Korea

I managed to have a few games last month but unfortunately I had no camera so the latest post is our display game Korea 1950's which we put on at the Partizan show on the 2nd on behalf of the

South East Scotland Wargames Club.

The above photos show the table from the Korean and UN ends.

This is the MASH unit at the far end of the UN table which is where all the UN forces are heading across the bridge at the top of the photo.

This is the far end of the bridge with defenders under fire.

North Korean infantry advance from the village as armour support advances in the rear.

American recce units advance to check out the enemy.

Sadly for the Americans they allow the NK troops to get too close and are close assaulted by swarming infantry.

American troops counter attack but its too late for the unsupported armour which is destroyed.

The North Korean counter attack gets under way but unfortunately we were too busy chatting to people at the show that we never got a chance to finish the game, but such an unusual subject generated a huge amount of interest.

All the troops and terrain are from the collection of my friend Colin Jack and Bill Gilchrist also took part in the game.  We used Bolt Action rules for the game which worked really well and were quick and easy to pick up, so much so that we decided to adapt them for a weekend of Vietnam gaming at the weekend, a report of which I'll post later.

Sino-Japanese update

You can read another account from the Chinese point of view on Bill Gilchrist's
great little blog at this link. http://blenheimtoberlin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sino-japanese-war-1938.html

Sino-Japanese War

Managed to get in another game this month along at my mate Colin Jack's wargames room along with Bill Gilchrist and Mr Ray made a rare appearance from over the pond.  As usual with Colin very few of his games are mainstream and this one set in Manchuria in 1937 was no different with Bill and Mr Ray commanding a motely mixture of Chinese and Colin and myself commanded the Japanese.
The scenario was set at the river mouth of a Manchurian peninsula where a train commanded by Colin packed full of Japanese infantry were attempting to make their way down to meet up with a naval landing party commanded by me.  Unfortunately the Chinese didn't intend to let things go quite so smoothly so a mixture of regular troops and revolting students had blocked the main line and set up a series of ambushes.

My landing force at the other end of the table was a mixture of Marines and sailors backed up by a light gun, an Hmg and a tank.  There was even a chance of the airforce making an appearance.

Unfortunately I only had one bridge to cross over from my landing position which meant that I was unable to fully utilise the full strength of my force which already had a few units of Chinese bandits supported by artillery and an Hmg facing them.

Under the Triumph and Tragedy rules we use the high quality Japanese troops should have had few problems facing the poor quality Chinese troops and especially the students, unfortunately we forgot to explain that to Mr Ray who lauched his students in a series of charges against the halted train.

My troops managed to cross the bridge and clear away all the bandits facing me but just couldn't get to the train in time as Mr Ray captured one carriage after another.

To make things worse a Chinese plane made an appearance but fortunately it was too far away from my troops to affect them.

The Chinese final assault went in and managed to capture the whole train

and basically winning the game.

The final highlight for me was my Japanese plane finally arriving and shooting down

the Chinese one in a dog fight but it was too little too late.

Apart from the result it was a great game and good to take part in such an unusual period.