Games, we must!

 Culture has been to the fore at the Casa Epictetus recently, in a tasty salmagundi of film, gospel music, calligraphy, West End musicals and, er, boxing. I might return to those, I might not. But there has also been some wargaming.

We had a couple of goes at another Tabletop Teaser, although I have mislaid the note I made of which one specifically we played. The photo above is from the second night, but broadly shows the set-up for both games. The French must seize the river crossings - there's another bridge in the village - before the Spanish reserves arrive and then beat off the counterattack when they do so. 

Or at least that's the concept. On the first evening the Spanish reserves failed to arrive at all. Still, these things happen, so we swapped sides, made a couple of small adjustments which we thought would improve things and went again. The Spanish reserves once more failed to arrive. Oh well. I'm reasonably confident that the fault was ours rather than Charles Grant's, and we are moving on to a different teaser this week, with - I believe - an ancient setting of some sort.