"Sharp Practice AWI game" Topic

Inspired by the Fall foliage in these parts, I decided to do an AWI Sharp Practice game with some recently painted mounted units.
The scenario involved the Crown units attempting to capture a bridge that was guarded by a Miltia company and light gun so that follow on units would have a dry crossing spot.
William was the aggressor with a 16 man unit of 17th Lt Dragoons, a 24 man dismounted unit from the same unit and a 16 man unit of Queen's American Rangers Hussars. He had 6 leaders. I was the Militia and started with a 30 man company and light piece deployed between an entrenchment and some farm buildings overlooking the bridge. I had 2 leaders. Reinforcements would come on once they were alerted That would be 32 mounted militia with another pair of leaders.
It was a different game with those mounted units. William got some solid movement in and cut off the deployment point for the reinforcements, but lost big in an attempt to charge the redoubt with some mounted Dragoons. We used a modified 'defense in depth' scenario.
link to the flickr set:
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‌Bridge and the rebel held redoubt guarding it by Mark Luther, on Flickr

‌Haddock leads the Lights to the left by Mark Luther, on Flickr

‌Cummerbottom takes fire by Mark Luther, on Flickr

‌taking hits from the farmhouse by Mark Luther, on Flickr

‌facing off the lights by Mark Luther, on Flickr

‌No hope for reinforcements by Mark Luther, on Flickr

Mark

Nice looking game! Those units seem a little larger than the ones TFL use.

Not a fan of the rules when our group tried them but your layout and figs look great! Nice game!

How did you model the stream?

Lovely looking game. We really find that the AWI is a great period for Sharp Practice, it really works well with the big variety of troop types and qualify.

What scale figures are you using?

If I remember preceding posts, he uses 15mm, everything he had the last decades;)
From pics from Qrf ( freikorps) , minifigs to newly landed Bluemoons.

I also did ( or redid as sold mine years ago) AWI for SP2 as more varied than FIW. Love it.
Planed to fomalize inserting in the best things from M&Tom.

Great looking game. Must try this amount of cavalry. Would give a different game I think. Thanks for sharing.

Figs are 15mm from variety of sources and some conversions. There is a link posted to the full Flickr set which also has more description.
I use the TFL 'points' as a basic guideline. I am really more of a historical setup gamer rather than a army building points guy.
The water is just plastic sheets painted and hodge podged with some grass sprinkled on it
Thanks,
Mark

Mark:

That looks fantastic. A couple of other questions to you, so we can all learn:

1. Looks like you are using a painted ground cover with teddy bear fur placed in sections. Is that correct If so, what is the ground cover? It looks dry brushed and painted to represent dirt. Is that piece under the entire game board or is that also just in sections?

2. What are you using for your large groupings of tree bases? They look great.

3. For the plastic sheets used for water – are they soft or hard plastic? Where would one get such sheets?

4. How did you decide to cut your teddy bear fur pieces, as some have flat edges and some have round edges?

Thanks for sharing.

The ground sheet is just a cheap bedsheet dyed brown and retouched over the last decade or two. I have a greenish one and whitish one also. I use chalk pastels for roads that mostly wash out. Trees are mounted on plastic sheet of various thickness and flocked. The teddy bear fur is cut up in random shape. No real method or plan. It was spray painted also. The water is thin plastic sheet painted and midge podged and some flocking sprinkled on it. Remember I've been doing this for a long time and there was no terrain used in this game that hasn't been around for several years

It looks great. I have been using the teddy bear fur for the entire ground cloth, but it often just looks too green to me.

wow! love the look of the table, plus nice looking game.

Mark's games are always outstanding, especially the terrain. Almost makes me regret getting rid of all my 15mm AWI figures.

Almost…