Terrible toy Teutons turn totally troublesome - part 1

 This Funny Little Wars game was played at The Old Colonial in Mirfield.  It saw the army of the Teutonian Federation invading an eastern province (think Norfolk) of Tinland.  The respective commanders were David Pinder and Julian Spilsbury.  I had been in touch with David via the FLW Yahoo Group and on the strength of my (relatively) extensive experience of FLW he had kindly invited me to come and umpire the game, take photos and generally interfere with the proceedings.  The photo above shows The Tinnish CO with his er, 'friend'.  Nice work if you can get it.

 Above and below:  The 'country' as laid out the night before by David.  And yes, those are my dodgy gunboats lurking (under Teutonian flags) offshore...

More of Julian's toys waiting their turn on the table.  Both armies were almost entirely built from metal (mostly vintage) toy soldiers.  A joy to behold!

Teutonian artillery and machine guns prepare for action while a unit of lancers trots to the front.

More Teutonian gunners

The pointey-helmeted nasties even brought along some colonial troops.

The Teutonial field hospital opens for business.

Even as battle commence more troops were being landed.

Staff work in action!  Shortly after this the command bus got stuck in mud and didn't move for the rest of the game...

Tinnish forces included several gaudily uniformed colonial contingents....

   

...while in contrast the Teutonians were increasingly reliant on infernal machinery.

 Coming next - a review of the Tinnish forces and battle commences!