Moin, moin und herzlich willkommen zu der neuen Rubrik "Unter dem Radar"!
Hier wollen wir euch immer wieder Sonntags ein paar sehenswerte Hobby-Funde aus den Weiten des Internets zeigen.
Und diese Woche geht es los mit einem Waterloo-Diorama. Gebaut hat es Luis Balaguer, und gezeigt haben es Oniria Miniatures auf ihrer Facebook-Seite, deren Figuren größtenteils für dieses 28mm-Diorama verwendet wurden.
Weiter geht es mit einem Spielbericht der Jungs von The Pink Unicorn. Ein komplettes Tabletop auf der Größe eines Monopoly-Spielfeldes. Sie haben Behind Omaha im ungewöhnlichen Maßstab von 6mm gespielt. Sogar die Schablonen wurden dementsprechend angepasst. Hierbei darf die Pinzette natürlich nicht fehlen!
Noch ein Diorama hat es uns angetan: Ein Konvoi-Angriff im Atlantik während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Leider ist der Erbauer uns nicht bekannt. Gezeigt haben es Boongaloo Models auf ihrer Facebook-Seite.
Und zum Abschluss möchten wir euch noch einen Spielbericht von den Perry-Brüdern zeigen. Wie viel Liebe und Arbeit die Perrys in den Spielaufbau, in das Spiel selbst und in seine Präsentation stecken ist wirklich erstaunlich. Gespielt wurde zusammen mit Peter Dennis und Greg McCauley, nach den Black Powder Regeln.
Trouble in the Colonies!
Monmouth Courthouse 1778
Our mate (and renowned illustrator) Peter Dennis had a friend over from Australia, Greg McCauley. As Greg was a wargamer too we decided to have a Tuesday afternoon game.
Alan hosted the game, setting up Monmouth Courthouse, a battle he hadn’t tried before. The actual battle was a pretty confusing affair so with the combination of Brendan Morrissey’s Osprey title and the scenario in the Black Powder supplement ‘Rebellion’, he had a stab at it. The rules used were Black Powder.
Greg and Michael took the Americans and Peter and Alan commanded the British. The American troops set up close to that shown in the scenario, awaiting the British attack. In the scenario the British had to break three out of the four brigades instead of just two (or half the army) or get two unshaken units to the American edge of the board. We deemed this was potentially too easy as the board was 4 foot wider than the scenario suggested so we dropped the second objective. It was going to be a tough job for the British (even with all their bonuses) as the Americans in the scenario were all counted as Continental Line having the First Fire bonus.
The Americans set up with Wayne’s brigade thrown out front, behind a fence on the American right flank. These and Maxwell’s brigade behind them were Michael’s command while Greg held the left flank with his two brigades.
The British decided to pin the American right with the small brigade of Guards and the artillery and hit the American left with the rest of the force. This maneuver should also outflank Wayne’s brigade.
The Guards arrive and the guns were deployed against Wayne’s brigade at long range. The Grenadier and Light Infantry brigade moved up through the open woods in the centre, together with the Queen’s Rangers detachment of foot, piggy-backed on the Queens Ranger Hussars. Unfortunately Peter’s Brigade on the British right didn’t arrive. A detachment of the 16th Lt. Dragoons serving on foot advanced up close to flank Wayne’s command on the far British left. The two mounted troops of the 16th were held in reserve (off table) to freak out the Americans.
Greg started advancing from the American left taking advantage of the missing British brigade. Michael, seeing Wayne’s brigade being outflanked and cut up by the British bombardment started to withdraw them across the brook, although two regiments were disordered and couldn’t retire.
The British centre emerged from the woods with the Lt. Infantry and QRs skirmishing ahead. The third brigade then arrived on the table in good style and pushed forward on the British right.
Greg sent one brigade to counter this threat and another to bolster the centre. Michael consolidated the centre and his right and tried to retire Wayne out of harmed way. However, seeing Wayne pulling back Alan sent the Guards in to see them on their way. This had the desired effect of catching one regiment on the wrong side of the river with two devastating volleys which broke the brigade. The centre and (British) right had evolved into a blazing firefight, the First Fire causing much damage on both sides.
Eventually Peter’s men on the right, aided by a charge from the 33rd broke Greg’s forward brigade. However under the scenario rules the British needed to break three rather than half the army (i.e. two brigades in this army). The British were suffering badly; eventually Peter’s right hand brigade broke. One last desperate might do it! It was time for the grenadiers to charge; unfortunately this ended in disaster breaking the second British brigade (out of three) and the British were spent.
It was a great game which at one point looked like it was going the British way, but with BP you can never predict anything.
We’ve included some pictures of the participants in this battle that Steve and Jess May and Alan Perry have painted recently.
Das war es für diese Woche. Ich hoffe, es hat euch gefallen!
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