The main game of the weekend was an ACW Fire and Fury game run by Chris. The game was Perryville 1862 - a confederate attack on a rather surprised Union force.
Players - Union Cliff, Richard L, Richard H Confederate Simon, Richard W, Margaret

The Confederates attacked the green Union Corps out of a large patch of woods and drove it back a long way inflicting severe casualties on its two lead brigades capturing most of the corps artillery and killing the lead divisional. Meanwhile the elements of the other Union corps which were on table slowly advanced feeling for the flank of the Confederate position and began to push back the light forces placed to stop them. Gradually the Union rout slowed down as they green corps fell back onto the newly arrived reinforcements and the tide slowly began to turn as the Union numbers began to tell and the fresh troops supported by the recovered green corps began to steadily drive back their opponents. As the entire Union force wasfinally brought to bear the Confederates began to crumble and their forces which were not overrun were able to escape as night fell.

A short Katana game was run by Cliff, which overall was very amusing, but at times was very annoying and depressing as the rules (which worked well for the skirmish we played) clearly hadn't been playtested properly and made the bow the only weapon to have as missile fire was exceptionally lethal.

The game was a fight in a narrow valley between two rival clans with roughly similar forces. Chris, Richard L and Margaret were one clan, with Richard W, Richard H and Simon took the other. The two side closed rapidly on each other, but the effectiveness of bows was immediately demonstrated when a unit of mounted samurai was scythed in its entirety in two rounds (where one round is two minutes) down by a bow-armed ashigaru unit as it was charging towards it. It all went downhill from there - in one particularly bloody two minute round casualties were inflicted at a rate of well over one a second.

In the end we ended the game early as we had all lost our enthusiasm and we knew that the last side with bow-armed troops would win.

The sunday game was a World War Two Corps level game run by Richard L set in 1940 during the fall of France. Cliff, Chris and Margaret were the attacking Germans and Richard W, Richard H and Simon were the defending British. The Germans had two complete Panzer divisions (4th and 3rd) and the British had three full infantry divisions (38th/42nd/50th) as well as some corps level support. The Germans were lavishly supported by Stukas (though not as lavishly as they would have liked) and the British were treated to three attacks by Faerie Battles through the course of the day.

The British were holding two river lines and were emplaced well forward with most of their forces just behind the first river line and began the game desparately setting up explosives on the two bridges across the river. The Germans hit the lead units that were east of the first river and pushed them back steadily with their panzergrenadier regiments (one of the bridges came within a hairsbreadth of being taken as the , but suffered serious casulaties and disruption and were very much dismayed when the British retired across the bridges and blew them up.

The Germans decided to pull back and wait for nightfall (much to the dismay of their lead units, who were calling up the bridging units and preparing to make an assault crossing) when they realised that the British were not defending the river line, but were retiring to a line further to the west. They immediately pushed forward and made crossings on pontoon bridges, despite British artillery attacks and one brigade counter attack. Once across the Germans harried the British as they slowly got more and more troops across onto the eastern bank and they began to push back the British forces near the southern crossing, driving them back steadily towards the western river. To the north the Germans pushed the British back towards St Quentin and a panzer regiment skirted the town and began to drive back an already mauled British brigade, causing the British commanders to switch some of their reserve (which turned out to be of vital importance later on).

When the second Panzer regiment crossed the northern crossing it swung south and rapidly threatened the flank of the infantry that was already being pushed back by the German forces to the south, causing a general falling back of the British forces towards their final defensive line on the western river. Just as this happened the German commander ordered one of the Panzer regiments which had driven forward between three British brigades to drive forward and try and break through to capture one of the bridges across the River Morraine. This they accomplished bursting through the badly mauled brigade that was directly in front of them and then sweeping over the remnants of the decimated reserve tank brigade. As they followed up the fleeing tanks they came across a British pontoon bridge across the Morraine and swept over, disrupting the British fall back manoeuvre even further, hastening the general retreat and achieving their main objective of getting troops across the Morraine by nightfall.