Gaming - BoB - Raid on Tsaritsyn

 The regular weekend meeting game was part of the ongoing Back of Beyond campaign. The Brits had suffered at the hands of the Bolos in a previous battle where they had been attacked by gas shells causing many casualties. As a result the British North Persia force was tasked with inflicting a suitable slap to the Bolos. 

A force had penetrated up the Volga from the Caspian Sea and was to hit rail and communications facilities to the south of Tsaritsyn. This was to be a night raid to catch the Bolos at sleep .

The rail workers were on night shift trying to fix a train , aided by the local commisar - or was it encouraged 

16 blind markers were placed as potential sentries - with only 6 actually being present . Nether side knew which were which until the activated of were actually spotted . 

I had made some night fighting rules 

A sentry opens up on noise by the ferry .

Boom , the ferry is taking on water , the sleepy sailors abandon ship after taking casualties 

 

The railway workers are shepherded toward the noise by the commissar 

A British unit makes lots of noise on its approach to the telegraph office , alerting its unit of Red Guards

The unit of cavalry has thrown off its vodka topper and advanced into night 

CPO Carter MM leads a raiding party ashore 

The sailors and workers ,I’ve back to attempt to save the ship 

Brits set about destroying the stores 

All in all a fun games 

It was challenging at times to run , with night rules and visibility having to be interpreted especially with light , fires etc . I didn’t always remember to apply all my modifications either . The end result was the Brits had inflicted serious damage - which in terms of campaign impact will force the Bolos to spent time and effort here . Brit casualties were upto 50% , but they were able to get them away so that will reduce . The Bolo commander was killed leading a counterattack- probably for the best as she had a lot of explaining to do . It’s also thanks to Martin for the loan of some terrain bits and some suitable Bolo figure - the workers and sailors . 

I have also been creating some new flags for the Bolos based on some design principles and to equip each unit with its own individual one to aid unit identification during games 

One for the Sailors “Torpedo Odessa”

Cavalry and railway workers 

Pleased with those

 

Back of Beyond - Bolshevik Infantry

 I have completed the stash of Coppoestone Bolsheviks , with various Commisars , Heroines and straight up infantry 

I found a small stash of red stars in the decals box and have applied these . This way madness lies ! Fortunately I have now run out of them .

This gives me a decent start of a force for STEA . I need a couple of MGs and cavalry unit to finish it off .

**Edit ** 

A first battle was fought today and they actually won! Mind almost everything else they fighting was new , so someone had to!