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the rotorua irregulars the association of historical wargaming gentlemen in rotorua the rotorua irregulars the association of historical wargaming gentlemen in rotorua skip to content home about contact us older posts the irregulars who are we posted on october 5 2008 by natholeon the rotorua irregulars are a sub group of the rotorua wargames club we are the historical players who seldom seem to find the time to organise ourselves to get down to the games day held in town twice a month as such we try to meet monthly at john s house when as many members as possible are available this way hopefully we see a bit more regular gaming the core members are john norton chris shorthall nathan ward terry oldham and paul whittaker we are open to any other gamers to join in there are no fees or membership rosters just drop us a line and come along and play our periods first and foremost we play flames of war 15mm world war two the club has armies for all of the major nations and can provide everything someone needs if they wish to come and play we also have armies for 15mm napoleonics french british austrian russian saxon polish 15mm ancients greeks persians gauls romans 15mm renaissance poles swedes 28mm english civil war 28mm vikings 28mm arthurian 15mm marlburians 15mm yom kippur war israeli egyptian 28mm world war one british and german and two german us and soviet 28mm star wars clone wars 15mm afghanistan british and taliban 28mm nz wars 15mm american civil war in the works with different club members are 15mm american war of independence armies seven years war armies and world war two japanese and 28mm napoleonics nate posted in introduction 1 comment games night 5th april 2013 posted on april 5 2013 by natholeon i m aware that we haven t been posting a lot of games here but that is almost entirely due to not having a camera to take pictures oh alright i m a bit lazy as well but we have been meeting at least once a month and playing a lot of games mostly flames of war last night i remembered my camera and it was a night of some diversity in our games so here is a snapshot first up is the four player assault on normandy flames of war game john as british commandos chris as us and terry and adam playing the german defenders it was a close game john had everything on the beach very quickly but chris kept being delayed the end result was that john managed to destroy all the bunkers in front of him but had nothing left to take the objective chris cleared a path through the beach and into the green fields beyond but by then the game had been lost a narrow german victory that herr terry is relishing shane jeremy richard and connor played a game of epic 40 000 space marines vs orks and the marines came out on top nathan and connor played x wing for the first time and found that it is as much fun as it is cracked up to be one win to the empire and one to the rebels nathan also spent some time playtesting the tweaked lists for the yom kippur variant of flames of war the new armour ratings and points seemed to work quite well and create quite a bit of balance you get 7 t 55s for 3 m48a4s or 3 sh ot cals so i did a one on one with these lists and had two decisive victories to the israelis and one victory to the egyptians the upgrades to the egyptian armour gave them much more chance than they previously had just don t try charging forward in the open and yes this is something that the egyptians did on at least a couple of occasions in the real war nate posted in games leave a comment posted on november 10 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames it has been a few weeks since these games were played but things are still pretty hectic and blogging has taken a definite back seat to everything else that is going on there were two games played with paul terry shane and jeremy playing a flames of war desert encounter and john and i playing a contemptible little armies world war one game the great war battle was a trenchline slog with the brits assaulting the german lines it had been a while since we had played cla and it was some time into the game before we found our rhythm the game is very simple but for the sake of ease of play we didn t include any off table barrages that was a bit of a mistake for the poor old brits the first part of the british assault was a failure but the german counterattacks were just as bad and view original post 207 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment posted on september 7 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames last night we played another star wars game but this time using the fubar rules that had been recommended to me by john leahy on tmp a scenario was written up and i just guessed what would be balanced forces i didn t try to use the points system that is also available on the page in the end it was a pretty good guess the scenario was as follows pelagios 9 is secret research facility set up by the republic it is so confidential that only the supreme chancellor knows its true purpose despite this the separatist leaders have somehow found out about it and are preparing to make a raid in order to capture the scientist cham zharr seen above he s the nikto with the mon calamari bodyguard in the vicinity of pelagios 9 are anakin skywalker and his padawan ahsoka tano with a platoon of clone troopers view original post 845 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment games night 20 july posted on july 21 2012 by natholeon this month we ran another mini tournament of flames of war it consisted of 800 point early war forces from the blitzkreig book played on 4 x 4 tables each game was timed for one hour and there were three games in all the lists were drawn up prior to the game and then rolled at random to see which armies people got we had a british armoured company john a british motor company heath and a french cavalry company chris versus a german schutzen company brad and adam a mittliere panzer company terry and a czech panzer company nathan the games featured three objectives placed on the centre line of the table and the idea was to take and hold these objectives an objective was held if the hour ended and you had troops within 10 cm of it and no enemy within 15cm this was worth 1 point every enemy platoon destroyed was also worth 1 point there were four tables and everyone was rostered to fight a different opponenet and nobody played on the same table twice each table had different challenges one had bocage one had a heavily built up area one had a river running through the middle of it and one was open the eventual results were john 14 points nathan 6 points brad and adam 5 points chris 4 points heath 2 points terry 0 points overall the allies were victorious and the blitzkrieg was stopped it was the first time that terry or i had played against the british armoured regiment and we were both wiped out within the hour i can see why people have complained that the points for the bar even though they are amended are still broken nasty nasty list last month s games night was a mini tournament in the same style using the late war lists and it had been a lot of fun too we will definitely do it again it was adam s first trip to the games night and he had never played flames of war before brad is up from taranaki and visiting heath but had not played fow since first edition so we put them together and voila they came third well done guys sorry no photos i forgot my camera and even though there was one handy no one got around to taking any pics we all too busy having fun next month s games night is friday 17th august posted in games leave a comment posted on may 20 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames john has gone to india for work for three weeks so before he went we quickly organised a game at his place it turned out to be only myself john and terry in the end with 3000 points a side on an 8 x 4 table the plan was to have chris there as well and everyone would bring a 1500 point force john and chris would provide the allies and terry and i the germans then we would randomly draw for which army we played with but chris had the flu so we ended up with john and i taking the allies against terry with all of the germans the scenario saw a british armoured regiment coming to the relief of a para company and was the first time i have ever played bocage if i had known at the start of the game what i know now view original post 348 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment posted on may 20 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames on friday night i was able to head out to john s for games night and was joined by chris terry paul and jordan that was good because it meant that we had even numbers to play with we paired off with terry and chris playing afrika korps vs kiwis and paul and jordan playing afrika korps vs british armour john and i decided to have a game of napoleonics using black powder as we hadn t played either of these things in several months the battlefield looking down towards the french ourtflanking movement after turn one john has already turned his line to face the threat grrr john set his british up on a ridge in spain somewhere preparing for a french attack i decided that it was folly to simply assault the ridge head on and brought the french on in two wings i would contest the church with view original post 710 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment posted on may 20 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames as promised here is a brief report on the two flames of war games played by the irregulars last friday first up are john and terry with two scenarios taken from the hellfire and back and burning empires books the first saw terry s afrika korps defending a fortified position in a witch s cauldron despite the odds appearing to be in john s favour several times terry defended the objectives well i didn t see too much of this game as i was setting up the 28mm table at this stage but there was much laughter coming from that direction above the end of the game with john s tanks contesting the objective but not claiming it the maori advance over the hill afrika korps infantry run back to their fortifications effectively stopping the british from claiming the objective after this game they decided to play out a raid scenario from burning empires view original post 313 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment posted on may 20 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames the irregulars games night last night featured our first star wars game using the star wars miniatures battle figures and a modification of the warhammer 40 000 2nd edition rules the scenario was ad hoc and consisted of the separatists holding four terrain features one of which was the entrance to an underground droid manufacturing factory the republican forces had to occupy the terrain for a full turn looking for an entrance before they were told whether they were in the right place the separatists were deployed by me as the umpire occupying the four key terrain features but with a secret ability to bring reserves on in ambush they could appear from any terrain feature so long as they did not end up within 4 of an enemy figure the republicans were allowed to come on double their move from anywhere on the board and operate as if they had view original post 887 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment posted on may 20 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames the last games night was on the 12th august and consisted of the small turnout of paul john jordan and myself paul and jordan decided to play a 2500 point late war clash between brits and germans just so paul could get all of his beloved big cats on the table not really all it would have to be 10 000 points for that to happen john and i decided to test out my recently updated take on the irregular s napoleonic house rules we had a small game 8 battalions of infantry and 2 cavalry regiments with one battery a side john took the french and i took the british the game cracked along at a fair old pace and it was looking likely that we would be finished before the others had completed deployment then things went wrong above intention cards down the french right advances upon the british view original post 516 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment posted on may 20 2012 by natholeon ndc wargames once more the rotorua irregulars set themselves up for a night of gaming it was the usual suspects john terry chris and myself and we were joined by shane and richard who run the rotorua wargames club the irregulars used to frequent the rotorua club once a month in fact i helped found it but unfortunately life has got in the way of any sort of regular participation on a saturday hence we put ourselves together at john s place where we can game in the evening after the kids have gone to bed so we weren t intended to be a schismatic creation and it was great that shane and richard could make it out they are both contemplating getting into flames of war they ve already started buying bits here and there but are very committed to finishing games workshop armies so we had organised to play mid war flames of war view original post 523 more words posted in uncategorized leave a comment older posts search for archives april 2013 november 2012 september 2012 july 2012 may 2012 october 2010 october 2009 september 2009 march 2009 february 2009 january 2009 october 2008 meta create account log in the rotorua irregulars the association of historical wargaming gentlemen in rotorua blog at wordpress com the rotorua irregulars the association of historical wargaming gentlemen in rotorua blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed the rotorua irregulars the association of historical wargaming gentlemen in rotorua sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy the rotorua irregulars the association of historical wargaming gentlemen in rotorua subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment 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