Gunboat Diplomacy (pic heavy)

[ardbeg]

A few days ago, the 'Ligue des Gentlemen Civilisateurs' hold her annual session with a naval action set on the congo river.
As soon as I will have some spare time i will post some pics and maybe a small report of the event.

be patient ;-)

[OSHIROmodels]

Bugger patience, let's see it.

Please!

 

Seconded 

cheers

James

[Malamute]

Seconded 

cheers

James

Thirded

[Poiter50]

OK, I'm patient, where is it? (after all, it has been 6 or more hours) 

[Gluteus Maximus]

Come on old chap. Enough dilly-dallying.

We want gunboats and we want them NOW! 


  

Can't wait for the rest of your pics!

[gamer Mac]

Just to make sure I don't miss this later I thought I would add to the thread.

Fourthed()

[Belgian]

Wow, where exactly is your club located? " in this weird little country between France and the Netherlands" ? 

[former user]

where they invented frying sliced potatos in oil

they used to have a king who owned a colony of his own where the currency was cut off hands

[Belgian]

where they invented frying sliced potatos in oil

they used to have a king who owned a colony of his own where the currency was cut off hands

  Sounds familiar but what I meant was which town of region  

[ardbeg]

most of us are based in hainaut.

ok let's post some pics 

late 19th century, somewhere on the congo


a small fort protecting a trading post remains beyond the free state grasp, like a thorn in his side.
it is said to shelter the first tin canned moambe factory, diverting precious manpower from the hevea plantation.
of course this cannot be tolerated and the belgian hold on the congo is at risk

thus a flotilla was sent to set things up


the Alexandre Delcommune : an unarmed paddle steamer loaded with troops
the Mimi : a launche hastily armed with a nordenfeldt
the Stalle and the Ville de Wavre will provide fire support and to carry a supplement of troops

on the opposite side, the only visibles forces were compsed of native pirogues and two allied arab dhows





the Ville de Wavre aggresivly manoeuvered and soon began to shell the dhows, disabling their gun while the Alexandre Delcommune began his approach to land his troops



on the right channel the two others ships dealt with the pirogues but Mimi foolishly went to far to be effectively supported


eventually being surrounded and captured


on the fort a battery then opened fore on the Ville de Wavre, causing some damage and starint a fire on board


fortunately her gunners soon destroyed the threat

suddenly another (but not the last) bad surprise came to the belgian
a mercenary torpedo boat appeared at the horizon


only to be sunk immediately by the expert gunners of the ville de Wavre

The Stalle now on his own disposed of the remaining pirogues


the rebels then threw their last forces into the fight, trying to sneak a mine around the Alexandre as it appraoched the docks (of course this was doomed to fail as the mine didn't explode)


a renegade steamer came to late to relieve the fort


and the crews of the dhows, landed to reinforce the encampment were unable to stop the troops now rushing from the Alexandre'se bows.




on the second day we had a short second game, here a few pics (the force publique was slaughtered)






I hope this was worth your patience ;-)

[Admiral Fraser]

It was worth the wait; fantastic pics.
Thanks for sharing

[Elprez]

Fantastic stuff, thank you.
Really enjoyed the pictures and the report.
Love all the boats. Some PMC in that lot, yes?

[Malamute]

Very exciting looking games, thanks for sharing

[OSHIROmodels]

Great games  I bet much fun was had by all 

cheers

James

[gamer Mac]

Some lovely stuff on display
Thanks.