More AWI.... British Artillery.

Real life put paid to much of this month... but I did manage to get a couple of guns done for the AWI and another infantry unit.

You can't go wrong at £6.75 for three guns and within Rebel & Patriots it's about as many as you need.

Being 10mm you can even get away with using British Crew for Continentals if you don't look too close.

With a game planned, that was just the nudge I needed to get these finished.

What I have begun to realise with 10mm is that you can mix a match a few scales and they don't look that out of place, the woods and barricades were designed for 15mm, the tents and hedges 6mm - but they look fine on the table top.

The scene is set. Rebel forces have been gathering arms and militia men in an encampment when a British expeditionary force is sent to disperse them.

The British main force advance down the road towards the waiting militia men.

The British line out and push the guns forwards.

The British make hard work of the attack, minutemen and militia with some good defences to their front can hold their own if you don't ask them to do anything else. A few poor command rolls disrupts the British advance.

Meanwhile help was at hand with a second British force entering the table looking to flank the defenders.

As the British pushed forwards, a unit of mounted militia men attempt to drawn units away from the attack.

In the centre,  the Crown forces charge into the plantation house throwing back the defenders, but they were too few in number to defend it and ultimately the men in red would have to fall back.

However despite the casualties in the frontal assault progress was taking shape on the right, as the flanking force reached the camp and the minutemen in the treeline.

Sneaky musket rounds from behind trees are no replacement for the bayonet, The Kings forces charged up the hill and threw back the defenders.

With the flank exposed the Americans had no choice but to leave the table.

A great game with the usual back and forth as command rolls were passed and failed, the mechanism can handle far more than initial 24 points. Good job as fresh reinforcements are on the way.

Off to see the land of Eric the Red for a few days.... Just as I was getting my painting mojo back. :-)