La Haye Sainte

The Farmhouse at the Allied Centre during the Battle of Waterloo June 18th 1815.

The 2nd King’s German Legion Light Battalion (Rifles) alongside two Companies of the 95th Rifles
(they’re off in a sandpit sniping the whole time) with limited ammunition and basically no support
hold the Farmhouse until 6pm when they finally ran dry.

The action starts with a massive assault that drives three quarters of the defenders out of the
Farmhouse. When the British Union brigade Charges the defenders rally and begin the siege proper.

There are 4 Defended Positions. Losing and of the first three means you have to abandon the Farm
since the enemy is in the courtyard.

1. The Barn. The Barn is stripped bare and is defended by barricades of dead bodies. The more the
French assault it the bigger the Barricade gets. They light it on fire but the defenders manage to put
it out.

2. The Loopholed Wall. The defenders knocked some loopholes in the wall to fire through and this
was heavily defended. To give you an idea of how intense this was, Rifleman Lindau (A serious
badass this guy took down at least 6 Frenchmen when the Farmhouse fell) has his Rifle shot and
destroyed at point blank, has his shoulder tuft shot off and had his rifle grabbed more than once.
The wounded were given sticks and laid behind the wall to knock French Muskets away.

3. The main gate. Not really a major place of action but it had to be held at all costs.

4. The Escape route the Kitchen. If the Defenders lost the Kitchen then they can’t get out and they
have to fight to the death.

Historically a handful of Defenders covered the retreat in an epic sword fight/bayonet duel but that
might be a tad ambitious.

Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield

It’s just over a year since the Creation of the SAS and Axis Airfields are pretty scared.

The SAS are given a destruction mission to destroy German aircraft bringing supplies into north
Africa, the Allies had basically got the Germans screwed as far as Water Traffic was concerned but
the Luftwaffe was still able to keep Rommel supplied.

So David Sterling comes up with a genius plan. Rather than silently infiltrate the Airfield or go in
under Air Cover he decided to just load the Jeeps with extra ammo and go in guns blazing.
Remember these are LRDG Jeeps so guns blazing means something like 4 Aircraft Machine Guns
per vehicle, all with tracers or incendiaries, heaps of explosives, Captured Italian AA Guns and a
whole load of Thompsons.

They went in at night aproaching the airfield stealthily, then suddenly they whole thing lit up like
the sun, lights went on, men started running around and they could see aircraft in the sky. Rather
than panicking the “Phantom Major” sat very still and noticed that it was actually just some German
aircraft making a night landing. Once they landed and things settled down he fired a flare and they
went in.

The Jeeps formed an old school Cavalry V and went up and down the airfield having a great time
pretending to be Orks. One man was killed. As they were leaving the absolute Mad Man Paddy
Mayne got off his Jeep, walked over to an Aircraft and strapped a bomb to it since he had fired all
his ammunition.

They scattered into the desert and all got back safely except for a French group of SAS who came
under Luftwaffe attack and lost one man dead. Seriously don’t join the French SAS in WWII, they
are an elite unit just as good as any British one but wow are they unlucky.

I can’t say it better than I did on the Weekender.

The Sack of Rome on May 6th 1527. Basically some armies went “rogue” and stormed the Holy See,
189 Swiss Guard fought them literally on the steps of the Holy See while another small detachment got
the Pope to a Castle where he sat for the essentially a hostage of the Holy Roman Emperor. This
meant he couldn’t give Henry the VIII an Annulment (his wife was a relative of the Emperor) and
couldn’t deal with the Heretic Martin Luther who managed to pick up enough steam that the English
King thought it would be fine to just invent his own Church with himself as Pope.
So you could have either Leia/The Emperor being escorted away from the Battlefield while Vader/Luke
leads Hordes of chaff against Elite defenders. Have a “scoring Area” of the board that slowly shrinks
every turn to encourage the attacker to really press the attack and replicate the defender being forced
backwards.

Historically the Swiss Guard died to a man (except those that escorted the Pope) but maybe it will be
different in Star Wars? Just an idea the really good stuff will be Team Water exclusive.