Just back from an awfully filthy snowy drive home from Barrie, and the home of The Mad Padre, where we had one of our irregularly scheduled gaming play dates and sleepovers.

On tap this weekend was our usual Lord of the Rings themed Dragon Rampant game. I brought 100 points of elves to face his legions of evil doom. A good 40+ of those points hadn’t been played with yet.

We used a book of scenarios from One Hour War Games and divided our armies into 3 roughly equal commands. My elf sorceress was holding a ridge while the king marched to her aid. It didn’t go well because you can buy a lot of goblins for 100 points….

Elf advance guard on ridge

Troll and Warg riders

The king arrives with reinforcements

Elf archers who had trouble activating

More elf archers that had trouble activating

My ent killed Mike’s troll and then shredded his elite goblin archers

Elf light infantry perform badly

Remains of archers

My left wing gets thinner. Charges to try and blunt the orc columns weren’t effective

When you find yourself outnumbered 20:1 and keep getting snared in sorcery

So, I conceded the game, hoping that between nightfall and my sorceress, the remains of my army could extricate themselves. But we got a lot of troops onto a rather tight 6×3 dining room table. Mike did have a few traffic jams but that was mostly because of the scenario limiting where his troops came on.

Then after some corned beef sandwiches and a beer we set up a game of Longstreet with Mike’s 28mm ACW collection.

Brigade of Union cavalry is defending along the road. Rebs come in from right trying to capture the ford. Union reinforcements enter from far end of table.

I also got to take Mike’s groovy new artillery limber for a spin

This regiment did a good job holding the fence against a Reb brigade attacking through the wheat

My dice on left Mike’s on the right when he tried to charge me!

While we made dinner and shoveled 6″ of snow Luigi inspected our dispositions

Pressure in the center. Mike rolled better on this charge and swept one regiment away!

I’ve pulled back on the right and lost a gun. But reinforcements arriving on the left

Game end. River crossing solidly in my hands and I chase the Rebs back over the hill.

And that was that. A bit more catching up and some TV before bed and then we both  had an early start.