A tabletop gaming blog, with a vague bias towards Central/Eastern Europe and the Early Modern period.

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Dirschau Accomplished

 So I ran Dirschau/Tczew for my birthday! Unfortunately a lingering cold the week before meant I wasn't as prepared as I wanted to be, so I too frazzled to take pictures or notes for a proper battle report, and things moved too slow to get to a proper conclusion. Nevertheless everyone had fun, so I call it a success anyway!

My sibling-in-law took this neat pic:


That's me in the Godzilla shirt (definitely check out Godzilla Minus One if you haven't) and the Swedish battalia commanders, also shows off Prism Games nicely.

I'll probably try the game again next year, under more controlled (less birthday partyish) circumstances. 

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

More Tczew stuff

 Been making lots of progress with terrain, movement trays and other miscellaneous aspects of the game. Less than two weeks!


Test run on the tables at the local game store where I'll be celebrating.


Roads and more/better swamps pending, and maybe some clutter for the camps and villages, but otherwise the terrain is pretty much sorted.


A Potocki (can't remember which one it is at Tczew), first Polish Commander I ever made.


Marcin Kazanowski


I've read that Mikolaj Abramowicz should probably be in western garb, I do have a mini in mind to replace this one but we'll see if I get it painted in time.


Johan Baner


Herman Wrangel


Graf von Thurn, one of my favorite conversions.



Put a wet bit on Koniecpolski's base, since his army's deployment zone has swamps in it.


Adolphus gets a fence to jump over, to disguise the support for his horse.

I saw a discussion on the Via Regia blog about how Koniecpolski wouldn't have had a banner, which I took as an excuse not to bother with banners for any commanders. Just musicians, sorry! The overall commanders each get a clergyman to make them seem more important.