"Firing into the Brown" #91 - bot madness, dust, "Botched Relief" and stuff

"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers. So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chiefs men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy".

Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King"

Time for another update..

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It's no secret that the bloggerati are seeing some wondrous traffic patterns across their blogs - so I thought I'd have a look at what's going on here, in my little sunny corner of the web...

...the first three of my 'top 5 posts' in 14 years of blogging were all written in the last month..  amaze-balls.. 😏

..thought this one was interesting - these are page/post views over the entire life of the blog.. 

..so those bots, in one single month, have accounted for almost 7% of all the views in 14 years of blogging...  what utter nonsense...😁

..."top of the world, ma"

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Oh yes...👏

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Time for another game - and I thought it would be nice to the get the American Civil War guys out. It was either them or the English Civil War guys, but they haven't marched in an age, so Gerard's will have to wait a while - next time, I promise... 😀

The next in my oh so enjoyable ramble through Neil Thomas's "One-Hour Wargames" is #28, "Botched Relief", an interesting sounding scenario if ever there was one.

In summary - a Blue force (got to be the Confederate) of four units is attacking a Union held town. The Union force comprises six units but they are commanded by a bit of a McLellan who is loath to commit his entire force, so only two of them garrison the town and the other forces are positioned some way away and only released piecemeal.

I'm giving both sides one Zouave regiment and one artillery piece, the rest will be standard strength infantry regiments..

So - orders of battle will be:

Table as follows:

Two Union units occupy the town, four units occupy the hill/ridge (one of which is noted in advance as "first responder"), the Rebel force attacks along the road from the bottom of the picture..

Just need some time now to fight it!

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Laters, as the young people are want to say...