Greetings…
Last week myself, Adam, Matthew, David and Michael gathered at Alan Perrys house for a wargame set during the French invasion of Egypt…
Michael, Adam and Alan took the part of the French…
Matthew and David were the British…
While I took the Turks… My choice of commanding the Turkish force was down to a couple of reasons…
The main one being that I am still suffering from a flair up of Blepharitis which has made the vision in my right eye somewhat fuzzy… Hence the Fog of War reference in the title.
The Turks were in defensive positions so all I really had to worry about was the enemy to my front .
Also the Turks are very pretty…
I was to hold out as long as I could against a large French force while the British marched to my rescue.
The field of battle…
I was defending the (slightly incomplete) fieldworks at the top left of the table and a smaller fort with a big gun on the little island…
My brave defenders watch on as the sappers try and finish the defences… Wondering what that big cloud of dust is on the other side of the town… And wondering where their British allies are.
Eeeeeeek!
That was a bl*#@y big dust cloud… And fast moving…
I must say though… They are also rather pretty.
The French cavalry came charging down the Waddi hoping to sweep away my Well Below Average Light Horse…
They didn’t….
On the other flank my Mamelukes didn’t do so well…
Basically the dice gods took against my left flank…
The incredibly brave action by my Well Below Average Light Horse gave the Heroic if a bit Slow British time to advance…
Unfortunately the French kept advancing as well…
Meanwhile on the island…..
Hmmmm…
Apparently these guys are really good…Just who you would want to defend your little island against the French hoards…
Wherever they might be…
My well defended Island/Fort allows more glorious British troops to land in safety from the unseen French hordes…
Yup!…
I know where the French hordes are…
Point blank artillery… In the face… And guess what…
Yup!…
I missed…. Sigh!
My brave men made a tactical withdrawal…
Go Away! ….
My new position proved to be quite good for a while… A number of French units came a cropper charging through the gap in the earthworks…
Sadly not enough…
The Glorious British have now landed in force…
But there seems to be endless numbers of French….
My pretty boys hold out for a bit longer…
But…
Unfortunately the casualties add up… And it’s ‘ Run Away’ time all of a sudden…
On the other side of the table/battlefield/ fuzzy vision the British do quite well…
In the end I would say it was a ‘bloody’ draw…
I held the French off for as long as I could… Sadly the British were too slow to save me but just fast enough to catch the French right flank and put the boot in…
It was a lot of fun… Even with the fuzzy vision.
I don’t think Adam and Matthew had ever seen so many toy soldiers in the one place so they were delighted.
All the best Aly
