It was 28mm again and the old AWI collection PLUS some newly arrived Militias had to be dispersed on the table. I just wanted to replay some of the more interesting battles of the initial Northern Campaign, so what better way to start than the actual search and destroy mission, that started the whole thing ...
After Bart went to the bar ... everybody else decided to be American and to give him the British, what would certainly an easy win, hey, (later Tim defected as well). So Campbell, Alisdair and David were fighting for the Rebellion, while Bart and Tim tried to find the gun and the powder in some hay stacks. We all used Black Powder 2.
Far from being nice, I didn't told them all victory conditions and changed even later some even against some protests on both sides - war is never fair...
The British arrived outside Concord ...and ... drumroll .. the American definitively shot first this time and started the whole disaster - boys, it is on you! I gave them minus 1 VP for that.
Then the skirmishing game and hunt started. Bart had actually a wonderful plan, to amuse "the rustics" with the Light infantry (under the able command of col Tim), while his Grenadiers did a southern-east swing directly bypassing everybody through cross country and attack Lexington directly.
The Americans, a bit rusty with the rules and amateurs of warfare, had severe initial problems of command and coordination. That showed and Barts Grenadiers were able to set two of 3 BUAs of our Lexington alight! (2 Victory points).
Then I changed the incoming time of the Earl Percy by the difference of the VP, and thus counted the grenadier as 1 VP instead of 2. The two grenadier units perished in the following massacre and two further Militias were broken - thus tolling up the bill to 5 vs 3 (2 dead grenadiers and one saved BUA).
That was when Percy actually arrived. Tims LI was saved and the Militia wasn't in the position to really do much more damage and thus I declared the Battle a British victory. We will all wait of course for the Patriot propaganda following suite - see campbell report on SESWC.
Next time, in this line of fire, it will be the infamous slaughter at Bunker Hill ... get ready to make some more recoats even more red!
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| Campbells Thoms Gardener awaits a little too eagerly the British... |
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| The initial deployment, Concord in the front .. |
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| The LI and the Militia started to skirmish ... |
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| Concord seemed to be safe ... |
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| Tim concentrated fire ... |
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| While everybody else was running for Lexington ... |
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| Alisdairs Militia arrived first ... |
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| Davids Militia got stuck in the woods ... |
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| Tims LI blocked a whole brigade ... |
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| The Grenadiers arrive ... |
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| Just small units, BUT ... |
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| The first Grenadier storm a house ... |
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| ... and start setting it afire ... |
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| Then the other unit charges in ... |
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| While Tim fought a gallantly defensive ... |
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| Barts Grenadiers in a blood rush ... |
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| But even them must give way some day ... |
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| The first BUA burns ... |
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| Tim retreats to save VPs ... |
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| The second BUA is burning ... |
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| Then the last grenadier unit got destroyed together with the Royal Photographer ... |
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| The initial set up before I changed it ... |
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| The British stats |
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| The American stats |
Despite the umpire's biased behaviour against the British during the game, we still managed to win. The newly painted units lost the game and the balance is restored. Great game, though.
ReplyDeleteBiased against the British? - tell that Campbell, haha!
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