ACW Batrep - The Battle of Old Man's Cabin

Some of the Rejects got together for a game last Sunday, Postie put on a 6 man ACW game, one of the 6 was fellow Blogger Loki from Loki's Great Hall. We've been trying to arrange a game for Loki for nearly a year now, but what with my and Fran's shift patterns in was a nightmare.

Now I'm afraid unlike most of my batreps, this one's quite short??? The reasons for this you'll find out if you carry on reading??

The enemy

Rich, Ian and Fran

The Dirty Bluebellies

The Confederate set up

Dave at the bottom, me in the middle and Loki at the top

Believe it or not, there was a battle plan for us Confederates but..............

The centre of the field

The right....

Now here's where things started to go a little tits up!

Loki bangs on about his unlucky dice throwing ability, but us Rejects have Lee to compare the boast with.

But Loki could be the new Champion shit dice thrower!

In the pic above Fran charged down the road in column? A dodgy but quite legit move, Loki would have done the same if we had won the first move.

So it went down to melee, Fran threw a 9, Loki threw a......................1

Shit!

Meanwhile on our left Dave and Richard squared up

I unlimbered my guns and changed into line, Ian did the same.

It was getting very messy on the right, Fran won the melee and charged again

8-1 to Fran....%$£!&^%!!!!

It was then Loki's time for revenge, he charged Fran's unit and guess what he threw in the melee

another bloody 1!!

He looked very pleased with himself...the tit!

Fran's hero unit sits looking pretty in a sea of shit Confederate units!

Fran's hero troops are finally pushed back, although If I remember correctly it was

 from a bad morale throw?

I talked Loki into charging the now depleted unit which was spent (red marker)

Guess what Loki threw in the melee? I'm not even going to type the bloody number!

After a few more bad move roles by us Confeckingerates I threw in the towel.

Ian managed to get 7 units setup in line in the centre while I was still poncing around, trying to set up

Loki was in a hell of a mess on the right. Dave still had a chance to at least to try and do the Union some harm, but in a mere 2 hours we'd basically had it. There was no chance on earth that we'd win the game.
Utter spanking complete!!!

So plan 2 was set in motion ( Sorry Postie!!)

Another game was set up..........

Prepare for the Battle of Loki's Revenge!!!

RP No160 French NYW Infantry Royal Italian regt

Hmmm? Nearly a month since my last post?? That's bad......still no painting done.....let alone blogging?

Just as the title of the post says, its another Nine Years War French unit!!

These were painted back in Feb-March of this year and very nearly made it into Curt's Challenge

I just had to paint this unit up, you don't very often get to paint units in a brown coat unless like Loki you're painting up Continental line units for the AWI.

The unit in question the Royal Italian regt is 1 of the two brown coated units from the period, in the French army, the other being Provence. The unit fought in the battles of Walcourt, Fleurs, Namur, Neerwinden, Brussels, Dixmunde and the siege's of Deysne and d'Ath.

Broadside 2014 - The Battle of Shaho

I thought it was about time I got the Posties Rejects game the Battle of Shaho up on the blog?? This new job is seriously taking up all my time....Goddammit!!!
We did plan on doing a Skirmish game for Broadside but Postie kept going on about the Russo-Japanese War and he had a secret plan?? The secret plan (the balloon) remained a secret until the day before for me and on the day for the rest of the Rejects. I've already said it but I'll say it again. The Balloon was a real winner and helped us to win the Best at Show prize.
I't was rather warm in the centre as Fran mentioned here, on his post about the game
Anyway on with the game........

We picked the sides randomly, Me and Surj were the Russians and Fran and Lee were the Japanese.
Now here's the bone of contention.....Don't believ them lying Gits Fran and Lee, all along the plan for the game was to PLAY it, as and when we could throughout the day. It was his Nibs Posties idea to play the game like we would in the shed, Its not my fault that Fran and Lee are Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee!!

A close up of the base of the balloon, for extra strength Postie melted down some old figures and caste a base, the figures were once all holding flagpoles and guns.

The Balloon itself was made from a polystyrene ball, the basket was simply made out of card, but the most delicate and cleverest thing for me was the stringwork...Nice one Postie

Simple plan for me and Surg....try and not get blown to pieces from the masses of Russian artillery opposite us. We deployed our artillery behind the hill, as we had the balloon, we would only incur a minus 1 firing indirectly.

For some strange reason the Japanese moved forward instead of deploying, this bought it immediately in range of some of our infantry???

We're gonna wait here behind the hill until we really have to move.......

Two units of Russian Cossacks.....not the best troops you'd hope for in battle??

People were getting confused, who were the troops in white??

Fran was obviously doing something wrong

Fran....what a happy chappie!!!

We advanced up the hill and went prone.

The Cossacks advance........

Fran - "Dis is my soldier"...Lee - "And dis is my widdle soldier"

An ariel view....with added charging artillery???

Why??

Oops, Bang goes their artillery.

The Japanese advance, you should have heard the moaning....

Another balloon pic

The village of Shaho, all hand made by Postie apart from the building itself.

Surj moved our only machine gun around the flank to give fire,

 

In typical Cossack style after taking a few casualties and promptly failing their morale, one unit buggerd off!!

Plugging the Thin White Line

Charge!!!

The Japanese were taking a pounding, they'd nearly lost all their artillery, so we pounded 

their Infantry instead

The Japs were getting miffed at this point???

But they continued their attack, their numbers were thinning quite dramatically!!

Postie made the Prone markers

Close ups of the balloon!

We were about to fire our infantry, when we decided to take a short break

But the throws never came as the two Tweedles decided not to play on

the rattles were well and truly thrown out of the prams!!

So that was it, they tried to claim a tactical draw, what a load of old cobblers!

Get in there!!!!