ALY MORRISON'S "BUTTERFLY" ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF WARGAMES AND TOY SOLDIERS

Saturday 27 July 2019

From my side of the table... The Battle of Perryville...

Earlier this week Alan Perry hosted an A.C.W. game at his house...


This was an encounter game with some hidden movement at the beginning...


I have called this The Battle of Perryville...


Myself...Michael (Perry) and Alessio Cavatore commanded The Union forces...


Nick Eyre and Steve May were The Enemy!


Safe to say that my dice throwing was up to my usual (low) standard...
I moved forward gloriously...followed by an inability to hit a barn door at ten paces...


Thankfully my comrades did mange to hit the barn door (Confederates)...


Sadly not all my pictures were in focus or as good as they could be... so here is what I have...




Sleepy Perryville...






Hidden movement was done using mounted officers... some represented units others were blank..




"Gee... Is this guy for real?..."
"I don't know... Lets throw a brick at him"





We moved splendidly forward on our left flank...






The 'Enemy' move forward in the centre...
Their right flank were all...blanks





Our centre move forward to meet theirs...




The 'Enemy' made a push on our the left flank... they were met by our green and untried infantry..





Our brave left wing being... brave.




More bravery...





Some Gun on Gun action...




More glorious movement on my flank...




As well as untried infantry on our right flank... we also had guns and some decent infantry... and Alessio rolling decent dice... The Confederates were not happy...




Nick made a push on our left flank...things did not look good... That's Michaels cannon pointing at them...




Fortunately I was there to miss with all of my shots and not move very fast...
Then lose a round or two of combat...
My men moved back to take a rest...




The 'Enemy' centre also made a mad dash forward...




We also did some dashing...




Our centre waits to shoot the living daylights out of the 'Enemy'


It turns out that Michael can also roll dice...





Nick decided that the best thing would be to pull back and reorganise... I shot in the air ... quite close to him...




The Confederate centre clashes with our brave boys in blue... it didn't end well for them.




My men missing stuff...




Things not looking very well for the 'Enemy' here...


This was an excellent game with excellent friends...


Both sides pushed forwards with their left flanks...
The 'Enemy' came a cropper on their left flank...meeting unexpected resistance and cannons...
On our own left flank I dashed forwards gloriously and shot wildly into the air..
Nicks men ran out and shouted BOO!... which made my men... move backwards and shoot into the air again...
Fortunately our centre held theirs...


With two of their brigades broken the 'Enemy' raised their hands and ran away... Well that's what it looked like to me as I continued to shoot wildly at, around and above Nicks men... Obviously this hail of misdirected lead gave him the willies and he wisely joined the rush to the rear...


I am so taking this as a victory...
I need all I can get...


All the best   Aly.



20 comments:

  1. The miniatures look lovely, but the terrain is absolutely stunning. Really like the idea of representing unknown units with an officer. Top notch stuff. Well worth the price of admission.

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    1. It worked really well and was more visually pleasing than bits if card or paper...

      All the best. Aly

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  2. Your game looks terrific with all of the colorful troops. "Perry"ville is a perfect setting for battle.

    Enjoyable battle report with your usual light-hearted take on the action.

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    1. Thank you Jonathan...
      All the hard work was down to Alan...
      I just turned up... an as usual threw bad dice....

      All the best. Aly

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    1. Great looking and a lot of fun...

      All the best. Aly

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  4. Absolutely amazing terrain and an exciting report. I had the soundtrack to Gettysburg playing in my head while reading it.

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    1. Thank you...
      We were actually playing a mix of period and film music in the background.

      All the best. Aly

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  5. Splendid pics and fine amusing narrative, I trust not too many birds were injured while you were contributing to the enemy defeat.

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    1. Thank you Phil...
      The only injuries to birds were when they fell off their perches laughing...

      All the best. Aly

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  6. Shooting all that poor defenceless air! For shame! Well up to your usual post action game reports! Looking forward to more quite soon!

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    1. Thank you David...
      The air simply moved gracefully out of the way... ;-)...

      All the best Aly

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  7. What a lovely looking batch of toys, in a lovely setting, Aly.

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    1. It was indeed Mark... and great fun.

      All the best. Aly

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  8. Great looking game sounds like splendid fun👍

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    1. It certainly was Matt...
      And I was on the winning side...

      All the best. Aly

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  9. Great stuff as always! Glad to hear the boys in blue managed to hold on for the win :-)

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    1. It was great fun indeed Jay...
      And a pleasant surprise to be on the winning side for a change...

      All the best. Aly

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    1. It was splendid fun indeed...

      All the best. Aly

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