Boers on the left, CIV on the right. Terrain features were randomly placed, although I tried to mirror the features. I then rolled to decide which edge they approached from. |
The Boers seize the hill and push back the machine gun detachment. |
The machine gun fire drives the Boers off the hill; another CIV unit moves to seize the hill. |
The Boers push back the the infantry and machine gun. The Boers rolled two "retreats" on the machine gun; they only had one square to retreat to, so one man is killed. |
The CIV retakes the hill. |
The Boers move to outflank the hill. |
The British move the machine gun to the top of the hill to hold it. |
At the top of the picture; one CIV unit is wiped out. |
The CIV attacks along the entire line, pushing the Boers back. |
The Boers push back the British right, but still can't take the hill. |
The Boers shift more units to their left flank. |
The Boer unit on the right takes the farmhouse; unfortunately they have no support now. |
The British cavalry eliminates the Boer unit at the top of the picture and the machine gun pushes back the Boer cavalry. |
Those Peter Laing figures are really nice - the machine gun is splendid and certainly worked well on overwatch!
ReplyDeleteI do want to paint more of these figures, especially some more Boer cavalry. I didn't realize how well the machine gun unit performed until I wrote this report.
ReplyDeleteI do like the look of these.
ReplyDeleteThe CIV figures closest to the camera I received that way. I like them so much I brought one to the local craft store so I could try to match h the paints. I think I got the right color. I originally had painted them a lighter color which I think might have actually been a closer match to true British khaki, but looking at different toy soldier manufacturers, I think this color matches the "toy soldier" khaki better.
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