The TransCaspian Episode - a LoEK battle report

[gamer Mac]

Cracking looking game

[Ignatieff]

Well, that was definitely worth the wait!!! Spectacular game! Thank you, Steve!

Dimi

(Who makes the Brits with the kilts, by the way?)

Thanks Dimi

Great War Scots with Woodbine Wolsey helmet conversions. Modified and painted by the excellent Mark Hargreaves at 'Over Open Sights'

[The Dalai]

Yes, the Red Dalai was in charge of the train.  I sent it in at full speed to get to the heart of the action and then unleash hell.

[Ignatieff]

Yes, the Red Dalai was in charge of the train.  I sent it in at full speed to get to the heart of the action and then unleash hell.

....on a minus 7

[Ignatieff]

and so to move 3, which in the words of the good doctor....

"In tonight's episode Vasily Grossman, budding author, father of 3 and hero of the Soviet Revolution dies from Fallen British Plane Syndrome.  Reds exact revenge in the most devastating cavalry charge of League history.  In the centre more Reds die in Slaughterhouse Coal Bunker 5 while the Runaway Train comes down the track and she blew".




The Red hordes advance onto the White right flank....

[Ignatieff]

"White hawk down! white hawk down!...."

Red Ted's seizure of the secondary objective (the rail bridge) is only minimally inconvenienced by an allied plane crashing into his ranks and taking out four figures...

[Ignatieff]

The most decisive cavalry engagement in the League's history...Red Ted forms some decent Bolo cavalry into close order (only works if there aren't any nasty HMG's around), adds a decent (+2) leader and rides like hell towards the irregular Turcomen cavalry to his front.  Add some good dice throwing and the Turcomens disintegrate.  Proper cavalry tactics for the period....

[Ignatieff]

BLAM!

[Ignatieff]

And the one Turcoman left ran off.....

[Ignatieff]

Meanwhile in the centre, the thinning ranks of the whites prepare to face yet another frontal attack...




and the runaway train hurtles ever closer.......

[Ignatieff]

Elite Red sailors re-enforce the faltering Cheka...

[Ignatieff]

and so, Move 4.  And once again, in the words of the good Doctor...

"With a dull crump of frustration another British plane fell from the skies.  
A Red cavalryman cursed as his horse reared at the sight of the foundations of the Turcoman Memorial while his comrades rode on to greater glory.
In the station some tapped their toes in relief, others in frustration.  Tea was brewed, weapons cleaned...stealing themselves for the next move...."

Meanwhile.....



The white right flank is manned, albeit with poor quality railway worker troops, whilst the train gradually slows down.  The last allied plane lies burning by the charnel house that is the coal bunker and trail junction. Zimmerman's Bavarians (mitt flame thrower and nice blue flag) creep up on the railway house....With the train due to stop next move, his left flank turned and still hordes of Bolos advancing on the hinge of the allied flank, thinks looked grim for General Malleson

[Ignatieff]

White reservists man the trenches, with good quality artillery and HMG support mean that the right flank is perhaps stronger than first thought...



As the Bolo train slows down, a volley of White officer bombs bounce harmlessly off the armoured behemoth...Zimmerman's veteran ex-POW German troops use the cover of the train to assume a fire position, flamethrower to the fore...

[Ignatieff]

Meanwhile, Red Ted consolidates the Bolo gains on their right flank.




Do you think that Punjabi HMG team realise there is an armoured train hurtling towards them?....

[Ignatieff]

Zimmerman, with his faithful daschund, 'Von Seydlitz' prepares his veteran German and Austrian infantry to open up the minute the train passes...



Feuer!


Unfortunately, the German flamethrower was one of the first to be hit and BOOOOOOM! went the railway station......