Saturday, 7 July 2012

The Battle of Amiens, 1918 Demo Game




 I thought it was about time I put a few photo's of The Battle of Amiens demo game that Posties Rejects, put on at Broadside in June. Fran's moaning at me for putting more pics on of the show, the miserable git!!
You can already see a few pics on Fran and BigLee's blogs, but here's my version of what happened during the game.

The Canadians advance.


Some of the Germans troops come out of their dugouts, while other remain in place.

The Germans skulking in their trenches.

The French infantry started a little closer than we'd previously played.

Some very nice targets for German off table artillery???

I shouldn't have just said that??? A direct hit on Richard's "Willy" and it bites the dust!!

Then another tank, suffers a Partial Breakdown, and will move again on turn 6!!!!!! If at all!!!

Hercules makes it to the barbed wire.

Sylvia receives a direct hit and blows up!

The race up the road.

The German trenches are looking a little thinner.

The French Infantry are nearly there!!

The French aren't taking a lot of casualties.

The German machine guns stand up and give fire......perhaps a little too late???
The French advance in a nice pretty line!!!

The French Scout cars take some hits.

The artillery fire template, placed so it may hit as many of our tanks and men as possible!!
A German heavy Machine Guns tries and fails to hit the advancing French Infantry.

Hercules reaches the trenches, this caused the whole German army to take a morale check, if they failed the whole army would retreat.....they passed!


Another Canadian tank reached the wire, were it promptly broke down for the rest of the game!!!

The next turn was the end for the Germans as Fran reached the back trench causes what was left of the
 German Army to run!



49 comments:

  1. Some wonderful photos of a great table...splendid!
    Best,
    Phil.

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  2. Great battlefield layout, and array of troops and armor. The barbed wire is a very nice piece of eye-candy. Did you make it?

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    1. Afraid not, its from a company called The Last Valley, he makes some quality terrain, he's not got his own website, but here's a link to some of his stuff.
      http://www.rayleighwargames.btinternet.co.uk/lvalley.html

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  3. It is really great to see a wonderfull field of battle like this!

    Thank you for putting these pictures up Ray, must give Fran right...It was about damn time!

    Why did you hold out on us? Do you not love us anymore!

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    1. The post has been ready for weeks, other things just took over, glad you like the pics!!!

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  4. Great looking game Ray! What rules did you use?

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    1. We use a set called Barbed Wire, Bullets and Guts, which are written by our very own Postie.

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  5. Nice table Ray and great photo's as well. I'm with Jay, the barbed wire really makes it. That, and the tanks are my favorite.

    Enjoy painting military pieces while you can Rousell, because you've got a mouse to paint. Cue maniacal laughter...

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    1. Oh Shit! The bloody mouse won?????

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    2. Booooooorrrrrrrriiinnnnnng and people voted for the mouse...WTF!

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    3. Yes the feckin' mouse won. How was I suppossed to know that men like mice better than they like Boobies. For fucks sake, my blog is founded on Boobies so don't blame me.

      And don't give me a hard time Fran. Bad things have a way of happening to you when you do that!!!

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  6. That is one hell of a table and it looks bloody amazing there.

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  7. A real treat to look at. I'd run away too if I saw tanks coming!

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  8. Fantastic looking game guys.Nice post Ray.

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  9. I didn't understand the game...(grommpppp) but It looks a great one!
    The frenchies are going to win, I hope!

    The table and the tanks are impressive!

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  10. That's very cool, highly original

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  11. Great table I particularly like the shattered trees ( twigs?)

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    1. Yep! Twigs from the grounds where I work!

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    2. You what????? Fran told us you only eat and sleep! :-D

      Greetings
      Peter
      http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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  12. I love that area, it looks so complete

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  13. Great photos! That looks like an excellent demo you guys put on.

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  14. cool battle and it doesn't matter how many times I see it :-P

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  15. Great game and great pictures. Now if you guys would just start playing with 28/32mm miniatures, a real man's scale it would have been truly epic!

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    1. Far too expensive for poor chaps like us!

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    2. I do sacrifice and eat a lot of ramen noodles

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  16. It looks as good as I remember. But the British artilery must be £*!&! Not a single hit on ther trench line. Picky arn't I. Still a good looking game though.

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    1. We blew up a few bunkers but that's about it, our artillery were not having a very good day!

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  17. Splendid AAR report Ray. Well done to all you Posties.

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  18. Great looking game. Well done sir

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  19. It was really was a great looking table Ray and a triumph for the Rejects first demo game; what to do next?

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    1. Not sure??? Maybe a NYW game or even a War of the Roses game???

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  20. Nicely done. After watching Warhorse, I was looking for something like this.

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    1. Sorry, this was a late war game, no cavalry charges allowed!

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  21. Ray, nice looking game that looked like a blast to play!

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  22. WWI in small scale looks so much more impressive then I would ever have thought!

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    1. Its more grander in 15mm.....well I think that anyway!

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  23. A very impressive setup, I really love this period

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  24. A wonderful table and models, and a very interesting AAR.

    Best regards.

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  25. Great pics of a great looking demo table!

    Christopher

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  26. Great pictures, Ray - that looks to be a tremendous game. I love the destroyed tank base you've put together - first of those I've ever seen, but it works really well. A really interesting game - and not as easy for the Canadians and French as it might have first looked, I'd bet. Well done indeed.

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    1. The destroyed tank was made from a normal tank, but when Posties opened the pack it had 2 of the same side, so instead of sending it back he cut it up and there you have a blown up tank.

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  27. Great pictures and report Ray! And that table looks awesome!

    Thanks for sharing!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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  28. Wonderful... just wonderfull.

    Bravo !

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