Hurricon 2016 - Sgt. Guinness's Aba Island Scenario

After a long but nice drive to Orlando I was able to play in multiple games and most importantly meet up with my friends in the East.  It was a great time!  One of the first battles that I played in was put on by Sgt. Guinness (Jeff Baumal).  He dusted off a board that Bill Moreno of Good Ground miniatures (http://crackerlineminis.com) made for him many, many years ago.  It still looked great as you will see!

The scenario had the Egyptians looking for the so called Mahdi who was on this Island.  They deployed a couple of steamers loaded with various Egyptian troops to land to search and bring the Mahdi back to Egypt.  Like that was going to happen...

We didn't get too many pictures of the battle but it ended up with Mahdi still running free on the Island with Egyptian troops still looking for him. So it was a victory for the Dervish who were able to inflict casualties on the Egyptians who happened to land a force on one side of the island right in front of the hiding Dervish.  We did get pictures of that of course...

It is a very good scenario that Jeff put on and I look forward to playing it again in the future.  Everyone had a great time.

Last Stand Dan

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