Auckland Wargaming Club

With the demise of the old Facebook Groups, we have opted not to upgrade the existing group to the new format. Instead the AWC now has a new Facebook Page which will make communicating news and events easier and more public.

The AWC will be running a Lasalle 28mm Napoleonics event at BattleCry 2012, with the theme "The Downfall of Boney 1813-1815"* over the Saturday and Sunday (18 & 19 February 2012). Armies will be points based using a modified version of the AWC's points system originally developed by Cam Millar, and tables are planned to be 8' x 6' with fixed terrain. It is intended to have 2 rounds per day (so 4 rounds total) with the first day emphasising games between opponents who normally don't have the opportunity to play each other. More details can be found at the BattleCry 2012 Website.

* Armies outside this period will also be permitted if players have no other option - but it's hoped everyone will get into the 'swing of things' and bring armies from the Liberation & Hundred Days period. 

Stop Press: 01 February 2012: This event has been cancelled due to lack of Registrations.

The Hamilton Immortals have released initial information about NatCon 2012 (Easter Friday 06 to Sunday 08 April). Competitions being offered are Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40K, Lord of the Rings, Warmachine, Napoleonics (15mm 1st Volley), Napoleonics (28mm Lasalle), Napoleonics (15mm/28mm FoGN), FoW (seperate Early, Mid, & Late WW2 Tournaments), FoG Ancients/Medieval*, DBM & DBMM Ancients/Medieval (15mm & 28mm), DBR and/or FoGR Renaissance (15mm and/or 28mm depending on entrants).

The identity of the venue has not yet been stated at the time of writing, but is apparantly one that requires an early finish (2.30pm on the Sunday) and has restrictions on capacity, so some of the (Historical Period) Tournaments are shortened and will only be 5 rounds instead of the usual 6 (as there is not time for a second game on the Sunday) and only a maximum of 200 people will be able to attend for all periods & tournaments. Registrations open on 01 January 2012 ($60), increase on 01 March 2012 ($80), and increase again for "late" registrations on 14 March 2012 ($100) - Registrations close on Tuesday 20 March 2012, and after that date entries will only be accepted at the Organisers' discretion to balance out competitions with odd numbers, etc, and such like (and may be charged at either $60 or $100 according to the info flyer) - so we suggest you get your registrations in as early as possible due to the above... Further details at the Hamilton Immortals Wiki...

* Note that FoG Ancients & Medieval has no scale specified (although we believe an umpire is now confirmed).

The NSWC (North Shore Wargaming Club) now has a new website location here. The exsiting website has been migrated to this location.

Push of Pike 2011 is a Renaissance Wargaming Tournament run each year by the NSWC. The 2011 Tournament is on Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September (note that NZ Daylight Savings Time kicks in at 2am on Sunday 25 September - so put your clocks forward an hour). Competition is being offered in 15mm & 28mm for DBR and FOGR depending on numbers. Note that DBR will use the revised NZ points not the standard DBR ones. More details on PoP 2011 are here...

Project Black Powder is a "Black Powder" participation game themed on the American Civil War which will run on the 18th February 2012 at the BattleCry Convention at the ASB Centre in Auckland. You can find out more at the Project Black Powder Blog...

It's coming around again - BattleCry here in Auckland is just 6 months away... Planned tournaments and events are: Boardgames; Cardgames; Heroclix; Ink Forge; LARPing; SDC Roleplaying; as well as the following Wargaming Tournaments:

• Ancient & Medieval (Field Of Glory - Scales T.B.A.)
• 15mm Renaissance (Rules T.B.A.)
• 28mm Napoleonics (Lasalle)
• 15mm W.W.II (Flames of War)  
• 6mm Moderns (W.R.G.)
• Malifaux
• Warhammer 40,000

There will also be demonstrations games of Black Powder (Horse & Musket) and Heroclix, and there is also a Scenario Design Competition. Entry Fees still to be confirmed. For more details see the BattleCry Website.

The AWC’s roving gamer in the UK, Ben Hill, conducted the following ‘e-interview’ with the Field of Glory writing team at the beginning of December (2010), the answers to the questions are from the whole team of writers who are involved with FoG.

1. Has FoG evolved the way or ways you thought it would when writing it?

Yes very much so. We seem to have a broad following of clubs, social gamers, historical re-enactment players, campaign players and competition players. We wanted to create a set of rules that would appeal to different audiences and that seems to have happened. It has been great to see the quality of the entire FoG series that Slitherine has put together and that together with the Osprey art makes the books a great read.

Below is a first attempt at an unofficial points system for the Napoleonic game - Lasalle.

Lasalle contains a number of set army lists for the main armies. They provide a great introduction. But they only reflect a fraction of possible lists. Playing the same few army lists repeatedly against each other could get dull fairly quickly.

This points system below tries to address this.

Using this points system and the excellent (and now free) Nafziger army lists, players can construct any number of armies that are consistent in size with the army lists in the Lasalle book.

I would love to say that the points system above was based on careful consideration of the relative merits of units, simulations of performance and a large number of test games. Alas no. Instead it was a rather crude attempt to back-fit the army lists in the book. What points system could generate something so that the Core Lists were all about the same points, and the Support Lists were about the same points?