"Controversial American Revolutionary War AAR in 10mm" Topic

It has been a while but I finally got a new post up on my blog site. Take a look and let me know what you think about my interpretation of this event!

See
ryderscalm0508.blogspot.com

sky

Nice.
What rules did you use, and figures

Mick

Looks great! A very nice ob, esp. considering the 10mm scale. I especially like the look of the supply/artillery train.

Too small for me, but the terrain, figures and game all looked spectacular.

Well mixed reaction from me – 'Controversial' seems to be a mealy mouthed way of presenting a calumny of anti-British rubbish – are you a Mel Gibson fan?

My understanding is that at this time the only people murdering Colonials were the Patriots trying to rally support to their cause by murdering loyalist influencers…

That said, the scenery and figures are outstanding, and the BATREP is beautifully presented…

Well I am not a Gibson fan but it has been written before that Dunmore set up the colonials and there was a day long pitched battle with the Indians.

I added a few extras for play balance and to make more of a game of it. The British player had the option to attack or help the colonists. Plus the gun powder barrels were filled with sand with a layer of powder on top. The colonial player never tried to deploy the gun.

I am sorry but I have to look up the word calumny!!

The rules we used are Habitats and Highlanders.

The figures were mostly Pendraken I think.

Thanks for the comments!

sky

I was unaware that any British were present at the actual Point Pleasant battle, just Virginia militia vs. Indians?

What a fun & imaginative scenario! I especially liked the threat of flood…never seen that in a game…and how you represented it with the partial stream hex.

No the british were not actually there. I had 3 gamers so I wanted 3 sides.

The flood was a random placement (six different entry points for the water). At one spot it was getting pretty far in but it stopped raining so the water crested. The scenario rule was no crossing the flood waters!

I will publish the term paper as soon as I find it. My wife's computer crashed so we only have a hard copy.
sky

Was Errol Flynn in this game with his pirates beating off highly disciplined but evil British and Hessians? Was John Wayne the umpire? ;-)

Wow, I have been looking all over for 10mm AWI type buildings with shutters. Where did you find them? Many of these buildings are dead on for the 18th century.

Also, I love the swamps! Where did you get the swamps!

The buildings are paper buildings that were designed and constructed by Bob Henderson. He is quite the artist! See the March 2012 fight to see more of his buildings. They are all based on photos he took at Williamsburg so they are very period authentic!

I am not sure which swamp you are describing. I have a very glassy swamp – more jungleish – that I got on ebay. The smaller ones were crater pirces from Kallestra that I finished.

I am glad you like it.
sky

Are the Bob Henderson designed buildings available for download anywhere?

Blimey mate, figs looked koshti for 10mm but the set up
was very plain. Look at the 1866 , 1870 rules for how
terrain should be done in smaller scales.
I always prefer a bird with big knockers.

Redcoat: Inspite of my strongest urgings Bob has not made his designs avaialble yet. I will keep at it.

Sidney I have no idea what you are talking about?!

Skyking, I would pay money to download them. I haven't found 18th century model houses with shutters anywhere.