 John the OFM  | 12 Apr 2013 2:53 p.m. PST |
One of these days I will "do" Widow Moore's Creek Bridge.
I already have tons of painted militia, and more terrain than you can shake a stick at.
I also have tons of half painted Jacobite Highlanders, both kilted and trewed.
I also know that kilts were very unlikely at this time to be worn in North Carolina by the Jacobite refugees..
Sooner or later, I will get around to this scenario. And I WILL USE KILTED FIGURES!!! so, there. It looks like fun. |
 Murphy  | 12 Apr 2013 3:19 p.m. PST |
Yer gonna do Widow Moore??? Does she know about this? Don't eat any almond cookies or drink the elderberry wine…. |
| epturner | 12 Apr 2013 3:38 p.m. PST |
Aye, Murph, she does… And that's what troubling. Eric |
| LBJ1956 | 12 Apr 2013 4:08 p.m. PST |
Oddly enough, I happen to have a Moores Creek National Battlefield flyer sitting next to me right now. The blub claims the battle was "the site of the first Patriot victory in the American Revolution and the site of the last Scottish Highland broadsword charge". |
| Doug MSC | 12 Apr 2013 5:08 p.m. PST |
That is the next AWI battle we will be having. |
| Militia Pete | 12 Apr 2013 5:13 p.m. PST |
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| Ed Mohrmann | 12 Apr 2013 6:33 p.m. PST |
Yeah, it's an interesting site. A bit smallish, perhaps… |
| vtsaogames | 12 Apr 2013 8:28 p.m. PST |
I heard she's shaking with lust. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 12 Apr 2013 10:32 p.m. PST |
I need therapy after this. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 13 Apr 2013 3:58 a.m. PST |
Just from the title, I knew who had started this thread. The esoteric subject matter, and subsequent descent into general smuttiness, were not much of a surprise either. You are a credit to the 18th Century forum – I salute you, sir. |
| NY Irish | 16 Apr 2013 6:02 p.m. PST |
I have never heard of this battle- but the very idea is great to me. How 'bout I pipe in the background while you play the game? For beer. |
| John the OFM | 16 Apr 2013 7:22 p.m. PST |
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| Narratio | 17 Apr 2013 8:07 p.m. PST |
Hairy, skirt wearing men waving large cocktail sticks running at men with muskets while the little old lady looks on in bewilderment. I bet the victory conditions are awesome. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 22 Apr 2013 10:31 a.m. PST |
OFM, have you really looked at Moore's Creek Bridge
as game-able ? I mean, all it was was an initial charge (by the
Loyalists) of a small group of sword-wielding men
led by the two seniors (LC Donald McLeod, Cpt.
John Campbell) into the teeth of devastating musketry
and (small) cannon fire. There were 40-50 casualties (loyalist) and the Loyalist
force broke and ran. Whole thing, combat that is,
took about 10 minutes. Patriots suffered 1 KIA, 1 WIA. |
| epturner | 22 Apr 2013 11:11 a.m. PST |
Ed;
Sure now, knowing The OFM, there will be Other Tricks (tm), after all, I watched six, and it was only six, to be sure, Mounted Indians stop an entire Hielan' battalion, or something like that, and Royal Americans and wagons. While they stood in stark fright and fear of Magua's Mounted Life-Garde of Horse, I, with four other bands of about a dozen or so, tommyhawked and scalped the militia, burned the settlement, drove off their women folk, and ravished their sheep… or maybe I've got that last bit backwards… But there were lamentations, many, many lamentations. So if the Indians could win Bushy Run, or as we called it, Shrubbery Run, so too could The MacOFM take the Widow and her bridge. Eric |
| John the OFM | 22 Apr 2013 9:44 p.m. PST |
In my games, I do not require that the losing side behave as stupidly as they did in Real Life™. Sometimes I require them to be even dumber. It's just a reason and excuse to finish painting the dozens of Front Rank, Old Glory, Dixon, etc Heighlanders that have been sitting in my "one of these days…" bins since the last century. |
| John the OFM | 22 Apr 2013 9:45 p.m. PST |
Psssssst!
Maybe the bridge is not the only way across. |
