FOGH Club Games – 4th February 2023

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Two classic games at club on Saturday. Lots of hot tea and hot table top action to chase off the February chills.

28mm Montrose Royalists v. Covenanters – Pike & Shotte

Montrose, accompanied by the Royal Standard of Scotland, urges on his brave Irish and Highlanders.

The game was loosely based on Alford 1645, with Baillie’s Covenanters trying to bring the wily Montrose to battle. This is a tough battle for the Covenanters as, although roughly equals in numbers, the quality of the Royalists makes attacking difficult for the boys from the Kirk.

The command dice favoured the Royalists early on and the Covenanters struggled to get their troops on to the battlefield and deployed. A sneaky Covenant flank march provided a great opportunity to wrong foot the King’s representative in Scotland, but it was not to be and the Covenanters finally went down under a fury of claymores and musket butts.

Balcarres leads the better of the Covenant foot on to the battlefield
The Royalist highlanders sweep down from Gallowhill.
Lord Gordon’s horse advance on the Royalist right.
Lord Aboyne’s Gordon horse on the Royalists left are halted by Covenant shot.
Irish foot hard pressed by Covenant horsemen. on the Royalist left.
Royalist infantry push forward in the centre.
Covenant lancers thrown in to halt the advance of the Highlanders.
The Royalist right wing make repeated charges in an attempt to turn the Covenant line.
Montrose urging the Gordon Horse to make just one more charge.
Covenant horse surrounded by angry highlanders.
The Royalist right wing proving to be more resilient than their Covenant opponents.
Both sides cursed their dice at different times. When you only need 3s to hit!

28mm 8th Army v. Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) – Bolt Action

A classic pair of WWII enemies in a game of Bolt Action that saw DAK armour and motorised Infantry assaulting 8th army artillery, AT guns and infantry.

A favourite scenario at the club, with two play throughs managed over the afternoon. Both sides got a win over the two games and so everyone went home happy.

Desperate action as the 8th army gunners try to stop the DAK armour.
Panzers roar across the desert.
DAK infantry taking the easy way to the front.
DAK on the start line for game 2.
A lovely British 25 pounder.
The thin khaki line, tipped with steel.
DAK troops dismount to assault the British lines.

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