With the Red Guard railway workers defending the station buildings other Red Army forces have dug in on a nearby ridge.
Meanwhile the forces of the reactionary counter-revolution advance from the east.
Comrade Pavlov, commanding the Bolshevik positions, rushes his reserves forward to aid in the defence of the station and the redoubts on the ridge line.
Cossacks and White officers attack the station but are held up by the fierce resistance of the railway workers in the station master's dacha.
Eventually the Red Guards surrender but are all massacred by the victorius Whites. This is a war with no half measures.
At close of play, intense shelling has driven the Communist Peasant battalion from the ridge and the Whites are pushing on from their victory on the flank. A unit of internationalist Magyars rushes forward to try to hold the line.
This battle is fictional and while the uniforms are suitable for 1919, the
armies are probably more fitting for 1918 in the Railway War period. We used Setting the East Ablaze 2.0
rules with the following armies.
Reds
Comrade Pavlov +1 LeaderRed Army Communist Peasant Battalion
10 figs C3 M3 Rifles, Bombs and 1 LMG
Kulomzino Railway Worker Red Guards
10 figs C4 M3 Rifles, Bombs
Moscow Factory Worker Red Guards
10 figs C4 M3 Rifles, Bombs
Tobolsk Food Requisition Detachment
10 figs C4 M4 Rifles, Bombs
Magyar Internationalists
10 figs C3 M3 Rifles Bombs
Tashkent Cavalry Detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Lances, Rifles, Bombs
Artillery Battery 2 x Field Gun C4 M3
1 HMG C3 M3
1 Austin AC C3 M3
Whites
Colonel Verzhbitsky +1 LeaderOmsk Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Irtysh Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Kurgan Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Ishim Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Orenburg Cossack Detachment
10 figs C2 M3 Lances, Rifles, Bombs
Artillery Battery 2 x Field Gun C3 M3
1 HMG C3 M3
1 Austin AC C3 M3
That looks great! Love the log defences and buildings. What rules did you use?
ReplyDeleteThanks Jim. We used Setting the East Ablaze 2.0 rules. I'll add the troop lists to the bottom of the post.
Deletewonderful game...love the defense works and armoured cars.
ReplyDeleteThanks. The terrain is all from the club (SSWG). We are lucky that we have built up a pretty massive stock from years of building and accumulation by present and former members. The Red AC is mine, the other is the first element to make it onto the table from my clubmate's Drozdovsky force. I expect to post more on that later.
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