The rules place some stress on not losing built-up areas to enemy action; bad for morale. Now there's always a force in reserve, in defiance of the first rule of wargaming (Thou shalt not do anything as rational as keeping a reserve).
I suppose this is the right horn. But I think Frederick would have felt more at home with this deployment than Dablumanzi.
The poor beggars barely got into line before they ran out of ammunition and were engaged.
The same fate befell the landing party from HMS Audacious, aka "The rough, tough, jolly sailor-men, reeking of rum, tar, and parrots, rotten with pox and scurvy".
Following the overwhelming of the Queen's Own Lancers, the Black Watch gallantly closed up and repelled the first attack of three victorious impis. But not the second.
And not a spare round to be had anywhere. We couldn't even 'it one of our own lads laying out range markers! A sad day in Siamese wargaming.
Cor, strike me dead, guv. Some blighter's screwed down the lids on the ammo boxes. An entertaining, if somewhat shortlived, engagement, FK. Not sure the Queen-Empress will entrust you with another of her expeditionary forces. ;)
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But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote, 'Play up, play up and play the game!' Not much else for it, as it would seem.