Wild West China

The Dog Meat General sends his forces west against the wily mountain people.  These fiercely independent Muslim tribesmen will not be subjugated easily.

The warlord's forces are divided into two columns that attack either side of the river to converge at an ancient crossing place.

Badly trained and with poor morale the General's forces are well supplied with modern weapons.  The tribesmen are better fighters but cautious.

The mechanised column breaks through to the ford.  It has been a costly but welcome victory for the Chinese.

The tribesmen are driven from the east bank but melt into the hills to regroup and return to fight another day.

More Chinese and some tanks

A few more pictures of our back of beyond troops.  A Chinese warlord army tussles with the red army.

The forces of the Chinese Warlord known as the Dog Meat General advance to the attack.

The new improved, well armed, and distinctly regular Red Army is ready to engage them.

Things didn't end well for the armour.  The Chinese FT-17 was hit repeatedly by Bolshevik artillery.  

The Red Mark IV (ahem not historical but I'm going to get a Mark V) were chased off by the Chinese infantry and then taken out by their field gun.

I think that's it for BoB battles for a while but more to come later.

Chinese Warlord Debut

Another pair of games with our Back of Beyond forces, including this week a debut outing for the Chinese warlord forces of my club mate Adam.

This first game has a Red force tangling with the Chinese army of Zhang Zongchang, the Dog Meat General himself.

The Bolos were victorious this time but had a hard fight with the Chinese assault troops.

Across the river, we played another game using the bulk of my Red Army forces and Siberian Whites.  

The Bolsheviks were rather pinned down in the woods by some withering firepower from the better trained Siberians.

Both games were play tests for the fast-play Back of Beyond rules we are working on, so that we can play some big games.