Games night

 As our regular Monday night session fell just a few days after our all day game we decided to go for a "game night" format where people brought several games and we all played different things. So we had Perry's freebie Napoleonic rules, Mike's homebrew WWII and Starfleet Battles.

Valour and Fortitude

Nigel laid-on a splendid looking 20mm V&F game that was refight of the Raab scenario from the Easter Saturday. V&F is a pretty short set of rules with the main "twist" being that players each get a random hand of event cards to play - some are generic and some are based on national characteristics. It seems to be a pretty quick game from what I saw and they will likely play again. 

Mike's Home Brew WWII

I did nt see too much of this game but from playing last time the game is company level action with activation points used to boost actions and officer positioning a key element. 

   

Starfleet battles

This is based on an old (1970s) board game that has been updated over the years. Its basically two games in one; tactical combat and a resource management (engine powers) working side-by-side. It has an usual multi-phased turn sequence which has the effect giving faster ships more moves and more chances to act.    

Its definitely a complex game as you seek to balance your speed, shields and weapons all which looking to stay within power budgets and get the right orientation of your ship to attack the enemy. 

We played a classic encounter of a Federation Constitution class against a Klingon D9.