Last Saturday my friends played a battle of the Anglo-Afghan war using Osprey's TMWWBK rules set.
Miniatures are 28mm. Afghan troops are painted by Alberto while English forces are prepared by Ivano.
Below two pics to anticipate the high painting quality level of my mates
Ezio prepared the scenario. The objectives are easy. English troops receives a point for any units will go out of the north border while Afghans must block them. Rebels gain a point for each units they eliminate.
The initial set up
Ivano, English commander, starts to move his units on the right flank under the cover of a cavalry detach but ...
The Afghan forces the cavarly to retreat.
English advances ...
The rebel forces destroy the last Lancers and after they tries to take the Union Jack but they are repelled
After ten turns ... only few units are deployed on the table
The English commander tries to reach the north corner of the table with two units while another one attacks the enemy cavalry
The English men are destroyed and Alberto used is artillery, his remaining infantry men to slow down while ...
... Afghan cavalry arrives breaking down all last possibilities for the English commander.
At the end of the day the Union Jack is down into enemie' hands
