The Rescue

All is quiet in the main town which lies outside the temple area.  The workers and servants have a hutted camp on the other side of the road.  Binky decides to split the force.  Adrian is to lead the advance party with his askaris and a machine gun.  He is to secure the crossing of the mirror pools in front of the temple.  Binky and Gerald will follow up with the majority of the fighting men while Ramsden stays behind holding  the baggage enclosure.  They agree rocket signals to co-ordinate their action.
Adrian stealthily makes his way through the almost silent village.  In some huts the party can hear sounds but they press on.
Moving stealthily alongside the mirror pools they find pots full of an oily substance.  Adrian reckoned that they were probably lamps. In the pools the water swirls as they move along.  Their shadows are being followed by creatures below the water.  Crocodiles!  Huge ones.  The whole party involuntarily moves away from the edge.  Adrian orders the pots moved to the village end of the causeway.
Moving into the position that they saw earlier, Adrian deploys his men to give maximum fields of fire. They stumble across sleeping guards and quickly dispose of them.  There are, however empty beds.  A patrol must be out on its rounds.
As dawn approaches the servants start their work.  Cooking fires are lit and breakfast is prepared.  A slave brings water to the huts and is captured and tied up.  The others in the hut quickly surrendered.  A little later the patrol returned and was ambushed silently as it entered the hut.  The advance guard settled down to wait.
Some pictures are missing and will be added later.

As the main party arrives they are spotted by the lookout and the garrison sallies out to meet them in an uncoordinated attack.  The attackers are driven off in heavy fighting.  Both sides suffer casualties.  The survivors regroup in the town and prepare to retire to the temple.  Binky is wounded again.
An aerial view of the battle. 
Brian (playing Gerald) and Andrew (playing Adrian) watch the survivors of the attack make their way back towards the temple.

The mirror pools are card painted with a mix of gloss silver, green and blue paint.  The sand coloured temple comes from a Great Adventure of the Lost Kingdom play set.  They sometimes come up on e-bay.  Excellent and huge.  The collonaded courtyard is from another set - made by Atlantic I think.
In the background Slim (playing Binky) watches as the albino witch and her escort flee to the tower.

The tower is from a Blackbeard's Treasure Pirate set.  It serves in many games.
After a long and hard fight against Medjay archers, Guard archers and Priests, in which they suffer heavily when the machine gun jams Adrian's troops advance through the new temple.  Mahmoud falls badly hit and appears dead.  Later he is found to be wounded. 

The Egyptian pieces are from e-bay.  I do not know who made them.
The last of the survivors from the battle outside the town dash for the temple.  They are caught in a cross fire from Adrian and Binky.
After a pause to regroup the Adventurers get ready to fight their way in to the temple when a delegation comes out to invite them to an audience with the White Queen.  Binky accepts the invitation.  He thinks that the offer is made because the White Queen is defeated. 
Inside the Temple the formalities of the audience are gone through and gifts are exchanged.  It becomes more apparent that the White Queen realises that the Adventurers have inflicted such a series of defeats that she is willing to allow the hostages to be freed.  Binky accepts this graciously.  And when she proposes that he rid a village of lions he accepts.  He is fully aware that it may well be a ploy to get him killed.
  At the end the end of the day the Adventurers have suffered heavily - Binky and Mahmoud are wounded, though Binky's wound is superficial.  Achmed Tokar is wounded as is the Sikh artillery officer and two askaris.  Adrian's bugler is dead, as is a Sikh artilleryman  and an askari.  Gerald has lost his machine gun crew killed and also two askaris.  Binky's group has escaped virtually unscathed.
  The White Queen lost at the town some 39 native spearmen and 25 native archers as well as 8 Egyptian spearmen.  The group that attacked Adrian at the huts suffered 17 Medjay, 6 guards and a priest killed.
  Later that day the Ramsden brought in the baggage.  The wounded are tended and the White Queen offers magnificent hospitality.

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