tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41971681747956704092024-02-07T16:42:39.174-08:00Two MarshalsMainly wargaming the careers of Marshals Bazaine and PetainShedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17463995777686946355noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-70951945420946602552020-05-01T07:02:00.000-07:002020-05-01T07:02:13.900-07:00Camerone - 157th anniversary solo re-fight using BBB It's a club tradition that we refight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camar%C3%B3n" target="_blank">Camerone</a> near the anniversary using the excellent scenario from Tim Tilson's Colonial Campaigns book Maximilian in Mexico. The book used The Sword and the Flame rules but I use Bloody Big Battles instead.<br />
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Sous-lieutenant Maudet and his squad of Legionaries defend the south-west corner</div>
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Due to the lockdown I decided to refight it solo as it lends itself to solo play due to the Victory Points. To this end I was in charge of the Republicans as they have all the decisions to make.<br />
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The compound looking south-east, scratch built by Rodge</div>
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<b><u>The French Force</u></b><br />
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Captain Danjou<br />
Sous-lieutenants Maudet and Vilain<br />
4 units each of 4 bases of Legionaries - MLR, Elite (never go spent), Aggressive<br />
Incidentally this means that the French figure:man ratio is virtually 1:1<br />
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French defenders at game start. 2 base Irregular Cavalry unit on the upper floor of the Hacienda</div>
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<b><u>The Republican Force</u></b><br />
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3 Commanders<br />
Irregular Cavalry: 4 bases - MLR , Raw, Ragged Volley, Fragile, dismounted<br />
Irregular Infantry: 4 bases - MLR , Raw, Ragged Volley<br />
Regular Infantry: 4 bases - MLR , Trained<br />
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Republican Regular Infantry at start of 2nd Assault Phase</div>
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The Republicans attack in 3 Assault Phase. Each Phase is either 4, 6, 8 or 10 units of regular or irregular infantry or cavalry chosen by the Republican players. Each regular unit is worth 2 Victory Points (VP) to the French and each irregular unit is 1 VP. The Republicans get 2 VPs for killing a French base. There are also VP awarded to each side for other activities but I'm sure Tim would appreciate it if you bought his book to find those out.<br />
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The compund looking south-west </div>
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An Assault Phase ends when the Republicans roll equal to or less than the number of units that are Spent.<br />
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For Phase 1 the Republicans selected 4 units of Irregular Cavalry giving the French 4 victory points. There is also a 2 base Irregular Cavalry unit, dismounted of course, on the upper floor of the Hacienda.<br />
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Dismounted Republican cavalry assault the compound at the south-western and both north entrances. Even through most of the Legion are low on ammo (green smiley faces) they cause 1 Republican to go Spent (red smiley faces). This leads to the Republicans having to roll for Assault Phase end and not get a 1 on a D4 which they do.<br />
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Victory points for Phase 1 are 4 to the Legion and 2 to the Republicans for killing a base<br />
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For Phase 2 the Republicans selected 10 units of Regular Infantry giving the French 20 victory points. I thought that maybe the 10 units would overwhelm the French as the Regulars are Trained and therefore have to lose 2 bases to become Spent.<br />
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3 Units of Republican Regular Infantry form up against the south-west breach</div>
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6 Units of Republican Regular Infantry form up against the northern breaches</div>
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Squads from left to right - <span style="text-align: center;">Sous-lieutenant Maudet, </span><span style="text-align: center;">Sous-lieutenant Vilain and </span>Captain Danjou.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The 4th Squad holds the Hacienda against a Republican Regular Infantry approaching from the east</span><br />
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This Phase was a really meat grinder as the Republicans assaulted time and again </div>
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The French held firm until slowly they ran low on ammunition</div>
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The south-western breach holds </div>
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Captain Danjou's Squad retires and the Captain is killed. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The 4th Squad charges out of the Hacienda to clear the courtyard</span></div>
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Maudet's Squad is pushed back from the <span style="text-align: center;">south-western breach</span></div>
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Maudet's Squad <span style="text-align: start;">counter-attacks and retakes the </span>south-western breach</div>
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End of Phase 2 with Sous-lieutenant Maudet and 5 bases of Legionnaires left alive. With 4 Spent units it was only a matter of time before I rolled 4 on a D10. I was tempted to pay an extra Victory Point to continue the Phase for an extra turn but I could not guarantee killing everyone. </div>
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Victory points for Phase 2 are 20 to the Legion and 24 to the Republicans for killing 12 bases giving the French 24 and the Republicans 26.<br />
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Camerone works well as a solo game with this scenario as all of the decisions are made by the Republican player whilst the French forces "merely" have to defend the compound.</div>
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You have a squad of 6 men that skirmish against military forces, guerrillas, outlaws or native warbands. The starting Stats are <span style="text-align: center;">Speed 4", Shoot +0, Toughness 3 but this can increase through campaigning. </span><br />
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Movement Actions can be Move or Reload. Combat Actions can be Dash, Reload, Brawl, Bandage or Shoot. </div>
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The opposition depends on which campaign you are fighting. For example if you were fighting the Peninsular War (1807–1814) as the French then you could be facing either a military force and/or guerrillas. For the French and Indian Wars then you could be facing either a military force, guerrillas or native warbands. Finally as the French for the Franco-Prussian War then you would face just a military force.<br />
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Enemy type, number and deployment are all table generated as is the Mission<br />
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The Enemy can basically either shoot, reload or move towards near opponent in that order. In all cases they should keep to cover.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">You might notice that I use multi-based troops for the 1st game - just imagine each base is 1 figure. I also use 15mm figures because I don't have any 25mm figures</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">For the first game set during the Peninsular War I commanded a French squad. </span><br />
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My opponents were 7 British infantry (Speed 4", Shoot +0, Toughness 3)</div>
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The mission was to capture and hold the centre of the table for 2 VPs per turn</div>
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The French reach the centre so can start collecting 2 VPs per turn</div>
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All of the British open fire </div>
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Everyone is firing!</div>
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A firefight ensues killing 2 British and 3 French</div>
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This forces the British to take a morale check</div>
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Although I was down to 3 men the British had 3 men Scared so they could not advance. The VP stood at 4 and I rolled a Double 1 so victory to me </div>
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For the second game I commanded an Abenaki warband during the French and Indian Wars.</div>
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Their opponents were 4 veteran settlers (Guerrillas) (Speed 5", Shoot +1, Toughness 4). </div>
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The mission was Drive Off where 2 VPs are earnt every time an Enemy Flees or is Knocked Out.</div>
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As the enemy were outnumbered I set them up in a cabin. Both sides are armed with Smoothbore Muskets</div>
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Basically the Abenaki snook up on the settlers</div>
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Both sides open fire</div>
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After 1 round of firing 1 settler was dead, 1 has fled as a result of that and another was Stunned</div>
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After another round of firing the same settler <span style="text-align: center;">was Stunned</span></div>
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One Abenaki goes for the outflank</div>
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Before he can get to the cabin one <span style="text-align: center;">Abenaki gets shot, one settler gets shot and the other one flees as a result of the death. Game over</span></div>
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This isn't a bad set of rules. Very simple but they get the toys on the table. The Decision Tree could possibly do with expanding to include Close Combat but it works well enough. I certainly enjoyed both games and not just because I won both of them! <br />
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This is Rangers of Shadow Deep without the fantasy. In fact I imagine it is possible to play RoSD scenarios with these rules.<br />
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-36025365789691510782019-02-15T05:53:00.002-08:002019-02-15T05:53:44.139-08:00Algeria 1837 using Bloody Big Battles test game #1My Algeria 1830s-40s project is nearing completion so we gave the armies a run out to see if the rules, unit ratings and terrain worked. The scenario covered a French expedition to subdue the Arab and Kabyle tribes of the Tell Atlas.<br />
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Kabyle mountaineers</div>
<u>The Terrain</u><br />
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Looking north from the ountains</div>
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A Kabyle settlement</div>
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The table was setup with a French outpost at the northern end of a plain. There are a couple of Arab encampments on the plain. The southern end is mountainous where the Kabyle have several settlements.<br />
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<u>The French force</u><br />
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Allied Arab cavalry lead the columns out of the Fort </div>
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</th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bases</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Type</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Skimishers</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Morale</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trait</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Weapon</span></th> </tr>
<tr> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Command</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ldr</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Foreign Regt Btn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1S</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Devastating volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bat' d'Af</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1S</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vet</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Devastating volley, Aggressive</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Line Infantry</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Devastating volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Zouave Btn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5S</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vet</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Woodsman, Aggressive</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Turco Btn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4S</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vet</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Woodsman, Aggressive</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chasseurs d'Afrique</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cav</span></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ragged volley, Aggressive</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Spahis</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cav</span></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ragged volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Allied Arab Cavalry</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cav</span></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Raw</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ragged volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mountain Arty Regt</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Art</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SA</span></td> </tr>
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<u>The Algerian force</u><br />
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<u>Arab cavalry threaten the rear of the french force</u></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Unit</span></div>
</th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bases</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Type</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Skimishers</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Morale</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trait</span></th> <th><span style="font-size: x-small;">Weapon</span></th> </tr>
<tr> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Command</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ldr</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kaid's Guard</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cav</span></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vet</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ragged volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arab Cavalry</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cav</span></td> <td></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ragged volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arab Infantry</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4S</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trn</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ragged volley</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kabyles</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inf</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4S</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Raw</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Woodsman, Aggressive</span></td> <td><span style="font-size: x-small;">SM</span></td> </tr>
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The Woodsman trait is Can evade as cavalry vs non Woodsman unit and Ignore difficult terrain<br />
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At this period the French Foreign Legion was a collection of battalions lumped together by nationality, eg Polish, Italian, Swiss etc, and wasn't as good a fighting force as it would later become.<br />
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The best troops in the French African army were the Zouaves and the Bat' d'Af, the Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa, made up of men with prison records who still had to do their military service or soldiers with serious disciplinary problems.<br />
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The Algerian forces were more than a match for the French inflicting several defeats on the invaders. The Arabs generally fought from horseback and were often as well armed as the French. The Kabyle, given the terrain, usually fought on foot and were excellent at skirmishing.<br />
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<u>Setup</u><br />
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<u>The French start in Fort Louis, The Kabyle and the </u><u>Arab infantry</u><u> start with 2 units at each settlement. From turn 2 a D6 worth of Arab cavalry units arrive on the eastern and western edges. they can move but cannot charge on their inital turn.</u><br />
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<u>The Game</u><br />
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The French objective was to capture the 5 encampments, 2 on the plain and 3 in the mountains. The Algerians had to stop them.<br />
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Kabyle encampment in the foothills</div>
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Arab encampment on the plain</div>
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The French expedition leaves Fort Louis - I have no idea why the are marching backwards</div>
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The French are almost in reach of the encampments on the plains but with cavalry to their flanks and rear inevitably form a "square"</div>
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The Kabyle leave their mountain camps to engage the French</div>
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Rodge made these terrain pieces for his 28mm North West Frontier</div>
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They are excellent ground for 10mm mountaineers</div>
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On the western flank the French form line against Arab attacks</div>
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However Arab cavalry start working around their flank</div>
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Kabyle skirmishers force the French to halt. </div>
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The French western flank hold against Arab charges and Kabyle musketry</div>
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On the eastern flank the allied Arab cavalry get pushed back into the square after attacking the encampment </div>
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In turn the Arabs launch an attack against the Foreign Regiment </div>
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The Arab Kaid watches as his troops engage the <span style="text-align: center;">Foreign Regiment again</span></div>
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The repeated assaults force the <span style="text-align: center;">Foreign Regiment to retreat leaving a huge gap in the flank</span> </div>
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The allied Arab cavalry charges to the rescue whilst the Zouaves form a square</div>
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Arab cavalry oblige the Zouaves by charging them</div>
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After 2 rounds of drawn combat, each side loses a base, the broken square repels the cavalry </div>
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The western flank at the end - both sides at a stand-off</div>
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The eastern flank at the end - the Arabs have the upper hand</div>
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A victory to the Arab and Kabyle forces as the French failed to get a single encampment. The French eastern flank looked very dodgy although they probably had enough firepower to hang on.</div>
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We will give this another run out with the mountains along the long edge to se if the French can even get a foot in the foothills</div>
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The French were outnumbered 2:1 in bases but do have the advantage of Devastating Volley (Shift Right) ,Target is Cavalry (Shift Right) and Skirmishers (Shift Right) so when they <b><u>DO</u></b> roll decent dice it is quite effective.</div>
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I made a couple of changes to the standard Bloody Big Battles rules. </div>
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<li>For the Woodsman trait see above. </li>
<li>Smooth bore musket range was increased from 3" to 6" inches </li>
<li>A unit in square is treated as being in a town for melee </li>
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Otherwise the rules worked well, as always, with cavalry being very dangerous with their 18" move and 2 changes of direction..</div>
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Thanks to Mark, Rodge & Shaun for playing. Rodge's mountains are cracking terrain pieces.</div>
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The Arab cavalry are mainly Littlewars Miniatures from Lancashire Games with some Pendraken and Old Glory.</div>
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Everything else is Pendraken Miniatures</div>
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The tents and the fort are by dreamholme Scenics</div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-41001986392832526142019-01-15T10:01:00.003-08:002019-01-15T10:01:53.433-08:00Te-li-Ssu 1904 RJW using Blood Big BattlesThe battle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Te-li-Ssu" target="_blank">Te-li-Ssu</a> was fought on 14–15 June 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. This scenario was originally written for the <a href="https://ageofeagles.com/age-of-valor" target="_blank">Age of Valor</a> ruleset and I've converted it, very roughly, for Bloody Big Battles.<br />
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Japanese 3rd Division assaults the Russian left flank</div>
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The main changes from the original scenario are<br />
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<li>reduced size of table from 8x5 feet to 6x4 feet</li>
<li>reducing the number of infantry and cavalry bases by about 50%</li>
<li>reducing the Japanese artillery by 75%</li>
<li>reduce the number of turns from 15 to 12</li>
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The reasons being the available table, stands of troops and time.<br />
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Looking west across the battlefield</div>
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The streams are fordable by infantry and cavalry and the hills are steep. The ground level is difficult going for movement as it is cut down kaoliang.</div>
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<b><u>Japanese Forces</u></b></div>
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<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">3d Div</td> <td class="tg-0pky">1</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Ldr</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">6th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">35th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">18th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">24th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">Div Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky">2</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">BLA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">4th Div</td> <td class="tg-0pky">1</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Ldr</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">8th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">37th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">9th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">38th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">Div Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky">2</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">BLA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">5th Div</td> <td class="tg-0pky">1</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Ldr</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">11th Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">41st Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">21st Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">42nd Regt</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0pky">S,A</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">Div Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky">2</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">BLA</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">1st Cavalry</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">Regular</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Cav</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">Divisional</td> <td class="tg-0pky">4</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Cav</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0pky">RR</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td class="tg-0pky">Army Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky">3</td> <td class="tg-0pky">Art</td> <td class="tg-0pky"></td> <td class="tg-0pky">Trn</td> <td class="tg-0pky">BLA</td> </tr>
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<u><b>Russian Forces</b></u><br />
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<tr> <th class="tg-0lax"></th> <th class="tg-0lax"><u>Bases</u></th> <th class="tg-0lax"><u>Type</u></th> <th class="tg-0lax"><u>Traits</u></th> <th class="tg-0lax"><u>Morale</u></th> <th class="tg-0lax"><u>Weapon</u></th> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">1st Div</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">1st ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">2d ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">3d ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">4th ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Div Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax">2</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">BLA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">9th Div</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">33d ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">34th ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">35th ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">36th ESRR</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">div Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax">2</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">BLA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">35th Div</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Tobolsk</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Marshansk</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Zaraisk</td> <td class="tg-0lax">5</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Inf</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Div Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax">2</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">BLA</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Cavalry</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Cossacks #1</td> <td class="tg-0lax">3</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Cav</td> <td class="tg-0lax">S</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Cossacks #2</td> <td class="tg-0lax">3</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Cav</td> <td class="tg-0lax">S</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Raw</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Samsonov #1</td> <td class="tg-0lax">3</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Cav</td> <td class="tg-0lax">S</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Samsonov #2</td> <td class="tg-0lax">3</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Cav</td> <td class="tg-0lax">S</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">RR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td class="tg-0lax">Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax">1</td> <td class="tg-0lax">Art</td> <td class="tg-0lax"></td> <td class="tg-0lax">Trnd</td> <td class="tg-0lax">BLA</td> </tr>
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The Japanese plan of attack was for the 4th & 5th Divisions to roll up the Russian right flank whilst 3rd Division demonstrates against the Russian left flank.<br />
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(A word on the Smiley faces - Yellow is Disrupted, Green is Low on ammo and Red is Spent)<br />
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The "Unlucky" 4th Division advances towards the entrenched Russian Cavalry</div>
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The initial assault is halted with both sides taking casualties</div>
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The Japanese 5th Division assaults the junction of the Russian cavalry and the 9th ESRD</div>
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5th Division storms the trenches ...</div>
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..reforms on the hill... </div>
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... and stands it's ground whilst attacked from front and rear</div>
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Meanwhile the Russians quickly form a new defensive line on their flank from the remaining cavalry, part of the 35th Division and 2 batteries.</div>
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As Japanese 5th Division is hammered by the Russian line, the 4th Division reforms and joins the attack</div>
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4th Division takes over the attack from 5th Division,which presses on for Telissu, but fails to capture the the Russian guns</div>
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A new Russian defensive line halts 4th Division's attack </div>
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5th Division's advance on Telissu is halted by another Russian gun line covering the approach to Telissu and it disintegrates.</div>
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The Russian right flank at the end of the game - a standoff</div>
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Meanwhile on the Russian left flank, the Japanese 3rd Division is busily demonstrating away<br />
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Until it gets fed up with demonstrating and decides to have a go</div>
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As it advances against the 1st ESR Division it is supported by it's artillery </div>
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The entire left flank of the Russian line collapses under the onslaught</div>
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So a victory for the Japanese at the last possible moment and from an unexpected direction. </div>
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Admittedly most of the Russian force had disappeared as it was Raw and it was only the 35th Division plus artillery that was hanging on. The entire Japanese 5th Division was out of action but the 4th had recovered it's strength due to high-rolls on the Movement table.</div>
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A very good scenario which I hope did justice to the original. The original scenario is available on ScribD but they wanted me to enter my card details so I could download it. Fortunately I found an old copy in my backups</div>
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As usual I do have one complaint. This is a common wargaming one - the table-edge of the world. I've noticed it especially in the RJW battles where the Sedan-fixated Japanese generals are always attempting to outflank the Russians. I will have to have a think about how to handle this.</div>
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Thanks to Dave, Mike, Rodge and Shaun for playing </div>
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The figures were all from Pendraken's 10mm ranges</div>
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-85361779347220844502018-12-27T12:45:00.001-08:002018-12-27T12:45:38.687-08:00The Deserter, Mexico 1864 - a 15mm solo game using Bloody Big BattlesMy Christmas solo game this year is set during the French Intervention in Mexico and concerns the arrest of a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who has "gone native".<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">José Curbelo</span></div>
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The deserter is a Spaniard called José Curbelo who has fought for the Legion in Algeria, the Crimea where he lost an eye at Sevastopol, Italy and, until recently, Mexico.<br />
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Rumour has it that he currently resides in a tiny hamlet called Boanas that lies in a seldom used pass from the coastal plains up to the Mexican plateau.<br />
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The French column on route to Boanas, auxiliaries at the head followed by Captain Rocher and the mounted Zouaves</div>
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<u>The French forces</u><br />
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The French authorities have dispatched 2 platoons of mounted Zouaves and a handful of auxiliaries under the command of Captain Ferrero Rocher to Boanas to capture Curbelo.<br />
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Captain Ferrero Rocher<br />
1st squad, Mounted Zouave company<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 Bases Skirmish,Aggressive<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Veteran<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MLR<br />
2nd squad, Mounted Zouave company<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 Bases Skirmish,Aggressive<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Veteran<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MLR<br />
Auxiliaries<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 Bases Aggressive<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trained<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MLR<br />
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Rocher can act as a normal commander or attach himself to a unit as an extra base<br />
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The French are controlled by the player<br />
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Curbelo takes Sunday morning drill. </div>
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In the background a nun leaves the village with her two donkeys after making another arms delivery.</div>
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<u>The Mexican Forces</u><br />
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These are the locals from Boanas organised by Curbelo into a militia. When a French unit searches a building there is a chance that between 0 and 4 units will appear in the building. This is determined by using a pack of cards and dealing out 4 cards for each search. On a 2 to 9 of Clubs a militia squad appears in the building, on the Ace of Clubs then Curbelo and a militia squad appear in the building. Every other card is ignored.<br />
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José Curbelo<br />
Upto 10 squads of Militia<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 Bases Fragile<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Raw<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MLR<br />
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Curbelo can act as a normal commander or attach himself to a unit as an extra base<br />
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The Mexican squads use a D6 to see whether they assault (6), stay put and shoot (2-5) or retire to the next building (1)<br />
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The French deployed Captain Rocher with 1st squad Zouaves and the Auxiliaries at the east end of the village with 2nd squad sneaking through to the west end under cover of night.<br />
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The Auxiliaries search the first building and find nothing</div>
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1st Squad encounters a Militia squad and gets a base killed!</div>
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The Auxiliaries move up to give them fire support</div>
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1st Squad storms the building</div>
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The Auxiliaries move down the street </div>
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They encounter another Militia squad </div>
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And a to and fro encounter for control on the building ensues... </div>
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... that sees the building ...</div>
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In the meantime 1st Squad have cleared another building and advance on the church </div>
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The Church holds another Militia squad who repulse Captain Rocher and 1st Squad</div>
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At the west end of the village 2nd Squad advance to support the attack on the church. </div>
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However 3 Militia squads are waiting for them!</div>
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All 3 Militia squads assault 2nd Squad who halt one with fire but ...</div>
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The victorious Militia follow up </div>
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2nd Squad advances again and half the Militia retire Spent</div>
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2nd squad advance back into the buildings with only spent Militia in front of them </div>
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The Militia unit in the church fall back to the last remaining building where José Curbelo and 2 Militia squads are determined to make their stand </div>
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Curbelo takes a last look around Boanas</div>
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Although the French are outnumbered they feel confident of storming the building and taking Curbelo prisoner</div>
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However 2 Militia squads take it into their heads to assault the Auxiliaries</div>
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The Auxiliaries fall back before the onslaught</div>
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Seizing the opportunity Captain Rocher assaults Curbelo's squad who flee taking Curbelo with them</div>
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Forgetting his objective Captain Rocher charges to support the <span style="text-align: center;">Auxiliaries destroying first one squad</span><br />
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But giving <span style="text-align: center;">José Curbelo and a few followers time to flee down the pass </span></div>
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"Mount up" - a frustrated Captain Rocher head out on the trail of José Curbelo</div>
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I'm not sure if I saw that ending coming but there is the distinct possibility of a sequel.</div>
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In a previous test game the Captain and a single squad ended up surrounded and making a last stand</div>
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It is quite a random game. With 7 buildings and a 4 card deal per building there is a chance that no one at all is in the village or as in the case of 2nd squad they run into 3 or 4 times their own number in one building.</div>
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I thought that Bloody Big Battles handled this instance very nicely with 2nd Squad retiring, some of the Mexicans madly charging after them, exploitation, and then deciding it was a bad idea, failed Movement rolls, when 2nd squad came back for more.</div>
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The Mexican squads use a D6 to see whether they assault (6), stay put and shoot (2-5) or retire to the next building (1) which gives some surprising results such as 2 of <span style="text-align: center;">Curbelo's squads deciding not to do a last stand and charging out instead.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">An excellent solo Christmas game if I say myself - my opponent was a pleasure to play with</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">99% of the figures are Freikorps with a smattering of Peter Pig figures</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The buildings are by Musket Miniatures</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Finally thanks to Shaun for finishing off my Mounted, and dismounted, Zouave company that have been sitting half-painted o my work bench for nearly 2 years.</span></div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-31069469540936631662018-11-16T05:03:00.000-08:002018-11-16T05:03:24.103-08:00Ko-lin-zo 1905 RJW using Blood Big BattlesThis is an AAR of the Boer War Colenso scenario for Bloody Big Battles. I don't have any Boers or British so I used my 10mm Russo-Japanese War forces and disguised the scenario.<br />
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Russian Dragoons and artillery dug in on Hlangwane overlooking Colenso</div>
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The Japanese were the British and the Russians were the Boers. I changed the background from the British attempting to relieve Ladysmith to a Russian raiding cavalry force being caught by the Japanese. Otherwise the scenario was left unaltered.<br />
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The battlefield looking west. Colenso is the village on the road</div>
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The battlefield looking east</div>
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Japanese 2nd Brigade advances on Colenso</div>
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Russian forces hold Hlangwane Mountain</div>
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Dismounted Russian cavalry entrenched around Colenso</div>
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Japanese cavalry advancing on Robinson’s Drift defended by Russian Cossacks</div>
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The Japanese 2nd Brigade starts taking fire from Colenso</div>
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Japanese 5th Brigade advances on Punt Drift</div>
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The right wing of Japanese 2nd Brigade gets a hammering and becomes spent</div>
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Japanese "Naval" guns drawn by oxen plod up the road to Colenso</div>
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Russian Cossacks defend Punt Drift</div>
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At Robinson’s Drift the Cossacks gun down the Japanese cavalry</div>
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Left wing of Japanese 2nd Brigade charges the Russian line at Colenso</div>
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The remainder of 2nd Brigade and loads of artillery make life difficult for the Russian defenders</div>
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Japanese 7th Brigade takes up a firing line west of Colenso</div>
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Japanese 6th Brigade, and the remains of 5th Brigade, advance on Bridle Drift.</div>
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The firefight continues at Colenso</div>
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The west flank of Colenso collapses </div>
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Russian artillery pins down 7th Brigade</div>
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More Japanese troops are thrown against Robinson's Drift.</div>
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The Russian troops lose the firefight at Bridle Drift.</div>
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The Russian line breaks as the Japanese capture Mt.Wylie and the remaining objectives</div>
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Games never quite play out how you imagine them to. I was expecting a rerun of the historical battle where the Boers hammered the British. Instead after only 4 of the 8 game turns the British were across the river and capturing objectives.<br />
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Having not told the players that we were fighting Colenso but having explained the scenario rules there were groans from both sides.<br />
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The Japanese players (Mike & Shaun) were griping about the difficulty of seeing and shooting the Russians. Troops in rifle and gun pits are only seen at 6" and the Russians get Shooting left shifts for being skirmishers, in rifle pits and camouflage i.e. 3 Left shifts<br />
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The Russian players (Rodge & Steve) gripped about the hordes of Japanese troops facing them, 3:1 in favour of the Japanese, the vast area they had to cover, 8 feet with 15 bases, and the troops stuck on Hlangwane<br />
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I found it all quite amusing.<br />
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But why did the Russians do so badly in this game?<br />
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It was all down to their deployment. They deployed too far forward especially at Colenso. As the river is impassable except at bridges and fords the best deployment areas are within 6" of the crossing point exits as the Japanese only have 6" visibility. Therefore in order to engage the Russians they have to cross the river one unit at a time in line. However this would give the Russians one shooting shift right and probably force them back across the river..<br />
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Still we all make mistakes<br />
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Thanks to Anton van Dellen for a very well thought out scenario. Gripes aside the players all want to play it again. Anton has done a few more Boer war scenarios that I'm eyeing up.<br />
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The figures are all from Pendraken's 10mm Russo-Japanese War range with the exception of the Japanese cavalry who are proxies from the South American Wars range<br />
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-58773169959890490482018-11-09T05:34:00.000-08:002018-11-09T05:34:19.199-08:00QRF 15mm Chinese Civil War rangeMany years ago QRF produced a range of 15mm Chinese Civil War figures for the 1920-30's period sculpted by Steve Cooper. It is out of production and will probably never see the light of day again.<br />
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Back in the 1990s I had a web page featuring the range but that disappeared along with Freeserve . I was recently contacted about the site so I decided to blog it for posterity.<br />
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A useful reference is the Osprey Men-At-Arms Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-1949 (Number 306).<br />
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The range covered a selection of Warlord Cliques. For no particular reason the armies are Fengtien (red/white arm band) and Kuominchun Clique (black with white circle armband)<br />
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The Fengtien Clique was based in Manchuria so I used mainly Northern Troops with some Southern Troops as a variation. The force also has allied Chihli Clique troops<br />
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Fengtien Infantry company</div>
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The crews are from Peter Pig's WW1 range and include my first attempts at head-swaps</div>
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The mortars are from Peter Pig's AK47 range</div>
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The 2 bases on the left are from Peter Pig's WW1 and SCW ranges</div>
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<tr><td valign="top">CG1</td><td valign="top">Northern Soldiers (Fengtien)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQETgSvNT1xPcTBM9WzQFs7SkYuYNMPDJBCvsiRpNsyqSTrQ-e02NUFhuAJRFkBK6sUL6wgPhDv4HFO0GnmuVWA5JKyhr4IPdvAUDSO2k-jj1nRsl8fOE_hQSI5Ayt9jaz9WmcZeKRVw/s1600/cg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQETgSvNT1xPcTBM9WzQFs7SkYuYNMPDJBCvsiRpNsyqSTrQ-e02NUFhuAJRFkBK6sUL6wgPhDv4HFO0GnmuVWA5JKyhr4IPdvAUDSO2k-jj1nRsl8fOE_hQSI5Ayt9jaz9WmcZeKRVw/s1600/cg1.jpg" /></a> </td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG2</td><td valign="top">Southern Soldiers (Any)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvVcTO3KlnK4c-gpX1H37sUy0WxhHiWzdn61YkUX5ntYxcjUFRuHjuEXTkPSa6UPCCHkvtj-ZyHtGwIKIurG1Fj-FAyN9qnm7EBwUF6yqKOoXncKrYk1sZdd-WOFpgxd14z1U3eF39jw/s1600/cg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvVcTO3KlnK4c-gpX1H37sUy0WxhHiWzdn61YkUX5ntYxcjUFRuHjuEXTkPSa6UPCCHkvtj-ZyHtGwIKIurG1Fj-FAyN9qnm7EBwUF6yqKOoXncKrYk1sZdd-WOFpgxd14z1U3eF39jw/s1600/cg2.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG3</td><td valign="top">Northern Assault Troops (Fengtien)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdGgLQRcOcnGynagLp_c684QG8c3GUEdx2TT1qZdnJHXNaDxZQxIFISyYG8sANBP6wF3fc8icLuzUZ38eIWjsr9UkaFECfMnFSOBM8YLRdih1Pr1Yf7t5s53MSW6yJQwHwDlrFM3wMbb8/s1600/cg3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="442" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdGgLQRcOcnGynagLp_c684QG8c3GUEdx2TT1qZdnJHXNaDxZQxIFISyYG8sANBP6wF3fc8icLuzUZ38eIWjsr9UkaFECfMnFSOBM8YLRdih1Pr1Yf7t5s53MSW6yJQwHwDlrFM3wMbb8/s320/cg3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG4</td><td valign="top">Boy Soldiers (Any)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EfvQty8ritjURZzOYj2xfriT1dx8J3hYlwP781TFKSvH2vGoxBaLnSBkW4x7JgFwRqzWt4MizdGYPGJK0anA12BbxEpR9ho7q2pfLG2It6yrZJwKpR8YMipz84ZflCwvhmREUoEj3o8/s1600/cg4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EfvQty8ritjURZzOYj2xfriT1dx8J3hYlwP781TFKSvH2vGoxBaLnSBkW4x7JgFwRqzWt4MizdGYPGJK0anA12BbxEpR9ho7q2pfLG2It6yrZJwKpR8YMipz84ZflCwvhmREUoEj3o8/s1600/cg4.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG5</td><td valign="top">Northern Cavalry (Fengtien)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKAHylJn6YFg23IRTtnZkryExjRaYCXqbloXdeO7CkzJEdinVZHQxTJyj1P_K7oTbvQcP_20uZT9D5ylnqHCuad9roo3a03RP1g0KfWM1_-P5HbSAwJT_jwIXz2lqrpP92SwTyhfAE0k/s1600/cg5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKAHylJn6YFg23IRTtnZkryExjRaYCXqbloXdeO7CkzJEdinVZHQxTJyj1P_K7oTbvQcP_20uZT9D5ylnqHCuad9roo3a03RP1g0KfWM1_-P5HbSAwJT_jwIXz2lqrpP92SwTyhfAE0k/s1600/cg5.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG6</td><td valign="top">Southern Cavalry (Any)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0CY-UWQuS5qxfNyqnrWJLIrZa_GgeDdRdo42hXRIF-Wf3nFsKgwzI5MsjbjP8daNlyyqOozfaDsXGRGHi43RhE75Wpjk9ll_yR2RHgHdiOKBg07BtWbeBw16bhHSwuzV6IukE5zD1U5E/s1600/cg6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0CY-UWQuS5qxfNyqnrWJLIrZa_GgeDdRdo42hXRIF-Wf3nFsKgwzI5MsjbjP8daNlyyqOozfaDsXGRGHi43RhE75Wpjk9ll_yR2RHgHdiOKBg07BtWbeBw16bhHSwuzV6IukE5zD1U5E/s1600/cg6.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG7</td><td valign="top">'Neat' Soldiers (Chihli, Kuominchun)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPR0jEH6_5sbqB6Z2xOzFS9EiGQuuc_2XkFB01NTlLVV12sSz0IcX0NbAvWXUioy_gitwJvjhHMga6qyXsuin8ZIK2p1qHoygF4lmOjc-lR1UJaqezuFsw6HffItiBQQtCbmV4JuYmpww/s1600/cg7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPR0jEH6_5sbqB6Z2xOzFS9EiGQuuc_2XkFB01NTlLVV12sSz0IcX0NbAvWXUioy_gitwJvjhHMga6qyXsuin8ZIK2p1qHoygF4lmOjc-lR1UJaqezuFsw6HffItiBQQtCbmV4JuYmpww/s1600/cg7.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CG8</td><td valign="top">Dismounted Northern Cavalry (Fengtien)</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uDDQvEU0C1hDHaBFzC9toiiHRbeRkQfRO9RFd-KxtgLt36wcvB7XYEA-Hhl_Z10_ZORyP3JI_mq243CjeUafP3QCohiBRDG1KMO32qngBRkl5HAQ63kJ2kGfRKT82knPml5VSUdNzYM/s1600/cg8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3uDDQvEU0C1hDHaBFzC9toiiHRbeRkQfRO9RFd-KxtgLt36wcvB7XYEA-Hhl_Z10_ZORyP3JI_mq243CjeUafP3QCohiBRDG1KMO32qngBRkl5HAQ63kJ2kGfRKT82knPml5VSUdNzYM/s1600/cg8.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CK1</td><td valign="top">Feng Yu-Xiang and Kuominchun Generals</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CK2</td><td valign="top">Kuominchun Assault Troops</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3NkEn9H7fPHyldbGbKNNm1OW3Au4dtmyqUNB2CKPhyphenhyphen-d7VE2K4i-6IA9isqg-fyMSZvaEh3set2SJunQ85-ksvhhde4fNYLICNl58pJ99jbmAOyT6S6u1kUnXFGQGI-XKGKg4eOD1zo/s1600/ck2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="480" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3NkEn9H7fPHyldbGbKNNm1OW3Au4dtmyqUNB2CKPhyphenhyphen-d7VE2K4i-6IA9isqg-fyMSZvaEh3set2SJunQ85-ksvhhde4fNYLICNl58pJ99jbmAOyT6S6u1kUnXFGQGI-XKGKg4eOD1zo/s320/ck2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CK3</td><td valign="top">Kuominchun Line Soldiers</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswvc1AK10IRT-TFoFctrID0O4sa-pf-WL-M-pF_YWpZ7pubsfjsmldXUSZtRA-ibWpVb9d2RyY7peHZm1S-Uqz0XvLkIp1ytv4jnNGt_0cxvVAKiaitKvzy4PRzRTLTyZpZz8wrO-MYc/s1600/ck3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswvc1AK10IRT-TFoFctrID0O4sa-pf-WL-M-pF_YWpZ7pubsfjsmldXUSZtRA-ibWpVb9d2RyY7peHZm1S-Uqz0XvLkIp1ytv4jnNGt_0cxvVAKiaitKvzy4PRzRTLTyZpZz8wrO-MYc/s1600/ck3.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CK4</td><td valign="top">DWM 1909 MG with Crew x 3</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWRKX0wRX_qFxn07l4NiDyqQLbUsCYZEFaUCvsjBgZM1S1N9KlEIHNL0hk0ERtUyeRABtY9_TdJ-MfdAVC5yhJmWWTp45ewxsIEik6uSvvCSHCzEyWYCmLhStXSWxRgirdZ7GRP8d31gM/s1600/ck4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="329" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWRKX0wRX_qFxn07l4NiDyqQLbUsCYZEFaUCvsjBgZM1S1N9KlEIHNL0hk0ERtUyeRABtY9_TdJ-MfdAVC5yhJmWWTp45ewxsIEik6uSvvCSHCzEyWYCmLhStXSWxRgirdZ7GRP8d31gM/s320/ck4.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CC1</td><td valign="top">Wu Pei-Fu and Chihli Generals</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CC2</td><td valign="top">Chihli 'Tin Hat' Assault Troops</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CC3</td><td valign="top">Chihli 'Tin Hat' Line Soldiers</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CC4</td><td valign="top">Chihli Assault Troops</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CC5</td><td valign="top">Chihli DMW 1909 MG and Crew x 3</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CF1</td><td valign="top">Chang-Tso-Lin, Frank One-Arm Sutton and assorted important bods</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CF2</td><td valign="top">'Dogmeat' General and Concubine, Executioner and victims, 3 x Guards</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CF3</td><td valign="top">Mukden Lancers</td><td valign="top"></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CF4</td><td valign="top">Browning LMG and Crew x 3</td><td valign="top"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">CF5</td><td valign="top">Maxim MG and Crew x 3</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSRLSlRPXVgv4XJnBMb7P1BOGDFKPfimclIXzi0RXWItXgr244sDdTvj2cdNPXvRjVK8eTCB29pmyCMoJ7Y5LFTgEX-5vgetN3y5ozcfjUa-LTGOv_NRWDVHOhHQHaenxGQMpZm5TM1Q/s1600/cf5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="122" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSRLSlRPXVgv4XJnBMb7P1BOGDFKPfimclIXzi0RXWItXgr244sDdTvj2cdNPXvRjVK8eTCB29pmyCMoJ7Y5LFTgEX-5vgetN3y5ozcfjUa-LTGOv_NRWDVHOhHQHaenxGQMpZm5TM1Q/s1600/cf5.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
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There were some really nice touches in this range such as infantry with goggles and boy soldiers but the range does show it's age now.<br />
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Unsurprisingly I still have a pile of lead waiting to be painted<br />
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I do play with them occasionally using AK47 version 1 rules<br />
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The troops in peaked hats would do very nicely for the Mexican Revolution<br />
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Finally this army is my claim to war-gaming fame as it appeared on the cover of Miniature Wargames #262<br />
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-82942059431866596242018-11-06T06:20:00.000-08:002018-11-06T06:20:40.574-08:00Isandlwana in the Sudan using BBBThousands of 'em? Not even one Zulu was on the table for our refight of Isandlwana. Instead we used Steve's excellent 15mm Sudan collection along with the Bloody Big Battles ruleset.<br />
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The scenario comes from the Battles For empire rule book. The objectives are the 5 sets of tents at the base of the hill. The British have 12 units facing 30 units of Dervish the game lasts for 8 turns.</div>
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The more observant amongst you will notice that some of the Dervish have not had their bases finished. Steve is currently rebasing his army for BBB and there are rather a lot of them to do but he was desperate for a Colonial wargame.</div>
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The left flank of the British camp</div>
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The centre of the British camp</div>
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The right flank of the British camp</div>
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The Dervish right flank</div>
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The Dervish centre</div>
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The Dervish left flank</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The Dervish left flank approach the gully</span></div>
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Looking north</div>
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The same looking south </div>
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The Dervish centre advances against the outlying cavalry who saddle up and retire</div>
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The Dervish right flank engages the British line but is thrown back </div>
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The Naval Brigade stand fast </div>
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The Dervish centre advances</div>
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The Dervish left flank crosses the gully</div>
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The British line extends itself to face the <span style="text-align: center;">Dervish left flank</span></div>
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The Dervish right flank is repuplsed by the Highlanders</div>
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The Dervish capture the camp on the British right</div>
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The Dervish keep the pressure up on their right flank but British firepower keeps halting them </div>
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The end of the game - the British still, barely, hold the centre of the camp</div>
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The Dervish captured 4 of the 5 tents which gave them a major victory but still below the historical outcome.<br />
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The British lost both their generals but not a great deal more as units tended to get pushed back up the hill rather than lose bases. The Dervish suffered more casualties as a result of some excellent British shooting.<br />
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I found it frustrating that my Dervish units would get into close combat and then be pushed back through defensive fire but I imagine that this is historically accurate. When the Dervish did get into close combat they inevitably won.<br />
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We played standard BBB except for Low on Ammo which required the British to send their Ammo mule to a unit in order to get resupplied.<br />
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Steve & Shaun played the British whilst Mike, Rodge and I played the Dervish<br />
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Thanks to Steve for the toys, the terrain and the scenario<br />
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-47655297556092704092018-10-15T16:16:00.003-07:002018-10-16T10:44:10.789-07:00 CWC Soviet Invasion of Norway 1985 - Northern Table Day 2Our latest campaign is the Soviet Invasion of Norway in 1985. The games are fought out in 6mm using Cold War Commander from Pendraken. In October 2018 we played out the battles over two days at the Grimsby Wargames Club. his post covers the Northern table on Day Two<br />
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The Northern table looking north</div>
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On Day One the table was defended by Norwegian Home Guard (Rodge W), US 9th High Tech (Mark F) and Finnish forces (Simon W). The Soviet attackers were an MRR (Danny M), VDV (Peter S) and a Naval Infantry Brigade (Nigel G). Hopefully some one will blog the AAR.</div>
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On Day Two the Finns had been withdrawn and Peter's VDV had been replaced by a fresh VDV battalion under my command. This time we airdropped several miles away and drove to the battle.</div>
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My target - the airfield and the lovely beach for a bit of R&R</div>
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While the Soviet MMR and Naval Infantry pushed their way south against the Norwegian Home Guard, My VDV advanced north to take the airfield from the US troops<br />
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The US troops in their buggys defend the airfield. </div>
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The buggys reminded me of the latest programme on Soviet TV - T<span style="text-align: center;">he Banana Splits</span></div>
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VDV Company advance to take the hill overlooking the airfield</div>
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US buggys get hammered by the only artillery strike the VDV managed to call in</div>
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Norwegians defend a village</div>
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Some very nice Soviet choppers - mine ended up as scrap metal</div>
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My assault on the airfield was halted by several well placed Rocket barrages. However The US troops broke before mine did so i'm claiming a very minor victory.<br />
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Again this was a battle that was not well suited to the VDV's role as it involved assaulting dug-in infantry armed with TOWs and 50 cal HMGs. Nevertheless an enjoyable game.<br />
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I forgot to take many photos of Day 2 as I was too engrossed in the game - sorry<br />
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My guess is that over the two days NATO stopped the Soviets from taking Norway so well done NATO. and well done to the Grimsby club - excellent hosts.<br />
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There are two other posts covering the weekend at Grimsby: <a href="https://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2018/10/cwc-soviet-invasion-of-norway-1985_15.html" target="_blank">Day 1 on the Southern Table</a> and <a href="https://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2018/10/cwc-soviet-invasion-of-norway-1985.html" target="_blank">Scenery</a>alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-17993662702440116342018-10-15T16:16:00.002-07:002018-10-16T10:45:04.726-07:00CWC Soviet Invasion of Norway 1985 - Southern Table Day 1Our latest campaign is the Soviet Invasion of Norway in 1985. The games are fought out in 6mm using Cold War Commander from Pendraken. In October 2018 we played out the battles over two days at the Grimsby Wargames Club. This post covers the Southern table on Day One<br />
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The Southern table looking north</div>
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This table was defended from west to east by 4th MAB USMC (Andy C), Canadian and Luxembourg forces (Mark J), US 82nd Airborne (Neil M) and Royal Marines & Dutch Marines (Andy T). All were nicely dug-in defending the airfields and the beaches.</div>
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Opposing them were Soviet Naval Infantry (Andy B) with an amphibious assault on the beaches, a Soviet MRR (Andy M) driving down from the north, Soviet VDV (Andy H) with a helicopter and airdrop assault on the Irina airfield and another Soviet VDV (me) doing an airdrop on the town of Ivana.</div>
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How not to do an airdrop - my VDV land in Ivana</div>
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My airdrop was a complete mess. Units scattered and miles away from their HQs. Next time we will parachute in a few miles away and walk to our objective!<br />
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One of my few successes - an airstrike takes out a load of Royal Marines</div>
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The MMR advance south</div>
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Action around the Irina airfield</div>
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And don't get scattered to the four winds</div>
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More MMR</div>
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Looking north-west</div>
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My VDV attempts to organise itself whilst under fire from Royal & US Marines</div>
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Soviet Naval Infantry assault the beaches</div>
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The amphibious assault but does the Lighthouse block line of sight?</div>
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If only the crop circle had been an objective</div>
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The Irina aiffield</div>
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Soviet Naval troops advance up the beach</div>
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And deploy their infantry and the treeline</div>
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USMC occupy the docks supported by Canadian tanks</div>
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More Soviet Naval infantry come ashore on the northern beaches</div>
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A fresh Soviet Naval brigade hits the southern beaches</div>
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However everything bogs down at the beach head</div>
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USMC defend the power station</div>
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Even more USMC defend the hills overlooking the beach and Ivana</div>
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Ivana looking east - the VDV attempt to clear the town of US Engineers</div>
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Ivana looking west - the VDV try to organise themselves</div>
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The chaos continues in Ivana</div>
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A view of how scattered the VDV were - from the fields (bottom left) to the wood (top left) and west to the flocks of sheep</div>
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The MMR continues it's advance south-west to the beaches</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> The MMR continues it's advance south-east to the airfield at Irina</span></div>
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The US Airborne troops defend the airfield</div>
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Soviet paratroopers debate the cause of the crop circle</div>
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Dutch Marines complete the encirclement of the VDV in Ivana</div>
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The final positions of the VDV in Ivana</div>
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The combined firepower of the USMC, Royal Marines and Dutch Marines decimated the disorganised VDV in Ivana. Having lost over 75% of their troops the VDV battalion surrendered.</div>
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So at the close of play my VDV had disappeared. The Naval Infantry were beginning to make headway on the beaches. The northern VDV force was still hanging on and the MMR were still advancing south.<br />
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All in all not a bad game even though I lost. A big thanks to my opponents, Andy & Andy, for letting me stare at my troops for long periods as I worked out how to get them organised<br />
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There are two other posts covering the weekend at Grimsby: <a href="https://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2018/10/cwc-soviet-invasion-of-norway-1985_36.html" target="_blank">Day 2 on the Northern Table</a> and <a href="https://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2018/10/cwc-soviet-invasion-of-norway-1985.html" target="_blank">Scenery</a><br />
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-27126084380163330522018-10-15T16:16:00.001-07:002018-10-16T10:43:45.983-07:00CWC Soviet Invasion of Norway 1985 - the sceneryOur latest campaign is the Soviet Invasion of Norway in 1985. The games are fought out in 6mm using Cold War Commander from Pendraken. In October 2018 we played out the battles over two days at the Grimsby Wargames Club. This post covers the scenery.<br />
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The Northern table looking south</div>
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The Northern table looking north</div>
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The Southern table looking north</div>
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A major feature of the games is the layout.</div>
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Richard Phillips does most of the scenery</div>
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He scratch builds most of the other terrain</div>
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He does an outstanding job</div>
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There are loads of detail in each model</div>
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In total there were 3 airfields on the two tables all made by Andy Miles</div>
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I could go on</div>
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But you get the idea - it's just amazing to play on.</div>
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At least in Norway they don't run Bus Replacement Services for the trains</div>
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The airfields were major objectives for both sides</div>
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A lovely stretch of coastline allowed for Soviet amphibious assaults</div>
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The Ross Tiger moored at the docks </div>
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Storage yards</div>
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Oil tanks</div>
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Overview of the docks at Katya</div>
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The town of Ivana where my soviet Airborne troops landed and died </div>
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Lara airfield</div>
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Looking west to the docks</div>
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Maybe the Soviets weren't the only ones thing of invading Norway</div>
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Irina airfield </div>
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Two stunning tables to play on over two days at the excellent Grimsby club, and a tropical heat wave in Grimsby to boot. you can't ask for better.<br />
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There are two other posts covering the weekend at Grimsby: <a href="https://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2018/10/cwc-soviet-invasion-of-norway-1985_15.html" target="_blank">Day 1 on the Southern Table</a> and <a href="https://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2018/10/cwc-soviet-invasion-of-norway-1985_36.html" target="_blank">Day 2 on the Northern Table</a></div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-28395573992740083932018-09-14T04:51:00.001-07:002018-09-14T04:53:32.404-07:00Napoleonic Liberdy: The raid on Rider au bord de la merOwain put on an excellent 28mm Napoleonic skirmish game set in south-western France in 1814. We used <a href="http://twomarshals.blogspot.com/p/liberdy-wild-west-rules.html" target="_blank">Liberdy</a> , our home-grown skirmish rules.<br />
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Capt Pickleton and his troops engage the troops of Capt Escargot and Lt Picard</div>
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<b>British forces</b><br />
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Captain Pickleton, a Sergeant and 4 Line Privates<br />
Ensign Fotheringay and 5 Line Privates<br />
Sgt Smollett and 5 Line Privates<br />
Sgt Obediah and 4 Riflemen<br />
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1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Capture the docks intact<br />
2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Capture the town magistrate and the port official<br />
3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stop any French troops escaping via the docks<br />
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Just another day in the sleep port of Rider au bord de la mer</div>
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<b>French forces</b><br />
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Capitaine Escargot and 5 Légère<br />
Sgt Chef Grenouille and 5 Légère<br />
Lieutenant Picard and 5 Ligne<br />
Lieutenant Roquefort and 5 dismounted Dragoons<br />
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2 Supply wagons</div>
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Objectives<br />
1.Get the supplies to the docks<br />
2. Hold up the British as long as possible<br />
3.Take as many boats as possible to hinder the British<br />
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French troops under Lt Picard await the arrival of the supply wagons</div>
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Capt Escargot sprints his troops into the town</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Capt Pickleton and Ens </span>Fotheringay rush to the docks</div>
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Capt Pickleton engages Lt Picard in a scrimmage</div>
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Capt Escargot takes up a position to aid Lt Picard</div>
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The supply wagons arrive escorted by Lt Roquefort's Dragoons</div>
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British riflemen take up positions in the churchyard whilst Sgt Smollett's troops engage Sgt Chef Grenouille's Legere in the middle distance.</div>
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Ens Fotheringay sees his men fall in a withering hail of bullets from Capt. Escargot's troops</div>
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Capt. Pickleton's troops start to lose the firefight</div>
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The good townsfolk of Rider are not overly concerned by the action developing</div>
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With the help of the Riflemen, Capt Pickleton charges the boat whilst the Dragoons try to intervene</div>
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As his men are shot down Capt Pickleton attempts to avenge Ens Fotheringay's death<br />
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Capt Escargot backed up by Sgt Grenouille engage the surviving Riflemen</div>
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Capt Pickleton forces his way onto the boat closely followed by Sgt Smollett</div>
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Lt Picard deals a mortal wound to Capt Pickleton who falls next to Ens Fotheringay</div>
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Sgt Grenouille arrives to seal the fate of the British forces</div>
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And for those thinking of paying Rider au bord de la mer a visit - it is quite a pleasant place</div>
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The town square</div>
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The Port master</div>
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The smithy</div>
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Supplies for the Inn</div>
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All good Bonapartists</div>
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But every town has it's dodgy characters</div>
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Thanks to Owain for putting on the game and to Cameron, Dave Mike,Paul, Rodge and Shaun for playing.</div>
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A special mention must go to Paul for his outstanding shooting skills<br />
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The rules can be found <a href="http://twomarshals.blogspot.com/p/liberdy-wild-west-rules.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-10457019561833426112018-08-27T05:54:00.007-07:002020-09-17T11:55:08.390-07:00Galaxy's Edge in 6mm - The Legion on Kublar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;">Not many Sci-Fi books inspire me to get the armies and refight the battles - the </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legionnaire-Galaxys-Edge-Book-1-ebook/dp/B071GN8Y4G" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">Galaxy's Edge series</a><span style="text-align: start;"> by by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole is an exception.</span></div>
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The combat sleds are by <a href="http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=217_219_24_193_200&products_id=3871&zenid=3s1g4e5kd7i7s78ckm0hjmd686" target="_blank">Scotia-Grendel</a>. They don't quite match the description in the books but I really liked the look of them. They were painted by me - a rare occurrence these days.<br />
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I'm using Irregular Miniatures Not-Jawas for the Kublarians and I'm still looking for suitable vehicles to mount mortars on.<br />
<br />In the background are the clusters of Kublarian buildings made by Rodge and cast up by Shaun<br /><br />
I still have to work out the stats for use with Future War Commander so I'll do some test games to see what works best.<br />
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As I read through the series I keep thinking "that's a good force / game to do". I'm currently looking at doing the Martian Light Infantry assaulting colony arks in 15mm using Gruntz<br />
<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-3347422381426403952018-08-14T04:24:00.000-07:002018-09-15T09:27:06.996-07:00District 9 using Gruntz 15mmRodge has a lovely setup in 15mm for District 9. We tried it out with a Bolt Action variant a while back but it didn't quite work. We have now started playing Gruntz 15mm so we thought we would see how it worked.<br />
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MNU Security deploy from their APCs</div>
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There are 4 forces in the game - the Prawns, the Gangstas , the MNU Security Battalion and the MNU Quick Reaction Force. Rodge did the Gruntz stats so the forces were equal in points. Activation in the game was by cards - 1 card for each force.<br />
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The cat food shop</div>
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Each force had different objectives - most were centred around the cat food shop which, apart from cat food, contained Alien tech weapons.<br />
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Prawns about to have lunch</div>
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Gangstas defend a shanty</div>
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MNU Security cover their flank against a Prawn attack</div>
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The Prawn Mech under fire from the MNU QRF</div>
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MNU QRF terminate the Prawn Mech and support troops with extreme prejudice</div>
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MNU QRF collects souvenirs of the Prawn Mech</div>
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Prawns with their cat food run for cover</div>
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MNU Security prepare to assault the cat food shop</div>
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Prawns prepare to assault the cat food shop</div>
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Gangstas prepare to defend the cat food shop</div>
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Dolores prepares her gatling gun to defend the cat food shop</div>
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Prawns overrun a bunker held by Gangstas</div>
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The MNU QRF Assault chopper goes into action</div>
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The Ganstas' recoiless rifle goes into action</div>
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The MNU QRF Assault chopper spots a Prawn drone (bottom left) but fails to hit it</div>
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The Prawn drone after obliterating the MNU QRF Assault chopper</div>
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MNU Security assaulting the cat food shop</div>
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MNU Security capture the cat food shop and game over</div>
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Rodge has some excellent buildings to go with the game - a lot, if not all, of them are scratch-built. Here are a few photos of them</div>
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The Gangstas' quarter</div>
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The view from the Security fence</div>
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The checkpoint</div>
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A lovely day for washing</div>
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The Prawns' quarter</div>
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All in all it was a good game - the figures and the scenery are a joy to play with.</div>
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As we've only played Gruntz a few times we were not that familiar with the rules and it was the first time we had seen the stats for these forces so there was a lot of referring to the rulebook and the stats cards.</div>
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Having 1 activation card per force did mean a lot of sitting back and waiting for the other players to take their turn. Maybe 1 card per unit is the way forward. Gruntz does allow for a lot of variation in weapons, morale, etc so it works well for District 9 with it's disparate forces. </div>
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-89552418873492131082018-05-26T06:14:00.003-07:002020-12-06T05:21:57.946-08:00Callejon de la Laja, Mexico 1865 using Bloody Big BattlesAs well as the French and the Mexicans, the French Intervention in Mexico also saw Austrians, Belgians and Sudanese fighting alongside the French.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqXt94gUDzO8C_c_pvzSyjRvzj3k8thsaJiD_HBy5BimtmO115eXtbU4f70YR9Hu_mIjD-njcB50U5B4co3Se5-kdaRnpkg5vcfv3kDYb37vE04zofQXvYdTVbMcW9KfD-SdhWddQbNsY/s1024/P1150186_zpshwxrc63h.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqXt94gUDzO8C_c_pvzSyjRvzj3k8thsaJiD_HBy5BimtmO115eXtbU4f70YR9Hu_mIjD-njcB50U5B4co3Se5-kdaRnpkg5vcfv3kDYb37vE04zofQXvYdTVbMcW9KfD-SdhWddQbNsY/s320/P1150186_zpshwxrc63h.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Sudanese company patrolling the railway</div>
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The Austrian Legion was there because of Maximilian, the Austrian Arch-Duke. The Belgian Legion was there because King Leopold of Belgium was Maxilian's father-in-law through the latter's marriage to Princess Charlotte of Belgium.<br />
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The Sudanese,the Ottoman Auxiliary Battalion , were there because the French borrowed them from the Viceroy of Egypt. There is an excellent book, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CWIEEBE/ref=pe_385721_48721101_TE_M1DP" target="_blank">A Black Corps d'Elite</a>, covering this battalion during and after the war.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8jOCrDt-tpfI0zLEhqKvQbw6qrFPI2ivZzZSLmofWuS8C52SWJwU1b5O7hNimeZQbdosBWApL_V6EVAIoDcn87RCrJetsA73uhbzF_mSJlRjauT71lT8I-fY-zj4y53_FVlKfs8qQow/s1024/P1150161_zpstoegggnp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8jOCrDt-tpfI0zLEhqKvQbw6qrFPI2ivZzZSLmofWuS8C52SWJwU1b5O7hNimeZQbdosBWApL_V6EVAIoDcn87RCrJetsA73uhbzF_mSJlRjauT71lT8I-fY-zj4y53_FVlKfs8qQow/s320/P1150161_zpstoegggnp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Austrian column moving north</div>
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Although there was an actual battle at Callejon de la Laja, this scenario is a mash-up of several small historical encounters between Imperial Mexicans and Republican Mexicans. It is one of the many excellent scenarios in Tim Tilson's Maximilian in Mexico scenario book.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97-umcC753Tiu-k76NXMOjn5JgsrfJmpR9gF8HejN_0Ix5LZMVRvONrxhftbSyGKdyMWHcZ_PCiTj64YuDWLcA3ceiULEAiMAXCkbKV2-kNYxbkWGcikTH2vbXDp7yJxLGG2khwlEnAE/s1024/P1150159_zpsbkq0nv4e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97-umcC753Tiu-k76NXMOjn5JgsrfJmpR9gF8HejN_0Ix5LZMVRvONrxhftbSyGKdyMWHcZ_PCiTj64YuDWLcA3ceiULEAiMAXCkbKV2-kNYxbkWGcikTH2vbXDp7yJxLGG2khwlEnAE/s320/P1150159_zpsbkq0nv4e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Top left is the Austrian column. Across the river a Republican Company defends a barricade. Somewhere in the jungle several irregular bands of Republican infantry are ready to spring their ambush</div>
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This scenario has an Austrian column returning home after a successful raid combined with a Sudanese force patrolling a railroad. Both being ambushed by a Republican Mexican force.<br />
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<tr><td><b>Imperial Mexicans</b></td> </tr>
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<tr><td>Commandant Marechal</td> <td>1</td><td></td><td>Ldr</td></tr>
<tr><td>3 x Austrian Legion Infantry Companies</td><td>6</td><td>Trn</td><td>ML</td><td></td> </tr>
<tr><td>1 x Imperial Mexican Cavalry Troop</td> <td>4</td><td>Trn</td><td>Cav</td><td>Aggressive</td> </tr>
<tr><td>1 x Imperial Mexican Artillery piece</td> <td>1</td><td>Trn</td><td>RA</td><td></td> </tr>
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<tr><td>Lieutenant Sulayman</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>Ldr</td></tr>
<tr><td>2 x Sudanese Infantry Companies</td><td>6</td><td>Vet</td><td>ML</td><td></td> </tr>
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<tr><td><b>Republican Mexicans</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td>Colonel Garcia</td> <td>1</td><td></td><td>Ldr</td></tr>
<tr><td>2 x Regular Infantry Companies</td><td>6</td><td>Trn</td><td>ML</td><td></td> </tr>
<tr><td>4 x Irregular Infantry Bands</td><td>6 5S</td><td>Trn</td><td>NG</td><td>Fragile / Ragged Volley / Woodsmen</td> </tr>
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A couple of devastating volleys and Lieutenant Sulayman and his Sudanese get overrun</div>
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At the southern end of the track Colonel Garcia leads his Republican Regulars against the Sudanese</div>
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Storming the barricade opens the road home for the surviving Austrians but as the sun sets (Turn 10) they have run out of time</div>
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Therefore a major victory to the Republicans as they control the railway and have stopped any of the Austrian units from leaving the table.<br />
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This is a very tough scenario for the Austrian / Sudanese force to win as they have to survive ambushes, cross a river one unit at a time and assault defences. however it is a really good scenario with few troops and lots going on. It was very entertaining to play for all concerned.<br />
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with hindsight I think I made the Republican Irregular Infantry Bands too powerful arming them with NG as this caused a lot of casualties at close range<br />
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The Woodsman attribute is Ignores difficult terrain movement penalty and counts as skirmisher when in cover.<br />
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The Austrian and Republican figures are 15mm Freikorps and the Sudanese are 15mm Peter Pig.<br />
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The rules were the excellent Bloody Big Battles<br />
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-14721056980220205472018-05-08T08:55:00.000-07:002018-05-08T08:55:09.872-07:00French-Mexican War - Camerone and PueblaThe week commencing 30th April has anniversaries for two of the better known actions of the 2nd French-Mexican war, the French Intervention in Mexico or the Maximilian Adventure - whatever you want to call it.<br />
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The 30th April is the anniversary of Camerone / Camaron where a small company of the French Foreign Legion held off a large republican Mexican force for several hours before being overwhelmed.<br />
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The 5th May is the anniversary of the battle of Puebla where a Republican Mexican army repulsed a French army and stopped it's advance on Mexico city.<br />
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To commemorate these actions we refought both using Bloody big Battles. Although this ruleset is designed for very large battles where 1 base = 1000+ men, it also works very well at lower scales: Camerone at 1 base = 3 men and Puebla at 1 base = 120 men. Having good scenarios helps.<br />
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The attack on the hacienda at Camerone by dismounted Republican cavalry</div>
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The Camerone scenario was taken from Tim Tilson's Maximilian in Mexico scenario book. This is geared towards The Sword and the Flame ruleset but translates easily to BBB<br />
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The assault on the eastern gates</div>
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There were a few changes to the standard BBB rules<br />
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<li>Units could not combine their firing </li>
<li>Leaders only affect units they are attached to</li>
<li>The Foreign Legion is Elite - ie never goes spent</li>
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The Republicans storm the eastern wall</div>
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As always the Foreign Legion were overwhelmed but due to the Victory Points they won 39 to 38.<br />
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The smiley face markers are yellow for disordered, green for low on ammo and red for spent.<br />
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For Puebla we used Vincent's BBB order of battle and scenario rules with some changes but opted for the map in Tilson's book which is a lot simpler to set up.<br />
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The changes to the OOB and scenario rules were<br />
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<li>Only the 2 Zouave units are Aggressive</li>
<li>Mexican units only count Fragile for Movement but NOT for combat</li>
<li>Drop the number of artillery pieces on both sides from 6 to 3</li>
<li>Artillery going low on ammo remains low for the remainder of the game</li>
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Puebla is on the right. On the ridge Fort Loreto is middle bottom and Fort Guadelupe is middle top . La Ladrillera is top left. The church in Puebla and the 2 forts are objectives as is the French supply wagon which is about 5 foot to the left of this picture.</div>
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The French assault begins with a 3 foot trek to the forts. The village of La Ladrillera is about to get the undivided attention of the French artillery.</div>
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Fort Loreto's garrison, the Reforma Morelia Battalion, await the invaders.</div>
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Fort Guadelupe's defenders, the unreformed Morelia Battalion, watch the French nervously</div>
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The defenders of La Ladrillera proved to be a thorn in the French flank</div>
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The main French assault column advance, two battalions of the 2nd Zouaves and a battalion of Naval infantry. In the background is their commander, Major-General Charles de Lorencz</div>
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The French forces deploy to assault Fort Guadalupe</div>
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The French reserves follow up, two battalions of the 99th Line, Chasseurs a Pied, Chasseurs de Vincennes and a battalion of Colonial Marines</div>
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The Zouaves prepare to attack the covered road between the forts held by the San Luis Rifles</div>
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The Zouaves push the San Luis Rifles back from the covered road.</div>
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The Zouaves attempt to push on towards Puebla but are thrown back by the San Luis Rifles</div>
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Meanwhile the French reserves have come up to assault Fort Guadalupe where the defenders are low on ammo.</div>
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On the final turn the French storm and capture Fort Guadalupe</div>
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A tally of the objectives - Puebla and Fort Loreto are still in Mexican hands while the French hold Fort <span style="text-align: center;">Guadalupe and their supply wagon. Therefore a draw.</span></div>
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With only 8 game turns this is a difficult one for the French as they start over 36" away from the nearest fort. The next time we play this I will add in some roads to make initial moves quicker.</div>
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The Mexican force at La Ladrillera tied up several French units that could have been useful in the attack on the forts. </div>
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The Artillery low on ammo scenario rule was a pain as all 3 French guns fired together and rolled an 11. Ok so they killed a base defending La Ladrillera but essentially that was it for the guns for the remainder of the game</div>
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Two enjoyable games from one of my favourite periods using an excellent set of rules that can be tinkered with to get reasonably historical results.</div>
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Thanks to Vincent for the Puebla scenario</div>
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Tim Tilson's Maximilian in Mexico is well worth getting for the Camerone scenario and others.</div>
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The scenario is an interesting take on Omdurman as it deals with the aftermath of the Mahdist assault. To quote the scenario<br />
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Looking north - the objectives are circled in white</div>
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There are 5 objectives spread along the entire 6 foot length of the table which the Anglo-Egyptian force must capture in order to win. To draw the Mahdists must hold 1 objective. A Mahdist victory is achieved if they hold 2 objectives of which one must be within 14" of the Nile.<br />
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Start of the battle. The Anglo-Egyptians mainly start in El Egeiga. The Mahdists aim to capture the 2 southern objectives</div>
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Therefore the Anglo-Egyptian forces must go on the offensive immediately. That's a bit different from the usual standing behind the Zariba and mealie bags and shooting anything that comes within range.<br />
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The main Mahdist force heads south to take the two objectives</div>
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A single Ansar unit under Ali wad Helu loiters near one of the northern objectives</div>
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The Anglo-Egyptian force waits for a plan<i> </i></div>
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One of the 2 gunboats patrolling the Nile - this one is by Peter Pig - lovely</div>
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While the Mahdists seize their two objectives the Anglo-Egyptians finally decide to advance</div>
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The Anglo-Egyptians continue their advance</div>
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The Anglo-Egyptian centre</div>
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The Egyptian Camel Corps and cavalry stand idly by on the northern flank</div>
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To the south the British engage the Mahdists and go low on ammo</div>
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In the centre the Egyptian line cracks as a Mahdist force storms through the line</div>
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A general view of the battlefield from the south - not looking good for the Anglo-Egyptians</div>
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The Mahdists being to overwhelm the British on the southern flank</div>
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The final positions with the <span style="text-align: center;">Anglo-Egyptians falling back on their original positions with no hope of even getting a draw!</span><br />
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Therefore an overwhelming, "questions in the House", major victory to the Mahdists. </div>
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The Anglo-Egyptians were sadly lacking in aggression - not even bothering to take unprotected objectives with their cavalry. However they were under the impression that there was an Ansar unit waiting in ambush, their firing was relatively ineffective and usually being down in melee factors did not help.</div>
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The melee factors usually favour the native troops quite drastically. Typically there are 6 Native bases vs 4 European bases so that's 3:2 Numerical advantage (+1), the Natives are Aggressive (+1) and usually in Depth (+1) so that's a +3 advantage in combat. There is no point in the Europeans being in depth as they need the firepower to either stop or disrupt the natives.</div>
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We were using the colonial variant which allows native infantry to move at 15" and only halts units when they lose a base from firing. Both have a major impact on the game as the native troops can zoom around the board and are hard to stop when charging.</div>
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We did however enjoy the game and feel that BBB works very well for Colonials. The scenario is excellent as forces the Anglo-Egyptians to come out and fight. In my opinion it has the feel of a mini-campaign rather than a single battle as the Anglo-Egyptians have to send forces off in all directions to capture the objectives. </div>
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I'm looking forward to playing this one again.</div>
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Thanks to Rob Smith & Dave Bennett for putting the scenario together</div>
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Thanks to Steve for putting on the game with his collection of 15mm troops. He is in the process of re-basing some of the Mahdist troops as they are all on double size bases.</div>
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Steve and Shaun played the Anglo-Egyptians and Rodge, Stewart & myself gloried in being the Ansar.</div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-62900551992113522242017-10-21T13:01:00.000-07:002017-10-21T13:01:34.605-07:00Dabormida's Brigade at Adowa using Bloody Big BattlesOne of our favourite Colonial games is a scenario from <a href="https://www.caliverbooks.com/bookview.php?8f6ofat2fhvrnp9qlo2gfddca0&id=6578" target="_blank">Mark Fastoso's Ethiopian Colonial Campaigns</a> - Dabormida's Brigade (Adowa).<br />
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This covers the Abyssinian attack on the Italian right flank at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adwa#cite_note-FTTt-2" target="_blank">the battle of Adwa</a> (or Adowa) on 1st March 1896. It boils down to a scattered Italian force attempting to stop a very large Abyssian army from tearing down the table trying to capture objectives by a certain turn.<br />
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<b><u>Important Note</u></b><br />
None of us have any Italians or Abyssinians for this period. However Steve has a lovely 15mm collection for the Sudan so we proxy the figures. So do not be surprised if you should see kilted Italians. If you do not like proxies then pretend it's the Sudan<br />
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Although the scenario is written for The Sword and Flame we have used it with Battles For Empire. This proved to be a struggle for the Abyssinian who rarely got half down the table before we had to call it a day.<br />
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This time round we used Bloody Big Battles (BBB). We had tried the BBB scenario El Teb but had mixed feelings about it. It was fast but I think the scenario needs looking at.<br />
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<b><u>Abyssinian Forces</u></b><br />
3 Commanders<br />
5 x Waruari<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 Trained, Spears,Aggressive<br />
2 x Byet Lyjog<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 Veteran, Spears,Aggressive<br />
2 x Neftenya<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 Trained, Muzzle-loading Rifles,Aggressive<br />
2 x Snyder-yaji<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 Trained, Early Breechloaders,Aggressive<br />
3 x Oromo Horse<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 Trained Cavalry,Aggressive<br />
2 x Artillery pieces<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1 Smoothbore Artillery<br />
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<b><u>Italian Forces</u></b><br />
2 Commanders<br />
3 x Italian Infantry Companies<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4 Trained, Late Breeechloaders<br />
4 x Askari Infantry Companies<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4 Trained, Late Breeechloaders<br />
2 x Artillery Batteries<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1 Breech Loading Artillery<br />
1 x Machine Gun Battery<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1 Machine Gun<br />
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The Battlefield looking east</div>
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<b><u>The Objectives</u></b><br />
Victory Points (VP) are awarded to the Abyssinians on the turn they capture an objective<br />
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The Abyssinians need 3 VP to win<br />
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The Spur: Turns 1-3 2 VP otherwise 1 VP<br />
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<b><u>The Setup</u></b><br />
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Abyssinians set up along the western edge<br />
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2 Askari companies are on the Spur<br />
1 Askari company is behind the Spur<br />
1 Askari company is on the hill across the stream<br />
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1 Italian company and the Machine Gun are at the Pass<br />
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The game lasts 8 turns with the Abyssinians going first.<br />
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The Spur defended by 2 Askari companies</div>
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The Abyssinians immediately attack the Spur</div>
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An Askari square - disrupted (Yellow) and low on ammo (Green)</div>
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The other Askari square about to get overrun</div>
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The Abyssinians break both squares and capture the Spur on Turn 2 - 2 VPs</div>
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The Italians defend the Well</div>
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The Italians should have destroyed the Spearmen. Let's do the Firepoints<br />
1 BLA at 3" = 9 FP and 1 BLA at 3" but it pivoted so 4.5 FP equals 13.5 FP rounded up to 16 FP<br />
So 6 or more on 2 dice to kill at least 1 base and push the Spearmen back<br />
And it's a ... 5 which disorders the Spears but under the BBB Colonial variant doesn't halt them<br />
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The ensuing melee saw both guns lose a life - they only have 2 - and retire 9". The Infantry company next to them fared no better and was forced to retire. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">T</span>he Well is lost on turn 4 - giving the Abyssinians 2 more VP - making a total of 4 VP</div>
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The Machine gun gets into position to defend the pass. The the distance an Askari company is both to get pounced on by some Oromo Horse.</div>
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A general view of the battlefield halfway through the game - looks like an historical outcome to me</div>
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On the left an Italian company covers the retreat of the last surviving Askari company from the Spur.</div>
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Yes I know the Italians are wearing kilts - it's all the rage on the Milan catwalks.</div>
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The view from the Pass - probably the safest place to be.</div>
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The kilted Italians continue to head south leaving the Askari to form a square against the hordes.</div>
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Unsurprisingly the square becomes the centre of attention - it looks baaad.</div>
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The brave Askari square repulses the attack losing a base in the process. To be classed as Square it must have a minimum of 3 bases. </div>
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End of Turn 6 and as the Abyssinians close in for the kill the Italians concede the game.</div>
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I would like to say it was a close run thing but it wasn't - it was a shambles for the Italians mainly due to appalling shooting dice. It was also a historical result so I can not complain.</div>
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Thanks to Steve for putting on the game. He and Mark played the Abyssinians whilst Stephan and I played the Italians.</div>
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We are giving it an other run out next week - mainly to see if I can roll higher than 5</div>
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There are several more scenarios in the book which look as though they will convert to BBB. I can highly recommend these scenario books covering Ethiopia, the Sudan, Mexico and China. </div>
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BBB comes up trumps again and works well for the Colonial period as it does for most periods</div>
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-37288335354564103902017-09-27T10:34:00.000-07:002017-09-27T10:34:38.096-07:00CWC Landjut - AarhusLANDJUT 2017 is a campaign set in 1989 covering the Soviet invasion of Denmark. The games are fought out in 6mm using Cold War Commander from Pendraken. In September 2017 we played out the battle of Aarhus over two days at the Grimsby Wargames Club.<br />
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Colonel Poirot, the Belgian commander, surveys the Highway 15 battlefield</div>
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There were two battlefields - Aarhus and Highway 15 (H15). The highway is the supply route between Aarhus and the main Nato base at Herning, some 60km to the west.</div>
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Highway 15 looking west.The Aarhus table connects via the road going off the bottom of the picture.</div>
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The Nato objective on H15 was to keep the Soviets from cutting the supply route. Andy T and Danny commanded West German brigades in the centre and the western flank. The eastern flank leading to Aarhus was held by the Belgian 17ème Brigade Blindée under yours truly.<br />
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The western end of Highway 15 - Lasby is in the distance</div>
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Close-up of Lasby</div>
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West German troops cover the western flank of H15</div>
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West German Leopards dig in while Belgian Engineers prepare to blow the bridge at Storring</div>
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The Belgian 2e Regt Gidsen takes up position next to the West Germans</div>
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1ste Regt Karabiniers Wielrijders occupy Lillering. Note the marked minefields to their front</div>
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Lillering looking east. Behind the village the Leopards of 1er Regt des Guides provide support. Whilst on the right 2eme Regt Carabinier-cyclistes dig in in the wood again covered by minefields</div>
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The outskirts of Aarhus</div>
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Looking south towards Storring</div>
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2eme Regt Carabinier-cyclistes deployed in Lillering wood</div>
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The Guides provided much needed fire power throughout the battle</div>
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A West German tank battalion moves to cover Storring</div>
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East Germans advance to engage the Carabinier-cyclistes</div>
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East Germans advance between Lillering and Storring supported by Polish troops on their left flank. </div>
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Col Poirot makes some interesting observations</div>
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Mark J's East Germans advance on the wood</div>
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Andy M's East Germans drive on towards H15</div>
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Simon W's Polish legions target Storring</div>
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Andy T's West Germans cover the flyover but become a prime target for the Poles</div>
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The Poles extend their line to attack Danny's West Germans</div>
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The West Germans await the Polish attack</div>
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The East Germans preparing to cross the minefields</div>
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A supply truck, by the white marker, drives done H15 protected by West German & Belgian tanks </div>
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East Germans pile on the pressure against the Belgian cyclistes</div>
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The East Germans come close to taking H15</div>
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East Germans about to cross the minefield and enter the wood</div>
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East Germans almost made it to H15</div>
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Storring falls to the Poles but a West German counter-attack is building</div>
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A gripping battle that needed some thought on both sides. The stream, the wood and the minefields were life-savers for the Belgians as they presented quite an obstacle to the East Germans.</div>
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As the highway was still in Nato hands then a victory to them. My thanks to Mark,Andy M & Andy T, Simon and Danny for a good weekend's gaming </div>
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Meanwhile the other table covered the town of Aarhus and it's environs.<br />
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Aarhus and the docks - a Soviet objective</div>
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Looking south towards Aarhus</div>
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The radio station - a Soviet objective</div>
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A close-up of the radio station</div>
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The battlefield looking west </div>
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Aarhus Airfield - a Soviet objective</div>
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Aarhus Airfield</div>
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Aarhus beach - lovely at this time of year</div>
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The power plant - another soviet objective</div>
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Aarhus docks - can you spot Dr Evil's power boat?</div>
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Most of the fighting centred on the airfield.</div>
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The church took a battering</div>
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Nato helicopters head for the airfield</div>
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An excellent weekend of CWC hosted by the Grimsby Wargames club at their very own premises. I'm really envious of those guys having a place like that. They organised food and drink including a lovely piece of haddock but then again it is Grimsby.</div>
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A big thanks to Richard P for organising the campaign and the weekend and building a lot of the terrain. The terrain makes these games as the photos show</div>
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Thanks to all the lads who turned up from far and wide and made the weekend what it was.</div>
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And finally a big middle finger to the idiot who trespassed on the railway line that delayed 2 of our 4 trains on the way back from Grimsby to Stroud</div>
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The small village of Jelli Bannu is holding it's weekly market. Among the traders is an arms dealer who has cases of rifles for the Pathans and a British informant who knows the arms dealer's identity.<br />
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The three British players, Chris, Paul & myself, each commanded a squad of 1 officer and 3 riflemen. Whilst the three Pathan players, Mike, Owain & Shaun, each commanded a group of 1 chieftain and 3 tribesmen.<br />
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Just another normal market day in Jelli Bannu - the British informant is at the top of the picture</div>
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The Pathans take up firing positions to cover the arms dealer - the stall with red stripes</div>
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More Pathans bring up the donkey to carry the guns away</div>
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Having identified the arms dealer the British move in to arrest him</div>
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The RSM simultaneously interviews the arms dealer and haggles for a carpet </div>
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On the far build the Pathan chieftain attempts to get the villagers to rise up whilst avoiding getting shot at from the cental tower</div>
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Both the British and the Pathans attempt to seize the rifles </div>
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British Guides advance to support their comrades</div>
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Having been beaten back from the rifles the British attempt to outflank the Pathans</div>
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The Pathans make a desperate attempt to load the weapons on the donkey</div>
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The Pathan chieftain makes a brave but futile attempt to rush the British as they capture the donkey and the rifles</div>
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So honours to the British for meeting both of their objectives. As with all of our Liberdy games this one was a complete bloodbath with 4 British and 3 Pathan surviving.</div>
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The Civilian reaction table worked well with the locals running here, there and everywhere. </div>
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We tried out some leader rules but they need working on.</div>
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Four of the players had not played these rules before but picked them up very quickly.</div>
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Rodge supplied all of the toys. He made all of the buildings and the figures are from various 28mm manufacturers. </div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-85472401317772580652017-08-31T07:58:00.000-07:002017-08-31T07:58:28.712-07:00Liberdy - rules for the Wild West (and other places)Way down in Liberty,somewhere on the border between Canada and Mexico, we've been a'tinkering with our in-house Wild West rules and having ourselves a few test games.<br />
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Each player controls a gang of 4 gunmen - usually 3 pistoleros and a rifleman<br />
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Virtually everything in the game is handled by two decks of cards, ideally with different backs<br />
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<li>Spades: shooting and hand-to-hand</li>
<li>Clubs: movement - the number is the distance in inches they can move</li>
<li>Hearts: saving against shooting and hand-to-hand</li>
<li>Diamonds: both shooting and hand-to-hand AND saving</li>
<li>Jokers: saving AND fan-shooting pistols AND initiative</li>
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Certain cards have other uses<br />
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Cards are ranked from high to low as follows<br />
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<li>Joker, Ace (worth 11), King, Queen Jack, 10 down to 2</li>
<li>Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spaces</li>
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The turn sequence is<br />
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<li>Each player is dealt a hand of 5 cards.</li>
<li>Each player selects one of their cards for initiative and places it face down</li>
<li>All initiative cards a re revealed and the order of play worked out using the Card Rank</li>
<li>In initiative order each player uses his cards for moving, shooting etc</li>
<li>Cards for shooting and saving can be held back in case you are shot at etc</li>
<li>A player's turn can be interrupted by other players shooting on over-watch.</li>
<li>If any civilians are nearby they may react to firing </li>
<li>Once everyone has had a go then all cards are returned and a new turn starts</li>
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Shooting and Hand-to-Hand<br />
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<li>Pistols have a 12" range and rifles have an 18" range</li>
<li>To shoot a player indicates the shooting figure and the target figure and plays a Spade or Diamond</li>
<li>The target player must play a Heart, if they have one, or a Diamond if they want to</li>
<li>There are various modifiers for cover, height, over-watch etc</li>
<li>If the shooter's card is higher than the target or the target does not play a save card then the target is hit</li>
<li>If the target is hit the shooter then rolls a D6 and scores that amount of damage on the target</li>
<li>Every figure can take upto 5 hits before being killed</li>
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Those nice people who actually live in Liberty<br />
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Townsfolk can be affected by gang members shooting. Any non-gang member within 6" of someone shooting draws a card. Depending on whether they are armed or not they can run away, stand, move to the action or start shooting<br />
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There are a few extra rules but that's about it. If something isn't covered by a rule then we wing it.<br />
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Here's some recent activity in Liberty which <span style="text-align: center;">has a habit of changing every time there's a show-down</span><br />
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Sometimes it looks like this ....</div>
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...and other times it looks like this</div>
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It's got the regular 3:15 from Yuma</div>
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Entertainment...</div>
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... to suit...</div>
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...everyone</div>
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And attracts many</div>
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,many</div>
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,many</div>
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,way too many visitors</div>
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Where's the sheriff when you need him? Dead?</div>
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He'll do. Oh he's the pianist</div>
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The ideal candidate.</div>
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The buildings are either by 4Ground or Whitewash City and lovingly cared for by Shaun who also owns the train</div>
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The figures are by various manufacturers<br />
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The original rules were picked up at a participation game - can't remember the club but thank you. </div>
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Our version can be found on the <a href="http://twomarshals.blogspot.co.uk/p/liberdy-wild-west-rules.html" target="_blank">Liberdy rules page</a>.</div>
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<br />alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-30477395813006196482017-08-01T06:09:00.000-07:002017-08-01T06:09:22.997-07:00Rearguard at Dalian 1904 RJW using Blood Big BattlesThis scenario, Rearguard (2) from Scenarios for Wargames, follows on from the successful Russian defense of <a href="http://twomarshals.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/dalian-1904-rjw-using-blood-big-battles.html" target="_blank">Dalian</a>.<br />
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The Russians have been ordered to evacuate Dalian and most of the Division has embarked leaving a regiment as rearguard. The Japanese have got wind of the withdrawal and have sent a brigade to capture the harbour.<br />
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The Rearguard map from Scenarios for Wargames</div>
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The table</div>
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The Terrain</div>
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All hills are steep sided - level 3 of Lijia Ridge is impassable</div>
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The streams are impassable to artillery except at bridges</div>
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Minquan, Shidiao and Fuguo are villages and each count as 1 Objective</div>
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Dalian Harbour is 2 villages and each one counts as 2 Objectives</div>
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The battlefield from Sinjan Hill</div>
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The Forces</div>
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The Russians have 12 Companies of 3 Bases and 2 Guns</div>
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The Japanese have 21 Companies of 3 Bases and 4 Guns</div>
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Both sides are armed with repeating rifles and breach loading artillery</div>
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All troops are Trained.</div>
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The Japanese are not classed as Aggressive due to their kicking in the initial fight for Dalian.</div>
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Objectives</div>
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There are 7 Objective points - the 3 villages (1) and Dalian Harbour (2x2) The game lasts for 8 turns </div>
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The Game</div>
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The Japanese advance to Lijia Ridge</div>
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Mike, Rodge and myself were the Japanese. We had to deploy first and concentrated everything on Posu Ridge and Anjin Hill with the aim of punching straight through to Dalian</div>
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Lijia Ridge</div>
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The Russian Reserves</div>
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Dave N and Shaun were the Russians who deployed a token force on Lijia Ridge and the remainder as reserves between Minquan and Shidiao</div>
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In order to secure the villages of Shidiao and Fuguo the Japanese push forward a battalion</div>
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Japanese troops approach Hongqi Hill</div>
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The fight for Hongqi Hill and Shidiao</div>
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A Japanese Company moves to secure Fuguo</div>
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The main attack was aimed at Lijia Ridge</div>
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The Japanese prepare to storm Lijia Ridge</div>
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The attack goes in.</div>
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The Russians get hammered on the ridge</div>
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The Japanese start to advance down Lijia Ridge to Minquan and Dalian</div>
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The Russian line crumbles under the Japanese pressure</div>
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Individual Russian companies attempt to hold Minquan and Shidiao</div>
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The Russian company hold Dalian is ordered to hold to the last by their Commanders</div>
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But on the last turn the Japanese get a foothold on the Harbour</div>
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The final tally for Objectives had the Japanese on 3 for the villages of Minquan, Shidiao and Fuguo and the Russians on 2 for half of Dalian Harbour - the other half being contested. So a less than minor victory to the Japanese with the Russian commanders having to abandon their Faberge Egg collection!</div>
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Another excellent scenario from Grant's book - going down to the wire. </div>
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The Japanese Artillery failed to get into action due to miserable dice rolling but weren't really needed as their infantry were more than up for the job.</div>
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3 Base infantry units disappear very quickly especially with close range Repeating Rifle fire so I will try 4 Base units next time. </div>
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And as for next time. With the Japanese capture of Dalian they can now start bringing in troops and supplies for the assault on Port Arthur. However will the Russians give up the Liaodong Peninsula and just sit in Port Arthur as they did historically? I doubt it.</div>
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The figures are all by Pendraken and the buildings by Mura Miniatures</div>
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The terrain is all by Homebase - the hills and villages are the "luxury" £5 carpet tiles, reduced to £2.50 and the sea and streams are the sadly out of production Oxford Blue self adhesive vinyl tiles. I keep writing to them but they just ignore me. </div>
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For fictitious games I like to have a bit of background as to why there is a battle so welcome to Dalian.<br />
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In the 1890s the Russians spent a fortune on building the port of Dalian situated on the north-east corner of the Liaodong Peninsula. Railway lines connected it north to Mukden and south to Port Arthur.<br />
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After the Russians were defeated at the battle of <a href="http://twomarshals.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/nanshan-1904-using-bloody-big-battles.html" target="_blank">Nanshan</a> they retreated directly to Port Arthur leaving the entire Liaodong Peninsula and Dalian wide open for the Japanese. They used the port as the main supply base for the siege of Port Arthur.<br />
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This scenario supposes that a Russian Division retired on Dalian to deny it to the Japanese and to threaten their flank when they advanced to Port Arthur. In response the Japanese sent 2 Divisions to capture it.<br />
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Therefore the river now becomes Hand Bay. The built-up area "B" is Dalian and the woods become a kaoliang plantation. The game objectives are Dalian and Xiangu, and Redoubt C. All 3 positions are connected by rifle pits. There are also redoubts at 1 and 2.<br />
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The book lists the forces in terms of Horse and Musket armies - line & light infantry, light & heavy cavalry etc. So I did a simple conversion of 1 line infantry unit = 2x3 stand Infantry units and everything else, light inf, and cavalry, become 1x3 stand Infantry unit. Artillery converts on a one-to-one basis. for this game units represent battalions and batteries<br />
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This gives the Russians 11 infantry battalions and 4 batteries and the Japanese 20 battalions and 4 batteries.<br />
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In BBB terms both sides are armed with repeating rifles and breach loading artillery. . All troops are Trained and the Japanese are classed as aggressive. The redoubts are Entrenchments and the trenches are Rifle Pits. <br />
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The original scenario allows only light infantry to operate in the wood/kaoliang. For our first game it was treated as difficult going ie -1 to the command roll but this was way too easy for the Japanese to advance through. I changed it to -2 to the command roll for our second game which slowed them down quite a bit.<br />
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In the first game Mike and Shaun played the Japanese and Dave and I played the Russians.<br />
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Start of Game 1</div>
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The Japanese sent 10 battalions through the kaoliang, storming Redoubt C and rolling up the trench line whilst the the other half pined the Russians and then attacked and took Xiangu once the Russian left flank had gone.<br />
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Japanese forces form in column to enter the kaoliang fields</div>
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Russian defenders in Xiangu</div>
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The Russian line from Xiangu to Redoubt C</div>
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As the defender of Redoubt C I can lay the blame fairly and squarely on the firing dice - artillery completely missing a battalion in column at 3". The Japanese claimed victory with 2 objectives and a shattered Russian force.<br />
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In the second game Rodge, Andy & I played the Japanese whilst Shaun and Steve played the Russians. As it was harder to advance through the kaoliang only 6 battalions were sent through, 3 battalions feinted against Dalian and the other 11 did a frontal assault between Xiangu and Redoubt C. This was a miserable failure for the Japanese.<br />
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The Japanese advance through the kaoliang fields...</div>
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My feint against Dalian was incompetent. I deployed my guns at a range of 17" which turned out to be 22" so they were completely ineffective. I then decided to advance my 3 battalions into firing range of which only the first one rolled enough to move whilst the other two remained stationary. The Russians then rolled a 12 with 16 fire points on the advanced battalion destroying it completely.</div>
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The unimpressive feint</div>
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The frontal assault managed to overrun the rifle pits between Redoubt C and Xiangu but then faltered seeing how ineffective it's flanking forces were.<br />
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The Japanese attack begins</div>
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The view from the Russian rifle pits</div>
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Advancing in column against trenches - what could possibly go wrong?</div>
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The assault goes in awash with smiley faces - yellow is disrupted & green is low on ammo</div>
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The Russians counter attack</div>
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The attack falters under heavy fire from the Russians in Xiangu</div>
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With the Russians victorious one of the Japanese commanders prepares to give a two fingered salute to the commander of Redoubt C</div>
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This time a victory to the Russians for holding onto all 3 objectives.<br />
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Two good games based on a simple scenario with very different results partly due to dice rolling, partly to changing the effects of the kaoliang and ever so slightly due to my measuring abilities.<br />
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I enjoyed tying it in with our last RJW battle and am looking through the scenario book for the next game as the Japanese continue their advance on Port Arthur.<br />
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Once again BBB proved to be a great set of rules that give you the ability to tinker. The lads are very familiar with them now so I don't need to umpire. However given my showing in both games maybe I should stick to umpiring .<br />
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And the Emperor had promised me a holiday home if the Japanese captured Dalian</div>
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The figures are all by Pendraken<br />
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And I forgot to mention that we allowed columns to assault with the understanding that only the front rank could fire and melee and that they were classed as outflanked.alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-77778214760607904022017-05-21T14:02:00.002-07:002017-05-21T14:02:36.010-07:00FWC Bootcamp 2017The 8th annual Future War Commander Bootcamp, a weekend of 6mm Sci-Fi scenarios, took place at the Tudor Arms in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, organised by the very efficient Mark<br />
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There were 10 players this year including a contingent from Reading.<br />
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The first scenario is the traditional 1000 point Mad Max 2 themed Gastown where Hunter-Scavenger clans (that's Orks) each try to get their tanker into town to fill up. The game is pretty chaotic with 9 players all trying to avoid destruction due to mandatory assaults when within 15cm of the enemy and still meet the objective.<br />
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Gastown and it's lush surroundings - well that's what it says in the brochure.<br />
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Most of Gastown is underground.<br />
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One of the Scav Clans, David's, on their way to fill up<br />
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Rodge'sClan spent most of it's time blundering backwards<br />
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Graham's Clan which eventually won through no fault of Graham</div>
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My Clan's airforce - Jagdstaffel 60 - known as Jasta Minute</div>
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Steve's Scavs overlook Gastown</div>
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Graham & Jon's troops clash</div>
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Gordon dropshipped his troops into the back of Dan's Clan</div>
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Rodge's tanker can't decide to whether to go forward or backwards</div>
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Jasta Minute returns to base after their tanker gets destroyed</div>
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An entertaining start to the weekend that saw Graham taking the honours and everyone else taking everyone else apart. </div>
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We then went onto to play 1 v 1 2500 Point Encounter games. There were 5 worlds to play on.<br />
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Urban World - Steve's Kraytonians v Mark's Cyber Undead (Necrons)</div>
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Abandoned World - Dan's Space Marines v Rodge's Pac-Fed Humans<br />
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Alien World - Mike's Eldar v Graham's I.K.E.A Droids<br />
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Ice World World - Gordon's Imperial Guard v Jon's Hunter Scavengers<br />
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Desert World - David's Cybernetic Species X31 (Tau) v my Pax Arcadians</div>
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The Pax Arcs advance</div>
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The X31s advance </div>
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We meet in the middle and start shooting</div>
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Quite a lot of shooting as neither army really likes close combat</div>
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David's army was beautifully painted - the models are Okami Combine by Onslaught Miniatures</div>
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Another shot of the X31s/Okami Combine/Tau</div>
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Sunday began with our Holy Grail - the 1500 Point Stargate Scenario. This is where two teams, each with a Home try to find the codes to the enemy's Home world which are scattered on 3 other worlds.</div>
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Black Team on the Ice world comprised Gordon, Graham, Mike, Rodge and Steve. Red Team on the Urban World consisted of Dan, David, Jon, Mark and myself.<br />
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Red Team's Space Marines form up to go through the gate on Urban World.</div>
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Red's Pax Arcs encounter a band of mercenaries on Alien World</div>
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On Desert World Black's 's Eldar, Pac-Feds, X31s <u style="font-weight: bold;">AND</u> Kraytonians attack Red's Red Guard and Pax Arcs - bring it on lads!</div>
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Black's Space Canadians(?) and Red's Space Marines tough it out on Abandoned World.</div>
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Back on Desert World Black's Eldar assault Red's Pax Arc Mammoth tanks in the rear and fail thanks to Defensive fire and support from Red Guard infantry. </div>
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Black's Space Canadians finally reach the Gate Code station on Abandoned World...</div>
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So 2 Home World codes apiece but Red controlled two of the three Outer Worlds and had broken Black's Kraytonian force. Therefore no outright winner but a major victory to Black Team in the Never-ending Stargate War</div>
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The final game on Sunday was the 1250 point Woken Furies scenario based on the book of the same name. This is a cooperative game where the players have to clear a city of Mimints - nano-tech cyborgs or something like that. </div>
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Mark runs this game and puts on an excellent show with superb scenery and models<br />
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Harlans World - New Hok</div>
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The Cleared Area</div>
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Jon's Scav Gargant poses for a photo whilst clearing the city</div>
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The team advances through the city</div>
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After a BBQ and a few beers the Pax Arcs decide to join in the fun</div>
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Some of the city's wildlife</div>
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Whilst Jon's Gargant kills a few architects (top right) the Pax Arcs prepare to blow away some <span style="text-align: left;">Mimints</span></div>
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With the city having been cleared someone had killed enough Mimints to claim victory. It wasn't me as I only killed a blue furry thing that was a UN protect species but could rip a tank in half.</div>
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And that was the end of another cracking weekend of sci-fi gaming.</div>
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Thanks to Mark for setting it all up and thanks to everyone who played especially Dan, David and Jon for trekking down from Reading. </div>
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This was probably Graham's last Bootcamp as he is off to Canada so he will be sorely missed. </div>
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And after 8 years of playing the Pax Arcs, wonderful army that it is, I'm going to retire them and start a new FWC army (honest).</div>
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alanmillicheaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09355864832843338398noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4197168174795670409.post-89240465126010551142017-05-12T04:12:00.001-07:002017-05-12T04:12:13.680-07:00Fire In The Bush - Modern Africa using BBBRodge has a lovely collection of modern African kit in 15mm. We mainly use RFCM's AK47 v1 which is a great set of rules but can be quite random. Rodge has been tinkering with his own set, Fire in the Bush, for a while but he has taken Bloody Big Battles and tweaked it for modern bush warfare.<br />
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The Baako township held by the rebels under Beeko Mumfasa</div>
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Shaun played the Government forces led by <span style="text-align: center;">General President the Right Reverend Jomo Bangbalaonabulu. I played the Rebel forces under Beeko Mumfasa. Our objectives were to destroy the opposing forces and kill or capture their leader.</span><br />
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<tr><td colspan="4"><b><u>Government Forces</u></b></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Unit</b></td> <td><b>Morale</b></td> <td><b>Bases</b></td> <td><b>Attributes</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Armoured Car</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>AC Class 2, Cannon, Load 0, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Armoured Car</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>AC Class 2, HMG, Load 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>APC</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>APC Class 2, LMG, Load 5, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>APC</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>APC Class 2, LMG, Load 5</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lorry</td> <td>Raw</td> <td align="center">2</td> <td>Lorries Class 1, Load 5, Fragile, Tactically Inept</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lorry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>Lorry Class 1, Load 5</td></tr>
<tr><td>Limo</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>Armoured Limo Class 2, Load 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Jeep</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>Technical Class 1, HMG, Load 1, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x RPG, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, Aggressive, Infiltrate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, Aggressive, Infiltrate</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="4"><b><u>Rebel Forces</u></b></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Unit</b></td> <td><b>Morale</b></td> <td><b>Bases</b></td> <td><b>Attributes</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>AA Lorry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>Armoured Lorry Class 2, Wheeled, AA, Load 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Technical</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>Technical Class 1, Wheeled, HMG, Load 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>105mm SPG</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>SPG [105mm] Class 2, Tracked, Load 0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Raw</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>5 x Rifle, Tactically Inept, Aggressive</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Raw</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>5 x Rifle, Tactically Inept, Aggressive</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Raw</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>5 x Rifle, Tactically Inept, Aggressive</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Trained</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>4 x Assault Rifle, 1 x RPG, Fragile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>3 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, 1 x RPG, Infiltrate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>3 x Assault Rifle, 1 x LMG, 1 x AT, Infiltrate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Infantry</td> <td>Veteran</td> <td align="center">1</td> <td>Sniper, Infiltrate, Devastating Volley 0-12”</td></tr>
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The battlefield looking west</div>
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Rodge may well post his variant to the <a href="https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info" target="_blank">BBB Yahoo Group</a><br />
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The approach road taken by the Government forces</div>
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Beeko Mumfasa admires his trusty AA truck "Ndege Bunduki"</div>
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It's not all work for Mumfasa - he also plays in goal for Baako Rovers</div>
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The 105mm SPG "Kunguruma Tembo" spots a Government APC</div>
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Government traffic jam on the road to Baako</div>
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Government recce scouts the local lock-up</div>
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Government and Rebel troops get into a fire fight north of the township</div>
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General President the Right Reverend Jomo Bangbalaonabulu remembers an urgent appointment in the capital and heads for his limo</div>
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With most of their armour destroyed the Government forces fall back</div>
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After the battle Mumfasa leads the Victory Parade...</div>
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.. and finally The Victory Speech in front of his loyal supporters<br />
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A most enjoyable game - it ran very smoothly and quickly as we all know BBB. The Rule tweaks worked well. BBB is a very good rules engine that lends itself to adaption to other periods. I'm looking forward to Mumfasa's march on the capital.</div>
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Rodge made all of the buildings and converted the vehicles. The majority, if not all, of the figures are 15mm Peter Pig.</div>
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