The Relief of Byklabad...

[Yankeepedlar01]

Having seen Byklabad fall to the forces of the HEIC in the last game, the Raja of Rhanli sets out to recapture his beloved birthplace from the enemy, but relief for the hard pressed defenders may be at hand...




The Mutineer army advances on all fronts...


The defenders are driven from their posts...


Things are looking sticky Carruthers...


But relief is at hand...


Rally on me, men!


The Mutineers enter Byklabad...


While the relief column is bested and halted...


The defenders are forced to retire...


The Raja surveys the scene of his triumph...


While I am left to contemplate the cause of my defeat...

Figures are from Foundry's old Indian Mutiny range, the buildings from Mutineer, apart from the Hovels sandbags and the scratch built shrine. The rules were my own in development set, "The Devil's Wind". When the dice do not love a man, what's he to do?
David

[Galloping Major]

Great stuff 

Great figures by the Perrys from Foundry 

Great game 


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

[Malamute]

Another lovely game, truly inspiring stuff. loving the dice too

[M Blakey]

really great game!

Always great to see your games

[Phil Robinson]

Did I not foretell that Byklabad would be retaken and the Feringhi put the sword, well OK not quite put to the sword as my dice throwing was little better than Dave's at times. Although my valiant troops had an uncanny knack of dodging the Feringhi's bullets when Dave did manage to score hits

Dave's collection is really spiffing and I am really lucky to get to use them, the rules are progressing nicely and although based on Dave's previous offerings they are quite different in how they are played.

[Furt]

Great looking miniatures and terrain! Always wanted to do a Residency kind of assault.

[Helen]

Just lovely, thank you for sharing.

Helen

[smirnoff]

Looks a great game.
I have lots of IM 28mm stuff and have been searching for a decent IM ruleset for years.
Is the 'Devil's Wind' up on the web anywhere?

[Yankeepedlar01]

Looks a great game.
I have lots of IM 28mm stuff and have been searching for a decent IM ruleset for years.
Is the 'Devil's Wind' up on the web anywhere?

The rules are still a 'work in progress' but are getting there in our view. I hope to have them out for September/October time. Unfortunately they are not in a format to put out for testing, still in files all over the place for different aspects of the game. But, patience has its virtues, they will be good I feel....
David

[Trooper]

Excellent stuff as aways. Now I shall be waiting eagerly for more news from Byklabad. An interesting result, considering that the British were in defences etc. Shows that the Sepoys can do the job, even if they had some luck on the dice, unless of course you had tweaked the rules a bit since the last time. Whatever, it was good to see a not so predictable result, despite what that rascally Raja might say. I will look forward to seeing the rules when they are available.

Top stuff, thanks for posting.  

[Yankeepedlar01]

I'd like to thank those few hardy souls who have posted a reply: it hardly seems worth the effort at times to post game reports/photomontages when so few people who look even bother to post a comment, terribly disheartening. 

It makes me wonder where the wargamers are on this site, when alls said and done are you all content with games featuring half a dozen figures a side? Not my scene at all, massed ranks does it for me every time.

[jamesmanto]

Damned fine looking armies and terrain!
Absolutely spiffing! Well done old boy!

[Trooper]

I'd like to thank those few hardy souls who have posted a reply: it hardly seems worth the effort at times to post game reports/photomontages when so few people who look even bother to post a comment, terribly disheartening. 

It makes me wonder where the wargamers are on this site, when alls said and done are you all content with games featuring half a dozen figures a side? Not my scene at all, massed ranks does it for me every time.

Well I for one am sad to see that you are disheartened by the response or lack of response. Whilst it is true that some here like their smaller games, and good luck to them on that, many of us also like to see, and read about games of this calibre. Your Back of Beyond games with Phil were the highlight of many an otherwise dreary Wargames Illustrated for me. Not everybody feels up to commenting, but check the number of views and I am sure you will take heart. I hope so. As for me, please please keep the story going. Thank you again for sharing your adventures.   

[Earther]

Well I for one am sad to see that you are disheartened by the response or lack of response.

As am I. I really have enjoyed your Byklabad chronicle so far, but I have refrained from commenting as I know relatively little of the Mutiny period. Please keep up the reports as your efforts are greatly appreciated. And it's nice to see the venerable Foundry Mutiny range used in anger.

Maybe I should've run with a 'nice collection' type comment when I originally saw this post.  I shall endeavour to comment more frequently.

Nice collection by the way… 

[Elprez]

@ Yankeepedlar  - Dont be disheartened. Id take the number of views as more indicative of the interest than the number of posts commenting,  . Not everybody feels the need to post, and a thread is more interesting to read if the ones who do have some interesting comment, point of discussion or question.

I've loved all the Byklabad posts, been impressed and inspired by them I assure you.