The first game up was a refight of the battle of Soor, from the War of Austrian succession in 1745. We used the Honours of War rules from Osprey for this.
The Prussian right wing, facing the Austrians up the hill.
The Saxons advancing in column toward the town and Prussian center.
The Prussian left, with their camp.
Facing them the Austrian left.
Frederick's cavalry charge up the hill
The Austrians advance on the left. Cresting the hill they become exposed to the Prussian guns.
The Saxons creep closer.
The Prussian left flank is threatened. The guns wheel to fire at the cavalry.
Battle rages in the center
The Austrians close, but has anyone in camp spotted the danger?
Doesn't look like it!
The Prussians didn't quite have the numbers or the dice to punch thru the Austrians. It was getting close though and there were only a few units difference. Great set of rules for big games - this one was larger than the scenarios in the book, and everyone picked it up quite quickly.
Thanks to Colin and Robbie for running and umpiring the game!
After that we retired for a while and had a few drinks and then a nice dinner followed by much more drinks til late in the night....
Day Two was more 18thC, this time Great Northern War - a fictional scenario based on a river crossing in Finland. The Russians were to cross the river and surprise the Swedes, who were forced to bring up their forces to hold them back.
The Russian right crosses the Saari
As does the left, oh and here come the Swedes!
Time to get out of there!
The line will advance!
On the right the Russians drive forward....
But it's all over on the left......except for the "Russians Who Would Not Die!"
Another cracking game, run by Paul with some home made rules which seemed to capture the spirit of the antagonists really well. He must have done a good job as I bought a load of Musketeer Russians from him!
And that was only lunchtime !
So.....time for one more game?? Oh yes I think so!
The time, The Sudan!
I'd managed to get myself cut off from by mahdist troops and had to hold out until rescued. That collumn seemed a long long way up the table!
They came on thick n fast and my Egyptians blazed away with their rifles to hold them back, but they burst through the zariba.
Help is at hand!
However I managed to take out a fair few the Arabs and fuzzies attacking my position and destroy their captured gun. My brave fellah's advanced and escorted her ladyship to the collumn which by now had battled it's way through every clump of bush, dune and rocky outcrop full of the chosen one's tribesmen, lost and found the path, helped the war correspondents who'd wondered off and even bought some dirty postcards!
Another great game, this time using The Sands of The Sudan rules and some very very very nice classic Hinchcliffe and new Perry figures from Dave. A special mention also goes to his hand made terrain mat - looked almost as deserty as the real thing.
Thanks very much to Graham of Crann Tara for organising the event and to everyone I gamed with. It was a real pleasure and I'm looking forward very much to doing it again next year.
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