"Russian Civil War AAR" Topic

A couple friends came over this evening and we tried a quick little Russian Civil War game using a modified version of Cold War Commander.

Loads of pics and an After Action Report – including some discussion of the tweaks to the rules we used – can be found on my blog:

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cheers,

tim

Great fun. Thanks for posting.

Looks cool.

Off-table artillery fire is pretty dodgy though. Almost all fire in the RCW (except in pre-prepared assaults) was direct fire. In fact most was over open sights.

(Lack of ammo meant that in a situation like your game the Whites would never fire potentially into nowhere. Heck, they often didn't fire when they could *see* the enemy due to lack of ammo.)

Thanks guys!

Yeah, I know the artillery was a bit of a stretch historically. I just threw it in there to try it out (as this was a bit of a play-test) and I thought the Tsarists might need a little help catching the Bolsheviks. Apparently all they needed was the Cossacks!

What kind kind of figures are those? Inquiring minds want to know.

Most of them are homemade. I modeled and cast the bolshevik infantry and the cossack Cavalrymen (their horses were bought, Hinchliffe from the colonial connection, I think…). I cast the Tsarist infantry from a master/mould made by my friend John. The Bolshevik MGs were Coppelstone, the Tsarist MGs were from Battle Honours. The Command were a mix of mostly Coppelstone and a few West Wind…

Sorry about the reflex jab about the artillery (it's a soft spot of mine, the idea that because it was 1919 that it was fought like 1918 Western Front).

Apparently all they needed was the Cossacks!

Cossacks -- and *space* to move in, I suspect. I note the frontal charge didn't go so well!