"Batttle Cry ACW - on the Wargame table " Topic

I got a copy of the 150th anniversary edition of Richard Borg Battle Cry for Christmas last year.

I got the game as a way of getting my 6 year old son into gaming and had planned to try him out in easy stages.
Well he is has taken to it like a duck to water, and whilst he cannot read everything on the cards, he has got the right, centre and left all sorted.

We have started playing the scenarios In order with him taking the Union and me the rebels. After 5 games he is 3 – 2 up. The joy in his face when he won Gaines Mill last night was a sight to behold.

The card driven structure and the easy way loses are determined by the dice rolls will make transferring the game to use miniatures on a wargame table easy. My son wants to play a ‘Wargame' and thinks he will beat his dad again – and he probably will.

I am thinking that I will just mark my table into 3 sections and play the game as is – has anyone else tried this ?

Mark

Yup, loads of people do, and also the other "Command & Colors" games.
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To quoet Rudy Nelson:
"Richard Borg does all his playtesting for his systems in miniature. I have seen both 15mm and 25mm Command and Colors done at conventions by Richard. i have played Richard in his Napoelonic version in 25mm. I have seen him run a Battlecry tournament at Recon/Hurrison. i think it was in miniature."
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I am thinking that I will just mark my table into 3 sections and play the game as is – has anyone else tried this ?

I don't think there should be much trouble. Battle Cry doesn't care about unit facings, so it's just a matter of translating 1 hex = 4" or whatever dimensions that suits you. Just be careful that you don't let more than one unit occupy the equivalent area of 1 hex on your table. Of course if you have a hex gridded table mat that wouldn't even be a problem.

My only complaint about Battle Cry (I have the first version but not the 150 aniv. one) is the 4 hex shooting range which seems a bit much. I usually play with a house rule of 3 hex shooting, rolling 4/2/1 dice at 1/2/3 hex range.

Here are some house rules for adapting another Richard Borg game, Commands & Colors Ancients, to a hexless game…

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I have not tried the hexless variant. I use miniatures, but on a 5" hex mat.

My concern would be that interpreting situations such as whether a unit has a valid line of retreat would be awkward without hexes. The hexes reassure me that I am not breaking the game using miniatures.

Visit boardgamegeek.com and get the Advanced Battle Cry Deluxe Edition from the files section. They vastly improve the game.

We have played many tabletop games using ABCDE variant and they are a blast.

When I upsized my Memoir 44 I used offset squares, which basically makes up the same pattern that the hexes make. Once I get a little more traction on my Memoir stuff I will use the same setup and work on some ACW/Battle Cry. I went really big with 54mm and is an impressive sight…for my, um, failing sight.