politics, aliens and archeology - Jim

Sunday 5 February 2012 Little Wars - Indoors (not as nice as a summer garden game, what with snow outside, but fun nevertheless) The combined Freedonian, Ruritanian forces assault a Dutchy of Glevum supply base - Jim
Sunday 1 January 2012

Zulu Lunchtime - man to man skirmishing in the Zulu war using 25mm figures (2 games) - Jim
Assault on the Bosrovian Bunker - a game of matchsticks and toy soldiers - Jim

Saturday 17 December 2011 Lambs on the Track - game of the fight at Harpers' Ferry - Dave B
Sunday 6 November 2011

"In The Country of the Blind" - an unusual role playing game where the players play themselves - Peter
Battle of Narvick - development of the game system following discussions at the Design Weekend in October - Daniel

Saturday 1 / Sunday 2 October 2011 Autumn Game Design Conference:
Development of 1814 and all that - Peter M
Civil Disorder, workshop session on modelling riots, and ideas for changes to the Civil Disorder wargame rrules - Jim W
The Other side of the COIN - simulating the problems of Afghan farming communities - revised game systems tested and discussed - James K
ANCIENT WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN - design session - Andrew H
'Biplanes over Baghdad' - the action around RAF Habbaniya, Iraq 1941 - Rob
Battle of Dombass - Dombaas is a key rail junction in the centre of Norway. Inevitably it was a strategic target for all sides. The Germans expected to get there by land. The Norwegians were going to hold it at all costs. The English 148th Brigade was given this point as their objective. Then the German high command gets impatient and sends in the paratroops. - Daniel
'Control' - a seminar discussion on umpiring skills and what might make a good, and an excellent umpire - Jim
'Toe to Toe With the Ruskies' - Rob
With the Tramp of Trooping Horses & the Laugh of Reckless Men - playtest of the combat system to be used in a forthcoming mini-campaign - GIles
'After the Conference': Designing an email campaign to follow up on the Washington Conference megagame - Dave B
'Forage For Tea' - not an after-dinner game but a lighthearted 'during lunch' game, about foraging in the peninsular war - written by Graham Hockley
Sunday 4 September 2011 1814 and All That - Can the Marshalls successfully jockey for a safe post-Napoleon life, or will big N win after all? - Peter
The shortest way of ending the war? - Can an athenian naval expedition to Sicily shorten the epic conflict with Sparta ? - Andrew H

Top Rank - Crisis planning and religious conflict in Mecca 1979 - Rob C

Sunday 14 August 2011 Summer Special : Little Garden Wars - Outdoors 54mm toy soldier action in HGW style! Straw Boaters and Pimms anyone? - Jim
Sunday 7 August 2011 Cold Feet - an invesigation of a mysterious ice floe during cold war tension. Will Skyhook work? - John B
La Fellissima Armada - can the English captains harry the spanish fleet, and turn a profit? - Jim W
Sunday 3 July 2011 China Crisis - Time travel meets Victorian geopolitics - Richard
Sunday 6 March 2011 Over the Hills and Far Away, 18th Century Colonel's campaign - Jim
Sunday 2 January 2011 Over the Hills and Far Away, 18th Century Colonel's campaign - Jim
Sunday 7 November 2010 Over the Hills and Far Away, 18th Century Colonel's campaign - Jim
Sunday 1 February 2009 Weird & Brilliant Devilry - the developed version of Jim's London Blitz operations game. It is now possible to actually extinguish fires! - Jim
Sunday 4 January 2009 Sinews of the Somme - WW1 logistics game involving railways, horses and trucks - Jim
Sunday 2 November 2008 Come One Come Eorl - Andrew H
Delta Blue - a Game about the Oil Industry in Nigeria as its the 50th anniversay of Nigerian Crude Oil arriving in England- Mukul
Sunday 7 September 2008 Barricades & Borders - Brian
Starship Strike - first playtest of a fast play space battle game based on the classic Sea Strike - Jim
Sunday 6 March 2005

Come One Come Eorl - return of Andrew's award-winning game.
Bump in the Night - 1905 Naval game - Mukul

Sunday 9 January 2005

Crouching Hero, Hidden Daggers - Fantasy Action Game - Jim
Silmarillion - Trevor / Andrew
Hot Blood & Cold Steel - playtest, James

Sunday 7 November 2004

Napoleonic Army Game - Arthur
ECW or WWI Design Session - James
'Hitler's Henchmen' design test - John

Saturday 6 November 2004 Battle of Mortain 1944 On-Line Map Game run in several separate locations using MSN and email - Jim
Sunday 5 September 2004 Civil Disorder - rioting on city streets figure game, by Jim
Sunday 8 August 2004 Falaise Gap - WW2 operational map game by Mukul
Sunday 4 July 2004 Air Wars - jet fighter combat over Vietnam, by Jim
Come One Come Eorl - Andrew Hadley