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Post by Mike Lewis on Sept 16, 2016 13:43:13 GMT
We played a 4-player NWF 54mm game at the Guildford Club this week. It pitched Anthony and Alistair as the British attempting to relieve a Garrison against Andrew and I as the Afghans. We used The Sword and the Flame rules with half size units. The Garrison awaiting rescue The table with the Pathans in hiding. The British advanced cautiously onto the table. In fact, very cautiously as for the first few turns the Halt card came up in the movement phase and Alistair hardly moved his troops at all. The Afghans skulked from cover to cover waiting to see what the British planned and happy to leave the British Garrison to their own devices. The cavalry engage Anthony and Alistair looking confident - this didn't last long! In the end, once the Pathans closed the British firepower failed them and they lost two units to melee quite quickly. At that point, the relief column decided to head for home, leaving the garrison to its fate... As always a lot more pictures and more detailed write up on the blog: mikelewis.info/littlewars/garrison-abandoned/
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Post by spiritofethandune on Sept 16, 2016 16:09:09 GMT
Lies, lies I tell you!
Sadly Mike's telling the absolute truth-we got hammered! Without the Halt cards Alastair would have been able to support me sooner, but on the other hand it worked in our favour too sometimes, especially when a Halt card stopped a pathan unit from firing at a juicy target, giving said target a chance to fire first in the next turn (if it was lucky). It was good to play on a large table area. I'd like to use the Portable Wargame rules with similar sized armies and playing area. Bob's rules make it much easier to launch a co-ordinated attack!
Cheers Anthony
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