Sunday 19th July 2015
Campaign game

Tom took over as Wellington and faced battle immediately as the Anglo-Portuguese attempted to push passed the French.
The French deployed along a river with several bridges to defend and the possibility of fords along the banks.

Unknown to the British, the French had engineers prepping the bridges for demolition.

Initial deployment saw Les on the right holding a village across the river and a bridge behind, facing him was Bob with a Division.
Steve held the middle with a village either side of the bridge, this was against Tom with a Division.
Finally, Lee took some cavalry and very light guns to hold the left, against my Division.

French deployment
Right

 Centre

 Left

The allies had to roll to arrive and in turn 1 mine was the only arrivals.

Lee advanced the French artillery and a short duel ensued until the British Shrapnel shredded them and the retreated.

Les sent his cavalry forward which pinned Bob for the game and slowly he was whittled down to a few units left holding the flank. Whilst the French started to retreat unmolested back over the bridge before it was primed for destruction.

In the centre the allies where held up by advanced units of scouts and determined French occupying houses.

The allied right pushed forward, causing problems for the French. The sole French infantry unit tasked with finding an escape route, failed to find a ford. This unit was then pinned against the river and destroyed. Fate wasn't kind to a cavalry unit also when it was enfiladed by 2 batteries of artillery.
Whilst the remaining forces from the flank were finished off with volley fire and canister.
The artillery then advanced into the centre and helped the centre division push the French out.

The final few turns where spent with the British throwing everything across the centre bridge.
It was primed for destruction but on the first turn failed to blow. Cavalry were thrown across only to suffer from crossing fire, and retreat.

Second turn it failed to blow again and Infantry were thrown across, only to again suffer from enfilade fire and be thrown back.

Finally a third attempt to blow the bridge again failed. This time after artillery support fire, more units were sent across the bridge. This time the units reached the explosives and held the far bank.
Game was over and the allies had won a hard fought battle.

Sunday 19th July 2015

WH40K Adam (Necron/Ork) Vs Mark (Tyranid)

It was game on with Adam fielding a combined Necron and Ork army against Mark's Tyranids.

I didn't see the game (as I was playing elsewhere - see other post) but I believe it was a good game with Adams forces overcoming the Nids.
Even after a force of Nids did a deep strike behind the Necron forces.

 Set up

Attack starts

Reinforcements arive

Final Table

Waterloo 1944
The Battle for Le Haye Sainte

Monday 29th June 2015

German forces were holding the historic farm of Le Haye Sainte, there commander was a direct descendant of the original defenders from the KGL - Major Georg Baring.

The new commander, Hauptman Von Smallhousen was heard saying after the battle -

"Ze came on in the Zame way, und we beat them in the zame way"

Initially the forces were deployed in and around the farm, with the Free French (French again!!!!) starting on the ridge just like history.

The planned German flank attacks, stalled initially as command dice were rubbish.
As too were some British dice throws, meaning the majority of armour was off table.

One British commander (Bob!) tried to argue that a tank could shoot through a friendly 1/2 track.

The left flank anti-tank gun scored an early success taking out an M3 1/2 track, but it was empty.

The Right flank gun struggled to get hits, Rob marched slowly up the allied right facing a determined squad of troops who kept rolling the saves, time after time until close range and then they suffered. One stoic defender retrreated but came back at the end undeterred.

On the allied right, once the extra armour arrived, Bob and Tom decided to attack. Taking out the A/T Guns helped, but the smaller ones at the front of the wood ere a thorn in their side needing to be dispatched at bayonet point. Luckily the Axis forces had a mobile gun, initially held in reserve,  to help in the fight against the tanks. The brave Germans who charged forward with panzerfausts were the true heroes on the day, stalling the allied thrust.

The battle ended after 8 turns and night fall, German tanks were heard approaching as a relief force in the distance (Prussians arriving in nick of time?). Their was still a full squad holding the farm and the closest allied units were only just level with the gates. The Germans had held!!
The Allied troops were forced to retreat and leave the victorious (but battered) axis forces in charge of the farm.

Rules were home grown by Lee who also umpired, good set of rules and a great game.

Sunday 21st June 2015

Warhammer 40K

Mark (Chaos Marines) Vs Me (Eldar)
1200 points

 Mark wanted to try out his new Chaos army and so  faced him with my Eldar, as I wanted to try my new Crimson Hunter.

We used objectives and tactical cards to play a game.

It was a close game, but thanks to my Wraith Knights and Crimson hunter,  I came out 10 - 6 wiuner.

If my flyer had come on first and Mark had the chance to fly behind mine, whole outcome might have been different.

A big surprise was a volley of lucky shots form my Rangers taking out 3 of the 5 Deep Striking Terminators rolling 3 6's to wound giving AP2. However they had revenge when they charged into the Rangers.

Objective Markers

The Armies.

Some pics from the battle.

 And Finally, my Crimson Hunter, with a Harlequin paint job.