Back of beyond - Reds vs Whites

I managed to get down to the club for the first time this year and enjoyed a game of BoB with Jim. Jim's Reds and my Whites dueled it out for six turns but the end of the night saw a draw. Jim's many machine guns caused a lot of casualties to my infantry and cavalry (my cossacks really are useless). While my artillery and armoured train pounded Jim's support assets to dust while leaving his infantry pretty much in tacked.

I forgot to take the camera but Jim has some photos up on his site here

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2011/03/back-of-beyond-battle-photos.html

Still not convinced by the contemptible little armies rules, the inability for most units to move and fire makes offensive action pretty much pointless. I do however like the BoB concept so it may be a case of seeing what other rules would work for BoB

Cheers Jon

My white Russians for RCW/BOB

Hi all,

I thought I'd share some pictures of my RCW white Russians that I used in the Club BOB campaign last year. They where spectacularly unsuccessful managing one win in twelve games (ho hum).

I based my units on the coloured units of the AFSR which of course is total unhistorical but I figured I could use the figures in some historical RCW games latter and I liked the uniforms. The figures are 25/28mm and are a mixture of HLBS (now OOP), Old Glory WW1 Russians, Copplestone BOB range, Brigade games RCW range and Musketeer Miniatures WW1 Russians.

I particularly like the AA guns which I added to the army to give all the bi-planes that kept strafing me in games something to think about. The twin Lewis gun armed one is from Grand Manner and is a resin piece. The other is a scratch built 13pdr AA gun on a die cast model T ford.

Cheers Jon