Had another opportunity to attend the W.A.R.G.S (Wargaming Association of Real Gentlemen……Sure) at Geoff’s place this Friday.

We were all looking forward to playing Dan Mersey’s “The Men Who Would Be Kings” as we all loved the period and were hoping for a good set of rules.

Dan didn’t disappoint us. The character and flavour of the rules played the cinematic tradition perfectly.

With Geoff umpiring we decided to have 2 playing “Mr babbage” to try out the solo components of the rules and two playing the British Colonial forces.

Although the figures were not quite finished we still had a great game.

For us the result was unimportant (the Colonials probably lost) as we were just interested in trying out the mechanics which worked really well.

The unit leader characteristics were great fun. With 10 Colonial units we diced up everything from a Young Aristocratic Yellow-belly to a Hero of the Empire. The hero surely added a bar to his VC after several times saving his unit from running away by his sheer will power and fighting on to then end even when surrounded on all sides by Dervishers – great fun.

The table map was a recent purchase of Geoff’s from Deep Cut Studios. These are excellent with this one excellent for desert scenarios and because it was not felt the creases smoothed out flat making it easier for gaming.

We all loved the rules and will play them again next fortnight with Dave’s Foreign Legion “Marching or Dieing” at the “Mernda Wargames Holiday Centre”.