Reply To: Hobby Weekender 19/10/2018 – The Directors Cut Limited Edition Box Set

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Thanks @evilstu and all for another great week.  😀   I know the week’s proceedings were officially closed when I finished up this battle report, but I didn’t want to drag it into another week.

Afraid I’m going to be a little scarce for a while – I promised myself a bit of a break from OTT / gaming in general when I got back from the boot camp, but then this Centennial Anniversary came up and a promise is a promise.

The content for this will be rolling out over the next few weeks, but everything is more or less in the can.  So now’s my chance to quietly take a seat in the back of the room, as it were.  😀

Thanks very much for the kind words and for calling out the project, @elessar2590.

Battle Report Continues – “Coleraine at War” in the Closing Days of World War I

Awesome story regarding Flashman at Waterloo.  Indeed, Battle of Hamel (starting 4 July 1918) did have a few battalions of American Army infantry fighting under Australian command.  I think its one of the highlights of the 1918-2018 “Century of Mateship” commemorations underway between the US and Australia. Basically the Americans needed to get at least some units with a little experience.  There’d been a few in the French Sector (Battle of Cantigny – 1st US Infantry Division – “Big Red One”) and of course Belleau Wood (2nd and 3rd US Infantry, 2nd included 4th Marine Brigade, 5th and 6th Marine Regiments).

But by and large they were unprepared, so they started feeding small units into battle under “Allied supervision” as it were. 😀  Hamel was one of those.

Hamel was no joke.  Not the biggest battle, by any means, but it tested General Sir John Monash’s new doctrines and showed how successful they could be.  Once these results “go up the chain” they are applied pretty much across the BEF and contribute massively to the success of the Amiens, Arras-Somme, 2nd Cambrai, St. Quentin Canal, 5th Ypres, Courtrai, and other battles of the Hundred Days – at least in the BEF sector.

Anyway, we go into all the details in the coming articles and interview segments.

@rayzryr – very gad to see the little guy was found.  I guess what they say is true, dogs always find their way home.  😀