The Battle of Giniss 1885

[AlyMorrison]

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]

Top shelf shizzle.

[SABOT]

Magic stuff.

[Traveler Man]

Sudan goodness! Great stuff! 

[Sparrow]

Inspiring stuff!!!

[Arundel]

That looks amazing!

[Barry S]

Wonderful stuff!

[Alcide Nikopol]

Wonderful stuff!

+1

[Eric the Shed]

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

[juergen c. olk]

amazing.

[AlyMorrison]

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]

Hi Aly

Any chance of you posting the order of battle?

thanks

ETS

[sjwalker51]

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]

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]

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