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taiping the battle pits the imperial green banner army vs shield army of the heavenly kingdon taiping taiping are mostly on the left side of the photos prepared to assault the imperials dug in behind the river the taiping mostly have yellow flags trimmed in red imperials are to the right in most photos behind the river line flags vary for the imperials victory points 1 for bridge closest to the pagoda 3 for bridge near the town 5 for town itself taiping house rules we played a hybrid set of rules i created based on standard piquet hallowed ground supplement and field of battle impetus so most of the game mechanics are piquet with impetus usage based on field of battle if you are truly interested in the taiping rules jingals tigermen and stink pots oh my and hybrid concept send me an email and i ll send you pdfs ericbu2025 gmail com here are the buddhist monks hoping their pagoda isn t burned down by the taiping rosters here are the two rosters for today s game you will notice that most imperial troops are very poor compared to normal western drilled troops the taiping guard are the veterans of the army and have very high stats compared to the enemy a ying is like a brigade in western terminology if you would like copies of the quick reference sheet email me and i ll send you a pdf setup here are some photos of the game s setup mostly taken from the short end of the table to get the natural light taiping on the left and imperials on the right this photo was taken when i had each unit at 4 stands instead of 3 i used for the game here you can see the taiping cavalry ying at the close edge of the table supporting the guard ying close up of the guard ying near the pagoda commanded by rich two yings left and center commanded by michael imperial positions dug in around the pagoda bridge this is a great photo showing the main taiping attack across and around the main town bridge the battle plan for the taiping was to force the crossing of the pagoda bridge and then wheel down the flank of the imperial forces while pinning their forces down at the river edge the battle the battle started with lots of skirmish action between jingals light and heavy and imperial tigermen these are special skirmishers and i have house rules for them the jingals can either fight the enemy jingals tigermen or fire on units to try to disorder them meanwhile the taiping forces surged forward left ying charges towards the river imperial peasants are attempting to hold the far right of the imperial line the center ying now advances to the river in piquet this is a class ii river so halt on contact then can move normally after that near my side of the table the guard ying advances and throw out their jingals to take out the enemy skirmishers jingals are individual stands the situation near the pagoda bridge taiping and imperial manchu cavalry race to the river to try to get an advantage on the flanks this upcoming cavalry battle swirled for four melee resolution cards fighting can be seen in the distsance imperial defenders with the help of attached jingals cause heavy casualties among the taiping veterans and disordered a couple units too the river line appears to be holding lone taiping unit in the middle of the photo has formed in circle to fend off the bannerman cavalry about to cross the river because of my location on the table it was hard for me to get photos of the raging melees at the far end of the table near the town many taiping units were routed but rallied and came on again against the imperials the attack to the right of the bridge from imperial view mongolian cavalry swinging around to bolster the morale of the imperials and peasants action to the left of the bridge one routing taiping unit heading towards the table edge the river line is holding so far meanwhile the taiping veterans have charged towards the imperials at the bridge and have used their attached stink pot single figure stand in the water to drive the imperials back disordered this was a huge event as the stink pots are one shot weapon and can only disorder the enemy a very fortuitus roll and the imperials are disordered and driven back in disorder green tag on unit here are some photos i was able to take during our lunch break of the battle along the river s edge near the town many taiping units are disordered though the heart on the command stand means they have to check for survival on the next officer check card at the pagoda bridge the taiping have taken control of the bridge and drive off the imperials the situation before the melee and after in the middle the bannerman cavalry breaks the taiping brethren s circle and rout them the imperials pull more cavalry across into the center taiping units have driven back the peasants and have made several breaches in the imperial defense last photo showing the cavalry across the river for the imperials which could really ruin the current taiping advantage the pagoda bridge is completely overrun by the taiping effectively turning their flank but much further away and on foot the manchu cavalry was eventually routed by the taiping cavalry near the bridge somehow missed taking any photos of that melee we had a great time but as folks were all new to the rules it took longer than i wanted we stopped and it was still anybody s battle which surprised me we will play again soon the dragon and the cross i bought the original manchu version of this game with garish map which you can go look at on bgg here is the revised version with gorgeous map and better looking counters i hope to get this on the table in the near future i clipped all the corners of the counters too link to bgg taiping to do list if you made it this far thank you here is what i have left in order to finish the collection after all are painted i ll flock all the bases players didn t see it as a problem to not have the bases terrain ed paint the following but some are optional the cavalry is on the table right now 1 x manchu cavalry 8 figures 1 x manchu cavalry 8 1 x manchu cavalry 8 1 x manchu infantry 12 1 x manchu infantry 12 1 x manchu infantry 12 1 x manchu infantry 12 1 x manchu infantry 12 1 x bannerman infantry 12 4 x imperial mounted command 9 x imperial foot command 6 x imperial light jingals 4 x heavy jingals 1 x beheading scene 1 x french landing party 12 optional 1 x european civilians 24 optional 1 x chinese civilians 2 x hand carts 1 x veteran taiping or brethren muskets matchlocks 2 x 8lb smoothbores 6 x eva crew 1 x eva gun 10 x artillery crew 2 x howitzers thanks for taking a look here today have a wonderful day eric sunrise on oak island posted by eric burgess at 11 45 am 19 comments labels 25mm piquet taiping rebellion tuesday january 13 2026 phil comes for a visit wargaming in the holidays my friend phil from charlotte dropped by just after christmas to drop off a homemade cheesecake out of this world flavor and to do some gaming this time we did a modest schedule so we wouldn t be exhausted and would have time to complete the games we wanted to play as usual click for larger image and open them in a new tab for the largest version kaiser s high seas fleet monday morning we played this game it was thoroughly enjoyable and moved rather quickly which i thought was great game mechanics were fluid and made sense i played the british and allies while phil was the germans it was a british victory bgg link map and counters are gorgeous love the 1 counters my british fleet was fairly battered after this battle germans took some damage too had to sneak a photo of this italian vs austro hungarian fleet battle i like how the minor powers are involved in the game now to sail on to spain king in the north monday afternoon i have always wanted to get some miniatures for this period but just can t justify another collection to paint and acquire bgg link i have had this game on the shelf for two years and phil wanted to give it a go the rules have some translation issues and we made several mistakes in the game play that made the game unsuccessful we will have to try it again and play the rules correctly i need to send the feedback to bgg with the rules questions and corrections in the near future once again this is a different and beautiful game i played the carlists and captured a reinforcement location and that effectively knocked out the isebella forces i really love the graphic quality of this game because the forces are intermixed throughout the map you truly don t know what strategy to employ more experience will help with this i ll see if my local gamers will play this game with me six sojourns monday evening bgg link i have the deluxe edition from the kickstarter what a very pleasant surprise this game was we loved it even my wife enjoyed this beautiful graphics and gameplay sucked us in another nice feature is that you can finish a game in less than 90 minutes so why not play twice phil won one game and paige one the second game both were very close games sea serpents expansion phil after winning his game we enjoyed this so much we played the next evening vikings vs saxons command and colors battle of reading tuesday morning early afternoon c c medieval scenario link i just bought some 18mm wofun vikings and anglo saxons and wanted to get them on the table phil and i have played a lot of command colors so we thought we would play this fan made scenario we had a blast with my mighty vikings eking out a narrow victory 8 6 battle background on about 4 january 871 æthelred and alfred brought up the main west saxon wessex army and joined æthelwulf s forces for an attack on the danes the west saxons fought their way to the town slaughtering all the danes they found outside but when they reached the town gate the vikings burst out and defeated the west saxons with a successful counter attack among the dead was æthelwulf whose body was secretly carried off to be buried in his native derby according to a late source æthelred and alfred only escaped due their better knowledge of the local terrain which allowed them to lose their pursuers by fording the river loddon map setup i then used my 4 hex map with my 18mm wofun minis to recreate the battle movement trays are 3d printed to allow for me to add a label to each one i also use these for my to the strongest games i think wofun figures are really perfect for ancient and medieval warfare games due to the linear nature of that warfare a view from the anglo saxon lines simple but very effective look now from my viking perspective here are several close ups of the figures movement sabots and labels viking medium infantry aethelwulf s command king aethelred s command of warriors and medium infantry saxons men of wessex quickly advance and disperse the viking light infantry in front of the camps tents the mass of vikings is stuck behind the walls the vikings use a quick march twice to get their main forces from behind the walls red cubes indicate hits hits are piling up as the vikings i nearly lost my jarl twice i was very aggressive with him vikings final push before victory the wofun figures 18mm look outstanding to me when used in this way it was a fantastic battle and a very near run thing as if i didn t seal the last victory banner the saxon dogs would have surely won six sojourns again tuesday evening this game comes with 8 different maps and about 10 expansions and we tried out two more maps this evening i really like this snow map phil liked this game so much he purchased it before he drove back to charlotte fighters of europe wednesday morning bgg link eric s house rules link on bgg i ve been working on some house rules to add more non deterministic outcomes to the fighters of europe and pacific game rules i asked phil to run through a playtest with me i was the american bomber force while phil was the germans the americans won this game no blow by blow battle report just some photos of the game once again great components i m actually getting a larger map with 2 hexes that will better fit the planes that come with the game we thoroughly enjoyed the game with my new house rules i ll play all future game with the house rules bonus coverage syw game shortly after phil left i was able to play in a seven years war game pitting prussians vs austrians this is michael s fine collection of 15mm old glory figures and his home rules austrians were surprised by a prussian attack on their camp still the austrians managed to pull out a victory i was the austrians in this battle and struggled to get my cavalry to do anything but rout below the steady austrian has formed up my hussars plowing into the prussian grenadiers hammer and tongs i really liked how michael made casualty stands with a die indicating how many hits the unit has taken and a 10mm casualty figure on it clever i ordered some dice so i can do the same happy new year good night from oak island nc eric posted by eric burgess at 9 37 am 2 comments labels 15mm cmdcolors general 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