End of Empires - Battle of Lake Karakul - 1

[Ignatieff]

Early in the campaign, V.I. Blackwood launched an out-of-character precipitive attack on Mad Bob's renegade Whites at their (heavily fortified) base in Lake Karakul ("Legend says the lake was formed from the tears of the young bride of a warrior, who went to war and never returned.  She cried so much that her tears were said to have created this beautiful sacred lake").  It was a disaster, with Mad Bob luring the Reds into numerous traps (including a wired Mexican restaurant - don't ask!)

Here's the key cavalry engagement, with the Reds well outnumbering the Whites:


Note the Red 'cheer leaders' on the heights...




Count Nodgerov looks to his flanks


The 'wolves' are hungry!

[answer_is_42]

Yay! The weekend's here!   
Also, nice horses.

[Hitman]

Those are very nice figures. Nice painting on them...looks like the game was a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
 

[Captain Blood]

Gorgeous.

You are luring me inexorably towards this period...     

[Westfalia Chris]

Marvellous. Bloody marvellous.

[former user]

gorgy gorgy

picture 3 the colored group
picture 4 the lancers

are from which company?

[marianas_gamer]

Ignatieff,
Having mentioned the "wired Mexican restaurant" you know that we will have to ask about it    Will it be covered in the Pink?
LB

[Ray Rivers]

 

Wonderful mini's!

Especially like the Count Nodgerov command stand.

Having said that.. the cavalry are just gorgeous as well.

Nice job!

[Ignatieff]

gorgy gorgy

picture 3 the colored group
picture 4 the lancers

are from which company?

Lancers -Redoubt, their  Victoriana range. Not great casts in my view, however these are from the early days of my collection, and I couldnt find proper Cossacks.  The command group is Old Glory, again, not my favourite casts.

[Ignatieff]

Ignatieff,
Having mentioned the "wired Mexican restaurant" you know that we will have to ask about it    Will it be covered in the Pink?
LB

The clue is in Mad Bob's brief:

9.   Mad Bob, the White Bandit

You are Mad Bob Bobovsky, White patriot, entrepreneur and self styled ‘Greatest Criminal Mind the World has ever seen! (c).

It all got rather hot around the Caspian Sea area after your abortive attempt on the Czars life, and so you have decamped to the remote High Pamirs to regroup and continue to build an international alliance of desperados, ne’er do wells and pantomime baddies.

Your summer base is by the shores of the beautiful Lake Karakul at an altitude of about 3000m. Legend says the lake was formed from the tears of the young bride of a warrior, who went to war and never returned.  She cried so much that her tears were said to have created this beautiful sacred lake.

In this remote location you have constructed a criminal network of almost industrial proportions.  In addition to your loyal band of rag-tag whites and central asian banditry, you have attracted some of the baddest and meanest types alive on the planet today, including former German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, And – rather surprisingly – a desperado gang of Mexican bandits who moved to these parts to prey on the Chinese government bullion caravans (somewhat remarkably, the official currency of most of China at this time was in fact the Mexican silver dollar!).

Your brief is simple.  To loot and destroy all wealth in the region, in your ambition to create the greatest criminal network the world has ever seen. You are also prepared to sell your gun to the highest bidder, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of your main aim in life.

And things are looking up!

The ‘International Community’ has erected an expensive science facility at Alichur, some 100 miles (as the crow flies) to the south.  It also appears that something has gone wrong there and a number of rescue missions are to be attempted.  You also know that there are serious rumours, confirmed by pot loads of Greek silver coinage that your men have ‘liberated’, of Alexander the Great’s treasure in the region.  Your spies have narrowed it down to three possible locations: Tashkurgan (100 miles SSE), Rushan/Rustak (150 miles WSW) or Kurghan-Tapa on the Vaksh river 170miles W). You know an Italian archaeological expedition is at one of these, but not which one.

Forces at your disposal: c.3,000 men

(Sadly the Mexican bandit figures werent available by the time we did the game, but they are on their way)

[former user]

the "old style" is obvious
yet, though details are substandard for nowadays, the "modern standard" details and accuracy often conceals poor posing and realism - which were often better in earlier days

like modern digital animated movies often hide behind their technology and offer a poor story and rudimentary character depiction far better achieved in old cartoons

look at Miyazaki, who sold all his digital equipment and handpainted his new movie

there is always the other side to the medal

[Blackwolf]

 Why do I feel 'Bloody White Baron ' all of a sudden,very nice

[Will Bailie]

Looks fanstastic.  I have some of those Redoubt cossacks on order, good to see how nice they can look!

W

[former user]

though personally I would take the opportunity to use different horses for redoubt cossacks

[gamer Mac]

Great photos of some lovely figures
Keep them coming