ACW 28mm

 6 players, each with a division of 6 inf, 1 gun & 4 cav distributed between them,

The CSA are on the near side.  Mark in cntre, Chris on left & Jim on right.
Union have SteveJ in centre with Mike on his right & Renfrey on his left.

On the left & centre, CSA advance stopped on the ridge line.  On the right the CSA advance was a feint againsy superior numbers & was followed by a redeployment to the rear.

View now from behind Union left.
On the left the CSA are making a fighting retreat through the farm & over the river.
The ubuin are now attacking all along the line.

On the left the CSA have retreated across the river with enough fit units to form a good defence on the river line.  On the centre & left the Union attack petered out & they fell back, but the CSA were too badly damaged to counterattack.  

The CSA plan was to hold off superior numbers on their right to allow victory on their left & centre.  It only half worked - the battle ended as bloody draw.  

BA Sunday School

1250 pts attack/defend scenario on 10x6 table. Defender deployed first, then attack came on their edge.  4 objectives (2 hill crests, bidge & railway station). Defender allowed to be dug in (counts a -1 to kill if hit). Italians v. Soviets. Italians defending.

Game 1: Jim defending.  
The Ities got lucky at the atart landing their mortar & their artiilery on the enmy mortar & artillery straight up.  Without artillery supprt & the enmey raining frie frpom theire, the Sobviets had no chance  & soon conceded.

Game 2: Chris defending.
This time the Soviets made a concentrated attack on the Italian right.  they also got the run of the artillery dice.  They over-ran the ridge on their left.

From that position their fire decimated the Italian force, but ran out of time before taking any more objectives.  The Italians had nuch bbigher casuaties, but still had 3 of 4 objectives.
The Soviet plan to concentrate theri attack was sound enough, but given the time factors & tabrel size, probbaly should have put some pressure on the Itie left to stop them reinforcing their centre.

American Civil War 28mm

We had 6 players, each had a division of 6 infantry & 1 gun plus each side had 4 cavalry toallocate as they wished.

View from behind the CSA.
CSA divisions: Mike mid-table left, Jim this end RHS, Renfrey  this end LHS.
USA divisions: Chris centre right, Mark far end LHS, SteveJ far end RHS.

Chris deployed foorward of the river to assist seizing the village.  Jim advanced on him asap. Steve moved up to support him.
Mike deployed behind the river to face Mark.
Renfrey advanced towards the centre.

Parts of both Mike & renfrey's forces attacked the village while Jim attacked Chris.  

Jim's attack had a small tactical advanatge that good dice turned into a decisive win.  But his pursuit came to ahalt in the face of Steve's fresh troops & he withdrew to a safer line.
Meanwhile Renfrey & Mike had taken the village.

The CSA had lost more units broken 8 to 5, but the CSA have a lot more units shaken, so both sides were happy to call off the fight at this point.  The Union sent dispatches to Washington with the news they had beaten off a ferocious Rebel attack while the Rebs sent dispatches to Richmond describing how they had driven the Union out of the village & they are cowering behind the creek.  

Sunday School: Mech War 15mm

 Chris' Soviets v. Renfrey's Germans

Deployment on maps.  Germans on far side.

Both sides divied their infantry between the bvillage & farm.  The Germans concentrated ther armour on their left & centre, the Russians spread theirs out over the whole front.  The T34/76's hwere initailly isolated & the Germans imitially had armour superiority on the far flank & centre as the T34/76's rushed forward onto the German's right flank. 

The Germans wiped out most of the T34/85's before the T34/76's could engage, but then redeployed to meet them.  But they lost 2 Mk IVs & the JS2's popped a Tiger.

The T34/76s closed the range on the MkIVs & though losing 2 to 1 they ahd twice as  many to lose.  The Germasn have moved their MK IVs on the their left towards the centre (just off shot) & popped a JS2.  Both detachments of German infantry attacked.  In the farm their assault was stopped by a voley of 6's.  In the village, they made some progress but pulled back as the Soviets soaked up the losses. 

The Germans pulled back onto the plateau to concentrate their remaining armour as the Soviets converged on them from two directions.

The Germasn tried to escape being flanked by charging down the hill at the T34/76's.  But they couldn't kill the Soviets fast enough & they were shot up from behind.

So a hard won Soviet victory.

15mm Napoleonic 6 players

With Chris & renfrey back from UK trip & Mike back on deck after his postate op, we ahd 6 players. Each was allotted a diviision of 6 innfatyr, 3 cavalry & 1 gun with random deploymenr zones.

French:  Jim centre left, Mike centre right, Chris near RH corner.
Prussians: Refrey in far RH corner.
Austrians: Mark near LH corner, SteveJ far LH corner.

At the far end Renfrey & Mike squared off against each other while SteveJ advanced on Jim.
At this end, Jim deployed par tof his force facing Steve & attacked Mark with the rest. as Chris marched off the hill to support him.
Jim's French lost every close combat & his detachment facing Mark was wiped out before Chris could intervene.

Chris eventually got to grips with Mark's force & defeated it, but SteveJ's first charge broke the LH end of Jim'a line & his artillery blew the next battalion outofo the house.  The VFrench had to withdraw to prevent being rolled up from the flank.

On the far flank Renrey & Mike were slyugging it out with neither getting a decisive advanatge. afra flanl   

On the far flank, Rrenrey gained a small advnatage, thought Mike was holled up in the woods & hard to finaih off. 
On the neara flank Jim's division was chewed up by Steve before Chris could rescue him & Chris' looked doomed as well.  The French conceded the battle..

15mm Napoleonic

 Prussians & Austrians (Renfrey) v. French (Jim).

The Allies were the defenders.  Their  mission was to deny the French access accross the table along the road.  They deployed first anywhere on the table.  The French came on in columns from the enar table edge.

The French deployed 2 of their 3 infnatry divisions in the centre, 1 on the right with half their cavalry on each flank.   Bothsides deployed at a safe disyance in the centre while all the action was on the far flank.  The French cavalry galloped down the far tabe eedge with infantry following behind. 
 

A forlorn hope of Austrians in the farm put up strong resistance & though eventually overcome, they significantly weakened the French attack & with some reinforcements from the centre the Austrians stoped the French attack.

A charge of the last of the Austrian Cuirassiers could have routed the French right, but the French infantry line managed to stop them. 
The Auistrians had lost 5 units shaken to the French 2, but the French flanking force had only 2 units left unshaken on the flank, so it was unable to advance further. 
The Fench saw no likely prospect of successfully forcing the river line frontally & nightfall was approaching, so they called off the attack, conceding victory to the Allies.

 

Napoleonic 15mm

French (Jim) on near side of table.
Austrians (Mark) on the left far side. 
Prussians (SteveJ) on the right far side.

The French stormed over the bridge & thru the village to occupy it.

The Austrians advanced to put pressure on the French left. 
The Prussians held back their left, but attacked the village with converging musket fire & artillery.
The French defence of the village was hampered by the hedgrows & house preventing their own artillrey to directly assist the defence.  

On the near flank the Austrian attack was looking dangerous until the French moved their right flank artillery to support their left.  The added firepower helped stop the Austrian attack. 
Meanwhile the allies gradully pushed the French back through the village.

The removal of the French artillery from their right flank has encouraged the Prussians to advance their whole as the French fell back through the village generally pulling their shaken troops out before they broke. 

On the left, the Austrians have pulled back to escape the fire of all 4 French guns.
In the centre, the Allies have taken all the village up to the river.
On the right, the French have been reinforced by the return of the artillery sent to the left.  This persuaded the Prussians to halt thei advance.  

As night fell the two armies faced each other across the creek, both happy to declare victory & cease fighting. 

The casualtes were about equal.  The Allies probbably missed thweir best chance by not attacking the French righ immediately they transferred their guns to the other flank.  The delay allowed the French to use them to help stop the Austrians & return in time to help stop the Prussians. 

Bolt Action

Jim's Germans v. Renfrey's Brits: 1260 pts, 10'x6' table.
Turn 0 deployment within 24" of own table edge. Germans on far side.
4 objectives: The 2 bridges & the  2 T junctions (one off shot on the left).

The Brits moved quickly to sieze the 2 bridges.
The Germans grabbed the 2 T junctions.

Aided by accurate mortar fire, the Germns destoyed the Brits holding the LH bridge & took that objective. On the fra flank the Germans were unable to stop the Brius taking the T juctiion from them. 

By tuirn 5 both sides had 2 objectives no real hoipe of gainiung more, but the body count favoured the Germans & they pulled back their left to ambush positions at the foot of the far hill & dug in around the objectives they had.
The Brits conceded that they ahd no hope of taking out enough German units tochange the balance, so a minor win to the Germans thru destroying 2  more units than they lost.  

Bolt Action

 Mike's Brits v. Mark's Germans. 1250 pts.

The battlefield was recycled from last week.  Germans on the left.  Objectives on the two bridges & the two T-junctions.  

The Germans held 2 objective to 1 with one in dispute until the 6th turn when the Brits assaulted & destroyed 2 german infantry units & rushed 2 objectives.

This will be the last Camp Cromwell battle for a few weeks as I am setting off on mainland road trip tomorrow. 

Napoleonic: French v. Austrians

Same armies as last time.  Terrain tweraked abit.  Battle fought crosswise.
Austrians: Jim & Mike.  French: Mark.

View frim behind Austrian right.

The Austrians initially advance cautiously on the whoel front.
The French are sending their cavalry reserve from centre to left & advancing into the central farm.

On the near flank, the Austrians pull their cavalry back in the face of superiot numbers whioe light troops skirmish in the orchard.
In the centre the Frencj deploy onthe river line while the Austrians pull back out of artillery range.
On the far flank the Austrians have adavnced around the French right flank which has been pulled back to the river line.

At this point the French decide to retreat while the going is good. 
They were reluctant to chance a cavalry attack on the right as it woull be 50/50.
The centre wa s stalemate.
On the far flank the Austrians had deployed a massed battery & a ring of muskets aimed at the angle & the French decided they couldn't counter the inevitable converging attack hat. 

Have decided that, we decided it would be fun to actually fight the cavalry battle.  The French actually won the cavalry fight, but with significant cost & their infantry was held off in the fields & they could not exploit the win.

Napoleonic: French v. Austrians

 French: Jim & Steve
Austrians: Mark & Mike
Each player had a small corps of 6 or 7 inf, 2 or 3 cav & 2 guns.
Random deployment gave a batle fough lengthwise on the table.

The French are in the foregaround, Jim on the left facing Mark, Steve facing Mike. 

Both sides made a limited advance. The Austrians are transferring all their cavalry to their right flank.

On the right the Austrians crossed the river.
On the left the French took upa reverse slope posiiton on the ridge, but were attacked by infantry & cavalry.  The Austrains ost theri first wave, but their second wave broke the French infantry on the ridge & the French cavalry joined in a retreat back to the river line. 
On the right the French are counterattacking the Austrian advance up the slope. 

On the left the Austrians are regrouping as the French make a new defemse line on the river. 
On the right a confused fight is continuing.

On the left the Austrians have initiated a fire fight on the river line.
On the right the Austrians have fallen back over the river.

On the right neither side has enough fit trioops left to attack.
On the left, the French were getting the worst of the firefight & have fallen back through the farm.

Both sides had lost similar numbers of units broken, but the Austirnas have a clear advantage in unsghaken troops.  It was decided that the French could hold out until nightfsll & make an orderly withdrawal. 

ECW: Scots v. English

 A simmilar scenario to last week.  I rejigged the battlefield & forces a bit.
Chris & Mark: Scots
SteveJ & Mike: English
Both sides had 5 P&S,. 3 musketers & 8 cavalry.
Objective to control the road running from left to right.
Deployment zones: Within 18" of own table edge.

The Scots deployed entirely on the plateau.  The English deployed across the full front.  

The Scits advaced to the foot of the slope. 
The English advanced to contact on the far flank, to the river in the cntre & down the riverside on their left.

On the far flank the English cavalry front line was broken & their second line with drew.
In the centre the English are pushing forward through the farm. 

On the left, fire is being exchanged accross the river.  In the centre, the English have crossed the river to enagage & the fight in the farm continues.

On the left, the English got the worst of the firefight accross the river & both sides fell back.
In the cnetre, the English have pushed the Scots back & gained the road and the farm.
On the far flank, the English second line was regrouped & returned to the fray.

At this stage both sides had lost about the same in broken units, but the Scots had more units shaken & the English were very close to gaining full control of the objective road.  The Scots conceded the battle.

Battale of Boldon Hill 1644

This can only be a vaugly historicval scenario as little detail of the acfual battle was recorded & survived.

The English (Mike, Mark & SteveJ) start deployed on the plateau with 8 cav (2 heavy), 4 pike & shot & 2 musketeer units.
The Scots (Jim & Chris) start deployed on the river flat with 6 cav, 5 pike & shot & 3 musjketeer unkits & 3 guns.
The objective is to control the road junction & the road off to the left in the pic.

Both sides sent their cavalry onto the plain on the left.  Tye Scots supported their cav with a pike & shot unit & their artillery.
In the centre the Scots took the house then lost in a counterattack.  But the Scots won the fight in the field to the left of the house & on theright of it the English fell abck up, the hill in the face of superior  munbers.  This left the unit in the house isolated & it fell back.

The English cavalry forced the Scots P&S on the hill to from hedgegog & musket fire accross the stream decimnated it.  But the distraction of the P&S support gave the Scots cavalry near parity in the cavalry fight & with good dice they held theri own.
The Scots  on the left of the house retired back over the creek as their victory was phyrric. 
On the right, the Scots infnatry swarmwed up the hill with supreior numbers & routed the English left.

At this stage the English still held control of the road to the left, but had lost more than half their force.  So both sides were happy to call off the fight & claim victory.