Six By Six - June

And here we are: the halfway mark of the 2017 Six By Six Challenge. If you're participating and are on-track you should currently have 18 game reports on your blog. Does it matter if you haven't? No. Even one game report is a good thing.

I did OK this month, despite some personal issues, my taking part in the Forgotten Heroes figure conversion challenge and some cosplaying. I fulfilled my requisite three games to stay on track, but since I was already ahead at the end of May anyway, this leaves me still ahead. Effectively I'm already part of the way into August. My main achievement this month is that I have now played at least one game of each of my six choices, having played my first challenge game of Machinas last weekend. Indeed this will be my featured game of the month.

I also completed my second game, playing my sixth session of DBA.

If you look at the games list below you'll see that the usual suspects are still forging ahead, with a couple of people looking set to finish the challenge well before the end of the year. Please click through to some of the links and read the game reports; they're always worth the effort.

Here's my picks for the month.

Pat at Irr Wb (F) has been playing Space: 1889 - The Soldiers Companion. I have these rules, but don't think I've played a game using them in 30 years.

Peter at Grid-Based Wargaming has been continuing his WWII naval campaign, using a surprisingly simple, yet effective, set of free rules from the Pz8 stable.

Brian at By Brush And By Sword finished the Saga component of his challenge with this lovely game set in the snow.

A special mention goes to Heretical Gaming. I was looking through my blog comments the other day, and found a whole load of unmoderated comments I'd not dealt with, going back for several months. One of these was from JWH at that blog, who said that they had decided to do not just the Six By Six Challenge, but the full Boardgame Geek 10x10 version. I've checked his blog and I'm not sure that at this stage I'll be tracking each game, since there doesn't seem to be a useful tag to use, but I'd recommend people head over and have a look. In addition I'll add a link to his blog to the Runners and Riders so people don't forget in the coming months.

May I say a big Thank You to those of you who produce a monthly report tracking your own progress? Normally I have a lot of this post already assembled by the end of each month, but it does help me to cross-check my own figures when I come to do the final edits on it.

Here's the current state of play, with completed games in red.

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 - Game 4
3 - Scum of the Earth
 Game 1 - Game 2
4 - Machinas
 Game 1
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 - 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 - 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
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
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

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

2 - Slipstream Pulp Sci-Fi (FU-inspired Rules)
 Game 1 - Game 2

3 - Spandau and Lewis
 Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4

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 - Games 3 + 4
6 - 19th Century ImagiNations
 Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3

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
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
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