It was a weekend to hang out with daughter #1, Maja. Most of the time was an evening at the Wilkes-Barre Hight School production of Grease that her friend had a part in and a meal at Maja's favorite Thai restaurant, but there was enough time to get some gnomes moving on the table in the apartment.
Alternative Armies recently released a new scenario for their Flintloque rules and figures. While I never got into Napoleonic Fantasy, I'm always intrigued by how they would work for Gnome Wars.
This is that story:
After the early engagements of the Wishing Well War (WWW), the first "modern" war of the gnomes, but before the forests were razed and replaced with trenches, it was every unit for themselves. Many of the Sikh units jumped sides when supplies, ammunition, and money disappeared. Many went rogue, or "Independent" and scavenged what they could until a side decided to hire them, or they could find a way home.
It was also during this time that the German industrial war machine's mechanical prowess was so dominant, that it actually poisoned the forest. Some of the oil and chemicals leeched into the soil, killing many trees. Much ran off into streams and rivers, making the water undrinkable, but enough worked further below the surface, poisoning aquifers and ruining wells that had been essential for the survival of the troops. The search for clean water was a focus during this part of the war.
The 17th Independent Sikhs found a pure well in a farmstead deep in the forest. Historians are unsure what happened to the seven gnome farmers living there, but rumors still persist that one gnome, a mute, managed to escape and were more than Happy to tell the Swiss what had occurred.
The 9th Rangers had snuck in through the woods, but were quite disorganized, trying coordinate the attack.
The Swiss Reserves split up, the Captain taking a group across the barren field, while the Sergeant led his group under the cover of the wheat field.
The Sikhs inflicted the first casualties on the Rangers, wounding a few that were too close to the edge of the tree line. But as they reloaded, the dreaded Limburger Greandier threw their stinky cheese with precision, knocking the one Sikh out of line, and sending him scrambling away.
Not one, but TWO cheese attacks sends the Sikh running. |
The +1 for volley fire was negated by the woods, so they still only needed a 3+ each to hit. This was catastrophic
The Swiss St Bernard for the Reserves managed to recover two the wounded in the field. The Sikhs continued their focus on the Reserves as they took shelter behind a nearby mushroom house on fire.
On the next critical turn, the remaining Sikhs came in last in initiative. The Rangers mopped up their scattering Sikhs while the charging Reservists dispatched their enemies at the hay bales.
Outnumbered 5-to-2, one of the Sikhs quickly stabbed two Swiss, but he Sergeant attacking from the rear doomed them.
I shall name this well after my first daughter, Aquafina! |
As I peruse the Gnome Wars rules, there are no special rules for the Sikh Officer figure that was available. Treat the Sikh Officer as a regular Sikh. They do not have to roll for morale, so his presence in the unit appears to be merely perfunctory.
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