PACIFICON cont'd (13/25)

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...

PACIFICON cont'd (12/25)

Another close-up of the RHA guns doing their thing...

PACIFICON cont'd (11/25)

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)...

The roll of 3 on 2xD6 meant something bad happeed to the Afghans as I recall -- I think it was a morale check in the aftermath of the melee that led to their retreat...

PACIFICON cont'd (10/25)

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.

PACIFICON cont'd (9/25)

On one of the last turns of the game, the British cavalry reserve charges home into the flank of Afghan regular infantry and artillery on the far left of the Afghan advance, skirting the Eastern edge of the battlefield...

The 2-gun smoothbore battery fires over the heads of 30th Bombay Native Inf. AKA: Jacob's Rifles, who are on lower elevation within the Eastern nullah...

At the Northern edge of the Anglo-Indian line, the "Charge of the Afghan Light Brigade" breaks upon the shore of British Artillery and Martini-Henry rifle fire...

PACIFICON cont'd (8/25)

The massed regiments of Afghan regular infantry begin their final approach towards the Anglo-Indian front-line...

PACIFICON cont'd (7/25)