Unfortunately, the weekend went by far too quickly and CONflict Rhineland 2025 is already history again - but as usual, it was a great weekend with lots of superbly designed gaming tables and presentations, plenty of old and new mates, loads of chatting and of course a few drinks too.
The organisation team was perfect as usual, the kitchen and the catering organised by Lasse was a highlight in itself; now it's time for a few more days of training to get rid of the pounds 😅
I particularly like the concept:
There are no day guests per se, everything is by invitation. This means you can easily leave your table unattended for a few hours and play elsewhere without having to worry that half of your table will have disappeared when you return.
Max and I set off from Bavaria towards the Rhineland around lunchtime on Friday and got through without any major traffic jams etc., so we were able to set up our table in a relaxed atmosphere, on which we presented ‘What A Soldier’ as a participation game, a self-designed supplement for ‘What A Cowboy’.
An adaptation/extension mainly around automatic weapons and their effects with more to follow (implementing cars and even Armoured Cars soon).
On Saturday we were able to present some WaS games and above all we got to play them ourselves - besides ‘Barons War v2’ we were particularly fond of the Kurpfalz Feldherren table, where the Great Northern War was the theme - once in a variant of ‘Pikeman's Lament’ adapted for Rank&File and as a multiplayer battle with a DBA variant ... Pure fun, even if our Russian-Saxon coalition got a good kicking from the Swedes 😎
Conclusion: A must-attend event for us again next year!
And here are a few pictures of the presentations, which were all at a top level.
"What A Soldier" - our own supplement for "What A Cowboy"
"Trench Warfare"
The following pictures are all for "Call of Cthulhu" game - fantastic model building skills!
"Battlestar Galactica"
"Battlegroup"
The battlefield for the Great Northern War setting
"Starship Troopers"
"Necropolis28"
"Barons War v2"
"Die Lügen des Odysseus" using rules from Bello Ludi
And a few shots from "What A Soldier" games we umpired. Mission for both player was to rescue a shot down pilot who hides in the temple ruins and escort him safely back to the own lines.
Both side are rushing to the object ...
to be the first to rescue the pilot.
While this mysterious man tries to stop his opponent with well-aimed shots.
It gets up close and personal everywhere - at the ruins itself ...
and the flanks.
The Great Northern War games - the first shots of a smaller game using amended "Pikement´s Lament" rules so the work for Rank & File games.
Swedes try to force a crossing over the river and the Russians try to prevent it of course.
And a Multiplayer game with 3 players on each side using amended DBA rules - it was really great fun:
Even with both flanks falling apart, my Saxon centre managed nearly to get through the Swedes.
But their commander had one final trump card left and could change the result of the melee from a severe loss to a pushed back. 😎
And a few pictures from the "Barons War" game using the new v2 version of these rules:
