Six By Six - July

Let's get this out of the way from the start; July has been the quietest month in terms of of activity for the Six By Six Challenge since the whole thing began. But maybe that's to be expected; like most projects there is an initial rush of enthusiasm, and then it tends to die off a little. Certainly it's clear that some participants have probably forgotten about it, or are otherwise engaged on other things. Saying that, though, there's still plenty of people forging ahead and looking set to finish their 36 games by the end of the year.

Am I one of them? Well, at the moment I'd say that the answer is 'Yes'. As July draws to a close I'm still ahead of schedule in terms of games played. One of them I will have to concentrate on in August or September, since I'm running it at a wargames show in October. So that will see enough games to complete that part of the challenge. The trickiest one will be my remaining HOTT games, since I set myself the additional challenge of only counting games using new armies. I need to put together two new HOTT armies by the end of the year ...

A HOTT army is my personal featured game for the month; I finished painting a Mound Builder American army for DBA early on in July, but the army was originally put together for HOTT and that how it saw its first games.

On to other people's games.

Strange Aeons is not a game with which I'm familiar; it looks like a kind of Call Of Cthulhu skirmish game, but I'm sure other will put me right (or I could Google it). Anyway, Brian has played a couple of games of it this month, set in a town made up of some very nice looking MDF buildings.

This month also saw Peter finish off his WWII naval campaign. It's worth looking through his 6x6 games, as they have all been campaign-based.

Finally I love the look of this old SPI boardgame, Fall Of Rome, which Shaun Travers is playing. Makes me want to get Solitaire Caesar out again.

Here's the current state of play. Entries in red are completed sets of six games.

Kaptain Kobold - The Stronghold Rebuilt
1 - HOTT
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
2 - Neil Thomas Pike and Shot
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
3 - Scum of the Earth
  Game 1 - Game 2
4 - Machinas
  Game 1 - Game 2
5 - DBA 3.0
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Galleys & Galleons
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6

Pat G - Irr Wb (F)

1 - Ace of Aces Handy Rotaries
2 - B17 - Queen of the Skies
3 - Chain of Command
4 - D&D OSR
5 - Gruntz
6 - Space 1889: Soldier's Companion
  Game 1

Shaun Travers - Shaun's Wargaming With Miniatures

1 - Ancient Battlelines Clash
2 - Advance to Cover
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
3 - Field Commander: Alexander
4 - WW2 3x4
 Games 1-6
5 - Fall of Rome
 Games 1 + 2
6 - Triumph
  Games 1 and 2 - Game 3

Ski - Ski's Wargames

1 - X-Wing
  Games 1 + 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - Dystopian Wars
  Game 1 - Game 2
3 - Rubber and Lead or other homegrown rules
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Starfleet Battles
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
5 - Miscellaneous
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
6 - MLB Showdown
  Game 1

Brian Hamilton - By Brush and Sword
1 - Blucher
2 - Saga
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - Blood Bowl
  Games 1, 2 and 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Arena Rex
  Game 1
5 - Strange Aeons
  Game 1 - Game 2
6 - Fistful of Lead
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4

Sean Gewecke - Sean's Gaming and Shooting Blog

1 - Cold War Commander
  Game 1 - Game 2
2 - Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear
3 - The Walking Dead: All Out War
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Kings of War
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 -
5 - Imperial Skies
6 - Memoir '44
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4

Michael S - ChicagoWiz's Games

1 - Dungeons & Dragons (1974 edition and 1st edition AD&D)
  Game 1 - Game 2
2 - Ral Partha's Chaos Wars
  Game 1 - Game 2
3 - HOTT
4 - Book of War (D&D Skirmish game)
5 - One Hour Wargames
6 - DBA or Neil Thomas's Ancients/Medieval Wargaming

Martin Sheppard - Sheppard's Crook

1 - Squad Leader
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
2 - Ancient / Medieval Warfare
3 - Memoir 44
4 - Four Against Darkness
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
5 - One Hour Wargames
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - DBR

Natholeon - Natholeon's Empires

1 - DBA 3.0
  Game 1 - Game 2
2 - Seven Years War
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - Clobberin' Time
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Star Wars
5 - Command and Colours
6 - Broken Legions / Songs of Broken Legions
  Game 1 - Game 2

Kevin Kearney - Warwell's Wargames

1 - Anarendor (WISER Fantasy Rules)
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - Slipstream Pulp Sci-Fi (FU-inspired Rules)
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
3 - Spandau and Lewis
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5
4 - Four Against Darkness
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
5 - DC Rivals
  Game 1 - Game 2
6 - Ticket To Ride
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4

Phil Saunders - A Game of Bones / Democratic People's Republic of Philtopia

1 - Black Powder
2 - Team Yankee (6mm edition)
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Games 3 + 4 + 5
3 - Blood Bowl
4 - Deadzone
5 - Rogue Stars
  Game 1 - Game 2
6 - Dragon Rampant
  Games 1 + 2

Peter - Grid-based Wargaming

1 - One Hour Wargames (OHW) and Others - SciFi Variant
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Games 5 + 6
2 - Galleys and Galleons
  Games 1+2
3 - Hundred Years War - Lion Rampant
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Dark Ages with Dux Bellorum
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Games 4, 5 and 6
5 - WW2 Naval (Pz8 rules)
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Games 3 + 4 - Games 5 + 6
6 - 19th Century ImagiNations
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4

Sun of York - One Sided Miniature Wargames Discourse

1 - Impetus
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - Saga
  Games 1 + 2 - Game 3
3 - Napoleon's Battles
  Game 1 - Game 2
4 - DBA
  Game 1 - Game 2  - Game 3
5 - Wings of Glory
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Songs of Drums and Shakos (will also count Songs of Blades and Heroes).
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6

Ricardo Nakamura - Fantalonia

1 - And a Bottle of Rum
2 - Clash on the Fringe
3 - Mercenary Air Squadron
4 - Morale Napoleon
5 - MOTH - The Ion Age
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Star Trader

Kenneth van Pelt - The Penny Whistle

1 - DBA
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
2 - Blue Max
  Game 1
3 - The Great War
  Game 1 - Game 2
4 - 54mm Collection
  Game 1
5 - Carrera GO Formula 1
6 - Rogue Stars
  Games 1 and 2

Dan Foley - Last Stand at Cairngorm

1 - Chain of Command.
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - A Gentleman's War
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - Sharpe Practice 2
4 - Saga
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
5 - Mad Dogs with Guns
  Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
6 - Lion Rampant (and variants)

Jay - Numbers, Wargaming and Arseing About

1 - 1914 Opening Moves (Minden Games)
2 - Remagen Bridge (Minden Games)
3 - Flying Eagles (High Flying Dice Games)
4 - Courage under Fire (HFDG)
5 - Manoeuvre (GMT)
6 - Poltava

JWH - Heretical Gaming
Attempting the full BGG 10x10 Challenge