A RCW adventure

We rolled out my RCW collection this weekend, after some careful thought I ended up basically getting everything out that is painted. I did discover I have a few units in the lead pile. The Reds and Whites would be fighting over three objectives. The Reds have some tribal mercenaries will arrive randomly potentially ambushing the Whites, but they mercenaries run the risk of changing sides given fairly limited provocation.

The White force starts to arrive and wouldn’t you just credit it,  the first Tribal mercenaries pop up in their rear ! Luckily the White officer Regiment is on hand to help sort them out

From the East end of the table the fuel dump is one of the hard objectives to reach

Both sides have air support the Reds have already knocked out the enemy Tchanka which can be seen burning

Massed Revolutionary infantry surge into the table, the water tower is a second objective

The officer Regiment finish off the first mercenaries

The third objective is the central workshop building, the Whites manage to capture it first

The reds strengthen their defence of the water tower

The rocky hills provide cover for the White infantry, a unit of Cossacks allied to the whites seem uncertain what to do and spend several turns galloping about

Bombing the defenders of the water tower

The reds have managed to get an old British tank into service which makes for the cross roads

The defenders of the water tower are pinned down and eventually forced back

The whites are uncertain how to manage the Reds armoured car as their rifle shots have no effect on its armour

But some fluke both biplanes are shot down in the same turn 😢

Defence in force at the water tower, some Red cavalry has cleared the nearby hill, whilst the Whites have trundled a Whippet tank forward

The whites consolidate around the workshop. In the distance the final tribal mercenaries are really uncommitted to any action, eventually changing sides but even then they don’t get into the fight

Finally the white cavalry finds some thing to charge chasing down the enemy with their sabres

Reds have brought on their reserves a Black Sea Sailor unit, but they get caught in cross fire and get pinned down

The Reds suffer some friendly fire. And the Cossacks make the most by charging recklessly at the defenders of the water tower

They throw their lives away but defeat the enemy in the process

But thats as far as the Whites can get when the battle draws to a close.

In the end a minor white victory, as they held the fuel dump outright (I just forgot to take a photo) fighting was still going on at the other two. A fun battle with lots of little incidents, both sides had some artillery and I’m not sure they hit anything in the whole game. The Tanks are really only armoured machine guns. Slightly disappointed the Tchanka got blown up again really early in the battle 🙁

That’s it for now two more games coming up this week and some more painting to share soon.

Thanks for checking in Matt 😀