What was the last ruleset you played 2017?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Guess it's my turn to start this thread!
The traditional questions:

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? -
2) What armies were confronted? -
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? -
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? -
5) How many players were in the game? -

[Leman]

Come on Lemmy; for the benefit of our continental cousins the English idiom for number 4 is AND.......WAS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU USED THIS RULESET?

[petercooman]

I'll kick this one off!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?
played Blitzkrieg commander II last evening

2) What armies were confronted?
Germans vs British ,western front july 44

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?
quite!

4) and.....was this the first time you used this ruleset?
Not at all! we'll be close to 50 plays i think

5) How many players were in the game?
3, two allied and one german (was the river crossing scenario from the BKC II book, and germans were the defenders

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Mortiem et Gloria
2) What armies were confronted? - Picts vs Early Archmeadian Persians
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - utterly
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - this year
5) How many players were in the game? - two

In an epic worthy of Gilgamesh, the Picts survived the Persian arrow storm (even out shooting them!), and in a staggered wave, failed to charge home! It was a long, drawn out, slug fest. The Persian infantry, despite outclassing the Picts, failed to capitalise on their advantages, and the Picts numbers eventually told, breaking the Persian line. The Puct's Saxon allies were massively outflanked by the Persian cavalry, but the Persian charge completely missed, allowing the Saxons to fight their way out!   Cyrus the Talented was hit so many times, he became Cyrus the Mediocre!
As the Persian Immortals broke, it was all over.

The final moments as the Immortals break.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Come on Lemmy; for the benefit of our continental cousins the English idiom for number 4 is AND.......WAS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU USED THIS RULESET?

Changed, without the shouting

[Leman]

1. Flames of War

2. Soviet v German

3. Not yet

4. Yes

5. Two - this was a try out for a scenario to be used as a participation game at Abingdon in March. We decided that two platoons(?) of pak 40(?) guns against the pathetic front armour of a T34(76?) gave the Germans too great an advantage, thus we have decided to drop one of the platoons of guns and also replace the Soviet tanks with a later model - an SU80 or some such. As you can probably tell, the bewildering array of technology involved in playing WWII leaves me pretty cold.

[Bodvoc]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Deadzone
2) What armies were confronted? - Enforcers v Rebs
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No, played quite a lot now.
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

Happy to say that my Enforcers got 2017 off to a winning start

[Norm]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Tank on Tank (boardgame)
2) What armies were confronted? - German - U.S. 1944
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - very, a real simple system
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - no and games are so short that frequently 2 or 3 are played in a single session
5) How many players were in the game? - 2

Enjoyable game and something that I would like to try and transfer to the figures table.

[Nosher]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Blood Bowl (new version)

2) What armies were confronted? - The Levingrad All Tzars versus Divine Wind

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes. 

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No

5) How many players were in the game? - Solo

The Levingrad All Tzars are a 2nd Edition Undead Team and Divine Wind is a Samurai inspired 'combo' team of Human players (The Linemen - Ashigaru and Blitzers - Samurai), Orcs (Black Orc Blockers - Sumo Wrestlers) and Skaven (Gutter Runners - Ninja's)

[toxicpixie]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - DBA 1.1

2) What armies were confronted? - Several over the evening - Early Ptolomaic versus Galatians, a Big Battle Pyrrhus & Carthage versus Galatians and Ptolomaic, then normal sized Galatians versus Pyrrhus.

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes. 

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Not at all for me or one player, but the other player only had a single game before though.

5) How many players were in the game? Three, off and on!

First game was the other two players, Ptolomy adopted the "hang around the camp, then get pulled apart into starburst formation by a concentric attack, and get the general recoiled into death approach. Split up, we can be defeated in detail quicker that way!

Second game I played the other two, big battle. Weakly disputed my right flank with the Pyrrhic light troops to use three elements to hold almost the entire Ptolomaic army up (lost Pyrrhus's auxilia and psiloi, danced the light horse in front of the phalanx and then his knights until they pinned it down and butchered it), and used the rest of the combined armies to duff up most of the Galatians - phalanx and Nellie steam rollered the warbands in the open whilst the Carthaginian light troops chopped up warbands in the bad going, having pulled them out wide to defend their flank from the Carthaginian cavalry who then switched back to the middle to head off the now combining Galatian and Ptolomaic mounted - ably supported by Pyrrhus and his cavalry shoving the Galatian general nearly off table!

Big win for me in the end - it's easier to fight allies than be one Galatian losses were nine elements (!), and Ptolomy lost three, I lost four in total.

Final game was a nightmare terrain - big rough going hill across most of the width of the middle, woods blocking either table side for the rest. Pyrrhus shoved the Phalanx successfully through the gap against Galatian blades (imitation legionaries, bit out period but a classic general match up!) and screened off most of the Galatians who were fumbling over the rough going hill in column, very awkwardly and slowly. Sadly I ended up having to not just screen the phalanx, but throw cavalry and elephants UP the bad hill as my auxillia suffered a critical failure of breathing when a double ranked warband caught them before they hit the bad going and six-one'd them to death, and my psiloi did the same against the Galatian psiloi. Although Nellie tried, she got chopped up, the supporting cavalry got chopped up, and that was it. Final tally was two-four in the hairy savages favour, but at least Pyrrhus and the phalanx survived!

[Luddite]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?

Laggledaggle.  Er..  L'AdlG (L'Art de la Guerre)

2) What armies were confronted?

Romano-British vs. Picts.  So many Picts.  Millions of Picts.

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?

Sort of.  We've played it a fair bit now and we're starting to get there.  Still a fiddle on with the factors and "unusual sistuations" are still cropping up.

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?

No.

5) How many players were in the game?

4

[Ithoriel]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game?

Firefly: The Game

2) What forces were involved?

"Firefly" Class Transport Ships

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?

Fairly, couple of mistakes made but fun had none the less.

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?

4th or 5th game in total, second with this group.

5) How many players were in the game?

5

[Le Manchou]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game?

Tide of Iron:Fury of the bear, The Prokhorovka scenario

2) What forces were involved?

Soviets against Germans

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?

Yes.

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?

No

5) How many players were in the game?

4

[Le Manchou]

I played again today so here is my new last game:

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game?

Altar of Freedom, battle of Glendale

2) What forces were involved?

Union against Confederates

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?

Yes.

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?

No

5) How many players were in the game?

2

[pierre the shy]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game?

Homebrew WW2

2) What forces were involved?

Germans v Soviets

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?

Very

4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?

No

5) How many players were in the game?

5 - 6

May 1944 - somewhere on the Russian Front - The Germans were defending down short side of a LONG (14 ft) table with a mixture of tanks/SP Guns and Artillery and infantry against a swath of Soviet armour. Apart from one Panther commander who definitely earnt a postumous Iron Cross 1st Class the Germans couldn't hold the Russians in the end despite feilding 88's,Tiggers, Panthers and even a couple of Elephants that turned up late in the game but never got into action even advancing at top speed every turn 

A very enjoyable game played over several weeks which was a good excuse to get out some of Roy's late war 20mm armour for a play.