This past weekend was HMGS' Fall In, the last major convention of the year.
While I had intended to attend both Friday and Saturday, I had to change my plans and wasn't able to stay for Saturday. Conveniently, I hadn't locked in a hotel room yet so I was able to increase my spending budget.
Because I had changed my schedule I was only able to attend two games on Friday.
The first game was a demo of Clash of Rhyfles, the skirmish set of rules for the Quar setting from Zombiesmith that's received a boost in popularity from a pretty consistent release schedule from Wargames Atlantic. The "full" version of the rules have been released in anticipation of a new starter set coming in the next few months.
Two tables were set up, each with a standard Crusader and Coftyran squad.
Since I had played the rules a couple before, I ended up controlling a single Coftyran squad against two new players who controlled two halves of the opposing Crusader squad.
The Coftyran squad's LMG and loader set up with a decent fire lane through the center of the table while the squad's yawdryl took half of the squad's rhyflers on a flanking maneuver.
The Crusaders split into a number of small teams and filtered through the terrain. The squad's milwer was knocked down by the Coftyran LMG, but managed to recover.
Unfortunately, my luck wasn't great for this game. It started with a rhyfler tripping over his rifle and knocking himself out. A Crusader marksquar knocked out another rhyfler, and the squad's milwer was shot trying to tend to his fallen comrades.
On the other side of the battle, the Coftyran yawdryl and his accompanying rhyflers were pinned by pair of Crusader rhyflers. Armed with large caliber rifles, the Crusaders kept punching through the Coftyran's lighter cover.
As a demo, the game only lasted three turns, but we were given a decent overview of the rules and setting. Had we continued, I wouldn't expect the Coftyrans to last much longer.
I did end up picking up the Coftyran and Crusader specialists boxes, as well as the newly released Chyweethl and Ailthean tractors (Quar-equivalents to tanks, about the same technological level as interwar vehicles).