Six by Six - May

We're five months into the Six by Six Challenge now, and the results are mixed. Some people are forging ahead. Some are forging further ahead than the 15 games we should have all played now, if we're to stay on track. Others haven't done quite so well. But, remember, if you only play one game all year, you've still played one game more than lesser mortals.

So where do I stand? Well, I get to be smug this month. I have completed not only enough games to cover May, but also the whole of June and even part of July. This is mostly down to a DBA binge at the start of the month, and I'm going to make my games involving my Arab army against first Parthians and secondly Romans my Pick of the Month.

I also only have one game - Machinas - where I haven't managed at least one session so far this year.

What have other people been up to? Three people have now played each of their six games at least once. And four people other than myself are ahead of the game, having managed more than 15 games. Here are some of my favourite posts from the month.

I'm going to start with Ski's Dystopian Wars game. The rules have never excited me much, but I love the models, so it's always good to see some in action. I have some of the ships, waiting to be painted up for use with Galleys and Galleons.

Ral Partha's Chaos Wars is not a game with which I'm familiar, but looks good in ChicagoWiz's report.

And, finally, continuing the fantasy theme, during May I played Dragon Rampant for the first time, so I was especially interested in these reports of the game from Phil Saunders (who, yes, is my brother).

Here's the current list of participants and games played, as far as I can determin. I admit it may be incomplete; we've had internet access issues at home for the past couple of weeks, so I havn't been able to trawl the participating blogs as often or as thoroughly as I would have liked to. I may have missed things. Items in red show games which have been completed.

Kaptain Kobold - The Stronghold Rebuilt

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

Brian Hamilton - By Brush and Sword

1 - Blucher
2 - Saga
 Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
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 - 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
4 - Kings of War
 Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 -
5 - Imperial Skies
6 - Memoir '44
 Game 1 - Game 2

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

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

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
 Game 1 - Game 2

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

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
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 - Game 3
3 - Napoleon's Battles
 Game 1
4 - DBA
 Game 1 - Game 2
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

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
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 - Game 3
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