Carnage at the Blockhouse at Havoc 30

Rich Wallace's beautiful game of Carnage at the Blockhouse, an AWI game with Colonials attacking a British Blockhouse.

Peter shifts his colonial militia forward, at the game's beginning.  Beautiful terrain as usual.  Way to go Rich.



 

The blockhouse also has a nasty surprise with a cannot on the second floor



Colonial Cavalry prepare to take on British Light Dragoons. 

 

 

 

British Lights assault the militia at the wall.  Only to be shattered by our first fire

 

 

 

 

The Continentals charge the Hessians coming onto the board, only to falter 50 paces short and then get smashed by gunfire.

 

Rich , our gamemaster is hard at work.

The Militia will fire.  These loyalists were sent scurrying away.  A later assault by a British Grenadier unit was more successful.  The militia and colonists held on for a minor victory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Havoc 30 Rhodes assault

I played in a couple of games at Havoc 30 this last weekend.  They included a what if Rhodes hadn't waited for Early at Gettysburg and launched his assault early.   

The Rebs objective was to hold as many sides of the Crossroads in the center of the board in front of where I am fitting, appropriately outfitted in blue.

 



A view from the Reb's Center toward the Crossroads.  At this point two regiments have advanced into range of  my dice of death

 

The rebs charged Rich Wallace's guns and ended up just short.  He fire canister, then eventually had his entire command destroyed.

I had four units along the fence line and the Rebs charged up before I shot them to pieces

My troops at the stone wall had a flank shot on the boys assaulting Rich. 

A very bloody action

 

Christine, Rich and I held the crossroads for the Union. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Hold the pass at Havoc 30

Using a scenario idea from Warning Order Magazine, I designed a Hold the Pass scenario in which a dozen Bavarians attempt to hold a mountain pass from 20 larger Austrian units.  It is designed to be a challenging scenario for the both sides.  The Bavarians need to decide how to allocate their limited resources (troops) and the Austrians have to decide where to send their troops.  In this case they pushed up both flanks into the mountains after drawing the Bavarians attention to a push at the pass.  The Austrians set up there batteries to fire down the pass, then ended up masking two of them for most of the game. The Bavarian cavalry sallied forth and caught one battery before being demolished by Austrian Uhlans in line (the Bavarians were in squadron column).  There was no holding back the Austrian hordes.  They suffered fatigue climbing the hills, but rested before assaulting the Bavarians.  Parts of the mountain hillside were impassable, others just slowed you down and increased fatigue. 
I used Carnage and Glory II computer aided rules for Napoleonics.  The setting was the Lithuanian Club in Shrewsbury where Havoc Gaming Convention has been for a number of years. 

Initial view of the Bavarian dispositions

Bavarians watching the Austrian horde approach

Steven and Arofan the Austrians versus Edgar and Rich, the Bavarians

Austrians advance on turn one



Initial view of the pass from the Austrian table edge.

Bavarians guard the pass

the Bavarians might have positioned there troops to block the gaps up the hill

Austrians move up the hill.  The Bavarian Cheval leger hits the Austrian horse battery before running into the Uhlans.

Peter runs the compuer

Austrians on the plateau

up the hill

Clash of the second cavalry unit with the same result as the first

Austrians have the high ground

The big battalion wins

clash on the flanks

the GM at work



Clash in Palestine: WW1 game at the Old Colony Wargamer Club

Last Thursday Tom Desmond and Dave Soucy ran a preview of their WW1 in Palestine game that they called Planes, trains and automobiles.  The game featured a british breakthrough towards a Turkish held rail depot, complete with Germans and Gurkhas. A fun evening that saw my plane shot down and the Gurkha contingent break through the Turkish front lines.

The rail cars await loading as the British approach from the far side of the table.

All is quiet at the bazzar.  How long will it remain so?

Here come the Brits.

moving onto the table and toward the Turkish garrison.

Let's drop our bombs on this building.

We are going downnnnnnnn.  Yes, it was that fun.