"Volley & Bayonet RtG gaming with few brigades" Topic

Hi all

I am planing on setting up a Red River campaign and using V&B as the rules for handling the engagements that hopefully come. I found and old article in a Miniatures Wargames magazine with rules and map for this campaign. But the OOB was for Fire & Fury. Since this is also a brigade level game I transformed it to an OOB for V&B. It is a rather small campaign and there is not a lot of troops.
But my question is this, has anyone of you here tried to play a V&B game with only say tre to four brigades a side? And if so, how did it play, fun – not fun?

I am planning on doing this at GothCon next year and let the campaign carry on for the whole of the event were players will take up were the previuce group left of.

Regards/
Conny Edman

I've often played V&B games with only 3-4 brigades per player, but not per side. Small V&B games play *very* quickly, because of the large movement scale.

If you want to look at a slight variant that will yield more on-table units and flexibility, try fielding each "massed" brigade as 2 "linear" stands, that can either operate in a single line or deploy in two lines for "supported" status in the rules. It works very well.

Cheers,

Christopher

Another option would be to,drop to one of the lower V&B scales with each stand representing a regiment. Weapon ranges would double but everything else stays the same.

I agree with Rich. With forces that small, go with the regimental stands.

Thx for the advices! I will see if I can find an OOB for the Red River Campaign very the regiments are stated. The small problem is that I probably need some more bases of troops to be done :)

/Conny

Are you talking about the Red River Plain's War campaign? If so, there is a Little Big Horn scenario available that should help.

EDIT I see you meant the ACW. Never mind.

Thanks,

John

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