Night fight Pelelieu

 First Lieutenant "Choo-Choo" has to hold the line while the remainder of Company recovers from the first day of Combat.  This is a standard Envelopment scenario game, with nightfighting and Flares.  Flares that dont appear leaving 3rd Platton unable to stop a lot of Nips getting into the rear area.  This was a decisive win for the Japs.

Japs first move onto the table

The Jap FO brought down some tremendous fire on the CP and the centre USMC Squad position then tried to slip past but was taken out by a BAR team who bagged his sword.  Two Jap squads went forward in the centre to back up the already deployed sniper teams, these teams were able to trigger one round of jump trigger fire.

the lone flare of the game reveals a .30 cal nightmare

The heaviest action was close to the beach and the Marines right flank a fire team was moved out of the positions to try to choke of the Jap moves, but they just went full steam past the .30 cal 

Centre .30 team spot Japs on the wire

Banzai!

The .30 cal team did hold out and "Choo Choo" was able to get the Centre USMC Squad into action killing the Jap ofiicer but not stopping two Jap squads and a sniper team getting off table.  the remaining Jap Squad was in the USMC deployment zone.

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