Brink of Battle skirmish at Devil's creek (F&IW)

Introduced my friend David to Brink of Battle this Thursday, running my "demo" setup of French and Indian War miniatures. So one side were playing French colonials, while the other side was made up of Mohawk raiders led by an European officer.

David picked the Colonials so I played the Mohawk raiders.

The story of this small skirmish was that the French colonials, regulars with some conscripted settler militiamen were travelling down the forest road minding their own business. Once they reached Devil's creek and the stone bridge they were ambushed by a band of Mohawk raiders preying upon the colonial travelers in the area. The Colonials had to either push their way over the bridge and head to safety at the end of the road leading to a nearby village - or try to scare away their attackers by putting up a fight.

The fight lasted 6 turns and pretty much resulted in a firefight across the creek from behind bushes and trees as both sides tried kill each other from afar and relative safety. Both sides of the creek was filled with smoke and bullets whistled past soldiers. Some Mohawks tried to ford the creek at the far end but were discovered and shot by Colonials. One particular Mohawk raider had his position peppered with a dozen projectiles, receiving several flesh wounds before a mortal wound struck him down.

One Colonial French regular and one militiaman was also killed by Mohawk snipers taking aimed shots as the French were moving to better positions. The soldier was killed in reaction fire from a Mohawk before he managed to squeeze off a shot of his own.

Still the Colonials pressed on and with a bit of luck they managed to kill 3 more Mohawks, severly crippling the enemy force and made the remnants - including their European leader - withdraw from battle. The Colonial force had prevailed with but 2 casualties.

A very interesting situation with Brink of Battle has developed down at the club. A guy that plays FoW with us, Fredrik, had read my review of the BoB rules and thought he would use them for his Modern Warfare Afghanistan skirmish games. In turn two of my other friends, Patrik and Thomas who are also friends with Fredrik started talking about using the rules for a medieval/War of the Roses themes skirmish  - which got me and David interested in obtaining a couple of miniatures for the period as well. I had initially planned to expand with some Samurai for Period 1 games, but I think medieval English and French knights should be just as fun. I also think that it would be fun to base skirmish forces on the houses in A Game of Thrones. Will see if I go that far, it seems that Thomas just want to play "straight historical medieval" games.

This week another friend is coming over to my house to try out the rules with Warhammer 40k Eldar vs Chaos Space Marines. He really liked the rules, and wanted to use his Sci Fi miniatures with them. It will be very interesting to see how that works, I think we will be able to simulate the "fluff" of the world a lot better on the tabletop with BoB compared to how WH40k plays.