WW2 - Pacific At The Sgt's Bunker

It's been a long long time since I've taken the time to sit down and post, but had to share some pics of the Bolt Action game Scott L. hosted the other night. The objective of several U.S. Marine and Aussie Chindit units would be to penetrate into a Pacific island jungle and wreak havoc on the occupying Japanese forces. We have discovered and it is the prevailing opinion of the Basement Generals that a game of Bolt Action is best played with 2 - 4 players. Scott had an interesting idea of trisecting the table to have three one on one matches taking place side by side. It seemed to work well and we finished the games with time to spare. You can catch more of Scott's work over at Sergeant's Bunker. Nice job, Scott.

 The table is set

 A squad of Marines are past the seawall and into the jungle

 A pair of Japanese units lay in wait

 A Japanese mortar team would prove to be a pest to yours truly, but nothing more

Australian units moving beyond the seawall

Back to Black Powder

Once again, it's been way too long since I posted anything. With the Baron stomping around England to rub elbows with the Lead Adventure chaps, I decided to invite some of the fellas up to my place for some Black powder ACW fun. Being extremely busy with life lately, I only had time to throw something simple and easy together, so with a table void of a lot of terrain, we got after it with a couple of small divisions duking it out. The Rebs would go to battle with two large brigades, a pair of artillery pieces, and two small cavalry regiments. The Yanks would have three brigades of infantry and a few artillery batteries.

Opposing armies for the most part use brigade orders to get into the fight quickly.

Heavy fighting breaks out on the Confederate left as two units of Virginia cavalry try to push back the  14th Brooklyn.

The Iron Brigade has the US left flank.

Rebel artillery unlimbers for action...

Only to take a pounding.

"On to Washington!"

Some fine rolling on the Union side and lousy rolling all night for the Confederate would prove disastrous for the CSA this night.  All in all it was a fun night; I got to dust off some of the old 28s and play my passion: American Civil War with a nice set of rules.