It's the 275th anniversary Culloden on the 16th and now that I have care of some jacobites I organised an online zoom game with mates from Oldmeldrum Wargames Club.
Scenario notes and background were issued to the players before hand and the game itself was based on Prestonpans. A slight comms hiccup meant the Hanoverian commander didn't get orders back in time and one of his colleagues had the men deploy facing Edinburgh rather than the Jacobites who had listened to advice, looked at at the map and decided to march round the back of the redcoats.
The battle was confusing, bloody and broke down into individual scraps and firefights. The melee capabilities of the clansmen were ferocious and the raw redcoats suffered from being wrong footed, struggling to turn and prepare and being poor shots. Not all went for the Jacobites - they lost control over their men once the clans got close enough to charge and at times fluffed activation rolls and had units retire whilst the action was still in full swing. However it went badly for the Hanoverians and they couldn't get organised to get their raw troops from causing anything other than minor damage to the highlanders. Their formation broke up and around half were cut down or fled by the games end.
A historical result and nice getting some toys on the tabletop
5 comments:
Looks great! Lovely minis and camp...
A lovely looking game Stuart...
All the best. Aly
Thank you both,
The tents are 3D prints. Not sure if 100% correct but it's all I had and a camp was required. The Redcoats are Crann Tara and the Jacobites are from Warrior.
Hey Johnny Cope are Ye waulkin' yet, or are your drums a beating yet....?!
He wis sound-o 'at day richt enough. 😉
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