| John the OFM | 20 Apr 2014 6:43 a.m. PST |
TMP regular epturner (Eric Turner) ran this game at my house last night. This was an off night for our club, so we got only 3 of our regulars besides me: Jim, Darrell and Roger.
The date was chosen because of the Anniversary, and more importantly, it was one of the Major's few free days!
The game was fought using Eric's adaptation of the Gettysburg Gamers rules for FIW, etc. It's a rather free combination of TSATF and BAB. Eric contributed half the figures on both sides, and graciously allowed me to use mine too.
Here is the AAR I did for our Yahoo group: A great many political careers were made in Massachusetts last night as the Yankees spanked the lobsterbacks.
I got more than my usual "it's all about ME!" view of the game, since I managed to get my troops killed at two different ends of the table.
His Majesty George III's army in Boston was stripped of the cream of its Light Infantry, thanks to my stellar generalship. I managed to keep Concord Bridge open by charging the Yankee militia across the bridge, but then got that company wiped out. One of Jim's Grenadier companies had the same fate.
The intent was to keep the bridge pen so Captain Parson's column could retreat across it. However I managed to get them shot to pieces also, thanks to the good Minuteman tactics of Darrell and Roger.
Jim did a good job of keeping the bridge open so I could retreat across it, had I lived.Eric was testing a scenario for Cold Wars, and a few tweaks to the rules were suggested. Cleverly, he kept the rules in his head, so no one could grab the text and tell him what he did wrong. We saved that for after the game. 8^)
I would like the British to be able to actually CATCH the militia they charge! Maybe that's because I was British…
I also thought that militia/Minutemen taking "shocking" casualties should not stick around. Like Guilford Courthouse, this is a scenario that can be useful to test any number of "large scale skirmish" rules.
I would be interested trying this with The Sword and the Flame.
Since the British were not all that good this early in the war, I would rate them as Egyptians, and the Yankees as Boers.
I like the idea of saving throws applied to TSATF hits, even though I made very few of them. 8^) 10 man units are pretty fragile. Maybe I can handle that in the wound card draw. In "real life", the British abandoned their wounded, after all. Now I have to paint up LI and Grenadiers for that Boston garrison regiment that had the purple facings. 58th?
I have some Old Glory primed figures waiting in the wings for just that assignment. Great game! |
Frederick  | 20 Apr 2014 7:08 a.m. PST |
Sounds like a good game – I suspect His Majesty's forces will be back for more! |
| epturner | 20 Apr 2014 7:38 a.m. PST |
Not a bad game, and the second go I've had running this scenario. Bill Molyneaux from the GAG modified his rules to large convention games and it turns out that this fast play set doesn't really work as well with Concord. I'll return to the slightly more detailed version for Cold Wars. I'm thinking the militia need to be more brittle. For this scenario I allow the British to charge, but not the Doodles. The British can charge, but the militia will always run away to evade. Perhaps I need to allow the British to be able to come into contact. Thanks to John, Roger, Darrell, and Jim for a good evening out. Made the trek up and back worth it all. |
| John the OFM | 20 Apr 2014 10:00 a.m. PST |
Ooops…
59th had the purple facings. |
| Skeptic | 20 Apr 2014 11:08 a.m. PST |
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| saltflats1929 | 20 Apr 2014 1:27 p.m. PST |
An AAR without pictures is like a birthday card without money in it. |
 Murphy  | 20 Apr 2014 2:04 p.m. PST |
So I guess John that you are going to have to answer to General Howe as to "Why a professional office such as yourself and with high caliber troops did so poorly against a bunch of farmers and backwoodsmen?"… Tsk..tsk… |
| epturner | 20 Apr 2014 4:35 p.m. PST |
Himself was most displeased with The OFM's performance… Actually, John did take some pictures, as did I, but I have not yet mastered the art of moving them from phone to TMP. I am a Luddite, so even having a phone that takes pictures is something close akin to heresey for me. Eric |
| John the OFM | 21 Apr 2014 8:41 a.m. PST |
Not ALL convention gamers have the attention spans of 4 year olds. I am pretty sure they can handle the "smarted up" version as well as the dumbed down version.
Besides, perfect strangers will bitch and moan just as much about the Lone Minuteman (and the Lone Light Infantryman) surviving as well as not being able to catch them. My son tells me I "need an app" to put my I-phone pictures on a PC. I fear apps. |
| Redcoat 55 | 22 Apr 2014 7:52 a.m. PST |
John, To transfer pictures from an Ipad to pc I think all you have to do is plug it into your computer. You may have to tell your Ipad that the computer is a "trusted computer." |
| epturner | 22 Apr 2014 4:33 p.m. PST |
Redcoat;
John has an "I-Phone", nae an I-Pad. Either way, methinks he needs said app that Young Jack has told him about. Eric |
| Redcoat 55 | 22 Apr 2014 5:08 p.m. PST |
I don't think it is any different. My wife has both and I copied photos from both devices to my pc to make a photo book. An ap may be better though. |
| epturner | 23 Apr 2014 7:13 p.m. PST |
His phone has a cover that flips up… I think he had to wind it up first, to make it work. Eric 
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| John the OFM | 24 Apr 2014 8:46 a.m. PST |
The hamsters running on the treadmill have to run as a team or the torque generated makes it difficult to focus the shot. |
| 7th Va Cavalry | 30 Apr 2014 5:01 a.m. PST |
Hey, my phone flips…. I only have one 'cause my mom makes me. And I'm 47 BTW…….. |
paints brigs for the British fleet.