Another enjoyable game today. Here is the table set up and the forces awaiting the start and deployment-
The above photo is what happened the very first time the rocket was fired. The aiming point , marked by the blue dice, was where the rocket should have landed. However there was a misfire! The burst circle marks where it actually landed! A most unreliable weapon but great fun, it missed its intended target but hit another. An exciting game which ended in a draw. The village people put up a splendid fight considering their low level of training and being armed with an array of shotgun, rifles, pistols and a few lmgs. Another game soon introducing armoured cars, Molotov cocktails and anti tank rifles…
Looks to have been a nice little game - the rockets seem as accurate at Congreves original invention back in the early 1800's - I have had similar results with them in the War of 1812 and Carlist Wars!
ReplyDeleteA fear that is the way of the world. My scout troop is enthusiastic but not too skilled. They are using Standard fireworks not Gandalf or even Congreve produced ones.
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
Brilliant!! Great looking game and the rockets being so unreliable makes it fun to see what is going to happen.
ReplyDeleteExactly, fun over accuracy any day on the Wargames table imho.
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
A great little set up, the Scouts rocket troops. This unreliable firing looks like a good mechanism for Home Guard style improvised weapons which were probably as much a risk to the firer or their own side.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I have always found the Home Guard weapons fascinating both in terms of ingenuity and self lethality. I have a few such weapons in 15mm to accompany my HG.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland