USMC Pelelieu 2nd Platoon takes the Bunkers on the Points

This time I am using the Alligator Creek Scenario, with the AT ditch in the first third of the table.
Gunney Stoner Scott is in command with the mortar teams dropping smoke and a veteran squad giving covering fire for 2nd Platoon to cross led by a boot Lieutenant.

The japs try to bring down an artillery barrage on the Ditch, roll a six but then this drifts back and onto the mortar teams, Gunney Scott and the Veterans.  Gunney Scott is then also shot by a sniper, leaving the mortars pinned and down for most of the game.

Fanatics again now dug into the coral

The white stones represent potentail bunkers with coral roofs, the Japanese ultimately Banzai the lead regular Squad of marines but are cut down by sniper and the veteran squad.  Of these 10 men three later recover from wounds.  The boot Lieutenant is killed charging a bunker but in turn it is burned out by a flame thrower team.

Flamethrower team about to burn their second bunker.

Casualties so far on Day 1
Officers  Killed both Boot Lieutenants(1st & 2nd Platoons) Chesty Puller and Captain McCready wounded..Ranks Killed 4 Veteran & 10 regular Marines including  3 NCOS.  11 wounded

USMC Pelelieu Joker Company Lands

Using the Bolt Action Campaign Rules and the Scenario from Empire in Flames but the USMC landing instead on the Japanese.  However gave the Japanese 3 Autocannon in Bunkers on the Point headland over looking the beach.  This was a good scenario to play as the landing craft had to go the to far side of the beach.

Landings

I' m working on the terrain as I go along and using the Company Campaign rules.

Entrenched IJA oppostion

Currently I am waiting for more Palm trees Pelelieu is covered in them! My research also suggests the coral is everywhere

An Imperial fanatic

Flames over the Falklands

I love these aircraft Played the Bomb alley Scenario again, one player decided to do a Vulcan attack at the same time circling over Stanley while 3 Skyhawks  and 2 Mirages did there thing.  The harrier player were novices and kept letting the Skyhawks turn inside them.  Two hours with no result other than intense air fighting. 

Skyhawks

Mirage

Harrier

The Guides defending the Kabul Residency 1879

the set up was taken from "The Far Pavillions" and we used the Men Who Would Be Kings Rules.  JP played the Afghans while Willie and Livi took on the roles of Cavagnari and Lt Walter Hamilton.  No survivors but what a fight.

Lt Hamilton bottom right

Early on using the rooftops

Once the stables burned the Afghans came on

More Afghans

Afghans on the roofotps look down on the residency

Nearing the last momemts

Massive Samurai v Classical Indian

Tokugawa Ieyasu

My modelling and painting skills are pretty limited, mostly focused on getting the metal where the table is. peter Pig is a manufacturer I love. However I have painted four Samurai armies now, and I think this will be my last, that of Tokugawa Ieyasu in the 1560s.   At that time his name was Matsudaira Kurandonosuke Motoyasu.  Choosing this period I can also do his overlord and pair the army off against the warrior monks.

The man himself

An easy conversion of a Peter Pig Figure just chop the helmet to make a simple style. circa 1564

Honda Tadakatsu

Again a sharp knife on the horned general and I have antlers for Honda Tadakatsu

Banner Shot

Great Peter Pig figures for the ADLG general bases

Imagawa head viewing

Finally some faithful Ashigaru

Samurai Monks

ADLG has been a great system to play encouraging me to get out all the old amies, here is a favourite Samurai, figures are principally Peter Pig.  The main focus has been on the Ikko ikki.  I like to do matching opponents so started re working towards a proper Samurai army that of Togugawa Ieyasu in his early years when he took Mikawa.  He fought the local ikko ikki with the help of his own Samurai Monks.of the Jodo Sect.  The other Pure Land sect of monks were leading the ikko ikki.

The enemy  Abbot Monk command group

I use this group as a commander included in a unit of monks.  I based up the monks as 8 to a base for the Ikko ikki and 7 to a base for the Tokugawa supporters

The Ikko ikki with their own monks

Another shot of the Abbot

Close up of Monks

Samurai in action

Raady for their Slogan