Preparing for Gauntlet (2)

Spent most of yesterday sorting out the hills, that meant breaking up the existing hills and glueing them together in new configurations to match the battlefield plan as far as possible. The large ridge behind Bordj Oum Ali and El Ma el Abiod made of of four components If like me you were struggling to see how it might look here's it covered with the cloths, I've slightly scaled down the size of the villages. Will

Prepartion for Gauntlet (1)

Attempted to lay out the terrain for the Gauntlet game on the Garage floor. View down the US entry road, Italians will appear on the left and British on the right German deployment zone, bottom right, I had run out of road and need to create another metre for the game Overview , the French will occupy the two villages, which I think I'll reduce in size. The hill on the right needs to be bigger. There should be a long ride separating the Italians and Americans and another hill between the British and US entry roads Just over two weeks to go - should be feasible!

55 Days At Peking - Richard C's pics

As we've had plenty of pictures of the models, I thought some pictures of the players and surroundings might be of interest.

From left to right:  Pete Jones, Jamie Crawley (partly hidden), Gary Hinchliffe, Ian Shaw, Meic, Peter, Alan Fleming, Richard Baber and Will (floating head) McNally.

And here's Ian Shaw with his lunch.

Oh, no, sorry - that was Adam who ran the American civilians for an hour or so on day 2.