"Skirmish AAR - 1879 Russian Invasion of Australia" Topic

Well after a year I have finally got off my butt to write up this AAR pitting Russians against Australians. This is set during a hypothetical Russian Invasion of Australia in 1879…I know sounds stupid but the Russian Invasion fear sprang up several times during the 19th Century.

This game pits an understrength unit of Siberians with a few Cossacks in support against South Australian's of the Adelaide Rifle Company.

The Colonials were defending a palisade on a crucial roadway…

The melee for the redoubt…read palisade…was pretty hot!

The winner was the Colonials! "Yeah orf you hairy Cossacks!"

The full AAR is here:
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Ant the Scenario Information and Set Up details are below:
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The first three scenarios of this campaign are on my blog as well as the 'historical' background behind the whole invasion…I have scenario 5 ready to roll and with the Russian down 3 to 1 in a best of seven series they had better 'pull their finger out'

Cheers!

Good fun! You need some Adelaide Lancers to back up the SA rifles, plus HMCS Protector bombarding the Russian landing point. AND a 28mm scale model of Fort Largs for them to fight over. :)

Heck, the whole layout of the city of Adelaide was intended to make fortification as easy as possible… infantry and artillery parks in the middle, stone buildings at each corner to turn into bastions, wide circle of parkland surrounding the city mile, to provide a kill zone for defending fire, and Military and South Roads were essentially just two long, long ditches that could double as trenches!

Honestly, we're just a bit paranoid here in South Australia… O_o

Well there's one I never thought of.