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Tuesday, 23 August 2022

A Rare Victory

 Another game here in OHQ, Dave came over for a Spanish Civil War outing using Bolt Action rules. As is customary Dave took command of the Republican force consisting of six anarchist militia units with the support of a unit of Assault Guards.

The Rebel force consisted of five units of Carlist Requettes who would be coming to aid the rebel Guardia holding the village against the oncoming Anarchist Militia column.

The Guardia prepare to stem the Republican advance on the left.

The Anarchist pour fire into the Guardia with little effect.

On the right the Anarchists exchange fire with the Requettes.

With all the cover sixes and sixes followed by six are the order of the day, today the dice gods favoured yours truly, pinning the Anarchist horde across the front.

The Anarchists are unable to shift the tenacious Guardia.

Meanwhile a unit of Requettes move round to cut off any flanking move. They held off any attempt at great cost.


Seeing an opportunity to turn the battle the strongest remaining Anarchist unit attempts to advance, but Dave managed to get two of the sixes that had been alluding him most of the game. This resulted in the unit panicking and running to the rear, this ended any threat to the Requettes who in the meantime had flanked the Anarchists on the right.

A rare win for the Rebels and me for that matter.

Until next time......

TTFN and KBO





22 comments:

  1. A game most notable for the huge disparity in the number of sizes rolled in your favour! I've never seen your dice so on fire🔥

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    1. The dice gods were definitely agin ya in this outing.

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  2. Congratulations on a win, Phil! Poor David. You can’t fight the dice.

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    1. I think this was only the third win for the Nationalists since starting the blog.

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  3. Congratulations on the victory

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    1. Thank you Neil, I shall make the most of it.

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  4. Photo number 4 with soft background - superb. In a recent face-to-face game, my opponent after a while insisted that I change my dice because my scores were consistently so embarrassingly low. Of course I don’t really hold with such nonsense, but I changed them anyway ….. just in case :-)

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    1. Thank you Norm. I think Dave swapped to his red dice and to be fair he did get some sixes afterwards including the two for the FUBAR😂

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  5. Congrats on the win and lovely photos of the game:).

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  6. Congrats on the win and a lovely looking game as well!

    Christopher

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  7. Thank you Christopher, hope I am on a roll with the dice gods.

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  8. A lovely looking game there Phil, displaying a very nice collection of figures and buildings..... looks like you both had a lot of fun! The FUBAR was probably the last straw😅 Congratulations on the win, and well done.

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    1. Thank you Paul, a grand game and but for that FUBAR it could have easily turned the other way, dice gods permitting of course 😉

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  9. Congrats Phil on your bragging rights.

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  10. Another really nice looking game Phil. I believe Mr.B's dice are now heading for the bin ...

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    1. Thank you Jon, indeed his dice were less than kind.

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  11. Lovely looking game, excellent scenery and figures. The Requettes are particularly attractive.

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    1. Cheers Keith. The Requettes certainly performed better than the Legion do as well had looking pretty.

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  12. A lovely looking game Phil…
    Congratulations on a rare win… it’s nice when the dice gods look kindly on you.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thank you Aly, a double whammy when they frown on the opposition in the same game 🙂

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