Saturday was curry and about 5 pints to many.
Sunday up bright and early and very hungover. I'm getting too old for this drinking lark, and very out of practice. We met up with Ray and Postie, who had come up from Gravesend, pleasure to meet them, hope he's remembered to pay his Dartford toll
On with the battle
The layout. Egyptian army at the bottom, Me, Imperials in the village at the top, James with Mahdists in the middle, Dave vs me and Scotty vs James. The Brits were low on supplies, I had them in the huge baggage train. I was low on water and needed to get to the oasis in the middle before saving James
The Egyptians, couple of unit of Camel Corps, unit of lancers, 5 units of infantry, 4 cannon and some scouts. These are terrible troops and 1/2 are fresh off the painting table so I've got no chance
James has 3 units of infantry and some bits. James is a proud Scotsman and he has the Cameron Highlanders. problem is that James always manages to get every Scottish unit he commands slaughtered to a man. So things aren't looking good
Fuzzies facing James, i have a similar number facing me
I form a line as quick as I can as Dave launches an all out attack
On both flanks of my army
Dave even has a Gatling gun. My scouts rush out and take it out but are caught by the Fuzzies behind and are routed
Dave smashes into my line and one of my Egyptian infantry units simply disappears. Excellent
At the other end Scotty is launching wave after wave against James and although he is standing firm he is taking casualties
The Mahdists attack me again but I've got my cannons in place and although I keep falling back as a result of melee the cannons reek bloody hell and keep the Mahdists away. I forgot to take photos for the next bit, the exciting bit. I manage to get a regiment of camel corps to outflank the Mahdists and roll them up in 2 turns
My path is cleared and I can run to rescue James, but we went home before this happened.
So obviously I went shopping. Strangely enough i barely bought anything
Book on Meriwether Lewis, a mouldy book for £1
Altar piece for my pyramid
Couple of packs of Empress modern SAS
The freebie, a sitting WW1 Tommy
Pulp female captives, including a King Kong style Faye Wray, great for the pyramid
Finally the author Harry Sidebottom was at the show, he's often there. I was reading his latest, it's great and I really like his lead character - Ballista. These are a different series and I picked them up, he signed them and gave me a free Ballista figure by Aventine. Nice guy
Really good weekend out. Will post some of the other games later
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