The Bordurian Incursion Part 4

To the Zkrem!

The Bordurians turned the tables on the Syldavians in the previous game. In full retreat, the Syldavians are driven back towards the river Zkrem. Before they are able to cross safely the Bordurians make a flank attack.

A large formation of Bordurian conscripts take up position on a wooded hill and blast away at Syldavian light infantry.

Fortunately a group of Syldavian skirmishers can provide some support.

But mounting shock forces the Syldavian light infantry to fall back. Where they are being rallied by a holy man.

More Syldavian light infantry deploy, plus a group of Syldavian militia.

The Syldavians put pressure on the Bordurian conscripts. But then the first groups of Bordurian Light infantry arrive.

The massive block of conscripts begins to crumble under the relentless Syldavian fire. And then the Bordurian conscript leader is wounded!

But the main Syldavian light infantry line has also collapsed and has to be replaced by two groups of Syldavian line infantry.

The Bordurians are moving faster than the Syldavians and in addition are able to fill their depleted line with fresh groups of Bordurian light infantry.

The Syldavians are taking a beating. More Syldavian light infantry has to withdraw due to shock and they are unable to bring their militia into position.

When the Bordurians make progress in taking the Syldavian line groups apart, the Syldavians call it a day and flee.

This means the Bordurians can push on victoriously, capturing the town of Volodj and march towards the river Wasz.

The Syldavians have demolished the bridge at Volodj, forcing the Bordurians towards the only place where the Wasz is fordable.

Here they have prepared a warm welcome for the Bordurians in the upcoming game....

Indiana Jones and the lost Aquila: Part one

I came up with a new Indiana Jones Fistful of Lead campaign to play with my son.

The story so far:

In 25 BC a Roman legion of 10000 legionnairs under the command of Aelius Gallus was defeated in  battle against the Kingdom of Sheba. During its retreat the legion's aquila was lost. Local tribesmen hid the aquila in a temple which was covered by sand during a violent sand storm and lost. The tribesmen did however make a map of the temple's location.

Fast forward to 1934: The Italian adventurer and fascist count Don Lardo has picked up the trail of the lost aquila in the no mans land between North Yemen and Saudi Arabia. By order of Mussolini himself he is sent to retrieve the aquila, so it can be used for propaganda purposes in the upcoming Italian invasion of Ethiopia.

However, Indiana Jones has acquired the map, indicating the location of the temple alledgely containing the lost aquila and has been asked to join a British expedition by his old friend Rupert Jenkins (British secret service) to find the aquila before Don Lardo does.

Part one: The Map

Indy, Rupert, Bertie and Sallah are staying at the house of one of Sallah's friends. While they are away to buy supplies for the trip to the deep desert, Don Lardo's men create a diversion to lure everybody away from the house so he and his men can search the house for the map.

My son chose to play the villains and positioned the marines and local henchmen around the house while Don Lardo and signore Cattiva went inside the house to search for the map.

I covered in on the enclosure openings with Indy, Rupert and Sallah while Bertie took up a sniper position on top of the rocks.

While Rupert and Marino Punto exchanged fire, signore Cattiva snuck out the back door and aimed his revolver at Sallah who was only armed with a shovel.

Fortunately Sallah's turn came first and he rushed Cattiva, whacking him with the shovel.

Meanwhile Bertie tried to keep to local henchmen off Sallah's back with supressive fire.

Alas! The henchmen attacked Sallah from behind and although Sallah managed to inflict some shock and a wound he was overwhelmed and put out of action.

During this fight, Don Lardo has found the map and runs from the house towards safety (leaving the table with the map wins the game).

To prevent Don Lardo's escape, Indy shoots him in the leg.

Rupert tries to take out marino Punto, but not only runs out of ammo, he also takes a wound from Punto's rifle fire.

Punto runs to Don Lardo and grabs the map.

Signore Cattiva has snuck around the building and is about to shoot Indy in the back when he is put out of action by accurate fire from Bertie.

Unable to hit or reach the running Punto, Indy uses his action to incapacitate marino Corsa with his whip.

Still out of ammo and hampered by his wound, Rupert tries to intercept Punto.

But Punto wins the round of close combat. 

Both Indy and Don Lardo are now going after Punto.

Rupert makes his recovery roll and gets up once more. Unfortunately his revolver is still out of ammo...

Marino Punto is on the edge of the table and...

He gets the first turn, leaving the table with the map and securing a victory for the villains!

All is not lost yet. The villains still need to find the aquila. So stay tuned for Part 2!

The Bordurian Incursion Part 3

The battle at the pass.

The Syldavians beat the Bordurians at Tor Volodokar and have driven them back to the border. Bolstered by reinforcements, the Bordurians turn and face the pursuing Syldavians at the pass between Syldavia and Borduria. But the Syldavians have also been reinforced.

The Syldavians enter from the right and received a group of skirmishers and 2 groups of line infantry as reinforcements. The Bordurians enter from the flanks and received also a group of skirmishers as reinforcements plus 2 groups of conscripts.

Light infantry of both parties has suffered losses in the previous games of this campaign.

The Syldavian wounded from previous games are guarding the deployment point.

Both parts of the Bordurian pincer are firing at the Syldavians.

While their conscripts are brought forward to form a line.

Syldavian line troops fire uncontrolled while their light infantry is taking casualties.

A Syldavian priest is brought forward to boost morale and remove shock, but with a 1 rolled for the number of shock tokens he removes, the effect is rather disappointing.

First one Syldavian light infantry group breaks.

Then another one breaks.

And while the Bordurian conscripts decimate the Syldavian skirmishers...

The Bordurian light infantry and Syldavian line infantry blast away at each other.

When the Syldavian line breaks it is all but over and the Syldavians have to withdraw.

The Brodurians have turned the tables on the Syldavians and even have a chance to win the campaign, if they can beat the Syldavians in the next 3 games.