![\"img_5046\"](\"http:\/\/wessexwargamerswinchester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_5046-300x225.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The first game in the Back of Beyond club campaign turned out to be a complete debacle for the Third Workers and Peasants Shock Brigade and its commander, Comrade Colonel Igor Tubugerov. Although accompanied by Vladimir Proletarski, the ace Soviet secret agent and rabble rouser, the Bolsheviks got off to a bad start by failing to win over the enemy’s Mongol cavalry contingent to the revolutionary cause.<\/p>\n
![\"img_5035\"](\"http:\/\/wessexwargamerswinchester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_5035-300x225.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
The British Museum Archaeological Expedition then proceeded to run\u00a0rings around the Reds and shot them to pieces, using a combination of machine gun armed improvised vehicles, a heavy\u00a0armoured car, an HMG and a mountain gun, whilst the Bolsheviks ran for the nearest cover in the woods. The Red’s Schneider tank and fighter aircraft were knocked out early in the game leaving the infantry scrambling\u00a0into the treeline\u00a0under a hail of machine gun bullets.<\/p>\n
![\"img_5057\"](\"http:\/\/wessexwargamerswinchester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_5057-300x225.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the British Museum expedition party enjoyed a lovely picnic in their own neck of the woods, with Brigadier Cholmondely-Warner providing a very decent lapsang souchong to accompany the scones. The picnic was disturbed at one point\u00a0by a low flying Bolshevik aircraft but this was dealt with by Ms Muggins of the Asian Antiquities Department, using her Lewis gun. This was the only taste of action for the British expedition team itself, so they settled down to their refreshments and politely ignored the awful din.<\/p>\n
![\"img_5062\"](\"http:\/\/wessexwargamerswinchester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_5062-300x225.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
In the end the Reds were cut off and surrounded by Mongol cavalry, Chinese coolies and the advancing British\u00a0improvised armoured vehicles, which seemed to be virtually\u00a0invulnerable to the machine gun fire and artillery shells of the Bolshevik defenders. At the end of Turn Four, Comrade Colonel Igor Tubugerov decided to do exactly that, with a full retreat from the field of battle before the whole army was bagged by Cholmondely-Warner’s tea party.<\/p>\n
I’m sure that a slightly different and\u00a0ideologically correct version of events will be\u00a0presented by\u00a0the Third Workers and Peasants Shock Brigade mobile propaganda concert party at some point very soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first game in the Back of Beyond club campaign turned out to be a complete debacle for the Third Workers and Peasants Shock Brigade and its commander, Comrade Colonel Igor Tubugerov. Although accompanied by Vladimir Proletarski, the ace Soviet secret agent and rabble rouser, the Bolsheviks got off to a bad start by failing … Continue reading Back of Beyond Campaign Battle Report: The Bolshevik Army vs. The British Museum<\/span>