The Brown Deer Irregulars convened at Chez Protz over the weekend to play a Seven Years War game featuring the Prussian invasion of Saxony and the successful Austrian-Saxon repulse of the invaders. Check out the game report at my blog (Der Alte Fritz Journal):
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There are too many pictures to post on this site, so travel to Saxony by clicking on the link above and feast your eyes on a grand mass of Minden, Hinchcliffe and RSM figures, which all mixed in very well together.
We used "Batailles Dans l'Ancien Regime" (or "BAR" for short) and a 1:20 figure to man ratio. Infantry units were 30 figures in two ranks while cavalry regiments were about 24 horse per regiment. The rules worked perfectly well with the smaller, more traditional multi-figure basing as opposed to our use of BAR rules for Big Battalion (60 figure regiments) games. In fact, I thought that the rules worked even better at 1:20 than they do at the larger 1:10 scale.
Infantry commands generally included four battalions of infantry, 1-2 3lb battalion guns and 1-2 heavier 6lb or 12lb cannon. Cavalry commands generally had 4 or 5 regiments of cavalry per player. This seemed to an easy number of figures and units for each player to control during the game.
Here is a picture of the initial table set up and deployment of forces on the first turn:
While most of the figures were from the Minden Miniatures range, a large portion of the cavalry were RSM figures and Eureka Saxons. I thought that all three ranges looked well together as they are of a comparable size.
While there was a lot of ebb and flow to the action, a timely charge of the Austrian O'Donnell Cuirassier Regiment broke through the weakened Prussian center, sabering a battery of artillery crew men and running off two battalions of Prussian infantry. At about this time, Frederick decided that this wasn't going to be his day, so he tipped his tricorn to Austrian marshal von Browne and conceded the field to the Austrians.