MAJ O'Malley's Foray

At a lonely home guard watch station over the fields in southern blighty, the fog rolls thick along the river bank. Hopefully the the dummy sentries will ward off the bosch.  Sergeant Smythe explains the finer points of keeping the armoured car ready to roll at all times, including the head space and timing on the vickers. At the observation post LCPL Jones explains how the binoculars are useless in this fog but keep a sharp eye out for german paratroopers all the same.  Deep in the fog Hauptman Longinius approaches a dummy sentry and with an unknown power animates the over dressed scarecrow.  The fog, ever thicker, provides cover for the agent to move to the next two dummies and repeat his arcane magic.  He drives the dummies forward towards the out post. The fog clears enough for Pvt. Welles to spot what can only be crack german paratroopers assaulting over the bridge and fires a shot toward them. The alar...

Two weeks ago telegraph station 307 was overrun by a combined force of Romanians and Bulgarians. In a surprise raid a small group crossed the border 12Km away, intent on destroying the telegraph station. Not content with just cutting the lines they came armed with black powder ready to completely destroy the station.  Romanian fusiliers backed up by Dorobonti militia and a handful of Bulgarians stealthily crossed the border and worked their way through the fields and woods until they could pounce upon the station.  They observed the signalmen and their Grenz guards and waited until the guard mount was being switched to strike right before the replacements arrived. This action can be fully read about on Ed's blog of renown here, https://edmwargamemeanderings.blogspot.com/2025/02/balkan-border-fracas-one-hour-skirmish.html?m=1 Dorobonti militia posing after the successful raid.  A feldjäger unit has been dispatched to recapture the telegraph station ...