RCW Winter Convoy Battle

Managed a battle on Friday and decided to roll out the Russian Civil War collection for a ‘convoy’ scenario.

The Reds have secured important resources being carried in three trucks, these must be escorted from A to B. red forces will arrive from the far end, the Whites will be in ambush, their forces split in half arriving randomly at points 1 to 6 based on a D6.

The ‘convoy’ can be activated on a 6+ on 2D6 for each vehicle, but the road is too narrow for them to pass ! They can move a maximum of 18” each turn.

The convoy sets off supported by infantry, but the last vehicle fails its activation

The rest of the red force arrives from the other road, no vehicles are allowed off the road due to the snow

Whites arrive pretty randomly including some cavalry along the road

The ‘Reds’ armoured car moves to cover the lead vehicle and opens up with its machine guns

The ambush is sprung but a fubar causes the lead infantry to flee back from the woods

White forces push down the road, to capture the convoy if possible

White infantry ambushes from the woods and exchanges fire across the stream

The ‘white’ Cossacks charge against the leading reds but are cut down in the process

The armoured car pushes down the road to clear the way

More whites, the officers regiment cut right to try and block the road

Long range shooting has limited effect

But getting the first dice from the bag the whites are able to hoop the fence and blow the lead vehicle.

The next truck skips past down the road and the Reds throw all their firepower at the enemy attempting to block the road, the second vehicle manages to escape the ambush

But with the last dice out of the bag the Officers Regiment is able to surge through the gap in the fence and assault the final vehicle

This is also set on fire just before it can escape. Giving the Whites a win at the last throw of the dice. A fun game and close till the end, the Reds perhaps didn’t get all their troops into to play quickly enough but the whites were lucky to have anything left with most of their force dead in the woods !

Sunday saw a trip to York for the Vapnartak wargame show. Lots going on a busy, no photos of games as we were too busy shopping and chatting. So instead a photo of the ridiculous amount of loot which I bought. Nearly all of it secondhand so lots of bargains, covering a wide range of projects. 

A fun day out 😀 now I need to get on with painting it.

Matt