tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26461588132494585462024-03-05T18:09:06.318+00:00Wargaming RediscoveredDocumenting some of my wargaming activities for myself and anyone else who might be interestedTim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-67337617019750410752016-05-08T10:29:00.001+01:002016-05-08T10:29:40.411+01:00The Battle for the Peach Orchard<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are a few </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">pictures from yesterdays game at the Newmarket & Ely club. We were doing a refight of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the fight for the Peach Orchard in Sickles Salient (Gettysburg Day 2) using Regimental Fire & Fury rules. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was a pretty tight game; the scenario was well designed in terms of what we could get through in the time available. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Union held out against the confederates attack, though only just. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last picture shows the final desperate struggle for the orchard itself. </span><br />
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Yesterday I visited the Newmarket & Ely Wargames Society (NEWS) who meet in Fordham. They were playing a large game (six people on each side) of the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, 1644 using the <a href="http://www.wargamesdispatch.co.uk/to_defy_a_king.html">'To Defy a King'</a> rules. I went along to see what was going on and to have a chat. Very interesting as ECW is a period I am hoping to get into.<br />
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Here are a few pics of the game at quite a late stage. The Parliamentarians were probably in the stronger position on the whole.<br />
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<br />Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-65768271895794495562015-10-24T22:14:00.001+01:002015-10-24T22:14:19.056+01:00Quatre Bras - LFS <br />
A little while ago (just before I went on holiday) I played this game, based on Quatre Bras using the <a href="http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=55">Le Feu Sacre</a> rules. These rules have a lot going for them in my opinion and I was pleased with how well the game ran. In fact it's probably the most ambitious game I've done yet; I did stretch the play over two days playing solo.<br />
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Here's a view of the battlefield from the South-East (French side). In the background you can see Gemioncourt, beyond the stream Quatre Bras itself & to the left of that the Bossu woods. (The buildings btw are by <a href="http://www.tigerterrain.com/">Tiger Terrain</a>.)<br />
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Here is a view from the Dutch side. Perponcher's Division is deployed to defend around Gemioncourt farm. </div>
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Ney's French (Foy and Bachelu's infantry divisions and Pire's cavalry) approach. Three artillery batteries were quickly unlimbered to support an assault on Gemioncourt.<br />
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On turn 2 the Foy launched the assault on Gemioncourt, defended by the 5th Belgian militia. The artillery batteries did their work...<br />
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...and soon the Belgians were ejected and the French took control of the farm.<br />
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Meanwhile on the, Bachelu's troops advanced towards battlions of Dutch Light infantry and Nassauers. The Dutch had chosen to try to defend the line of the stream rather than standing in the trees of the Bossu. A brave decision.</div>
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The next turn saw the French continue their advance and on Foy's right, Jerome Bonaparte's division was spotted. The Dutch look quite outnumbered here but the flag across the stream (next to Wellington in fact) is a 'blind' which conceals Picton's Division.</div>
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On turn 4 Foy's troops crossed the stream and attacked more Belgians. The personal support of Foy who committed to the fight (unlike Perponcher who was too far away or Bjilandt) helped ensure that the Belgians were pushed back (though not broken).<br />
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Meanwhile Picton's Division was spotted. Behind them is another 'blind' which conceals the Brunswickers.<br />
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Turn 5 would prove to be a decisive time. The French attack develops on the left and their cavalry superiority was key. First, one unit of chasseurs forces the Nassauers into square<br />
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Then another charges across the stream against the the Dutch lights (who did not have time to form square). The Dutch unit breaks and shortly afterwards so does the unit of Orange-Nassau infantry who were supporting as the chasseurs breakthrough onto them.<br />
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On the French right, Jerome's troops start to cross by the Merle pond and take on the Black Watch. Crisis for the Brits as Picton goes down. (A very lucky & key result for the French this one).<br />
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More bad news for the allies on the left as Bachelu's columns now close on the Nassauers' square which has already taken casualties.<br />
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By the end of the turn Perponcher's defence of the Bossu has gone. There is little between the French and Quatre Bras it seems.<br />
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Not quite so. The Brunswickers are revealed as the next line of defense while in the centre Van Merlen's cavalry party with the French lancers. (This was one of several not very decisive cavalry engagements here).<br />
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Turn 6 saw Jerome continue to press hard against Picton's divsion...<br />
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... and with considerable success. It begins to look as though the Brits were badly demoralised by the loss of Picton.<br />
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Turn 7 and Bachelu &Pire continue to advance towards Quatre Bras. However, there are now some defenders deployed in among the trees (Alten's Division).<br />
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On the far side Kellerman's cuirassiers, who had chosen to delay their entry, arrive.<br />
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By turn 8 Foy's troops are within striking distance of Quatre Bras. Here they are pushing into the last troops of Perponcher's division; a militia battalion.<br />
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Then the cuirassiers charge against Picton's Hanoverian militia and the inevitable happens.<br />
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Turn 9 sees fierce fighting in the Bossu but Alten is pushed back by Bachelu.<br />
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And L'Heritier turns up with a Division of dragoons; the last of the reinforcements.<br />
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At this point I called the game having run out of time. Although the French had not actually taken the cross-roads, they had all but done so and it was hard to see them really being stopped in the next couple of turns. Though Cooke's guards might have been able to counter-attack the rest of the allied defense was looking very depleted.<br />
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All in all an excellent game. The French attacked decisively and the Allies were never really able to organise a coherent defense. Interestingly the result came out pretty similar to when I played <a href="http://wargamingrediscovered.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/quatre-bras-age-of-eagles.html">QB with Age of Eagles rules</a> about a year before. I plan next to do some LFS in the Peninsular, though it might be a while before I get organised.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-58661164704406034442015-08-25T23:01:00.001+01:002015-08-25T23:01:57.754+01:00GBCoC in the Peninsular<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This weekend we played a Peninsular game based on a General de Brigade Vimiero scenario. Coincidentally we were almost on the anniversary of the battle (20 August 1808). Derek took the British while Marcus & John teamed up as the French (most unfair). This was an 'interesting scenario which did not exactly turn out as expected but was fun nevertheless.</div>
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Here we see Fane's Brigade deployed on Vimiero hill. They chose to deploy on the forward rather than the reverse slope. (Conveniently saving me from having to work out how to adjudicate the reverse slope). Anstruther's brigade would deploy further over to the right (out of shot).<br />
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And here we see a view from the other side with British artillery in the foreground and Vimiero village in the background.<br />
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The French deployed Charlot in the centre and Thomiere's brigade (pictured above) on their extreme right flank beyond the woods. This made the game all the more interesting and it turned out to be a smart move.<br />
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Here we see the main French force: Charlot and some distance behind them in the background the French Grenadiers. The French did not have enough command dice to activate them initially so, very reasonably they stayed in reserve.<br />
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Charlot here has advanced. There is actually nothing much on the ridge in front of them. Fane's brigade have come forward off the hill to try to outflank the French (which looked as though it might work for a while).<br />
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A little later and the riflemen wheeled round to fire on the French flank. The shock is starting to amount on the further of the two battalions.<br />
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Meanwhile on the British right, Anstruther's brigade is outnumbered as two of Charlot's battalions swung across to link up with Thomieres. Anstruther was not though giving up without a fight; two of his battalions the 52nd and 43rd were elite.<br />
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In the centre the French played their masterstroke, using 'En Avant' to bring their two battalions of grenadiers into play against the 60th rifles. With effective support from their artillery, the riflemen were soon defeated.<br />
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The 50th Regt who had been in support now faced the grenadiers. They did not though wait for the French to close but withdrew under the weight of artillery fire and musketry from the French.<br />
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At this point we called the game as it was clear that the French had a clear victory. The British had some reinforcements approaching Vimiero village but the command dice were such that they never got into the action. We reckon they withdrew when they saw what had happened. All in all a good game. The first time I've used the British in GBCoC, And yes this scenario was entirely cavalry free!<br />
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Finally many thanks to John for these custom dice which I intend to use to show the accumulation of 'special 5' points.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-36222670736047899242015-07-05T18:01:00.000+01:002015-07-05T18:01:32.954+01:00One Two Twelve Kickstarter<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those of you are more observant may have noted that at the top of this page there is a link to 'My wife's art page': <a href="http://www.jackieduckworthart.co.uk/">http://www.jackieduckworthart.co.uk/</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jackie is an artist and illustrator and she has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign: One Two Twelve (that's one artist, two eyes, twelve months). This will be a series of 12 limited edition linocut 'postcards' produced over the next twelve months (so one per month). Many of these will be inspired by places we visit over the coming year or have recently visited. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are at all interested, please do take a look at the kickstarter page:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At least one of these will be inspired by our recent trip to Waterloo; she spent a lot of her time while there furiously sketching. Here are a couple of very quick sketches which she did of the bivouacs:</span></div>
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Many thanks for reading this and a special thanks to any of you who add your support.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-7195154719625887312015-06-26T21:46:00.001+01:002015-06-26T21:46:19.076+01:00Waterloo 2015: The Battle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To finish off my review of Waterloo 2015, here are some pictures of the actual re-enactment of the Battle. You can get an idea from the first picture of how big the 'arena' was. There were over 5,000 re-enactors and it was big enough to give an authentic feel of confusion. It wasn't easy to really follow what was happening and there was quite a lot of smoke; I understand there was even more smoke the next night as there was very little wind then.</div>
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Mostly of these were taken with my telephoto lens, but even so the action still looks quite 'far-away'. I will no try to give a narrative; it did not follow the historic battle exactly. From where we were sitting could you see any not Prussians (or French starting positions or artillery). </div>
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<br />Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-58492933449283136602015-06-23T20:52:00.002+01:002015-06-23T20:52:26.538+01:00Waterloo 2015: Allied Bivouac<br />
After looking around the French bivouac on Friday, we spent time in the Allied one on Saturday. There was less drilling going on here and the atmosphere here seemed a bit less hectic; perhaps that's because they had done the battle once...<br />
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The first few pictures are from a remembrance parade, including a very heartfelt two minutes silence which we came across. A very impressive display.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I confess the guys in blue & yellow are a bit of a mystery to me ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This soldier was commended for his bravery as they formed square the previous night.</td></tr>
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More pictures soon of the battle itself...Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-44031538928340264722015-06-22T20:20:00.000+01:002015-06-22T20:20:50.517+01:00Waterloo 2015: French Bivouac<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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As some of your will know already, I spent last weekend at the Waterloo 2015 re-enactment event. This was a truly spectacular event with more than 5000 participants who had come from all over the world. There were plenty of spectators too - we are told about 60,000 on each of the two days (including us). Here are some pictures from the French bivouac which we visited on Friday. </div>
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There was much drill practice going on here as people worked together in preparation for the battle later that evening but also plenty of camp life too. One thing I did take away from this was how complex the whole drill thing was. It isn't easy changing from line to column and back again. </div>
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Mostly the French cavalry kept themselves hidden behind screens (presumably because of safety concerns with the horses). However we were very fortunate to see the column of more than 100 cavalry walking from the bivouac to the battle; there were all sorts of cavalry here including the L'Empereur himself. This was a real treat...<br />
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Pictures from the allied bivouac to follow soon, I promise...Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-20691600313771291052015-06-17T09:04:00.001+01:002015-06-18T07:50:35.980+01:00Waterloo 200 years<div><br></div><div><br></div>Its two hundred years today since the Battle of Waterloo. Nearly 200,000 men in three armies fought in an area two and a half miles square. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3QbcCs9eRpZ7lDzaPhOiBFg1Hu_szjLbdppDO6SJi3cWiaw3VVLsPJchiGiN14rOviYQQLy2a8MmPQA04DfRxYzSF6qyqtjsKhAuuuz5946P_LH5WpvdgTGqlrLuBSol5bfqOjpFOGs/s640/blogger-image--318328558.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3QbcCs9eRpZ7lDzaPhOiBFg1Hu_szjLbdppDO6SJi3cWiaw3VVLsPJchiGiN14rOviYQQLy2a8MmPQA04DfRxYzSF6qyqtjsKhAuuuz5946P_LH5WpvdgTGqlrLuBSol5bfqOjpFOGs/s640/blogger-image--318328558.jpg"></font></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One question that gets a lot of course is 'What would have happened if Napoleon had won?'. In fact this was asked on the Radio 4 programme 'Any Questions' last week (and the panellists utterley failed to answer it imo).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have just finished reading Alessandro Barbero's account, 'The Battle' (which I thoroughly recommend btw) and he offers an answer along these lines (I paraphrase). Liberal ideas would have been less marginalised in the period after 1815 and the second French Revolution in 1830 would not have happened. After that though history would not have been very different. Britain would still have been an economic powerhouse, Napoleon III would <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">have become emperor of France and the Prussians would still have dominated Germany with all of the consequnces that lead to in the 20th Century. Correct? We'll never know.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The picture incidentally is one that I saw in the Rikjmuseum a couple of days ago. It depicts the moment when news is brought to Wellington of the arrival of the Prussians. In the foreground the Prince of Orange is shown, wounded.</span></div>Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-65710261103331134852015-06-07T18:27:00.004+01:002015-06-07T18:27:49.298+01:00Battle of Colognola<br />
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I have now run this Scenario twice, using the General Bonaparte's Chain of Command rules which I continue to playtest. This is a new set of Lardie Napoleonic rules aimed at the Divisional level. The scenario is based on the Battle of Caldiero, 1796 from the excellent <a href="http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=80">A La Baionette</a> scenario book (for LFS3) suitably downsized. The rules are designed primarily for the 1796 campaign, though there is now information available on the <a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/lfslist/info">LFS Yahoo Group</a> to play Peninsular games (and also AWI). I still don't have a proper force of Austrians, but at least I now have Austrian commanders and artillery which helped to remind us who was being played.<br />
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The scenario saw the French with two infantry brigades, plus artillery led by Augereau, launching an attack against the Austrian advance guard of Prinz Hohenzollern (again with two infantry brigades plus artillery support). Both sides were told to expect cavalry reinforcements. It turned out at the focus was mainly on Colognola rather than than Caldiero itself.<br />
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The game begins with a 'grand tactical phase' using markers which will define an initial deployment area. Here you can get some idea of the table from the French side...Colognola is the village in the distance which is in the middle of the table.<br />
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And here is a view from the Austrian side.<br />
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French initial deployment around the farm of Stra...<br />
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..and the Austrians mainly in line around Caldiero (in the foreground) and Colognola (further back) with artillery between.<br />
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The French plan was to surge over the bridge and across the stream (which was easily fordable) and attack in force around Colognola. The Austrians seemed happy to adopt a defensive posture while their skirmishers came around to flank the French (something the French were not really able to counter).<br />
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The first of the French columns to contact was a battalion of grenadiers, to the strains of La Marseillaise. Not very surprisingly the Austrians were pushed back from here.<br />
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Between these were two more more columns of legeres. Fortune was less in their favour. An accurate volley from the Austrians reduced the French momentum (good use of an interrupt dice) and the French attack was repulsed. Further over, by the stream the final French column failed to close, leaving them exposed to another Austrian volley.<br />
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The attack by the stream developed into a firefight. Not surprisingly the French came off worst and after a couple of turns they were forced to retreat, heavily shocked.<br />
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A similar story by the village itself. Under pressure from both Austrian line and skirmishers one battalion of legeres broke and the other was sent into retreat, leaving their grenadiers beleaguered. The attack was thoroughly repulsed. In the village itself the French were ultimately surrounded and forced to surrender.<br />
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On the other side of the battlefield the main action involved the French cavalry, their chasseurs charged against the Austrian line. They were not very lucky, despite using a 'Follow me' to gain bonus dice. One of the Austrian units was forced into square but they held on. (Sorry I failed to get any decent shots of the cavalry combat)<br />
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In the end, it was clear this was an Austrian victory and the French withdrew under cover of their chasseurs.<br />
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Here are a couple of pictures of the earlier version of the scenario which we played. This turned out very differently, with the French being much more cautious, the Austrians advancing to attack them and ending up being outflanked by the French. That one went to the French.<br />
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My thanks to all four players: Phil, Derek, Marcus & Chris for excellent games. Also of course to Darren Green for letting me playtest his rules, which I am much enjoying.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-24292639197856902052015-05-25T11:38:00.001+01:002015-05-25T11:41:20.671+01:00Austrians<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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You might recall from my last post on <a href="http://wargamingrediscovered.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/general-bonapartes-chain-of-command.html">General Bonaparte's Chain of Command</a>, that I don't actually have any Austrians (looks shame-faced). However, in anticipation of a game next weekend, I have at least been painting up a few: some Austrian command, artillery and a few skirmishers. The main line infantry & cavalry forces will have to wait a while yet, but at least they will remind us who we are supposed to be playing...</div>
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Houses in the background are newly painted 'Hovels' from their Spanish range (courtesy of my wife) which we will be using as Italian next weekend.</div>
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Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-6854422161871568012015-03-29T20:57:00.001+01:002015-03-29T20:57:40.444+01:00General Bonaparte's Chain of Command<br />
This is the working title of a new set of divisional scale Napoleonic rules from Too Fat Lardies (to be more precise they are by Darren Green, author of Le Feu Sacre and They Couldn't Hit an Elephant).<br />
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I have a copy of them to play-test and had a go at them solo a couple of days ago. The rules as written are for Napoleon's early campaigns in Italy against the Austrians (also vs Russians under Suvarov) though they can probably be expanded to cover other periods, eg the Peninsular War. Although I have neither Austrians or Russians, I did stick to a French-Austrian scenario using a mixture of Dutch-Belgians and Brunswickers to substitute for the Austrians (so bear with me on that & apologies if you are a purist for these things).<br />
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The rules are heavily influenced by some of Chain of Command's command & control mechanisms but it is very definitely a different game.<br />
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The scenario I played had two brigades of infantry on each side (a little variation between the two sides but not too much) and one battery of artillery (6 guns) and a brigade of light cavalry arriving as reinforcements (determined by a random die roll).<br />
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The game starts with a 'Grand Tactical Phase' which is similar to the Patrol phase of Chain of Command. You are supposed to use flags but I just used my CoC Patrol markers. In my case the Austrians won the initiative (slightly unusually). You wind up with the two side about 18" apart, which is long range for artillery and about 2 moves for infantry in column; a bit more if, as here, they have to cross a stream.<br />
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After the Grand Tactical Phase all of the forces are put on the table. Here you can see one 'Austrian' Brigade in supported lines, in the centre is their battery and on the far side another brigade with 3 more line units plus a unit of Grenzer skirmishers (the only skirmishers in this game).<br />
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The French also deployed with two infantry brigades on the flanks plus their battery between the two, Here I chose to make the artillery limbered as I was hoping to use the artillery for close support (in the event I lost patience when the Austrians guns opened up on the limbered French guns)<br />
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Incidentally my infantry units are generally only 12 figures strong (that's 6 bases of two figures each). I think that 24 figures would be more common and would certainly work with the rules but I personally think that the proportions are more correct this way, especially for columns. The rules do not require any particular basing scheme.<br />
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Here the two sides close. The French decide to move one of their regiments (two battalions of legere) across from their right to the left leaving just two battalions remaining on the right on the defensive. You can see the legeres here just crossing the stream. (Going over the bridge would mean going into the face of the enemy guns and I didn't fancy that much). This did mean they ended up traversing across in front of the enemy guns; in practice this was at close range (not a great idea)<br />
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Here we see two of the French columns closing in on the Austrians. There were another two columns further over to the left as well as the legeres traversing across from the right (the skirmishers have turned towards the legeres to shoot at them). In the background you can see Austrian cavalry have arrived; they were much more timely than the French horsemen.<br />
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The French had a real piece of good fortune; 3 5's on the command dice which meant few units commanded that turn but a full 'Special 5' dice (that's like a Chain of Command dice). Next turn the French took full advantage of that as 4 battalions charged home on the Austrian lines; the Special 5 let them do 'La Marseillaise' all round (that was two points of shock inflicted immediately on each of the enemy lines). In the subsequent combat one line fled (shown above) while the second were left cowering under the trees on 5 shock (that's just 1 point short of routing). This was definitely a big turn for the French.<br />
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The Austrian cavalry gamely counterattacked despite having taken shock from the infantry who fled through them. First one unit was repulsed with heavy losses.<br />
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And then the second cavalry regiment caught one of the columns in the flank. But they too were repulsed; the French were distinctly lucky here.<br />
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Here is the position later on from the Austrian side this time. The final Austrian line has come out of the farm and is bravely holding off the French columns; a firefight developed and, by now laden with shock, the French were struggling to finish their enemy off. Meanwhile the Austrian skirms retired to hold the farm.<br />
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Here's a close up of that stand-off. Although the Austrian position looks untenable the French were not making much progress.<br />
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On the French right we see that their chasseurs have finally arrived. However one of their units bounced off an Austrian line; not that unlikely actually. It was however less than inspired to put the second chasseur unit directly behind the first so they took shock when the first unit retired through them! Use an echelon next time. Overall it wasn't a good day for cavalry.<br />
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I called the game at that point. I reckon a French victory as the Austrians certainly took far more damage and I think their right was bound to collapse eventually. It took me a little under 3 hours to play from the point where the toys had been put onto the table; another hour probably including the GT phase and set-up of troops.<br />
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Overall I was very impressed with it. My initial thought was that with 5 command dice you may well be able to activate pretty much all units and there would not be that much friction. That certainly wasn't the case; there were some real choices to make about which units to activate. Having kills is relatively unusual but shock can mount up alarmingly fast and can be very debilitating; using your commanders to manage the shock well is key. There is though quite a high casualty rate among the commander; the Austrians lost two regimental commanders but the French were luckier.<br />
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Really hope to have another go soon. Do I go away and get some Austrians though? (Trying to resist that; too many projects!)Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-16711091622274368302015-01-25T16:04:00.003+00:002015-01-25T16:10:14.858+00:00Local Buildings for Local Games<br />
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I did promise that I would put up a few pictures of the buildings which <a href="http://www.rapierminiatures.co.uk/page/Range/HACME.html">HACME</a> built for me for use with our VBCW chain of command games. Now that they are all finished, including the church, here they are. They are all based on local buildings here in Fulbourn and Teversham. You may note that there is also a small telephone box and post box which add to the distinctive British look. (The post box incidentally is based on one just across the street, rather than the traditional red all-over design.) Next up, I need some more walls to match the church for the churchyard.<br />
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Finally, thanks to my tame in-house photo-shop wizard who kindly volunteered to remove extraneous off-table 'clutter' from these shots.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-29239626343582424032015-01-01T11:53:00.001+00:002015-01-01T11:53:03.138+00:00End of Year Round-UpA final post to round up what I've been doing in 2014 and what I have plans for in 2015.<br />
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First, though I do hope that everyone has had/is having a good Christmas/New Year break. As regards Xmas presents, a couple of my gifts this year were wargaming related. The most obvious one was Andrew Field's new book on Quatre Bras: Prelude to Waterloo.<br />
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I really enjoyed the author's book on Waterloo, so I am looking forward to a chance to read this through. The other game related gifted I had was Command & Colors Napoleonics: Austrian Expansion. I've tried the first scenario and that was quite jolly.<br />
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In all I played/umpired a total of 11 games in 2014: of these the most numerous was Chain of Command for VBCW, which I've run a total of 5 times. This was definitely my main project this year. Other games played included 2 games of Sharp Practice at <a href="http://wargamingrediscovered.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/operation-market-larden-2.html">OML2</a> and a most memorable a trip to Peterborough to play in their <a href="http://wargamingrediscovered.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/peterborough-games-day-bloody-omaha.html">Bloody Omaha, IABSM</a> game.<br />
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I've also played several napoleonics games, including Quatre Bras using the Age of Eagles rules.<br />
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As for painting, I'm pretty pleased with what I have achieved. I reckon that I have painted about 180 15mm figures this year, plus 7 vehicles and a few buildings. The majority of these were for VBCW Chain of Command: the figs for this are all Peter Pig though from a mixture of periods (SCW, WW2, or WW1). I am pleased to say that this project is now just completed. There was also a fair number of napoleonics painted, mainly for the Quatre Bras game.<br />
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I've also painted 30 28mm figures this year. These were mainly for use with our RPG group (commonly known in our circle as 'Pixies') but I also painted a very few 28mm Victrix British Infantry. There aren't many pictures of 28mm figures on this blog so here are a couple:<br />
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The thing I am most pleased with this year are the set of 4 local buildings for use with VBCW which I commissioned from <a href="http://www.rapierminiatures.co.uk/page/Range/HACME.html">HACME</a>. Three of these were used for the first time in my <a href="http://wargamingrediscovered.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/counterattack-at-old-house.html">last VBCW game</a>. It has been my Christmas project to paint the fourth, a church. It is still a WIP, but is quite splendid:<br />
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As for 2015, gaming wise, I am sure that there will be more VBCW Chain of Command. I am also keen to do another version of Quatre Bras this time using the Le Feu Sacre rules, (at about 1:2 battalions). That will be my first priority for painting in the New Year; there are only about half a dozen units I need to complete. After that I hope to do either the French & Indian Wars (using Muskets & Tomahawks or Sharp Practice) or a Wars of the Roses skirmish game using a rules crossover of Sharp Practice/Dux Britanniarum (I could use the church!!). Of course there's lots more stuff I want to play too. I also hope in 2015 to make a trip to the Waterloo battlefield.<br />
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Happy Gaming in 2015 to everyone.<br />
<br />Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-17279010340274209852014-12-23T22:12:00.002+00:002014-12-23T22:12:13.211+00:00Counterattack at the Old House<br />
Another game of VBCW Chain of Command which I played last week with Chris P. <br />
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It's been a while since we played but having three very fine new houses from <a href="http://www.rapierminiatures.co.uk/page/Range/HACME.html">Hacme</a>, I was keen to get another game in. This was played with the Attack/Defend scenario with the BUF attacking and an Anglian force defending. Chris took the BUF with a standard paramilitary platoon supported by a Vickers MkVI light tank and an 18pdr field gun while I had a mixed force of militia and one section of sailors (12 men but no MG) supported by a Morris armoured car. It was a game played in excellent spirit and we both thoroughly enjoyed it.<br />
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Here we see the first of my sections deploys to defend the Old House; see how they are still some way back from it though. Their MG manned the wall just next to front of the house while the rifle team went inside (and were promptly killed by some very concentrated fire).<br />
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My A/C <strike>bravely</strike> foolishly drove down the road (A/C's do tend to like roads) hoping to deter any BUF armour. Unfortunately an AT rifle team popped up from beside the building and in their first shot killed my driver. This didn't actually immobilise the A/C but effectively it did.<br />
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Here we see the remains of my rifle team running; they left promptly as Chris ended the turn, taking their leader with them, (that's bad). Meanwhile the ATR continued to bounce shots off my A/C until eventually it had excess shock and the crew bailed out.</div>
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Here is a nice shot from the other end of the table (courtesy of Chris) showing his Vickers tank which wisely kept well away back from my A/C and any possible ATR of mine. It added useful support to his infantry from distance.<br />
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While on the other side the BUF deployed an old 18pdr field gun in a position which was well placed to dominate at least half the table. Also as it fires HE it reduces cover by one level.<br />
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To counter the field gun the Anglicans deployed their sailors who did shoot up the gun crew a bit (but not enough). They also tried to get flanking fire on BUF infantry in the centre but their over-enthusiasm saw them break cover and become dangerously exposed (I rolled a double 6 for movement).<br />
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By this stage I could see the writing on the wall. However I deployed my final section in the centre to try to support (more replace) the first lot. They were quickly shot up and my forces withdrew badly demoralised.<br />
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In fact I did not even force my opponent to make even one roll on the force morale table and I only managed to kill 4 of his men. I lost count of how many I lost. (In fact I said well before the end that I would have withdrawn but we carried on as there was plenty of time before dinner). <br />
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With hindsight I now realise that I did not get my jump off points in positions where they could really support each other and I probably tried to defend a position too far up the table, though I was supposed to be defending the the village and specifically the 'Old House', which is the green one. (I had some pretty poor rolls too). Chris on the other hand managed to get his jump off points in positions where they were all really useful and was able to deploy his troops very effectively.<br />
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A few weeks ago (I am behind with updating the blog, again) my good friend Derek came around to play a Napoleonic game. We essentially used the Black Powder rules with about a dozen units on each side on the grounds they should be fun and quite simple .</div>
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I have had Black Powder for a while but have never done very much with it. I'll confess that I not much enamored with all the mechanics. For example the Command mechanic which makes a triple move so much more likely than than a double move; I do think this can be quite easily fixed though by making a double move the maximum available and allowing this on a roll of 3 or more less than command (I am an incorrigible fiddler with rules). I also made a few other minor rule changes including introducing a penalty to shooting for units which have just moved.</div>
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The scenario was intended to be straightforward with one infantry brigade (4 units) per side initially quickly followed by the arrival of a brigade of cavalry and then somewhat later by a second brigade of infantry. I, as the allied player, chose to have Brunswickers initially (I could have had Dutch if I'd preferred) followed by a brigade of British/Highland Infantry. The French were umm, French; their second brigade were Guards (a somewhat unusual appearance on the table for them). Unfortunately, due to poor scenario design on my part the game didn't get anywhere near finishing and sadly neither the Britigh infantry nor the Grognards got to play much part. However as a proof of concept it was well worthwhile and we learnt a good deal about how these rules work. It was also very good fun.</div>
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Derek definitely had the edge, in that he took the farm in the centre and beat my cavalry; his lancers saw off two units of British dragoons. Here are a few pics of the game; we used 15mm figs with a relatively small number per unit (typically 12 for an infantry unit) and a 50% reduction in scale.</div>
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It's been at least a couple of years now since GW got rid of their Citadel range of 'foundation' paints. Personally I was always fond of them as I think you give a very nice base layer that you can then do other stuff with. My stocks of most of the ones I've been using have now hit a critical point.<br />
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For most things nowadays I have moved over to Coat d'arms paints but I havn't found a good substitute for the foundations. So, inspired by some recent E-bay activity of my good lady, I decided to try there. I found a complete set; but it was in Australia and I'd prefer not to fly stuff half way round the world so I passed on that.<br />
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Then I tried Amazon and rather to my surprise was able to pick up a pretty good haul (see above) just from a simple order. They were more expensive (I recall about £4.50 a pot) but worth it at least for me. Should keep me in foundations paints at least for a while yet.<br />
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In the meantime if anyone knows where to get some Calthan Brown or Necrite Red or indeed more generally a good replacement for the foundation paints I'd be very grateful.<br />
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Just as I was getting towards the end of my VBCW project a month or two ago, TFL published their (free) <a href="http://toofatlardies.co.uk/blog/?p=3013">BIG Chain of Command</a> supplement. A quick count up and I found rather to my surprise that I was actually within touching distance of having the figures I needed for it. A small order from <a href="http://www.peterpig.co.uk/">Peter Pig</a> and here we are so I thought I would show off the various platoon options that I have available. </div>
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Whether I will actually do big CoC is not yet decided but it certainly gives me plenty of options to play with...</div>
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The buildings here are my latest acquisition. They were commissioned from <a href="http://www.rapierminiatures.co.uk/page/Range/HACME.html">HACME</a>. They are local buildings from my village and I am VERY pleased with them. They are still working on a church for me; I am looking forward to seeing that.</div>
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Anglican militia (at Flemdyke House)</div>
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BUF militia (at the Six Bells - why do the fascists get the beer?)</div>
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British regulars at the Old House (only half painted yet)</div>
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Here are the regular's missing mortar and ATR teams, a couple of their leaders and a tripod MG support in the background. </div>
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And finally, my vehicle collection: three trucks, 2 armoured cars (Lanchester & Rolls Royce) and a Vickers Mark VI tank, not forgetting the bicycles. There are also a couple more vehicles still on the painting table.<br />
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All figures are by Peter Pig (15mm). Vehicles are PP, QRF or Zvezda.<br />
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As it's Remembrance Sunday, I thought that I would post a few pictures of the poppies at the Tower of London which we saw last weekend. As you can see it was pretty busy and although the crowds were very respectful I think that did somewhat detract from the solemnity of it:</div>
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(All photos taken with my i-pad)<br />
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Later today we will be visiting a 'living history' exhibit in the village. Here's the poster my wife did for it. I am also curious to see who will be playing the last post this morning. My son has done it the last two years but now he is away at university.<br />
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A somewhat belated update: And in case anyone was wondering, the 'Keep the Home Fires Burning' event was excellent; very moving and extremely well attended. Fulbourn was the host to one of the first convalescent hospitals and it was mostly (though not entirely) about that with many people taking the parts of wounded soldiers, nurses and other people connected to the hospital. An excellent piece of community theatre. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me, though. Well done to Jenny and all involved.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-54537887778507370752014-10-19T10:38:00.000+01:002014-10-19T10:38:05.083+01:0029 Let's Go<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Like many on 'Planet Lard' I have bought a copy of the new Chain of Command supplement '29 Let's Go' this week. This is the first of <a href="http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25&products_id=155">Too Fat Lardies</a> 'pint-sized' campaigns, so called because they are available for the princely sum £3.50, about the same as a pint of beer in a pub.<br />
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It depicts the advance by the US 29th Division just after D-day to take Isigny-sur-mer and allow a link up between the Omaha & Utah sectors. There are five scenario in all depicting historical encounters on 8th June.<br />
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I didn't buy this because I hope to play the campaign. As you will know if you've read some of my earlier posts my main interest in Chain of Command is VBCW, (which I am still working on btw). Indeed I don't run WWII games; if I did I would probably favour Operation Seelowe or maybe the Western Desert. All-in-all it's unlikely I will get into gaming Normandy.<br />
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So why did I buy it? Well it's for the historical interest. I visited Normandy on holiday earlier this year, so I was interested mainly to see where the games would be set & find out more. I am not disappointed. As is usual for Richard Clarke's work the depth of historical understanding is very impressive and its very clear that he has really done his research. There is a extended historical background section and it gave me several insights into the Omaha sector of the campaign that had escaped me until now; not least why the allies felt they had no choice but to land there (I may well be ignorant, I know...). So I would really recommend it just for that.<br />
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As for the games themselves, I will not say too much. They are of course, not balanced. The Americans, with many more assets have a fresh platoon for each game and plenty of Sherman tanks, whereas the Germans have to try desperately to make their resources last. You really get a feel for how thinly the Germans were stretched. On the other hand the Germans have only to slow down the yanks to 'win' the campaign on the basis that will allow their troops to escape to the other side of the Aure river (thereby preventing a link up to Utah).<br />
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All in all its fascinating stuff and excellent value too.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-61093238379403013452014-09-27T18:34:00.003+01:002014-09-27T23:18:44.678+01:00Quatre Bras - Age of Eagles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
As I mentioned in the previous post, I have been hoping to play Quatre Bras using the Age of Eagles rules. Last weekend I managed to find the opportunity to do so, playing solo. Overall it was pretty successful and I found that the rules played quite quickly and easily (though inevitably for a first time out I got a few things wrong). I did run out of time unfortunately only getting through 9 turns (the game is supposed to last for 12 in all) but I think that the result was fairly clear by then; Vive L'Empereur!; the French had clear control of QB and had inflicted significantly more casualties than the Allies.</div>
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Here is the view at the start of the game (2:00pm) from the Allied side. You can see Bjilandt's brigade, with attached battery waiting just beyond the stream and Saxe-Weimar's Nassauers in the Bossu.<br />
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.. And here are the French. Each unit represents one brigade & you can see they heavily outnumber the allies initially, especially in cavalry (though there is little space space to maneuver all that cavalry in). According to the written scenario L'Heritier's division of dragoons & cuirassiers are also supposed to start but I decided to bring them on a little later as reinforcements. Even without them there's quite enough troops to cause congestion.<br />
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Here we are a couple of turns in. The French are beginning to get within range of their adversaries and have started to bombard them. In the distance you can maybe just make out the figure of Wellington watching cautiously from Quatre Bras itself.<br />
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Help begins to arrive for the Allies in the form of Van Merlen's Dutch-Belgian cavalry brigade followed closely by Picton's division; (I realised after the game that they were in the wrong place!)<br />
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Contact! Bjilandt's brigade is charged by both the French infantry of Bachelu's division and Pire's lancers. Having previously bombarded them with 3 batteries, the French had a serious advantage...<br />
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...And rolled well too, leaving Bjilandt's lot in flight. Still the clock is ticking (we're now on turn 4, 4pm) and the allies are arriving in more force.<br />
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Merlen's cavalry who had attempted to support Bjilandt are countered by Lefebre-Desnouettes & the red (ie Dutch!) lancers. Something of a grudge match perhaps. This was to be the first of several clashes between these two units in which the Imperial lancers gradually pushed their opponents back, until eventually they were driven from the filed.<br />
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Here, a little later on turn 5 (4:30pm), we see probably the crucial moment of the battle. Kempt's brigade at the head of Picton's division is contacted by the French lancers. They are still in march column having been unluckily disordered by a bombardment and stubbornly refused to change formation despite the urgings of Picton and the Duke himself. This is not looking good for the allies...Even though the highlanders are made of tough stuff they are pushed right back by the lancers allowing the French into Quatre Bras.<br />
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Meanwhile in the Bossu the Foy's division pushed back the Nassauers and then in a comedy moment the Nassuer's pushed themselves back a whole lot more by badly failing a 'march' roll when disordered. This left the French in undisputed control of the woods.<br />
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Here we see the position at the start of Turn 7 (indicated by the big D20). The French definitely have the upper hand though Allied reinforcements are coming to stem the tide. Heading to try to retake the Bossu are a brigade of Brunswickers while Alten's division is just arriving. At the right you can see the 'Arc of Fire' template which is a very handy (useful for other games too, I hope)<br />
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The Allied position begins to look more stable as they manage to form a line, from which they can counter-attack though its well back from Quatre Bras itself. The French meanwhile are struggling to bring up their artillery to help renew the assault.<br />
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Here you can see that the French are firmly in control of Quatre Bras though a Brigade of Brunswickers are preparing to challenge them for it. Just beyond QB a brigade of Brunswicker hussars (I admit that I used British hussars to represent them, shame!) are challenging French chasseurs.<br />
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The Red lancers have finally seen off Merlen's brigade. They breakthrough onto Kempt's brigade but the doubty Scots formed square and repulsed them<br />
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A final desperate attack on Quatre Bras itself by the Brunswickers is repulsed. With that, the Allies withdrew in good order (and I called it a day) at the end of turn 9 (6:30pm).<br />
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Here are a few more pics of the final scene....<br />
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Saxe Weimar holds the line beyond the Bossu, now with support from Kielmansegge's Hanoverians.<br />
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Here you can see L'Heritier & his dragoons and beyond them are the Chasseurs de la Guarde & the masses of French infantry.<br />
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Four French generals...Kellerman doffs his hat to Ney in Gemioncourt (his cavalry didn't get into action). On the other side of the stream are Jerome (in the grey coat) and Reille.<br />
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Age of Eagles is hardly a 'buckets of dice' game. Here is the entire collection of dice which I used; 2 D20's (used as D10's).<br />
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As I said I enjoyed the game a lot and am very pleased with how it came out. The main mistake I made, I now realise, was with the Allied reinforcements as I brought almost all of them on at the Nivelles road. In fact, according to the scenario (and other sources) Picton's Division and the Brunswickers arrived on the Brussels road which would make a significant difference.<br />
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I also think I used Built Up Areas which were a bit too big; I've seen it suggested that in AoE a typical BUA should be no more than 4" sq and sometimes 2"sq; my buildings were much bigger than that. There isn't a lot of space on the table and if I had used smaller BUAs it might have helped.<br />
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As for the rules I am pretty pleased with the way they went; I especially like the way that the labeling of the brigades (and leaders) means that you know exactly who is squaring up against each other. My main criticism would be that as Wellington has a +2 advantage (on a D10) over Ney on initiative he always consistently won, meaning that he always chose to go first in the turn making the game a bit IGO-UGO. If Ney had won the initiative at some point it could have had a big effect, not least as the French would then get two turns on the bounce.<br />
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Next up in my schedule is to play QB using the Too Fat Lardies LFS rules and see how that compares. It will be a bigger game as LFS works at a different level of AoE so I will need to get a few more troops: more French dragoons, another unit or two of French infantry and a couple of units of British guards (and maybe some Brunswick hussars!). Might be a little while though as I don't even have the figures yet & I have plenty of other painting to do.Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-90345839814244115232014-08-30T22:05:00.001+01:002014-09-27T11:03:10.518+01:00Vive L'Empereur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post is in some sense a celebration. It has been a long term project of mine to paint up the troops required for Quatre Bras & then game it. A couple of months ago I finally completed this & the pictures in this post are of some of the last troops; it's taken me a while to get half-decent pictures sorted out. As part of this I decided to 'treat' myself by painting up this Napoleon figure. </div>
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Above are Ney, Napoleon and Lefebvre-Desnouettes at La Belle Alliance. Of course Napoleon himself will not be needed for Quatre Bras as he's busy beating the Prussians at Ligny (the Prussians are another long term project, but there are plenty of others). I plan to use some buildings from Hovel's Waterloo range for QB; the terrain I need is pretty much sorted, I hope.</div>
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These are two units of Hanoverians, rather than British, sporting stovepipe shakos & the officers/NCO's have yellow sashes. They will form part of Kielmansegge's brigade.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I now have all the figures that I need to do Quatre Bras using the Age of Eagles rules, which I intend to try out for the first time in a couple of weeks' time. After that the plan will be to do QB with the LFS rules (a somewhat down-sized scenario I admit; I will need to paint just a couple more units for that). I hope it will be interesting to see how the two compare; I might then try Shako. I confess that I've not really settled on a set of rules for Napoleonic battles so I hope this will help me decide.</span><br />
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Finally, while painting up these guys I produced a couple of officers for use as big men in Sharp Practice, (I use the same 15mm figs). I am especially pleased with the new Capt Fondler as the rifles officer I was using before was bit of a dull figure. </div>
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All figures incidentally are AB, apart from those on the shot of the Duke of Orange which are Essex.</div>
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PS Originally published on 30 August 2014, re-published on 27 September with better versions of photos.</div>
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<br />Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-48812619061771726822014-08-10T14:44:00.000+01:002014-08-10T14:44:21.533+01:00What I did on my holidays in FranceApologies that I'be been away from this blog for some time. I have several things that I want to write about but, for various reasons, it just hasn't happened.<br />
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Most recently I've been on holiday in Northern France, Brittany and Normandy and very nice it was too.<br />
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For a lot of the time we were walking along the 'granite' coast of Brittany. It was very easy walking (good as we're not that fit) and very satisfying walking from hotel to hotel. Perhaps of more interest to readers here though, we then had a few days in NORMANDY staying in Bayeux. In all I spent about a day & half doing various of the battle sites.<br />
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First up we visited the famous Pegasus Bridge where Major Howard's gliders landed. We were lucky to see it open for a passing boat. This is actually a replacement, the original bridge (which I think is somewhat smaller) is in the Pegasus museum nearby. I peeked over the fence to get a look at it but we didn't have the time to go around the museum itself.<br />
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Then a walk along the canal, towards nearby Le Port. There was fierce fighting here and in nearby B<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span>nouville throughout D-Day as the paras held off German counterattacks.<br />
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This church is well known to me at least from the Too Fat Lardies, Chain of Command game which was run at both Salute and at Operation Market Larden this year. It was very atmospheric to see this place I had read about for real. A lot fewer visitors here of course than at Pegasus Bridge & the Caf<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span> Gondr<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span>e.<br />
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This house, shown both as it is today and as it was on D-Day was said to be the first house in France to be liberated by seaborne troops.<br />
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As one of my other interests is cycling, I was especially interested in this board. Apparently the Canadian landing craft included bicycles with the intention that these be used to allow the troops to get inland quickly. Some of these pictures show the troops wading ashore with their bikes! <br />
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Finally on to Pointe Du Hoc, where the US rangers climbed up the cliffs to the battery at the top. It is amazing to think that anyone could have done that under fire. Although they quickly secured a foothold at the clifftop, it wasn't until 8th June that the battery was fully taken by the Americans.<br />
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Here is a view back towards Omaha beach (which we didn't visit).<br />
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I found Pointe du Hoc an amazing and very moving place even though it was by far the busiest of the sites we went to. (You can see the hoards just trying to edge into this picture)<br />
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I also visited a couple of the bigger D-Day museums. I plan to write about those separately, when I have a moment. There is though loads more to see and if I get a chance to go back, I'd love to see more.<br />
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If you ever have the chance, also do not miss the Bayeux Tapestry. This is very well displayed and we, at least, were fortunate that it were very quiet when we were then. There was a somewhat annoying audioguide which you could not pause, thus encouraging you to keep moving smartly so as to keep up with it; we quickly gave that up and just enjoyed the tapestry, occasionally trying to decipher the latin.<br />
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Here is one of my favourite scenes with 'Conan' (the guy on the rope) fleeing from Dol-en-Bretagne where he has been attacked by William (and Harold).<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">And finally, I reached a personal milestone of my own while in Bayeux. I also seem to have sprouted three allied flags from the top of my head!</span></div>
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<br />Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-43243289500800791722014-06-16T22:02:00.000+01:002014-06-16T22:08:56.231+01:00Operation Market Larden 2On Saturday I had a trip over to Evesham to the <a href="http://wyvernwargamers.org.uk/">Wyvern Wargamers</a> club for a day devoted to Too Fat Lardies games. I did this last year and had a really good day. This year I had not expected to be able to go but the in the end a place came up at the last moment and I travelled over with <a href="http://troubleatthemill.blogspot.co.uk/">Mike</a> from Peterborough. I had an even better day this time, I think. The atmosphere was really good and everyone seemed to be having a great time. One of things I like about Evesham is that it is very central so we had people coming from a very wide area, from North, South, East & West.<br />
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In the morning I played an excellent game of Sharp Practice, Indian Mutiny run by Simon Walker: 'Saving Mrs Ryan'. This was a real treat to look at with a table with lots of lovely bits of detail on it. I took the part of the mutineers together with Steve, whose troops were all armed with 'big choppers' but no firearms. Our task was to stop <a href="http://dusttears.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/operation-market-larden-2-day-of-lard.html">Stuart</a> and Geoff's British who we're trying to get through the village and board the boats. Steve's guys piled in bravely, while my chaps, who arrived in column down the road backed them up. By the time we stopped at lunch, we'd knocked some pretty significant holes in the British and although some of them would probably have escaped I'm pretty sure many of them wouldn't without a stiff fight from my mutineers. A 'jolly good game'.<br />
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In the afternoon I played another game of Sharp Practice with Dave and John. This time what I would call 'classic' napoleonic in the Peninsular. This was another very enjoyable game run by Jim Ibbotson and again it was lovely to look at. This was a three cornered affair with French, Spanish and British. I chose as the British to go with light infantry and rifles whereas in the morning they went with line, which probably helped to vary it a bit. </div>
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It was quite difficult to coordinate between the British and Spanish, not least was we had different objectives: the Spanish to hold the village and the British to 'rescue' one of the Spanish big men who was a British spy. I did succeed in getting my leader over to the Spanish priest and tried to talk him round but frankly had more important things on his mind (like stopping his men getting killed by the French). I did quite well in getting my rifles to snipe at the French line from long range, but left my flank open and my lights were charged from behind which wasn't great. I think the French probably shaded it even though none of us technically fulfilled our objectives. An excellent scenario which I am very tempted to steal, though I will need some Spanish first.<br />
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Chain of command: Rich's Le Port game which he took to <a href="http://wargamingrediscovered.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/salute-2015.html">Salute</a></div>
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Geoff Tin Star game, which was back for a second year.<br />
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Another Chain of Command game. Benouviulle on D-day run by <a href="http://bulletsbandagesandlard.blogspot.co.uk/">Ade</a>, which I know he'd researched painstakingly.<br />
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Kiss Me Hardy run by the author Nick Skinner. I'm really a land lubber with my gaming but the look of this did leave me tempted...<br />
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'<a href="http://sidneyroundwood.blogspot.co.uk/">Sidney Roundwood'</a>'s Verdun game, Operation Gericht. Again heavily researched and with lots of background to add to the excitement<br />
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Tim Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732672774177144572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646158813249458546.post-49302940986574373382014-06-09T21:23:00.002+01:002014-06-09T21:23:48.390+01:00Peterborough Games Day - Bloody OmahaThis weekend I was able to attend an all day game at the Peterborough club and to play in Mike Whitaker's 'Bloody Omaha'. This was my first ever game of IABSM and it was just awesome.<br />
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Mike took the part of the Germans, while the rest of us, Alex, Carl, Andy B(?) and myself took the Americans. Needless to say it was a struggle and of course we took took pretty heavy casualties. However, ultimately we were successful in establishing a pathway off the beach.<br />
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In fact we were pretty fortunate in that the '88' firing down the beach was dispatched early on by naval bombardment and that meant that our Sherman DD's lasted a lot longer than was expected. Also the German artillery was clearly engaged elsewhere most of the time as they were late turning up and only managed a couple of fire missions.<br />
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A special thanks to another Andy (M, I believe) who had a big hand in the terrain but who wasn't there for most of the day! You can read more about it on Mike's own blog, <a href="http://troubleatthemill.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/bloody-omaha-trial-run.html">Trouble At t'Mill</a>.<br />
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Finally, if you are going to OML next week, where Mike is running the game again, this is a real treat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pushing on ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">..and over the line. Beach-head established!</td></tr>
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So that was Bloody Omaha. This has done nothing to discourage me from getting into IABSM. Oh dear another project for the list...<br />
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Before the game proper, we mucked around a bit with the rules and it happened very differently.... Three Sherman DDs knocked out by the '88' in short order!<br />
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