Liaoyang Outer Defenses Mound Hill

Outer Defences

This was the first night action of the campaign with both sides giving decent plans.  This is the most interpetation I had to do for one battle.  There was a Japanese Army commander and a Japanese Divisional commander, I am focussing here on the Divisional Commanders Night action

Currently using word maps the players can draw on and send back to me.  In this battle the Japanese player had an order sheet amended from Great War Spearhead 

Unit	Order & Objective
Divisional HQ
Divisional cavalry	Support 3rd Regiment
MG Company	Advance & Capture The Mound
1st Regiment	Advance & Capture Mound Hill then advance and capture Cairn Hill
2nd Regiment	Advance & capture West edge of One Tree Ridge
3rd Regiment	Advance & capture centre of One Tree Ridge
4th Regiment	Advance & capture east edge of One Tree Ridge then advance and capture Brook village
Artillery	Harrasement barrage on Cairn Hill and west edge of One Tree Ridge in advance of 1st and 2nd Regiment attack.

I also got a fantastic map which I printed out and annotated with casualty figures, the successful attacks were made by the MG Company and the 2nd & 3rd regiments

The Russian Player was really screwed by both flanks being left open the other Russian corps falling back under orders from Kuropatkin.  Russian commanders of the time started to question the thinking of "the Staff".  

It gives me a chance to show off the Pendraken figures I have painted up

winter uniforms

Japanese advance on Mound Hill

the Defences on Mound Hill

The gap was covered by machine guns in a kill zone

Russian riflemen