Mark and I gt together for a game of Soldiers of Napoleon. Been a while since we played, but great fun to get a game on table again. Never have a bad game with these rules. Mark was using 15mm, me 10mm, but who cares, a unit is a unit! The table, never seen it so Spartan, a stream, and a small copse. This is not good when you are facing Mark who likes to bring at least four artillery batteries, two with full cassions special rules, so lots of rerolls and most of them are 12 pounders, so extra long range. No where to hide or break up sight lines. Good news is, I have The Imperial Guard! They can stand up to almost anything - apart from a cannonball to the face. Which is what Mark 's forces specialise in! Both of us picked 'Steady Advance', so meet in the middle and beat each other up, what's not to like! Mark, being an 'Avent Garde' user, used deployement 6, 'Screen' which pushes a brigade really far forwards, while I went with 3, 'Flanks Forwards...
County Tops Number 19: Black Mountain (Twyn Llech) , Herefordshire 16-03-2025, 703m Walk technicalities *** (extra * due to weather) View **** (Losing a * due to clouds) Company ***** Overall 10/10 A walk with Steve! My best friend since Uni. and always a great walking partner. I had a 3.4km walk with Honey before hand, then drove 2 1/2 hours up to see him. A further two hour drive from his place, (avoiding potholes) and we arrived at the car park at the bottom of Black Hill (yes, that one) Here we had 30 seconds of looking at the map and checkinh we had the right hill, as Black Hill is a spur of the Black Mountain range. Nope, we needed Black Mountain, in fact Twyn Llech, which sits right on border with Wales, a few km on up the ridge! Oops. Oh well! Half these photos are Steve's. Black Hill has (despite the slipperiest start eveer, face planted in rather fun way) has a rather superb ridge that narrows quickly. It's a bit of a pull but it quickly became apparent i...