With Mrs B working days and your's truly on nights this Christmas I thought I would finish this solo effort before work. This scenario has a strong Indian battle group trying to force a major river stoutly defended by Hyderabad regular troops and militia. The rebel troops were dug in along the river bank with 6 pdr guns covering the railway line and bridge. The Indian forces came on the board in a mainly linear fashion but then split into two groups with one trying to force the bridge using HMG fire-groups and the other with the two SAP units trying to outflank the entrenched enemy troops. After some initial skirmishing with no losses the first bridge head was thrown over the river and Indian gained the far bank. This seemed to galvanize the Hyderabad force, whose ill aimed salvo's had not caused a moments delay to the Indian forces, suddenly these shot were taking effect and losses began to mount. The Indian armoured train entered the fray but held back from engaging because of the threat of the A/T guns on the far side of the river. The Hyderabad units holding the bridge who had held up against punishing fire from the HMG groups suddenly broke and where quickly assaulted by Indian follow up troops which resulted in the first losses for the Nizam's troops. However by now the Indian troops losses were nearing the critical mark (10 steps) and the reinforcing cavalry units had yet to arrive. In the next 30 minutes the cavalry did arrive and went toward the bridgehead where a company of Indian INF were just holding out against 6 militia units who had them surrounded. As the cavalry thundered across the bridge they were hit by very accurate fire from the lone Hyderabad unit in range and a whole platoon was wiped out with their officer, emboldened the rebel units went on the counter attack and in the ensuing assault more Indian losses and the demoralized Indian commander called off the attack retreating back across the river helped on their way by insults from the victorious rebels. This was a interesting little river crossing puzzle, the Indian player needs to coordinate his attack far better than I did on this occasion however the Hyderabad forces also had some lucky die rolls which caused early casualties and an early finish to this playing (GT12). This seems to me to be a tough one for the Indian player hence the rating having said that I would certainly play this one again.