54mm NWF - Rescue Mission

[black hat miniatures]

Anthony and I played another 54mm North-West frontier game using The Sword and the Flame with half-size units.

The scenario was that an outpost were preparing to evacuate due to reports of advancing tribesmen.  A relief force was on the way but they must save the wounded and the gun from falling into Pathan hands.  There are 4 baggage elephants, the gun crew and a single British unit manning the outpost.

The relief force consists of 4 infantry and one cavalry unit.

Pictures:

The outpost at the start of the game:






The British Relief Force:




The tribesman have arrived



General shots of the battle:








Anthony did the sensible thing and loaded his gun onto the elephants immediately and moved them out.  Two elephants were captured by the Pathans for a brief time but I was unable to cause enough casualties on the British relief forces and eventually British firepower won the day.

Mike

[Atheling]

Excellent! HG himself would be very proud of that game

 

Irony is that you've got more 54mm stuff painted up for the NWF than I have in 28mm!! 

Darrell.

[black hat miniatures]

Excellent! HG himself would be very proud of that game

 

Irony is that you've got more 54mm stuff painted up for the NWF than I have in 28mm!! 

Darrell.

There are at least double the number of British painted and 60 afghans... Another 20 British and 60 more afghans to go...

Mike

[Atheling]

Yep, more than I have done for sure! 

Darrell.

[Trooper]

Lovely stuff Mike, that will keep my mojo tuned up to crack on with my own forces. I note that you have decided to base now, any particular reason?

[black hat miniatures]

Lovely stuff Mike, that will keep my mojo tuned up to crack on with my own forces. I note that you have decided to base now, any particular reason?

The Brits were painted by me but are owned by Anthony, my opponent.  He uses them for Funny Little Wars games as well as NWF so decided to base them so he could use movement trays for FLW games as well as ranking them up singly for TSATF.

Mike

[wolfkarl]

Excellent! HG himself would be very proud of that game

I was thinking the exact same thing. Very, very nice. 

[Harry Faversham]

Great looking game is that, who makes the effelumps?

[black hat miniatures]

Great looking game is that, who makes the effelumps?

They are the limited edition Armies in Plastic Asian elephant sets but I think the actual elephants are the vinyl female Asian elephants from schleich - they are about £6 on Amazon.

Mike

[Arundel]

Very inspiring! TSATF and 54mm work so well together...

[thequestingvole]

What an excellent looking game. Delighted to see TSATF getting an outing and those elephants are fantastic.