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their thinning numbers are apparent from their very reduced presence at the top of the photo the fighting becomes furious in the austrian centre as a third serbian charge goes in casualties are heavy on both sides on the austrian right too the gaps on the table tell the story the austrian centre begins to collapse under the weight of the serbian atack and gaps are also opening up on the right meanwhile the serbian right flank disintegrates under the weight of casualties fails its morale and is forced to withdraw carnage in the austrian centre as the serbian charges cut swathes through the austrians similarly the austrian right is suffering significant casualties but is still holding only just things are getting ugly on the austrian right the austrian centre disintegrates fails morale the stands can be seen fleeing to the nearest crossing over the canal to their rear the austrian cavalry which under scenario rules must remain mounted unless given a specific order change to dismount charges in from its reserve position in an attempt to stabilise the position under the weight of the serbian attack the charge seen from behind the serbian attack now the right is looking very weak the austrian cavalry is suppressed and fails to make contact the remnants of theaustrian centre seen nearest the canal desperately trying to get across the bridge the austrian left flank regiments begin to redeploy to meet the threat from what appears to be their disintegrating right flank the austrian right flank regiment falls apart too as the serbian reserve regiment at the extreme right top of the photo makes contact adding its weight to the serbian attack this was turn 9 of a 12 turn game with its right shattered and a crossing over the canal wide open things look precarious for the austrian hold on sabac from the game play perspective while murray had learned a lot from his previous game about being more aggressive in the attack enabled enormously by the elite status of this serbian division his plan was not sufficiently aggressive to expect success and hence take the main objective of sabac however the murray s plan had only taken the attacking regiments as far as the canal reflecting the flaw in his plan as to cross the canal and attack sabac itself would require an order change something not easily achieved for serbians or austrians for that matter using the scenario s victory points suggestions the austrians gained 5 vps to the serbians 4 close enough to be called a draw that said in my 25 years playing great war spearhead this rates as one of the best games i have played in the outcome of murray s attacks reflected disciplined use of troops combining fire movement and cold steel to dislodge the defenders here is a video panorama of the battlefield at the end of the action at may 15 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 20mm after action reports great war spearhead world war 1 saturday may 9 2026 battle for lesnica 12 august 1914 the battle for lesnica in serbia on 12 august 1914 was a small part of the larger action known as the battle of cer this great war spearhead scenario was the first outing for my newly painted serbian infantry and is taken from the scenario book summer harvest by shawn taylor and robert dunlop so new is the serbian army that in its incomplete state russian guns had to proxy for the serbian artillery the austrian and serbian infantry and guns are all from the hat 20mm range the battlefield with the austrian attack coming from the left the serbian defences based around the right lesnica is the two sector village area lower right the austrian attack plan the serbian plan for deployment of its reinforcements which we interpreted as being reserves so the arrow was drawn at the end of turn 3 before they entered turn 4 at that stage the austrian plan was still not clear to the serbian commander so this deployment made a lot of assumptions about where the austrians would be serbian defences around lesnica one of the batteries of old 150mm guns seen at the top of the photo emplaced on the heights the trenches are from the timecast range one of the emplaced serbian 150mm batteries defenders around novo selo on the serbian right the first austrian regiment deployed and beginning its attack top centre of the photo the austrian attack came in piecemeal reflecting the delays experienced by each regiment in crossing the river the austrian attack well underway with the second austrian regiment across the river and advancing turn 4 and the serbian reinforcements have arrived the centre austrian regiment comes under fire from the serbian 150mm battery emplaced on the heights in the centre serbian reinforcements close up action heats up in the centre with the austrian attackers now within small arms range austrian casualties the serbian reinforcements following their command arrow the serbian commander had anticipated an austrian attack directly towards lesnica and planned the reinforcements with two regiments of field guns to take the austrian attack in the flank the entry along the road leading directly into lesnica was stipulated in the scenario outline the serbian defenders of novo selo come under heavy artillery and small arms fire and take casualties the austrian attackers quickly gained support from the off board heavier guns but failed throughout the game to get support from their onboard field artillery comms between observer and guns were obviously very poor on the day the centre austrian regiment takes fire but suffers few casualties some bad die rolling for the serbian commander in a single devastating round of fire all of the remaining serbian defenders of novo selo are eliminated the village is wide open it s hotter in the centre the first regiment of the serbian reinforcing artillery deploys the game had a 10 turn length and at the end of turn 10 the serbians still held lesnica while the defenders of novo selo had been eliminated the austrians had not had time to occupy the village here is a video panorama from the austrian left around behind the austrians and then left to right behind the serbians on victory points the serbians had won spoiler alert historically they did the austrian attacker had been too timid shifting to making combat moves once he had come under fire despite that fact that there were so few defenders a full and fast attack would have swamped the defenders the austrians casualties at five stands the serbians at three were unusually light for a great war game as part of the 25th anniversary for great war spearhead murray and i had decided we d build armies for and play some of the theatres that are not commonly seen on the table this austro hungarian serbian clash iss one of those there are more to come at may 09 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 20mm after action reports great war spearhead sommerville world war 1 newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom battle for sabac serbia 17 august 1914 in the second of our less well known theatres of operations games marking the 25th birthday of the great war spearhead wargames ru a week of it it s been quite a week of wargaming wednesday evening murray and i completed the great war spearhead game in the alps wednesday saw u on the highest peaks a great war spearhead game set in the carpathians 1915 during the great war the eastern and italian fronts saw fierce fighting across rugged and mountainous terrain our preferred ww1 rules syste a division level raid in the middle east 1915 it s the middle east theatre in 1915 british forces have been molested by the fire of a new turkish armoured train providing support t about me robin sutton lincoln 7608 type a choice below new zealand public admission time it was back in the late 60s that i began gaming along with a great group of friends i game a wide range of periods but my all time favourite rules set 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