Indian Mutiny Summer Painting- New AAR (new update 4 Sept. )

[Marine0846]

Well I have moved to imgur and will try to post a few photos of a game.

A city in the Mutiny before the battle.

[Marine0846]

Well it looks like I was able to resize the photo.
So lets try another one.

[Marine0846]

Well, a couple of photos.
I will have time to post photos of the game later.

[Andym]

Nice layout! Are all your buildings scratch built?

[Sardoo]

Excellent layout, sir! Wish I had the space for something like this.

[Belisarius]

Superb table sir, I,d love to see the troops fighting thro it, thanks for posting.

[Captain Blood]

You have some nice looking buildings there 

[Marine0846]

Well I am feeling lucky today, so will try to post the beginning of a battle.
The set up is this.
Mutineers have lost a battle outside the city. (Will have to game that one day)
They are in retreat and need to march to the gate at the fort.
They have a two turn head start, then the British march on.

The Indians on turn 2 in the town ready to try to delay the British.

A close up of one of the brigades. Each brigade has two or three infantry Batts., guns and a small amout of cav.

[Marine0846]

One of the British brigades marching on the table.
The British brigades are about the same size. But have better morale.

One of the British brigades advance.

Hodson's Horse tried to out flank the Indian infantry but ended up attacking the front due poor die rolling for movement.
They still won the fight forcing the infantry to retreat.
Along the lines the Indians would stand with one unit and others would retreat. Then they would do it again.
The die gods were not kind to the British. Poor rolling by the Brits were letting the Indians get away.

Part of the other brigade, Irregular Horse and the Naval Brigade.






 

[Marine0846]

Well I hope to show the rest of the battle.
Early in the battle the British had a number of poor die rolls for movement.
This causes their plan to attack to not proceed as planned.
But their luck started to change.

The Highlanders charge into the flank of the enemy, routing them.

At the top left British Irregular Horse move to cut off more Indians.

Still moving towards the gate most of the Indians have a chance to make it.

Now we came to the end game. The Indians still had a unit of infantry and 2 guns on the walls.

They now bring out the infantry to cover the retreating units.

[Marine0846]

Here the British are in a bit of a mess. They are trying to move the Horse Artillery pass the Highlanders.

Here as you can see a number of British units have moved close to the gate.
It was interesting that once the Indian units were inside the walls they just sat in side, they could have provided covering fire for the rest.

The British move up to the walls. The Irregular Horse attack but are driven back.
Sadly for the British they could not organize a proper attack and the rest of the Indians retreated into the gate.
It was a close run game. In the end the British just could not overcome their poor movement they had at the beginning of the game.

The rules I play with were written by Larry Brom for horse and musket warfare. I am told they were written before he wrote TSATF rules.
They were given to me back in the mid 1980s.The buildings were mostly made by me, some dating back to the 1980s. The fort walls were made just 2 weeks ago.
Also all the figures are Foundry, most painted in 1988-89.

[Lowtardog]

What a lovely looking game

[Atheling]

What a lovely looking game

I'll say  .

Darrell.

[H.M.Stanley]

Excellent! Thanks for sharing

[Marine0846]

Thanks for the replies everyone.
A side note, when I first painted up these figures they were on stands of three, in 12 man units.
I really did not like the look, so about half the units had 8 more figures painted up.
Now 20 figure units but I started playing some skirmish games with them.
But still wanted to have units on stands. So I blue tacked them to metal bases.
They have stayed that was for years and years.
Finally in the last 2 weeks after the battle I have glued them 4 to a base and terrain the bases.
So in future battles they will look better.