Balkan Wars game: Yiannitsa 1912

[ChrisBBB]

My newest army, my Balkan Wars Greeks, got another outing this week. After fighting lots of late nineteenth-century battles (Franco-Prussian War, Crimean War, etc) the lethality of modern bolt-action magazine-fed rifles and belt-fed machineguns came as a real shock to us players. Talk about a prelude to WWI! We must have felt a bit like the generals of the day did. Very educational and insight-provoking.

Also a bloody good tight and exciting game, with unusual terrain dominated by a lake and marshes in the middle of the table, and a last-turn nail-biter. Full AAR and annotated photo here:

http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/yiannitsa-1912-greco-turkish-balkan-war.html

Chris

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