Six By Six - April

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? It seems like only yesterday I was posting March's Six By Six Challenge report, and here I am doing April's

If you're on the ball with your arithmetic, you'll realise that, by this stage, participants should have managed 12 of their 36 games in order to be on target. Some have, some haven't. Some are actually well in advance of this target. One person is over halfway through their list! Some have yet to record a game, or at least in a way that enables me to find and log it in my special spreadsheet. No worries; there's still eight months left, and even one game during the whole year is still better than none.

No-one has yet managed at least one game of each of their six choices, but a couple of people are poised to manage this feat, maybe during May.

How have I progressed this month? Well, I managed three games, which just kept me on schedule. Two of them were my first forays into unsupervised DBA 3.0, whist the other I'm making my featured game for the month: my refight of Fraustadt using 'Scum of the Earth'. This ruthlessly pared the original battle down to a low-budget BBC version of the action and saw a reversal of the historical result, with the Swedish attack being driven off.

How about other people's games? What has particularly caught my eye this month?

Well, Squad Leader has never held any interest for me, since I've never truly been into fiddly games, but I'm pleased to see what is undeniably a classic in at least one list. Here's a brief report from Sheppard's Crook

Peter at Grid-Based Wargaming is the other person to pick Galleys & Galleons for their list. And he's using paper figures too!

And, finally, Kenneth at the Penny Whistle, played a One Hour Wargame with some wonderful 54mm Romans and Gauls

Here's the current list of participants and games. Entries in red show where all six games have been played. There have been two changes of game this month, one a complete change (with Kevin deciding to give my WW1 air rules 'Spandau and Lewis' a go) and one a switch of rules within the original genre. Changes are allowed; if you're struggling with a particular game and realise that it really isn't one you fancied doing, drop it and choose something else. I've done it.

Kaptain Kobold - The Stronghold Rebuilt

1 - HOTT
 Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
2 - Neil Thomas Pike and Shot
3 - Scum of the Earth
 Game 1 - Game 2
4 - Machinas
5 - DBA 3.0
 Game 1 - Game 2
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

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 - Full Thrust
5 - Fall of Rome
6 - Triumph
 Games 1 and 2 - Game 3

Ski - Ski's Wargames

1 - X-Wing
 Games 1 + 2 - Game 3
2 - Dystopian Wars
 Game 1
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
5 - Miscellaneous
 Game 1 -  Game 2
6 - MLB Showdown
 Game 1

Brian Hamilton - By Brush and Sword

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

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
4 - Kings of War
 Game 1 - Game 2
5 - Imperial Skies
6 - Memoir '44
 Game 1

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
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

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 - Honours of War
 Game 1 -  Game 2

3 - Clobberin' Time
 Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6

4 - Lord of the Rings for Star Wars

5 - Crimean War Rules
 Game 1

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

2 - Zirconia and Beyond (WISER Sci-Fi Rules)
 Game 1

3 - Spandau and Lewis

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

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

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

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)
6 - WW1 OHW

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

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

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
2 - A Gentleman's War
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5
3 - Sharpe Practice 2
4 - Saga
Game 1
5 - Mad Dogs with Guns
Game 1 - Game 2
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