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Table setup

October 18, 2021

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Table setup and ready to go

Next up was finding my opponent for the day and the table, luckily this was right at the entrance to the store, so I didn’t have far to go.

Having challenged Jim from reapergames a bit over a month ago to a game we both realized we needed some armies and settled on Blackpowder, unfortunately, neither of us had played a game before so this was going to be a great learning experience.

Go check out Jim’s store, you can get some fantastic discounts on plastic crack and if he doesn’t carry the stock on the website email him and he will send a quote and timescales. He carries ranges from Warlord, Perry, and Victrix and is all round a great fellow.

The Prussian army prepares to advance on the French

For terrain, I’d brought along a load of trees which I picked up for £10 off wish and hot glued to round MDF bases, alongside two small buildings from Warbases Prussian Range, which were well-liked by the attendees.

The guys at Boards and Swords sorted us out with a river, some small fields, and what looked like part of la haye Sainte from Sarissa. Overall nothing two complex terrain-wise.

We decided the play the game using the narrow edges of the table, partly because of where the table was positioned. This actually worked great, having only a 6×4 to play on with black powder is pretty constrained but this way we got a bit of movement in before the armies met. The river proved an interesting point as you’ll see later on with a lot of action around it.