The Men Who Would Be Kings on the NWF

Time for another TMWWBK game using my collection. General B. once again took the Pathans and I the British, This time I would be at full strength whilst he had but 18 points to defend his village. presumably this was some form of punishment raid by the British after the Ambush last time!

The Pathan forces prepared to repel the British attackers.

Some occupied buildings, whilst others massed on the flanks.

The Sagaar Lancers accompanied the British troops

As well as the Mountain Gun known as Owd Betty

The Humberside Regiment formed the core of the force.

The lancers raced ahead and unwisely strayed into rifle range, getting pinned as a result.

The field gun routed one unit of Tribal Infantry but the village was still well defended

It would be down to the Humbersiders to wrest control.

The lancers were not faring well and fell back.

But the brave lads from Humberside marched on.

B. Company was drawn into a firefight with Pathans in the undergrowth

The tribesmen, provoked, fell on the stout khaki clad lads.

The fighting was bloody

But Brummagem steel saw the Pathans driven back

The lancers regained their wind and pressed back on.

A. Company came under fire and their poor leadership saw them pinned.

Return fire was driving back the defenders

But the narrow streets still thronged with Pathans

The unit on the nearest buildings were led by a Shirker so couldn't shoot!

Losses mounting the Humbersiders pushed on

As the Sagaar Lancers swept round the flank

Desperately the lancers surged into the foe.

Driving them back and cutting them down.

However retribution was swift in the narrow streets and outside the town the Pathan tribesmen routed B. Company!

 

As the survivors fled back to bring the news to the Governor in Shaaarwyd the crew of Owd Betty could only look on.

Great fun game that swung splendidly. At one point the British looked to have it in the bag with pinned units of Pathans all around, however some failed orders saw things swing back in favour of the defenders.

A game that went right to the wire!

Phone pictures now

Tribesmen await.

The backwater village of Kymberli

Strongly held

Huzzah for the lancers!

On the Humbersiders!

Those turbans make fine targets

Sir! Sir, Tomkins has been shot , Sir!

Steady, lads, steady!

Chaaarge!

And the streets run red with blood.

I now want to paint many more models for this!

Warmaster Winter Warmer Game Three

My last game saw me remaining on the bottom table, uh-oh, looking like another wooden spoon was a real possibility.

My opponent was Lee with his very jolly Orc and Goblin army. Yes he had a lot of spellcasters all lined up to Gerroff! me about the place.

Thescenario was another of Alan's devisingthat involves six potential locations for an object - dicing to see if you find it whenever you contact an objective.

The Ice Queen assembled her forces.

I decided again to occupy the woods with infantry.

Orc armies are BIG!

he had some nasty looking rock lobbers too.

In short order some of my horse archers attacked some of his many wolf riders.

Lee rather suffered at this point (and indeed throughout the game) from what my gaming chums refer to as "Tom Dice".

Six shots on the way in, no hits at all.

The scary big lads pushed up in the middle

They looked a tough nut to crack.

I had some horse archers running interference in the centre of the Orc army

I misjudged things though and they got charged.

Which, even with Lee's poor dice did not end well for me.

Foolishly I shot some Trolls from behind, which pushed them into initiative charge range of my lancers.

Again this didn't end well.

However I'd got the artillery in my sights

As my horse were cut down.

In the end Lee had outscored me very slightly in kills but because I'd found the relic on the first turn and managed to hold on to it I gained an extra 300 points and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat!

Great fun game - Lee was very unlucky with dice for most of the game, but i failed a couple of charges late on that could have significantly tipped things in my favour.

it did feel like I was finally playing to the army strengths in the final game.