| DinOfBattle2 | 21 Oct 2025 4:19 p.m. PST |
Hope you enjoy the picture heavy battle report! 15mm figures. link Cheers!
Eric |
| rsutton | 21 Oct 2025 4:39 p.m. PST |
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| DinOfBattle2 | 21 Oct 2025 5:17 p.m. PST |
Thank you Robin! Your posts are an inspiration too!! |
| rsutton | 21 Oct 2025 9:51 p.m. PST |
Very kind of you.. thanks… a bit of a hiatus over the next few weeks (other commitments in life) before we return to the period…
Ngā mihi
Robin |
| Decebalus | 22 Oct 2025 3:38 a.m. PST |
Really nice battle report. And your ww1 armies are so big! I am struggling with playing GWSH, because i have too few troops. But your mat is to wild and it gives a restless view (right term in english?). Simple green would be better IMO. |
| DinOfBattle2 | 22 Oct 2025 8:23 a.m. PST |
Hi Decebalus, Glad you enjoyed the battle report. I don't care for simple green for a mat. The real world is never simple green. There should be a variation of color. I do have lots of different mats, but I needed to put two together to cover the 8' table. However, you are right, my current mat(s) are "wild" and I'm not happy with the color saturation. I correct that in the future. Cheers!
Eric |
| Shardik | 22 Oct 2025 1:42 p.m. PST |
Nice report Eric. I played GWSH2 once many years ago. IIRC I needed lots of markers to record which units (companies?) in a formation had moved and which hadn't, which affected firing. Is this correct, and how do you handle it? |
| rsutton | 22 Oct 2025 2:52 p.m. PST |
If you scroll through this AAR, a fairly typical GWSH game, you get a sense of our use of markers. I hasten to add that then flame markers are purely aesthetic (for the camera). They are unnecessary for game play. link Ngā mihi
Robin |
| DinOfBattle2 | 22 Oct 2025 4:00 p.m. PST |
Hi Shardik, I just posted a topic about markers on the GreatWarSpearHead GroupsIO page. I could send you the email as it has photos showing the markers I've used during the game. The small blast markers do show suppression. The large ones just look cool when I do an artillery indirect fire template. Contact me at EricBu2025@gmail DOT com and I'll send you the email with the photos and explanation of what I do. Eric |
| Shardik | 22 Oct 2025 5:13 p.m. PST |
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| Shardik | 22 Oct 2025 5:14 p.m. PST |
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| DinOfBattle2 | 22 Oct 2025 6:43 p.m. PST |
Reply sent to you Shardik! |
| monk2002uk | 23 Oct 2025 1:47 a.m. PST |
Hi Shardik, Markers are very helpful. Here is a photo from the Battle of Sari Bair. It shows Ottoman troops counter-attacking the New Zealanders on Chunuk Bair:
All of the markers are from Litko. The explosion markers represent the centre of the artillery templates for the Naval Gunfire Support, which was provided by the Royal Navy offshore, and from a land-based howitzer artillery regiment. The white skulls on red star-burst markers indicate suppressed stands. White skull markers lying flat on the table represent stands that have performed a combat move. Red skull markers lying flat on the table represent stands that have performed a full move and are not eligible to fire. You can see the whole battle played out on this page: link Robert |
| monk2002uk | 23 Oct 2025 1:49 a.m. PST |
Super report, Eric. A lot of effort went into setting up and running this game. Really appreciate the time taken to provide photos and the write-up. Thank you! Robert |
| monk2002uk | 23 Oct 2025 1:57 a.m. PST |
For anyone who is not so familiar with the historical outcome of the Battle of Mons, here is the battlemap of the sector that Eric played out from the German official history of the battle. Holger and I published an English translation of the official history:
The German divisions managed to cross the Condé Canal in two places (as per the solid black lines on the map) and advance towards the BEF second line of hasty defences. Robert |
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