Some more photographs of the Victorian Military Society/Continental Wars Society's Battle of Dorking game at HAMMERHEAD have been published on Facebook, and I thought that regular blog readers and users of my PORTABLE WARGAME rules would like to see them.
Please note that the photographs featured above are © Ray Boyles.
The members of the Victorian Military Society/Continental Wars Society who staged the battle at HAMMERHEAD. Left to right: Ray Boyles, Richard Black, and Ian Dury.
The grid on the specially-created terrain board is almost invisible. The British troops are deployed on the right of the photograph and the Germans are on the left.
The terrain board as seen from the opposite direction, with the British on the left and the Germans on the right.
The British force was a mixture of Regulars (in the red tunics and Oxford Blue trousers of the Home Service uniform) and Volunteers (in grey uniforms).
Please note that the photographs featured above are © Ray Boyles.
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Looks like a good game.
ReplyDeleteRob Young,
DeleteI'm not sure if it will be appearing at any further wargame shows, but if it does, I'd recommend that you pop along and have a chat with them. You might even get a chance to try the rules out using this excellent terrain and their wonderful toy soldiers!
All the best,
Bob
Hi BOB,
ReplyDeleteThis looks interesting. Just wondering- is 'The Battle of Dorking' 1871 all a bit of Fiction and all to do with the invasion of Britain by the Germans? Very nice 15mm Figures- do like the British Home Service uniforms. Regards. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteThe Battle of Dorking is the final major battle in Chesney's invasion-scare novel about a German invasion of Britain. It was written as a wake-up call to Britain's government, and was one of several such books to be published in the late nineteenth century.
All the best,
Bob
The one I base mine on is 'The Great War in England in 1897' by William Le Queux - an invasion by France and Russia. We won. By 1906 the situation had changed so he wrote 'The Invasion of 1910' This was, in my view, not as good a book, possibly because Germany was the invader and won. They look really good in 42mm using Spencer-Smith and Irregular Miniatures figures.
DeleteRob Young,
DeleteI know and have read both of William Le Queux's books, but prefer George Chesney's BATTLE OF DORKING, which was written in 1871.
In order to avoid the immortal words 'if I was going there, I wouldn't have started from here', I would love to have a collection of 42mm-sized figures but have invested too much time and energy in collecting figures in other scales to seriously consider starting a new collection in another scale.
All the best,
Bob
That's a lovely looking game, witha simplicity that I love.
ReplyDeleteSteve J.,
DeleteThe whole thing looks very simple but is also very effective at conveying the look of the area the fictional battle was fought over.
All the best,
Bob