Back of Beyond ?

Slowly catching up on games we have played. This from a couple of weeks ago when George visited the dungeon. I rolled out a small Back of Beyond battle. Both sides seeking to capture three objectives. George posted a run down of the battle a while ago so I’m just really sharing some photos. Both sides Russians and British have employed tribal mercenaries who need to roll to activate each turn and if they fail run the risk of changing sides on a D6 roll.

The setup, Russian ps advance from the right, they have already captured one objective in the scenario but are slightly outnumbered by the British

Russian Tachanka 

British come on in the centre heading for the station building

Russians move over the hill in the distance

The British move in force towards the third objective

More Russians arrive in the centre

Bengal Lancers gallop down the road and wipe out the Tachanka, well I guess they kill the driver or horses, whatever it takes no more part in the battle !

The Russian milita have been driven off and the British consolidate around the train truck, only for the Afghan mercenaries to fail an activation swop sides and shoot their British masters in the back. Not surprisingly the British quickly turn on them to finish them off !

The lancers charge in again !

The other objective is left while the Russian make a beeline for the cross roads

Russians make a dash for the train 

Fierce hand to hand fighting with both sides taking a lot of casualties, eventually the British win through though, not helped by a couple of failed activations by the Russians on the hill.

The other truck is now contested. The turns ran out at this stage with the British in charge of two with the final objective contested. So a British win this time.

A fun game and nice to give this little collection a run out…..

And finally some painted wargame figures, with and up coming Napoleonic battle agains the Russians and needing some more light cavalry I dug into the plastic mountain and found I had a small (seven figure) unit of Chasseurs a cheval so these got painted up in anticipation.

Four are warlord plastics with three Perry metals as the command figures. I have swopped the annoyingly thin warlord sabres out for some spares from other figures. The standard isn’t the correct one but you can’t really read it anyway 🤔

Well that’s it for now, several more battles under my belt this year so I need to post the others soon. Unfortunately some are quite big, including the Battle of Corunna played out yesterday !

Thanks as always for checking by

Matt ♥️