First Outing for La Haye It'aint! Number 1

Our son and I went to the Little Wars Revisited Games Day in Woking, hosted and arranged mainly by Mike Lewis, thanks Mike, and had a grand day out! Six other 54mm enthusiasts were there and a number of games were played, only this morning I realised that we only took pictures of our efforts, but others will appear on other blogs and sites and I'll try to post links to those later.

The date gave me a deadline by which to get the building and garrison done, somewhat ahead of the planned schedule, but that's no bad thing I guess. The roof sections contain over 20,000 individual tiles, cut from my accumulated business cards - friends and foes - a time consuming but cathartic experience, see previous post "A place in the Country".

We used a set of rules we wrote nearly 10 years ago, which worked fairly well, although a few issues need to be thought through. The allies were controlled by Jonny Kemp and while being outnumbered more than 4 to 1, and having limited rifle ammunition, held out remarkably well. The French were handicapped by my now traditional terrible dice throwing and suffered terribly eventually taking the building when the Allied ammunition ran out, so a reasonably accurate reflection of history?

So, a few pictures:

                  The farm with Kings German Legion inside and 95th Rifles on the road

                 Close-up of some of the 95th, some of whom ran away later, Ha ha ha!

 
 Magnificent columns of French with voltigeurs in open order; bravely advance little suspecting the carnage that awaits due to my appalling dice throwing.

                                                           Vive L'Empereur!

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