Author Topic: The Battle of Giniss 1885 (Read 2102 times)

AlyMorrison · « **on:** November 23, 2017, 11:21:11 PM »

Greetings

A couple of weeks ago our lovely friends from Hamburg popped over to the Nottingham Lead Belt for a weekend of wagames food and drink...

The lovely Michael Perry hosted A Sudan game for us all on the Saturday.
I have at last found time to post an almost truthful account on my blog...

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/from-my-side-of-table-battle-of-giniss.html

An alternative version can be found on The Perry Miniatures Facebook page.

https://en-gb.facebook.com/perryminiatures/posts/1360528550735914

And Frank Becker's blog.

https://tabletopdeutschland.com/2017/11/21/ginnis-by-michael-perry/

All the best Aly

Codsticker · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2017, 02:54:04 PM »

Top shelf shizzle.

SABOT · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2017, 04:05:15 PM »

Magic stuff.

Traveler Man · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2017, 04:45:50 PM »

Sudan goodness! Great stuff!

Sparrow · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2017, 05:20:24 PM »

Inspiring stuff!!!

Arundel · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2017, 06:06:00 PM »

That looks amazing!

Barry S · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2017, 12:57:02 AM »

Wonderful stuff!

Alcide Nikopol · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2017, 01:07:19 PM »

Quote from: Barry S on November 25, 2017, 12:57:02 AM

Wonderful stuff!

+1

Eric the Shed · « **Reply #8 on:** November 27, 2017, 02:59:48 PM »

Great stuff

- its action reports like this that prompted me to start on my own Sudan project - glorious and thank you

juergen c. olk · « **Reply #9 on:** November 27, 2017, 03:00:14 PM »

amazing.

AlyMorrison · « **Reply #10 on:** November 28, 2017, 08:24:13 AM »

Thank you for the kind comments...
I take no credit for the lovely toys and terrain, that is the work of Michael Perry and a host of talented figure painters...

The dice throwing was all my own and a bit better than usual this time... or was it that Franks was just worse

...

The big problem with such a fun game is that my wargames butterfly is now eyeing up that box of plastic Ansar that I have had on the shelf for ages...

All the best. Aly

Eric the Shed · « **Reply #11 on:** November 28, 2017, 04:10:16 PM »

Hi Aly

Any chance of you posting the order of battle?

thanks

ETS

sjwalker51 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 28, 2017, 06:21:52 PM »

Eric, if you’re looking for OOBs for the Sudan, and a lot of other useful stuff, get the 2-volume Mahdist Wars Source Books from TVAG- very useful

AlyMorrison · « **Reply #13 on:** November 28, 2017, 07:44:18 PM »

Quote from: Eric the Shed on November 28, 2017, 04:10:16 PM

Hi Aly

Any chance of you posting the order of battle?

thanks

ETS

I am not sure what Michael did but there is a very complete order of battle in Go Strong Into the Desert by Lt. Col Mike Snook...

AlyMorrison · « **Reply #14 on:** November 30, 2017, 04:30:13 PM »

This is the OOB that Michael used for his game...

I hope this is of some help...

1st Brigade: 1st Berkshire, 1st West Kent, 2nd Durham Lt inf, small Egyptian escort for artillery, 2x Egyptian Krup guns.
2nd Brigade: 1st Batt Yorkshire, 1st Egyptian Batt, 1x 7pdr, 1x Gardner MG.
Fort Sortie attached to second Brigade:
1st Batt Cameron Highlanders, 1/2 9th Batt Sudanese.
In Fort Koshesh: 1x 7pdr, 1/2 Batt Sudanese.
Cavalry Brigade: 20th Hussars, Egyptian Regular Cavalry, small unit of Camel Corp.
‘Lotus’ paddle steamer off board.
Mahdists were split into 4 ‘brigades’ of Infantry ( 3 of which were divided into 4 ‘battalions’ and a unit of skirmishes and one of 3 ‘battalions’ of Nile Arabs). There was one gun that could be placed any where and one on the far side of the Nile. The cavalry ‘brigade’ was made up of 2 Camel units and units of Cavalry.

All the best Aly

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