19 October 1899 - Turn 2

Intelligence

Boers - successfully passed their die roll and located all the British forces.

British - no Boer forces detected this turn.

Orders

Boers - no new orders issued this turn.

British - no new orders issued this turn.

Both sides continue with their current orders.

Joubert's Boers are on the march - nice to see which side the French are supporting!

Movement

Yule failed his Command die roll and remains in Dundee.

Symons failed his Command die roll so will not attempt to build any defences at Helpmakaar.

Joubert moved a full 3 hexes to Glencoe

Meyer moved 2 hexes crossing Landman's Drift to hex 1605

De Wet failed his Command die roll again(!) and remains at hex 0105

Botha moved a full 3 hexes to hex 0506

The situation at the end of turn 2

We have our first contact of the campaign between Joubert's forces at Glencoe and Yule's forces at Dundee. I drew up the following list of possibilities to be decided by a D6.

1 or 2 = Yule orders Hamilton to make an immediate frontal attack on the Boers at Glencoe. After the first game turn dice each subsequent turn for the arrival of Yule's Brigade on the British table edge on a roll of 5 or 6.

3 or 4 = Yule orders an immediate frontal attack on the Boers at Glencoe with both his Brigades.

5 = Yule orders Hamilton to make a flanking attack on the Boers at Glencoe while his own Brigade fixes their front.

6 = Yule remains at Dundee and starts to prepare defences.

The result was a throw of 4 so there will be a battle with Yule using both his brigades in a frontal assault on the Boers at Glencoe.

It may be a couple of weeks before I can play the game but I'll post on it as soon as possible.

Rule Amendment - It turns out Rob was right that the orders system is a bit harsh on the British so I'm adding the following modifier to the Command die roll:

+1 to the die roll if the same order failed to transmit/receive in the last turn.