Kronenfontein Spruit - Scenario

Special Rules

1. 1st East March Regiment have a 'C' rated commander and will not be allowed to operate in extended order. Add +1 to all fallen leader die rolls.

2. 11th Royal Lancers have a 'D' rated commander and will not be allowed to dismount and fight on foot until they roll a 5 or 6.

3. Roodeport Commando have a 'D' rated commander and once on table may not deploy forward until they roll a 4, 5 or 6.

4. The Boer units are subject to the 'first time under shrapnel fire' rule.

5. Reinforcement entry will be decided by die roll.

Order of Battle

British

C-in-C Brigadier-General Arthur Lennox (A)

11th Royal Lancers - Colonel Charles Montgomery (D)

Imperial Volunteer Horse - Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril A Pembroke (A)

1st East March Regiment

Colonel Frederick Lonsdale (C)

Major Edmund Carstairs (B)

Major Harold Wentworth (C)

19th Battery RFA - Major Charles W Beresford (A)

Boers

Buffelshoek Commando - Commandant Willem Hendrik Boshoff (B)

4th Staatsartillerie Battery - Captain Hendrik Stephanus Nel (B)

4th Pom-Pom Section - Lieutenant Barend Johannes Labuschagne (B)

Roodeport Commando - Commandant Frans Jacobus de Beer (D)

3rd Staatsartillerie Battery - Captain Nicolaas Johannes Grobler (C)

The Buffelshoek Commando have deployed to cover the approaches to the railway crossing over Kronenfontein Spruit.

Brigadier-General Lennox leads the Mounted Brigade forward.

Reinforcement Table

Roll 1 D6 each turn to see which (if any) reinforcements arrive:

1 = 1st East March Regiment

2 = 19th Battery RFA

3 = Roodeport Commando

4 = 3rd Staatsartillerie Battery

5 or 6 = No reinforcements

Victory Conditions

To win the British must force both Commandos to flee or occupy the railway river crossing and force one Commando to flee. The Boers win if they inflict 30 or more casualties on the British.