Fistful of Lead Bigger Battles on the Eastern Front

Last night, Lisa invited Arthur and me to try another game in her WWI Eastern Front scenarios featuing Lt Cdr Locker-Lampson and the RNAS armoured section during the Kerensky Offensive.  Write up for game one is here. 

This scenario featured a scramble between Locker-Lampson's armoured cars, two sotnias of Cossacks and a zug of königlich und kaiserlich Austro-Hungarian infantry to control the village of Kozova in Galicia in what is now Ukraine, but was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the start of WWI.  In this scenario, the three forces enter the village from different sides and seek to control the town.  Points were given for each enemy unit wiped out.  In the historic battle, the Cossacks turned on the local Jewish population.  Lisa simulated this that when the ammo dump exploded, Cossack units were required to attack the nearest group of civilians unless the RNAS were within 8" to stop them.

Here is an overview of Kozova.  It was fun to have a chance to get the UmBum buildings and the Bolsheviks and Russian civilians onto the table!  

Bolshevik agitators march past a collection of Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy.

Two sotnias of Cossack cavalry move onto the table.

Russian casualties being escorted to the train station for evacuation.

Cossacks and RNAS move into Kozova.

And the KuK troops (proxied by Germans in this case) enter at the other end of the village.

Arthur's veteran Cossacks attack and destroy a squad of KuK troops.

KuK infantry face down Cossacks advancing along the railway.

KuK MG manages to take out one of the RNAS armoured cars.

Finally on turn 7, the ammo dump explodes!  We tested each round - this was the trigger for the Cossacks to turn on the local civilians.

As so they did, wiping out the Bolshevik agitators first!

In the end, each side took significant casualties, each force lost two full units, but the Russian/RNAS side were penalised for the attack on the civilians.  As a result, the KuK force squeaked out a win by one point.  Thanks, Lisa, for inviting us to try out this scenario, and we are looking forward to seeing the further adventures of the RNAS armoured cars on the eastern front!