Weapons Cache Scenario : RCW

As a change from wooden blocks and ACW we rolled out a RCW game to play our next virtual game. No particular historical context, but a slightly modified version of the weapons search we played for AWI at Concord. 

The scenario set up is as below. There are five hidden locations marked on the map only one contains the weapons and this isn’t known to either Commander. The Reds who were searching will arrive from A or B the Whites as defenders arrive form C. Searching is a simple activation on the location. The whites have a small unit of elite troops who will ambush turn one at one of the cache locations. In hindsight (a wonderful thing) as this played out we should have allowed the Reds to arrive from A and B splitting their forces.

Scenario setup somewhere in the Don valley (Russia not Yorkshire)

The Reds arrive en mass turn one, and wouldn’t you just believe it the officers regiment ambush is randomly selected at the nearest cache. (This was unfortunate and random but caused too much of a roadblock in the initial couple of turns impacting the Reds ability to deploy across the table quickly hence the comment above about entering from both A and B)

The White force from the other side of the battlefield, mainly regular infantry a machine gun and a Rolls Royce armoured car.

The whites ‘colourful’ regiments spread out

As do the Reds once they have chased off the Officers. (Victory points will be earned by the reds as follows 1 point for each cache search and an additional 3 points if they find the weapons, the reds get one point for each cache saved and a point for each red unit completely destroyed)

The whites take up a commanding position at the road junction

but come under heavy fire in one of the ploughed fields

Russian Sailors regiment make a run along the road

More Bolshevik  infantry makes for the second cache

The whites have run through the farm to contest the objective but get pinned down

Fierce exchange of gunfire

But the Reds make it to the objective

Comrade Babushka shouts encouragement

But when the boxes are searched it isn’t the weapons

The number of White units defending is shrinking quickly but they have struggled to wipe out any Reds, choosing rather to protect the caches 

In the end as darkness falls the Reds chose to pull back.

The Whites have won but it is a marginally victory 4 (3 intact caches and only one unit wiped out) points to 2 caches searched. As mentioned above it was a little hard for the Reds due to the limited entry options. But it was good to get a game in, catch up over zoom and talk all things wargaming with Phil. I think we might try this scenario again with the amendments using a different period.

I do have a few more RCW figures to paint up so this might encourage me to get them done ?

Keep safe 👍 keep painting 🎲