The Sword and The Flame

Walk wide of the Widow at Windsor, 
         For 'alf of Creation she owns: 
We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame, 
         An' we've salted it down with our bones. 
         (Poor beggars! -- it's blue with our bones!) 

Pictures from our exciting, multi-player game of The Sword and The Flame on Sunday. Four players took charge of the Imperial forces (Scottish Highlanders, Sikhs, a shore party of Royal Navy sailors with rifles, and a few more to man the gatling guns) found themselves under siege in Peshawar, after a local mullah roused the townsfolk to open rebellion. After striking a bargain with some of the local hill tribes and opening the city gates for them, they burnt out the telegraph office and sacked several offices, but the governor's mansion and barracks were hastily fortified. Dawn saw a renewed assault on the makeshift fortress even as patrols of Highlanders strove to return order to a city in flames...

The pictures are in chronological order, and when I'm less tired I'll work at writing up captions for each one and explain. To sum things up, the Imperialist forces were overrun in the barracks and governor's building. The Sikhs and Royal Navy personnel took horrendous casualties, and the officers, governor and his wife were either slain or taken prisoner. The Scottish patrols pushed back the rebels and were able to withdraw in good order, escaping the massacre to fight another day...