"Regimental Thomas & Fury" Topic

We played a small game of Regimental Fire and Fury today, using a scenario from Neil Thomas's One-Hour Wargames rules. The adaptation was easy-peasy, and gave a fun game (and I had fun, even though I took a real shellacking!). We played Scenario 3: Control the River (there's an excellent AAR of the same scenario further down on the board)

Folks, there are 30 scenario in the Thomas book. THIRTY. That's a couple of years worth of scenarios, for me and my crew. And I'd hazard a guess that they could easily be adapted to almost any system and/or period you play.

I go into greater detail on the blog. link

Nice celebrity gamers.

When he hasn't been out for a smoke in awhile, Grant gets a little irritable.

The table has nice textures on it. I am just painting up a couple of ACW Union units to get enough troops to put a Thomas game up on the table.

His scenarios are relatively sparse when it comes to terrain – have you found that a problem?

That's a good point-the terrain in the Thomas scenarios IS sparse. We've only played this one scenario, but I wouldn't be opposed to modifying the terrain setup in the future, if it does prove to be a problem.

One logical move for the ACW would be to add fences along roads. You could add low crops to the table, without having too much effect on how the scenarios play out. Also, ACW battlefields were often heavily wooded-I'd be hesitant to add too many woods, though, as their addition would have a huge impact on how the game plays out.

Quite a few of the Thomas scenario feature a town (or other built-up-area), and town fighting was extremely rare in the ACW. Not to mention that any town would take up a large portion of the board at Regimental Fire and Fury's scale…I haven't quite figured that one out, yet!

Could you substitute a farm complex (barns, house,) for the town?

BTW nice report,thanks for the ideas.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

You certainly could, but, if I recall correctly (and I very well may recall incorrectly!), the NT rules give a defensive bonus for occupying a town, while in RF&F, a farm would just impose a penalty to movement, while giving no defensive benefit. So, they're not a 1:1 trade.

Still, a farmstead could serve as an objective, that's for sure.

another excellent battle report, and I must say i'm quite intrigued by your use of sand ….certainly avoids 'rubber road-curl'!

and its always good to uncover a new source of scenario's!

Thank you, sir!

I need to do significant work on getting the sand colors under control-something a bit more muted and life like would be the goal. I'm not sure the sand can be beat for flexibility, and it's very quick to deploy onto the table.

The other denizens of the gaming shop give you some odd looks when you break out the vacuum cleaner to clean up! Not sure if that's a tick in the plus or minus column.

Didn't stonewall himself say always mystify and mislead the enemy? Haha

I'm painting Limbers and reading Regimental fire and fury to use with Thomas's scenarios. Just played a Napoleonic game and used random terrain for the blank areas. Think sparse is better because you can add according to local geography in a campaign or just add for a once off for places like nth America or Europe.

True. It's very easy to customize the scenario terrain to taste.

Great AAR I enjoyed that thanks for posting

You're welcome, Roundie. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for saying so.

Just read this AAR and went ahead and purchased the Thomas book from amazon, so thanks for the tip! While it's en route, I do have one question…in terms of determining the experience level and number of bases in each regiment, how are you making that work with F&F rules? ie. Veteran, trained, spirited, crack, etc.

I'm in the process of playtesting a set of random army creation rules for RF&F that I've designed to create random sides that are still competitive and I'm interested to see how Thomas' rules handle the same challenge.

Great battle report! Thank you very much for sharing.
Your blog is great! It is full of inspiring ideas. I especially like your posts about terrain, tutorials and modelling.

Thank you, Cesar! Glad you enjoyed the battle report and blog. I haven't been posting much this summer, but I'm sure it will pick back up in the fall.

Robbodrum, I responded to your comment and question over on the blog.