Friday 30 September 2016
2nd New Hampshire
Last line infantry regiment for the americans. As always references taken from a Don Troiani illustration
Don Troianai, all rights reserved
Thursday 29 September 2016
1st Pennsylvania
1st Pennsylvania regiment for the AWI, I used the illustration below by Don Troiani as reference
Image property of Don Troiani
Wednesday 28 September 2016
Battle of Asinara
Treacherous shoals scenario: victory to whoever makes surrender most enemies, with plenty of sandbanks around the table.
The battle began with the frenchies coming from windward
The english just presented broadsides and waited for the french to come, the wind would roll to their front and put them in irons again next turn. They maintanied the "holy line" and remained confident
The enemy was soon bottled up by the shoals
With only three french vs five british the english concentrated several ships on one of the enemy vanguard at a time
Brits at anchor letting fly
The boarding in one end of the line turned awry for the frenchies when another brit joined in
One of the center french ships lost the last damage and striked
The boarding action finished when the outnumbered french surrendered
Their flagship tough charged seeking vengeance
Meanwhile, another ship fell prey to the british deadly crossfire
A point blank broadside mauled badly this white-hulled ship
The british ship resisted heroically against the enemy flagship, which doubled her in crew, and killed off half of the boarders. Bad dice rolling meant she couldn't push away tough.
Another french then joined in to assist her admiral
With obvious results
However a lone english sneaked behind them and with a lucky roll made the flagship surrender.
With only one ship left in the last turn the french were massacred 17-4, and if the battle lasted two more turns they would have had no fleet left!
BRITANNIA TRIUMPHANT!
Again, victory to the better sailor: the french player comitted two fatal mistakes, first to get bottled up in the center, bringing only half his guns to bear in the initial exchange: and second to divide the fire amongst all enemies instead of concentrating on one at a time, a historically attested british tactic which proved its worth once again.
First american regiment
This "generic" continental unit is the fundation of the 15mm AWI american army, I aim to finish it within the next week.
I also made a supply wagon to serve as objective in the future games, the barrels are detachable for other wargames. 'Mericans for scale, I built it in a size that can fit with 1/72 and 28mm too.
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