 Editor in Chief Bill   | 14 Jun 2018 7:33 p.m. PST |
Do you like to take armies from different eras and fight the same battle? Example: Plancenoit, but fought with 1870 armies. |
 miniMo  | 14 Jun 2018 7:40 p.m. PST |
Yes. That approach makes it easier to set up historical battles where the players don't immediately recognise the full situation because they might be familiar with the historical battle. |
 Saber6 | 14 Jun 2018 8:31 p.m. PST |
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| TMPWargamerabbit | 14 Jun 2018 8:39 p.m. PST |
Dozens of gaming event days. Bonus for the first player to mention…… "I think have seen this battlefield before"…. it looks like xxxx. |
| Texas Jack | 14 Jun 2018 9:50 p.m. PST |
I´ve never done it on the ground, but lots of times with naval. Jutland with pre-dreadnoughts is a hoot! |
 Der Alte Fritz  | 14 Jun 2018 10:51 p.m. PST |
I do it all the time for convention games. Antietam, Gettysburg, Waterloo, Austerlitz and Aspern-Essling have all been used for SYW scenarios. |
| Old Contemptibles | 14 Jun 2018 11:24 p.m. PST |
Plancenoit 1870, that would be me. Plan to do it again this year. link |
| rvandusen | 15 Jun 2018 2:01 a.m. PST |
It is a cool way to disguise a battle to keep the players in the dark so no 20/20 hindsight. One could also use the setting of an entire war as the jump off point for a pseudo-historical scenario. I remember an old Miniature Wargames article where the author had a 1920's Somalia campaign based on Operation Restore Hope. I've sometimes considered making up a Boxer Rebellion-esque scenario in a fictional country as a background for a campaign involving modern international forces marching on a capital to rescue the surrounded embassies. |
 Whirlwind | 15 Jun 2018 4:50 a.m. PST |
Yes, within limits. I'd happily reset Blenheim to the Napoleonic Wars or Waterloo to the WSS, but I wouldn't do either as the Punic Wars or WW2 Eastern Front. |
| robert piepenbrink | 15 Jun 2018 6:42 a.m. PST |
I'm with Whirlwind. I'm happy to swap out within an era--in fact you have to, unless you want to be even more overburdened with armies than I am. But battles and battlefields change when you swap eras or drastically change the size of the battle. |
| rustymusket | 15 Jun 2018 6:45 a.m. PST |
The idea is good, but I have never actually followed through and done it. |
 etotheipi | 15 Jun 2018 7:31 a.m. PST |
Being that real world armies have frequently taken their contemporary forces to fight past battles, yeah, sure. |
| 21eRegt | 15 Jun 2018 7:41 a.m. PST |
Good intentions but rarely. |
| rmaker | 15 Jun 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
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| Dragon Gunner | 15 Jun 2018 4:07 p.m. PST |
Yes I have friends that are just not excited about playing historical miniature wargames. They also tend to know very little about military history… Its actually quite a boon for creating scenario ideas, all I have to do is change some names, create a fictional map (based on the real map) and use scifi or fantasy miniatures. I ran a short 40K campaign based on the 1884 Dervish uprising in the Sudan, humans were Brits and the Orks were Dervish. |
