greenknight4  | 30 Mar 2015 1:17 p.m. PST |
Light Bobs – Battle of Princeton
Here are a few pictures of my "Princeton what if" game run at Havoc earlier this month (3.24.2015.)
In this scenario Washington sends forward an advance force of 2 x battalions and runs into the British, much as it happened historically however the troops and terrain were fictitious. The British were given 2 x battalions each of 4 companies. One company in each battalion was veteran, the rest were average.
The write up and extra pictures on the home page at dayofbattle.com Thanks for reading Chris Parker |
| Mark RedLinePS | 30 Mar 2015 1:37 p.m. PST |
lovely, lovely, lovely…………these rules are on my to get list! |
| greenknight4 | 30 Mar 2015 1:50 p.m. PST |
Thank you I appreciate that. I'm very disappointed that I took such few number of pictures. I thought I had taken a lot more. Oh figure scale is 40mm with a mix of Trident and Sash and Saber |
GamesPoet  | 30 Mar 2015 4:08 p.m. PST |
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| greenknight4 | 30 Mar 2015 4:28 p.m. PST |
Thanks hey I missed you at the show. |
| FlyXwire | 30 Mar 2015 4:55 p.m. PST |
I like your method of indicating snow [drifts] – w/o making your based figures look out of place on terrain board. |
| greenknight4 | 30 Mar 2015 5:37 p.m. PST |
thank you, a humble thing but my own :) Well not really. |
| WarWizard | 30 Mar 2015 7:34 p.m. PST |
Very nice..waht does the term "Light Bobs" mean? |
| greenknight4 | 30 Mar 2015 7:40 p.m. PST |
Light Bobs is a nickname for the British light infantry, first used during the American Wars of Independence, and commonly applied to the Light Division during the Napoleonic wars. |
| RebelPaul | 31 Mar 2015 5:29 a.m. PST |
I really enjoyed the game Chris. I look forward tomplaying it again next year. |
| greenknight4 | 31 Mar 2015 9:07 a.m. PST |
Thanks Paul – he commanded the American right which held off the British left. Good job. |
| John the OFM | 31 Mar 2015 1:29 p.m. PST |
Looks familiar from Cold Wars. 
Enjoyable rules, and they give a good move/counter move feel.
Nobody is "out of it" in a strict IGOUGO sense. The "defender" always has decisions and counters. I have tons of skirmish based 28mm figures, and have recently had some 40mm forced, I SAY FORCED!!! upon me by certain nefarious individuals, trying to bring me over to the dark side.
This game is perfect for 40mm figures, since you are a battalion commander with approximately a 1:5 ratio. Sort of. |
| greenknight4 | 03 Apr 2015 7:30 a.m. PST |
Thanks again John and I appreciate your live post from the game itself. I did adjust the British deployment a bit so they weren't all in column and the table was a little larger. The game went well. I am going to post a new thread here today on the shooting mechanics for people to read (and shred) :) Chris dayofbattlegames.com |
| greenknight4 | 03 Apr 2015 1:09 p.m. PST |
Ypu may find these links of help. Free Downloads for Light Bobs
dayofbattle.com/downloads "Light Bobs AWI Skirmish Rules Shooting Procedure" Topic
TMP link "Light Bobs Games -atCold Wars 2015" Topic
TMP link "Light Bobs Unit Sizes" Topic
TMP link "Battle of Trenton "What If" – a Light Bobs BatRep" Topic
TMP link
"Played Light Bobs at Cold Wars" Topic
TMP link
"Light Bobs Video is Ready" Topic
TMP link
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| B6GOBOS | 04 Apr 2015 3:28 a.m. PST |
Thank you posting these. Your rules sound very different from what is out there and very exciting. Different level of command how original. And visibly beautiful. |
