An AAR of this weeks game can be found on my Blog. It is very pic heavy due to the nature of the game. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did playing it:

https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-battle-of-kurudere-1854-bloody-big.html

Enjoyed reading through the AAR and, as usual liked the abundance of pics which makes following how the battle develops much easier. Knowing what you want to accomplish and then sticking to the plan is a great observation. Once you lose focus an start improvising only the lucky win. 😀

"No plan survives first contact with the enemy"  - Helmuth van Moltke.

Having a plan is good, certainly in terms of deployment, placement of artillery and broad plan of attack. In this game the plan broadly worked, until I got a bit of a kicking assaulting one of the objectives!

Had a chance to read the AAR 

Interesting Post Game Thoughts as always

Excellent report, Steve. 

Cheers - Phil

Excellent - this one is on my to-do list

Nice report chaps

That looked terrific. I am becoming quite inspired to have a goo at the BBB Crimean battles in 6mm.

Glad you enjoyed chaps, as we certainly did. Andy, I'd never considered the Crimea, but I'm going to have a look at the other battles as well as the general history. From a quick search there is a lot more to it than I ever learnt in school!

Quote from: Steve J on 26 July 2019, 07:50:28 AM
I'd never considered the Crimea

Me too - I was pretty sceptical about whether it would produce games that were actually any fun to play. I couldn't have been more wrong, the Crimea campaign turned out to be one of the best we've done. I think the asymmetry between the opposing armies is a big part of it, but also the battle situations are actually much more interesting than my previous superficial knowledge made me assume. There's a lot more to it than a dull frontal assault at the Alma and a doomed cavalry charge at Balaclava.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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"Doomed, were are all doomed". I must admit that the Russians made very hard work of the battle and the Turks seemed to be unusually motivated. I think SteveJ has re-installed the magnetic loop under the table which flipped all my 6 results to 1, the flickering lights were a give away.

I've been rumbled .

You certainly have, Tarquin. 

Cheers - Phil 

Good game chaps

Quote from: Steve J on 26 July 2019, 07:50:28 AM
Glad you enjoyed chaps, as we certainly did. Andy, I'd never considered the Crimea, but I'm going to have a look at the other battles as well as the general history. From a quick search there is a lot more to it than I ever learnt in school!

School history has become naff since the National Curriculum. The study of history is an exercise in developing curiosity as much as anything. Pre-1988 I used to teach about the ACW quite extensively to third years (now Y9 - if the yanks do it then it must be good and slavishly followed), covering all the different aspects of it. When I retired slavery had become the fault of the British Empire and how awful we all were because of it. The ACW was not mentioned at all. I had to cover British history from 1485 to 1914 in the second year (Y8) on two lessons a week. In the following year WWI got a whole term to itself!

Quote from: Leman on 31 July 2019, 07:17:28 AM
School history has become naff since the National Curriculum.

I may have mentioned this here before: a couple of years ago I reviewed a chapter of the manuscript of a textbook being written for the War and Society curriculum. I caused the authors serious problems because the historical facts I pointed out were at odds with what the curriculum required them to say.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/

Quote from: Leman on 31 July 2019, 07:17:28 AM
School history has become naff since the National Curriculum.

I found it totally naff in the sixties......It was SO boring, the only thing I can remember is the 'South Sea Bubble'.

(Just the South Sea Bubble........Not what it was, or anything about it....Just the phrase 'South Sea Bubble'.

Blank knows how I ever got an O level pass in History.

Cheers - Phil

They thought that after 23 years it was worth it just to get rid of you. 

You missed a zero there Nobby - the time for his clay tablets to dry enough for marking.