"The War Game"

I've been reading Charles Grants The War Game a lot lately so I dug out my very old Airfix American War of Independence soldiers. These were painted in the early 1980's and were re-organised and re-based in 2009 when I bought the book. They make up half size units with some fudging and were done solely to try out the rules. This was the catalyst for my imaginations armies featured in my Pauls Wargames Blog. here

Here come the Redcoats.

Hessian Jagers screen the grenadiers.

Lightbobs from hacked Esci Austrians.

I had to borrow some guns from my imagination collection.

The rebels, Accurate and Airfix.

They deploy in two lines.

The American left flank.

The lines are closing.

American militia.

The lightbobs harass the enemy.

An overview.

American rifles harass the British left flank.

The British fire their first volley and shatter their opponents.

The British Grenadiers get the volley in first, while the Jagers shoot into the American flank.

And a bad morale roll sees the Americans retire from the hill.

Another American battalion is broken.

The battle is lost as the riflemen see off a British battalion.

A good afternoons entertainment.