Cartington goes Forth - Conclusion

   The column moves on

Without further ado, here from the Journal of Frederick Cartington is the conclusion of his latest venture into Jimland.

From the Journal of Frederick Cartington:

"Having  achieved our initial objective of finding the outlet to the river, we proceed North-Eastwards towards our second objective which surprisingly was a swamp."
"Our Scout Ebor, (unsurprisingly) failed to notice the Tribals within its confines. We soon convinced these hostiles that attacking us was foolhardy. in the extreme."

Natives to the fore and flank

They close in...slowly

Those that can move, head for safety or form a firing line

Some impressive shooting drops two natives

The natives struggle to move in the Swamp

Four guns against a slow moving target, just doesn't seem fair somehow

He's dropped, with shots to spare for his friend

It's all over, as some make a slow escape to safety and a flanking fire is formed

"We proceeded Northeast to the river and the trail towards our final objective, where we crossed the river without incident. The now familiar Drums caused no consternation and our soldiery merely laughed at the tales that Askari fled at the sound."
"We encountered some natives that we plied with trade goods to enable us to purchase three loads of food to replace the two we had found had gone bad, probably due to the conditions in the swamp".
It was probably the same Natives too that had rummaged around in our camp the next night, looking for trade goods, but they had had the last of them"
"Wandering from the jungle, three Askari asked to join our expedition and as we had sufficient food I complied with their request, thinking the extra firepower would be useful."

The column, with Askari bringing up the rear

"Our next encounter was with yet more Tribals, surprising us whilst once more, crossing a rather wide stream."
"They attacked from our front, attempting to use the cover of the jungle, but to no avail."

The small force of Natives take advantage of the cover

The natives close...

... and the column makes its usual preparations

The natives break cover and close with the expedition

With formidable firepower the result is as expected, the two remaining flee.

"After this minor action, we once more headed NE to our expedition's objective but again finding two more loads of food that had gone bad and coupled with this was a torrential rainstorm impeding any further exploration."
"With our food dwindling fast I reluctantly decided to head back to Jim's Landing which was a lucky decision, in that the very next day after the rain, the remainder of our food was ruined"
"Unfortunately our route home south was blocked by a lake, rather than another branch of the river, enforcing a slight detour"

The column and casualties

We crossed the river once more towards Jim's Landing without food and my hunting skills failed, to the detriment of Doc, Ebor two soldiers and a bearer all of whom were carried by bearers, now relieved of their loads"
"On the last day of the expedition, a soldier foolishly followed the Askari's lead and ate a plant that killed him, whilst two Askari survived this foolish attempt at sustenance".
"Finally arriving at Jim's Landing. fresh food, water and rest would soon return Doc and Ebor to our ranks"
"A personal note:"
"As I wait for the Doc and our Scout to recover I have written to my good friend Edward Burlington Bt., inviting him to lead our next expedition.  I am tiring of the responsibility of leading these very dangerous ventures into Jimland, but will of course volunteer my services as hunter."

Thus ended the last expedition where Frederick would take the lead, as the expedition had made enough cash ($378) to outfit  a new expedition and pay for a leader with a skill ! (Ned will be an Archaeologist).
It was an interesting adventure that had shown my simple river crossing rules worked imo in the style of the Jimland rules and here's the map of the expedition's exploration:

The expedition's route in red (bit obvious really)

The Natives' deployment and tactics are very stunted given that I dice for their deployment, whether or not they split their force and so on, Without an opponent I don't know how to combat this and trying to defeat myself seems futile.

Even so I have played another two adventures, featuring Ned Burlington as leader and will post these in due course.

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