From My Side of the Table... The Battle of Berlin.

Yes The Battle of Berlin... But...NOT WW2...


The other week Alan Perry hosted an excellent ACW game for Jan Gradon, Peter Dennis, Dave Andrews, Chris Cound, Michael(Perry) and myself.

The scenario was based on a Confederate raid across The Potomac at Berlin, Maryland.
The Confederate forces have captured some ammunition and prisoners and are in the process of sabotaging the Baltimore Ohio rail road... All they have to do is get across the river to safety...
The river is of course flooded and a pontoon bridge must be built so they can cross...


Simple...


For a change I found myself on the side of The Confederacy with Dave Andrews and Chris Cound... Yup! I'm a Rebel... Yeee! Har!


We decided to defend the road against the predictable Union attack and let the Waggons and prisoners make their way off table as fast as possible...


The Union came on rather faster than we expected...with the exception of Jan's forces...
Chris's men were hit hard by Michael and Peter's regiments and after some tough fighting eventually broke...
I stepped in to fill the gap and rather surprisingly fought very well... managing to hold things together while Chris made his escape...
Jan's men eventually started forward and apart from one unfortunate blunder... rolled all the dice he wanted... when he wanted them...
Again after some hard fighting Dave's men broke or fell back...
All this time the bridge was being built across the river...


I managed somehow to hold my men together and give as good if not better than I took... and held the road open till a good part of our men made it to the bridge... before I felt the need to find something more interesting on the other side of the river myself...


The Ammunition wagons and prisoners moved faster than anyone else on the table...




This imaged used with kind permission of Alan Perry.

A view of the table...
My brave fellows are formed up more or less in front of the Green House to the top left...

An unfinished pontoon bridge...

Our glorious Rebel Cavalry watch on and encourage some rail disruption...

Our Cavalry... Desperate to vandalise more than rails...

My brave men basking in the sunlight...

Some union prisoners being captivated...

The (as it turned out very fast) Ammunition wagons...

A large group of Northern Commuters arrive to protest at the unexpected delays with the rail service...

Our centre braces itself...

Our dashing cavalry shout... Yeeeeee! Harrrrrr!

The Ammunition wagons start their incredible dash to the river... They never missed a move...

Jan's... for the moment not very enthusiastic troops...

Chris's men start to engage the Union of unhappy commuters while I hold back in reserve...

The Ammunition wagons and prisoners wait impatiently... to be rescued or to get across the river...

Chris's men...

As the Union press in on us ... the bridge is finished and the wagons race.. once again... across the bridge...

My men have pulled back towards the bridge and do their best to hold off the advancing Union...

This view shows Dave and Chris's broken troops falling back towards the river... for a change I did not break or in fact loose a single unit...

Chris's men make a break for it...

Dave's men also head for the bridge...

Dave's dashing cavalry... make a dash for the countryside...


We Won... We Won...
I don't care what anyone else says...
Waggons ,Prisoners and troops over the bridge at the end of the game...
And I didn't loose a single unit...


I could get used to this...


As always an excellent game of toy soldiers in excellent company... and an unexpected victory... Yes... a Victory!


All toys and terrain are from the collection of Alan Perry...
A less biased description of events can be found here...


https://www.facebook.com/perryminiatures/posts/2371621116293314?__tn__=K-R


All the best   Aly