Early in the battle the smoothbore battery comes into action behind the center nullah, which is filled with Jacob's Rifles and, to the right (North) the 66th Regiment (Berkshire). To the left of the guns is the detachment (in reality a half-company but in the game more like a half battalion) of Bombay Sappers & Miners and just barely visible to their front, 1st Bombay Grenadiers. Already Ghazis have begun infiltrating along the East nullah but remain clearly visible thanks to their green standard flying above the lip of the ground...
Early in the game the 3rd Scinde Horse charge headlong into the their second column of brown-coated Afghan regular infantry, having already dispatched the first column. Though such reckless aggression would lead to their utter destruction (as well as that of their comrades-in-mounted-arms, the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry), the devastation it wrought on the Afghan ranks would play a key role in securing a British victory...
Afghan command roll of 12 -- which I believe signaled a "BLUNDER" and led to a bit more trouble for the already perturbed Afghan high command...
En route to immortal glory (as well as utter destruction) the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry -- already disordered (note yellow pipe-cleaner) and marked with 2 casualty figures -- engage the second or third enemy unit of the day, Tribal irregulars who are themselves also marked with 2 casualties. I believe the Indian horsemen won this one and then were done away with via Afghan rifle and/or artillery fire soon after...
The Southern California brigade of Afghan Regular Infantry (which made the trip up from Los Angeles with me!) advances in march column towards the Southwest, looking to outflank the British left...
The view from above as the reserve infantry and cavalry advance into the Ghazis. By this point these Ghazis had taken more casualties and survived more break tests than any troops known to mankind, consistently rolling elevens or twelves on 2xD6 when the only way to survive was to roll an eleven or twelve... until after something like 5 or 6 turns of continuous punishment by rifle fire, artillery fire and finally the cold steel of bayonets and sabers, they broke and ran...
To the right (South) of the 66th Regiment, also positioned in the center nullah, Jacob's Rifles watch as the combined infantry reserve advances towards the remnants of the Ghazis huddled down in the East nullah...
At the Northern end of the center nullah, men of the 66th Regiment stand fast as Afghan regular cavalry charge them. The charge was successfully repulsed...
Having already taken severe punishment -- note the 3 casualty figures attached to the unit -- the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry throw caution to the wind and CHARGE the Afghan regular cavalry regiment to their front, while Afghan regular artillery open fire and Gahzi fanatics advance to their right...
Much later in the game, the Afghan Regular Infantry assault the British position, which remains centered on the pair of RHA guns, Bombay Grenadiers having filled in to the guns' own right (East), Sappers & Miners to the left (West)...
Early in the game the pair of RHA Rifled Muzzle Loaders open fire as 1st Bombay Grenadiers approach from just behind them, led by Brigadier General Burrows, Brigade Commander, himself. Behind the Grenadiers is the thin line of Bombay Sappers & Miners, to the left of the Sappers are the pair of 6lb. Smoothbore guns, in front of the smoothbores, already hunkered down in the center nullah, are Jacob's Rifles. In the far distant background on the left is the combined infantry reserve.
This was referred to during the game as "The Charge of the Afghan Light Brigade" -- that is, after the multiple Afghan regular cavalry units all failed to break the Anglo-Indian fighting line made up of the 2 RHA 9lb. RML, the 1st Bombay Grenadiers and the small detachment of Bombay Sappers & Miners...
