Viscount's Landing, California - November 27th. The final game in our Second American Civil War campaign. This game was the big finish with everyone bringing everything they had built up, or had left, depending upon how the campaign had treated them.
Setup for the game: This was to be a meeting engagement over a long piece of terrain. A town was set up in the center section of the 15 foot long table, but closer to the Constitutionalists side. The Constitutionalists basic goal was to blunt the Nationalist attack and prevent them from breaking through the town of Viscount's Landing, which was only a short drive away from the state capital of Sacramento. The Nationalist goal was to get across the table with as much of its force intact as possible, eliminating all resistance on the way.
The Nationalist forces had three major components: Elements of the 11th Cavalry, troops from the new Nationalists army and a large, irregular contingent of the Greater Valley Citizen's Vigilance Committee.
The Constitutionalists forces had four commands: The City of Locke Militia, the Sacramento Valley Minutemen, the newly raised U.S. Postal Rifle Company and a large contingent of Communist allies.
The main goal of this game was to give the campaign a big send off, and have some fun. Or as Alfrik likes to put it: Eat, drink, roll dice and swap lies. I've posted a selection of some of the photos I took here. To see the complete set of pictures got to:
http://rotanddrivel.com/Campaign_Game_END.htmlPhotos of the battle:
The table looking at the town from the Nationalist entry point. We're just getting ready to start deploying figures here.
A view of the town from the Constitutionalists side.
The road through town that cuts across the table. On the left, starting in the foreground and moving up you have the Worley Brewery ad then the Grande Hotel. On the right, a couple of storage sheds, the town Masonic lodge, the Hotel Erstwhile, tho the right of that is a an empty store and a purveyor of fine drink known as The Shot Locker.
The Nationalists line up their front line of the assault. On the left are the Nationalist Regulars and in the center are the 11th Cavalry forces.
Leaqdfool's Communists push forward. Tanks and armored cars raced ahead to take on the tank and tankettes of the Vigilance Committee.
A long look at the Consti force.
The 11th rolling hot.
The mortar teams deploy on the ridge.
The Consti armor comes through the town.
The Sacramento Minutemen's armored car( a great little paper model) and a light tank move to intercept the 11th's armored cars.
Who are these guys?! The Vigilance Committee has an fairly loose set of recruitment guidelines. Not sure if they were looking for the battle or trying to figure out where to set up the big top tent.
Looks like they found the drive in theater.
The Minutemen vehicles cross through town taking shots at the armored cars as they come in. In the lower right you can see what the shining stars of the Consti movement thought hilarious. Yes, its a Tardis. It was all laughs and giggles until it was pointed out that the interstellar contraption was blocking the line of site for some critical artillery fire or the Consti's own guns.
The City of Locke Militia fielded a plane that made a quick bombing run and a just as hasty retreat looking to make an emergency dead stick landing in a nearby field after machine guns on the ground chewed up its engine.
The Minutemen fielded a mounted detachment of shotgun wielding Bellhops.
Who are these guys!? Bull Moose Party convention?
Vigilance committee tanks duking it out with the Consit armor.
Are they singing?
There is nothin' you can name, That is anythin' like a dame!Merchant sailors of the vigilance committee come surging out of the barn, hot on the heels of some kind of local militia attached to the Vigilance Committee.
Things get so bad they had to truck in suppression markers from the next county.
Nationalist recruits march down the right flank.
Nationalist artillery scores the first major hit, taking out the Grande Hotel and quite a few of the Freeport Irregulars with it.
The Consti Bellhop Brigade makes life hard on the armored cars while the tanks push up the right flank and engage the City of Locke's armored car.
All this smoke will play hell with the timely distribution of suppression markers.
Who were those guys!? The fought like freaks, but they died like clowns!
After 10 hours straight we called it a night. The Nationalist force sufficiently blunted to make getting across the table quickly seem vary unlikely. The Consti's were seriously bloodied but had a goodly number of fresh troops in the rear. We called it a Pyrrhic Draw. A fantastic end to a great campaign that was a joy to be a part of. Big thanks to all that participated. Leadfool and Alfrik especially!
Thanks for looking and all the great feedback throughout the run of this campaign.
Mike
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