The Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad 1916 - The Action

[Yarkshire Gamer]

https://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.com/2020/03/battle-of-sheikh-saad-1916-action.html

Hi,

In a bid to reduce the traffic to my blog by 2/3rds I've put up the After Action Report for the WW1 Mesopotamia game we did at Christmas.

It's a real shame that there isn't more interest in this theatre of the war, it's so much more varied than the Western Front. But I shall continue my attempts at swimming uphill promoting the exploits of the British and Empire Forces (and the Turkish) in this fascinating Campaign.

So for those of you who do click the link, I've done a picture based review of our game, hopefully of interest.

The Mesopotamia collection will be back in 2021 !

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[Swordisdrawn]

Wow! Looks like a brilliant game

[FifteensAway]

Looks like quite the game.

The trenches are colored to represent being soaked in crude oil? 

[Marine0846]

Love the figures and the game report.
Just spent some time on your blog,
looking at all your posts on the Middle East.
What a great collect of figures for the time period.
A really great treat to read your AARs.

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Love the figures and the game report.
Just spent some time on your blog,
looking are all your posts on the Middle East.
What a great collect of figures for the time period.
A really great treat to read your AARs.

Many thanks, there is a cunning plan mostly based around being too lazy to change the game mat 

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[JBaumal]

Agreed, outstanding blog, beautiful games, and awesome collection!

[vtsaogames]

Very nice. My 10mm Pendraken Mesopotamia troops have laid in their boxes for a long time. Their last outing was pretending to be Boer War troops. I did have a game set up for the Turkish raid on the Suez Canal in 1915 but the pestilence cancelled that game.

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Very nice. My 10mm Pendraken Mesopotamia troops have laid in their boxes for a long time. Their last outing was pretending to be Boer War troops. I did have a game set up for the Turkish raid on the Suez Canal in 1915 but the pestilence cancelled that game.

That's a real shame, it's a great, often overlooked theatre of WW1, hopefully get them back on table soon, there are plenty of scenarios on the Yarkshire Gamer blog if you need any.

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[aphillathehun]

Mesopotamia, Palestine, Arabia - that's the best looking theater of WW2 in terms of uniforms I think.  Nice blog.   Funny that the ww1 stuff only gets about 1/3 of the traffic.  If you want to knock it down even further, start exploring the war of spanish succession.....

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Mesopotamia, Palestine, Arabia - that's the best looking theater of WW2 in terms of uniforms I think.  Nice blog.   Funny that the ww1 stuff only gets about 1/3 of the traffic.  If you want to knock it down even further, start exploring the war of spanish succession.....

  I can beat that, try WW1 Naval