Revisiting Newhaven

 It was a bit of a shock to realise that, although there have been a few 'adventures' in the Newhaven universe, it is over two years since one was set in Newhaven itself.... Two years for the town to recover from the Terror...

So the first thing was to build the town up again using pictures from previous posts as a reference. It does look quite close to the previous version...

Since then their have been quite a few additions. Here, the shipping additions include a few bought fishing vessels, a couple of home made ones and the scratch built 'Arkham Princess' and 'New Providence'.

The University is up and running again. Should have a story or two left in it, though having been the cause of the Terror and having had a bad Antarctic experience you would expect the Professors and students to be a bit more careful!

The tenements are occupied again. Not sure of the quality of the people there though... the aftermath of the Terror could have attracted some strange tenants...

Surely there are adventures out there for the Arctic Princess and New Providence. Here, the Princess seems to be getting ready to leave on a trip. Of course, any adventures there would be away from Newhaven. Likewise the fishing fleet. Two points on the shipping side. Firstly, the river is a lot wider than suggested here and the various ships and boats have been placed for the photos - they would normally be a lot further away from the river banks! Secondly, also for photographic purposes, the fishing fleet is heading out to sea - in reality, they would never get this far up river! The docks and fishing harbour are further downstream!

The town park still hasn't got it's clock back. The new centrepiece is an artifact brought back by some expedition or other. Personally, I don't trust it. Especially as it seems to be able to move around the park under it's own volition! However, the local police station is just next door if there's trouble.

The brewery is up and running again. No Prohibition on this world, but straightforward Pulp Underworld? Pity St Valentine's Day is past.

Things in a graveyard don't always stay dead... Wonder who's buried there? Of course, things have happened here before...

Of course, not all churches are exactly Christian... There are other gods. Some like to make their presence felt.

Incidentally, Newhaven may be set on Earth... but not our Earth. I've suggested this to a certain extent by having cars in a nominally New England town drive on the left.

Thought these might be of interest... Newhaven back in 2016.

Been a few changes since. For a start, it's bigger.

Other people's figures - Some Late Romans

Firstly, I'm quite happy to showcase other people's figures. Perhaps especially ones that wouldn't normally appear. In this case, the email with the photos included 'Please don't bother to acknowledge the photos on your site, but I'd be grateful when they are put up please.' Consider them up and acknowledged privately... And very nice they are too!

The cavalry...

The infantry

Heavy cavalry unit

More heavies

Plus a few lights.

This is the actual list from the SKT catalogue

It wasn't my fault...

Minifigs 'S' Range or very early Persian chariots. How could I resist?

They came with some of the generic chariot horses. Should have a few more lying around to make up the numbers.

The buy included these horses. Don't recognise them - they had H7 on the base, no idea who the manufacturer was! Might use them for an Egyptian general's chariot.

There were a few other pieces in the box, little of use. A couple of the pieces may be from the same chariot as those two horses, not sure.

So anyway, the figures are now in Dettol, so it gives me some time to decide what I want to do with them!

'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold' - Part 3

The Egyptians are well on the way to destroying the Assyrian left.

 

Between flank attacks and kind dice the Assyrians are starting to crumble.

In fact, things are looking bad forAssyria.

However, the king is coming...

And takes out the opposition.

I was seriously considering the game was over until that 6:1 happened...

But although the chariots went, the Assyrians were still losing elements.

A few good dice rolls and who knows....

But they didn't get them - game over.

 Fun game. Again, dice rolls had a major effect on the result and the game was in doubt for quite a while. On balance, I think the Assyrians were just a couple of units short. Or possibly the Egyptians had a couple too many.

'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold' - Part 2

Overview of the battle. Probably the main point in this picture is the Egyptian chariots and light archers widely swinging out on their right flank. It always surprises me the effect a couple of terrain pieces can have on a battle, especially when it comes to slowing down outflanking movements.

The other, less obvious, point in the above picture is that Young speciality of rolling 1s! In this case, 4 out of 5!

While archers are proving fragile in this battle, the spears are doing what they do best. Slogging things out. It's very difficult to get a kill in a spear v spear fight, usually just back and forth pushbacks!

Right flank out flanking manoeuvre by the Egyptians..

The Egyptians are gradually taking out that Assyrian heavy archer unit, Egyptian chariots are holding things up on the other side of the slugfest.

The Assyrian general and his chariot strike force have caught the Egyptian horse archers.

While the Egyptian chariots facing Assyrian left flank spears and slingers are finding things difficult.

While one Egyptian chariot is still hanging on, the other Egyptian chariots have gone through the oasis and contacted a detached slinger element. Of course, the chariots will be fighting on a -2 because of the oasis!

The light horse die.

And the onesie curse strikes the centre again! 4 out of 6 - sadly for them the ones include remains of the Assyrian archers and the lone slinger element near the copse.

And now the way is clear for the Egyptians on the Assyrian left.

While the remaining Assyrian archers have gone.

While the Assyrian general and his chariots are slowly getting round the Egyptian left - just a few more elements of archers to go.

This is the battlefield when I had to stop for the day. Hopefully, battle will commence tomorrow. The Egyptians seem to be in the better position though the Assyrians are just ahead as far as elements lost go. Archers don't seem to last long.

'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold' - Byron

 Putting down a desert mat with a terrain piece on it takes a lot of time and effort. So much time and effort I thought I'd better get a bit more use out of it. It's been a long time since I've used my Minifigs Egyptians and Minifigs/Lamming Assyrians so I thought - why not?

So I decided that the  Amun Division of my Egyptian army would be one side.

This is my current Egyption army. Four 'historical' Divisions plus some extras forming a non-historical Pharaoh's Division. All these are Minifig's 'S' Range - I also have a Garrison army but it's a lot smaller - development of the Garrison army more or less stopped when I bought Harry's collection. There is also a later Minifigs Egyptian and Kushite army. At some time I must sort out some of that lot for a Review!

This is the Assyrian force. Infantry and cavalry are all ex-Harry Minifigs 'S' Range. The General's chariot in the middle is a more recent attempt of mine and consists of a mixed Garrison/Minifigs crew, Minifigs chariot body and Garrison wheels. The other chariots are from my late 70s Lamming army with Minifigs chariot bodies.

These are pretty much my complete Assyrian forces - mostly Minifigs 'S' Range, back ranks from the rearmost  light archers are Garrison and Garrison conversions, chariots scratch built with card bodies.

The armies in this battle have been set up and started to move towards each other...

The Assyrian right flank. The chariots are splitting up to avoid the rough ground.

One of the advantages of solo gaming is when it comes to applying rules. I switch quite happily from treating elements separately or as individual elements. In this case I considered them to be units and the result was devastation! Of the first eight or so dice rolls I think there were about three 1s and 2 2s!

Leaving big gaps!

A view of the situation at this point. On the Egyptian right, the Egyptian archers are seeing off the left flank Scythian horse archers.

The fleeing Scythians have left the Assyrian left flank a bit open.

The centre, mainly composed of spear units, is developing into a slugfest.

While things are beginning to look very interesting on the Assyrian right.

Alice

 So I've painted Alice. Don't think I've done her justice though :(