"Plains War Campaign: Battle of Johnson Pass" Topic

Hi folks,

For those of you following the campaign, we are about to fight a battle between the 7th Cavalry vs Hunkpapa and Sans Arc warriors.

The battle will be in the mountains and should provide much needed cover for the Indians, while attacking the cavalry. The cavalry will have good defensive ground though.

11 Warbands vs 4 Cavalry Companies, plus a company of Crow Scouts.

The battle is taking place in area 87. Campaign maps are here:

link

The battle is next Wednesday.
Eric Burgess

Eric

This is awesome. We are just getting ready to start a Plains War campaign out here in the SF Bay Area too and this is totally inspiring.

What sort of format are the campaign notes in? They all look like xml files to me? Are they meant to be viewed in a Web Browser? Also, where'd you get that nifty Western font?

Cheers

AX

What rules are you using to resolve the battles? (Pony Wars; Yellow Ribbon; homebrew?)

What figs are you using for the Plains Indians? My group has some Foundry, Old Glory and RAFM Plains Indians. Anything else?

Thanks

AX,

Glad to hear this inspires folks. I'm always looking for inspiration on TMP.

The campaign rules are Word 2007 format. You can download them and open them.

I have no idea where the Playbill font came from, but likely from MS Word or MS Publisher.

Rules are Din of Battle 2 (Piquet) supplement I'm writing.

My figures are 15mm, so they are Minifigs, LMK(Friekorp), Frontier.

No reason you could do this in 25mm.

We are having a ton of fun with this.
Eric

Strange, the campaign rules are messed up for some reason. I will need to reload them. Not sure how they got in that format. Very odd.

Ah, nice to hear an update to this campaign. Some GREAT stuff Eric! Or should I call you Mister my Indians are painted so nice it makes other folks envious! :-D
Can't wait to see any pics you post. I know what happened to those other missing troops before. Four troops vs 11 warbands may not be a fun thing for the cavalry. Johnson, did we bring the Gatling guns? :-D

Thanks,

John

Yeah--there's no word doc in that zip file--it's a bunch of XML and unreadable. Don't know what happened…

Hi John,

It should be a fairly interesting fight. Indians outnumber the cavalry, but the cavalry knows they are coming and will likely be dismounted and ready to fight. Terrain will be hilly, which should give the Indians plenty of cover, but slow going.

The campaign is really moving quickly considering the holidays, work, life issues, sickness, etc.

I have a good group of folks in this campaign, plus two are playing remotely which makes it even more tricky, but I haven't had any issues with that. In fact, when I run this again in 2010, I may recruit some more remote players.

Eric

The campaign rules are being downloaded as a .docx file. It's Microsoft's new filesave version for Word 2007 (idiots). You can get an update to your version of Word from the MS website so it'll open .docx docs.

There's no docx file in that zip. It's all .txt files with xml and jpegs. I have Word 2007 and there is no file in that zip that it recognizes.

The zip file is the document!

Strange but true, but thats how docx works. Its a set of definition docs\xml that makes up the overall document, which is the equivalent of a compressed folder. Try an 'open with…' using word (but be careful not to permanently associate zips with word), or open the zip directly from word.

Sucks doesn't it? (Not the campaign doc! – thats very nice once you get it open.)

Maybe just rename the zip file, to docx extension.

So right click on the link, select "Save Target As", then rename the file to a docx extension.

You can then open the file.

I'll see if I can put a DOC version up there if it is not too large.

I have updated my webpage to put the instuctions there.
Eric