The 'Like a stone wall' wargames group attended the Triples show in Sheffield this weekend.
Our first demo game of this season (and well overdue) was the assault on the Mons Salient - the first major action for the BEF in WW1.
The game was in 28mm and the table was 22 feet by 14 approximately. We mannaged to cover the Ouberg to Jemappes stretch of the canal defence taking in Nimy and part of Mons itself. The game also covered the German attack to the east of Mons on la Bois Haut.
In all the project took some 18 months of collecting and modelling the various elements that are now a part of our craft. Belgian boy scouts, signals teams, German FOOs up viewing platforms, Air bursting shrapnel rounds, evacuated School girls and nuns prompting a dull in the fighting, coal barges, the local fire brigade putting out burning house fires, streams of refugees, coal mines, slag heaps, barrages, a range of cannine stars including Irish guards wolfhounds, bulldogs, Dachshunds in picklehaubs, engineers in boats on the canal desperately attempting to blow the bridges without igniter units, their officers scrambling about Mons attempting to find the igniters, The Duke of Westminster in his Rolls picking up wounded officers and delivering them to field hospitals, German field soup kitchens,more barrages, the British 'Mad Minute' and on and on.....
The game was awarded the best demonstration game of the show.
Hope you like the pictures.
Regards
Tim
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