I've Entered My Fall In Games

 

This evening I submitted two events for the HMGS East Fall In convention, November 7-9, 2025. Both games will feature Richard Sharpe scenarios played with 40mm miniature figures. There will be 8 players in both games. If for some reason my games get sold out (doesn't seem to happen for me very often) I can probably add one or two commands to the game.

The first game will be on Friday November 7th at 10:00 AM. The game is called "Sharpe's Treasure"

The second game will be on Saturday November 8th, also at 10:00 AM. This game is called "Sharpe's Rescue".

Sharpe's Treasure

Legend has it that the Sword of St. James (or Santiago in Spanish) will be wielded by a person who will unite the Spanish people and expel the foreign invaders. Napoleon's master spy, Pierre Ducos, has conveyed the story of the legend to Napoleon and the Emperor has ordered Ducos to find the Sword of Santiago before the British do.

On the British side, Lord Wellington has assigned the task of securing the relic, before the French can steal it, to Richard Sharpe and his band of Chosen Men. It is inevitable that Sharpe and Ducos will cross paths at the Monastery of Santiago. 

Sharpe's Rescue

Lady Farthingale was kidnapped by a ruthless gang of deserters from all of the countries fighting in the Peninsula War. British, French, Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, among others, for the army of deserters. They are commanded by Sharpe's mortal enemy, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswell. Lord Farthingale is a VIP in British political circles and so Horse Guards has turned up the heat on Wellington to find and rescue Lady Farthingale. Wellington knows that there is only one person who can do this task, and that person is Captain Richard Sharpe.

The Cast

All of the usual characters in the Sharpe novels will be present in both games. On the British side:

(1) Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Hagman, Harris, Perkins, Tongue and Cooper

(2) Sir Henry Simmerson and the South Essex regiment of foot

(3) Commandante Theresa and her Spanish Guerillas 

(4) Major Hogan and the Light Company of the South Essex regiment.

On the French side we have the following:

(1) The French (infantry of course)

(2) French voltigeurs and light cavalry commanded by the evil Pierre Ducos

(3) The Bad Spanish Guerillas fighting with the French

(4) Father Hacha and El Metarife

Figures and Terrain

Most of the figures will be the 40mm Sash and Saber figures, although I have a small order of Perry 40mm figures that are in transit from the UK to the USA.

It looks like I can use my 28mm buildings made by Herb Gundt for this project. I also bought some 40mm 3D printed Spanish buildings from Battle Honours in the UK and these look very nice.

I am working on several purpose-made terrain pieces made from pink insulation foam board. I will be showing work in progress pictures over the next several weeks.

The Bots

I guess that I will keep on blogging on the Blogger app rather than suspending operations or moving the blog to another social media platform. What with the Bots descending in the thousands on my site, I no longer have the ability to tell how many real people are viewing my blog content. Thus I have no way of knowing whether or not anyone is reading my content because the view count of visitors is meaningless now that thousands of visits are being made by the evil bots.

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