Photo Report: Games Day on April 24th, 2011

A belated photo report of last month's game's day, so I'll just let the pictures do a lot of the talking.  I'm afraid the pictures aren't representational of all that there was to see, as I was busy with the WW2 game to be able to pay much attention to what else was being played.  Besides, I was reaching the end of my cellphone camera's memory card.  My apologies.

First, I took the opportunity to take a few photos of Oliver's very well painted Skaven from the Warhammer game.  His Chattering Horde blog is one of my favourites out there, and almost makes this confirmed historical player want to do fantasy!

 

Gareth and Rod had a 6mm Zulu War game using the Horse, Foot and Guns rules.  History repeated itself with Rod's Zulus sweeping all before them. Wee little guys!

There was a very feisty RPG game going on as well. David shown here.  Not sure how the game ended, but Dai at least was sure having a hoot!

The WW2 game using BKC II.   Pete's Germans vs. Brian's British, featuring an impressive combat debut of the Typhoon ground-attack plane.  It was also Brian's first ever airplane model (hence the decal glitch!).

 

Two successful attacks on the Germans.  Ouch!  Brian selected a force big on tanks, but with little infantry.

 

The Germans, although having to deal with the Sherman wave and the RAF, had a more balanced force.  It included some very nicely-painted infantry.

Ubertanks be damned, Fireflies can be nasty.  Brian's Shermans took out the two Tiger tanks, as well as a PZ-IV.  Pete's excellently painted Tigger in the lead, followed my sole contribution to the game, another Tiger but in plain dark yellow (I hadn't the guts to try the camouflage).  Fujimi models.

The British didn't have it all their own way, though.

All hail the humble yet mighty StugIII!  I couldn't hang around for the end of the game- maybe Brian or Pete could let us know how it ended.

See you all on the 15th (and if any of you bring a camera, be sure to share the pics with us so I can post them here!).

-Robert

Great day on the 24th NEXT GAMES DAY 15TH OF MAY

Hi All,

just a few lines without photos I'm afraid. Sunday was a great games day, I think it helped us all to relax our strained nerves and I think we all had a great time.

There was a Warhammer Fantasy Battle where hordes of Rats and Skaven fought a vicious battle against the High Elves. Great looking game, although I am not sure of the result, perhaps Oli, Howard and Sam will let us know.

Robert, Pete and Brian were playing a German vs British Normandy 1944 game with beautiful terrain and miniatures.

Giovanni, David, Kirk Ziad and Dai, where having a blast at playing Labyrinth Lord- a clone RPG of Dungeons and Dragons.

Thank you all for coming and I hope to see you on the 15th of may where we will be on the 7th floor in 製作室　where we will have a looooooot more space, so feel welcome to join us.

We also had a game flea market, where THANKS TO ALL we managed to rise 13550 yen for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku. I will deliver the money to a local church hoping to relieve some of the pain of those poor people.

Looking forward to see many gamers again.

Thank you all,

-Giovanni

Games Day on the 24th

Hi All,


I hope to find you all well and in health. It has been a tough period and many things have happened, but thankfully the situation seems to be getting back to a sort of normality. Now you can find bottled water, packed bread and rice almost normally, Yogurt is still an issue, but we should be all right wit it soon.

The power cuts have virtually disappeared, but will restart during summer, which will be quite an experience without the support of air condition! Although it will be nothing compared to what other had to suffer, so let’s roll up our sleeves and down with the work. 日本がんばれ！

So in order to release a bit of tension it will be good to roll some dies, move some miniatures on the table isn’t it?

The 24th of April (Sunday) we will have an early start 9.30 and an early end 17.00 due to the fact that the city hall is trying to save electricity. JUST AN ADDITIONAL NOTE TEH D&D GAME WILL START AT 11.30.

We plan to play the following:

Morning Labyrinth Lord (aka Basic Dungeons and Dragons) DM Kirk

Late morning 2 WW2 games with Robert, Pete, Brian and Ayu

Late morning various board games with David, Tod and Giovanni, playing, Warrior Knights, Bitter Victory and other games.

Late morning Warhammer Fantasy Battles with Oliver and Sam

Also not confirmed yet Brian and Gareth will both be available for a game o Brits vs Zulus in 15MM and 6MM respectively if anyone is interested, although this is to be confirmed.



We will also have a charity flea market where we are selling our unwanted or overflowing miniatures, board games, hobby material and so on. The money collected that way will be donated to the local Salesian church of Chofu, that will deliver the money to the Earthquacked people in Tohoku.

I am looking forward to see many of you gamers in Tokyo.
 
Cheers
 
Giovanni