A Semi Flat Artillery Battery

A battery of Semi Flat artillery. 

The battery with a supply wagon with spare ammunition. 

The caisson loaded with ammunition. It will require tweezers to get the rounds out.

 

Guns for the Next Battle

When I got my large order of spring loaded cannons, only one gun was functioning. I thought that maybe the previous owner was a pacifist wargamer who intentionally  disabled the guns. Fortunately  a little oil and gentle  tapping got 8 out of 12 guns working.

After having that much success, It got me thinking how to put the guns to use. I started making ammunition  for the guns using cotton swabs with the tips dipped in paint to harden the cotton. The above picture shows the ammunition  drying.

A quartermaster  wagon shows up bringing a fresh load of ammunition  for preparation.

 

Semi Flats Wargame: Part 4

The Green Jagers are hit from three sides.

They lose four out of six men. However, they pass their morale check.

The Jagers fall back into the protection of the village.

The Blue artillery fires on the Jagers and wipes them out.

The Green army forms a new line and the Blue Zouave Brigade suffers heavy losses. 

However, the Blue army holds firm and the Green army regiments have been decimated. 

The Green general calls for a retreat.

 The Blue army general orders his troops  forward in pursuit. 

Semi Flat Wargame: Part 3

The Green army advances, pushing a unit of Jagers into the town. The Blue army turns their right most regiment to hit the left Green regiment.

The Blue army fire kills 7 Green men.

One Green regiment, that suffered 50% losses, breaks and runs. The 2nd Brigade general is on hand to try to rally the regiment.

The Green army continues  their advance. They move their artillery forward towards the left flank. The Brigadier rallies the broken regiment and leads them forward. The Jagers push through the town and turns to hit the First brigades right flank, carelessly  exposing it's  own flank to the Blue's artillery.

The Jagers fire kills 2 Zouaves.

 

Semi Flats Wargame Part 2

The Green army deploys and advances.

The Green army first volley kills 5 blue soldiers.

In the Junior General rules, any losses calls for a morale check. The regiment that lost one man fails their morale test and starts to retreat. Meanwhile, the regiment that suffered 50% losses holds fast.

The Brigadier of the 2nd Brigade goes to rally the broken regiment. He succeeds in rallying the broken regiment.

 

Semi Flats Wargame Part 1

The two armies march onto the field. Blue army at top of picture, Green army on bottom.

View  from Blues side.

Close up of one of the new caissons  in use.

Blue army deployed and advancing.

This game was just to get a game in. Both sides are equal, with six- 6 man regiments divided into 2 brigades, and 1 gun and crew. Each brigade had a brigadier general and for command a major general with a drummer. The rules used are from Junior General website. 
I have decided to break this report into several posts. Once again, I am trying to get computer problems resolved so I am using my cell phone to do the blog for now.

New Artillery Park

   In the month I have acquired wagons for my semi flat collection. However, artillery for the troops were in short supply. Until today.

    I came across a nice collection of toy cannons which were reasonably  priced. However, being in the UK, the postage to the US almost made me not bid on them. In the end I won them. What is more, even with postage they came out to a little over $7.00 a gun, which is a good price.

12 guns which will fit my semi flat  armies well.

There is a 13th gun, which is very large indeed. I put 54mm and 30mm figures in the picture to show how large the gun is.

New Wagons

The bringing out of my wagon collection last post wasn't just a whim. I found a nice collection for sale; what's more the collection was in the United States, which saved me the outrageous overseas postage of late.

The collection was delivered today, which doubled the number of wagons, including 3 artillery caissons. 

The 3 artillery caissons, along with one gun.

2 new supply wagons.

New ambulance and ammunition wagon.

 

New guard shack with fencing.

The complete collection. The last artillery caisson is an old homemade one that came with some old toy soldiers a few years ago. I plan to put it into service. 

Preparing for Campaign

 Being  rather bored, I started thinking of trying to work on a game using 30mm semi flats. One thing I would like to work into it is using wagons for supply. 

I have several wagons, a couple that need some repairs. Superglue was used to tack the wheels to the hubs. Hopefully I can make more permanent  repairs  later. The horse trails must be reattached  on a couple of the pieces.

One pleasant surprise that I hadn't realized  before that an ammunition  wagon had a hinged top, allowing for access to the inside.

My Collection of wagons. If one looks closely at the second wagon, the front wheel is off it's  hub. For now it has a temporary  repair.

The wagons with some 30mm soldiers for scale.

2 soldiers working on preparing the wagons for campaign.