14Bore | 07 Jan 2020 3:57 p.m. PST |
Have thought about looking back through my records and see what units have had the worse outings or coming out without a scratch. Any one else do this? |
Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 07 Jan 2020 5:07 p.m. PST |
I play solo skirmish campaigns with maybe 5-10 people on "my" side; much of the game is about their various survivals and experience increases. So, yes. |
Col Durnford | 07 Jan 2020 5:35 p.m. PST |
Only during campaigns. That said, I do have some units that have a reputation for poor behavior before the enemy. One WWII German unit never seems to want to get involved in any kind of fighting. |
robert piepenbrink | 07 Jan 2020 6:27 p.m. PST |
Not written records, but some units have reputations within the group. No one ever wanted to get in the way of the 14th Polish ("Lead Pipe") Cuirassiers, for instance, while the British 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars) despite first-rate castings and paint job were so despised that the owner tried repeatedly to sell them--without success: we all knew about the "Rotten Routing Tenth." |
BTCTerrainman | 07 Jan 2020 6:56 p.m. PST |
Can't say I have ever tried to track this. So often units end up subbing for other historical units in the fight that often I do not have a particular unit name I am starting with. This is very common with Napoleonics since it is usually only facings that matter, and frankly at 15/18mm with 40-100 units per side, I do not bother matching facings unless it is a particular famous unit. So I have never bothered tracking unit performance. |
Narratio | 07 Jan 2020 7:14 p.m. PST |
It was a throw away comment in book by Featherstone, so yes, I always did and still do. |
Frederick | 08 Jan 2020 7:26 a.m. PST |
Also only campaigns and then in a file with a series of Word documents for each unit/command I do have some units that I informally keep track of in my head as well – I have a unit of Riders of Rohan who have stood in for just about any medieval/Renaissance army I need an extra cavalry unit for, and they are pretty much always victorious (as a unit – for the army, not always so much) |
Ed Mohrmann | 08 Jan 2020 7:55 a.m. PST |
50 years ago, yes – by name of each figure, too. Today, no, unless a unit does really well in a battle or really poorly. If that happens, in the next battle their morale grade will be adjusted plus or minus 1. Infantry losing or capturing Colors will always be adjusted + or -. |
Stoppage | 08 Jan 2020 8:53 a.m. PST |
@squeaky green: The mental image of cuirassiers brandishing lead pipes to 'offer-up some punishment' is keeping me amused all afternoon. |
79thPA | 08 Jan 2020 10:13 a.m. PST |
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Shagnasty | 08 Jan 2020 3:06 p.m. PST |
If a unit does extraordinarily well in a game they get a battle star on the bottom of their base in Sharpie ink! |
etotheipi | 08 Jan 2020 5:21 p.m. PST |
Only in campaigns. I have forces, from which I extract appropriate units for a game, so it is hard to track that from a game to game without a campaign construct. |
khanscom | 08 Jan 2020 5:41 p.m. PST |
In campaigns, certainly. The only other unit that warrants special attention is the Cavalry Brigade of the Earl of Leicester's Legion (1866 Imagination)-- it has always performed magnificently for every player who has commanded it. Go figure. |
Timmo uk | 10 Jan 2020 10:54 a.m. PST |
No but I have a memory about how a few units have performed in various games but only if they have been very reliable or totally useless. |
Russ Lockwood | 13 Jan 2020 1:15 p.m. PST |
Not individual units per se, but a half dozen years ago I started to write roughly monthly after action reports of most of the games (miniature, board wargame, eurogame, cards, dice, etc) I've played during the month. I e-mail a PDF file to gamers I game with, met, or otherwise who have expressed an interest in my rules mechanics analysis, recaps, puns, book reviews and other tabletop events I found amusing and think others would too. Strictly folksy in an MWAN way. |
14Bore | 13 Jan 2020 5:22 p.m. PST |
Gone back through my games, found about 2 dozen units that are getting points up or down. Only 4 who are in double points 2 up and 2 down. |
14Bore | 01 Mar 2020 8:57 a.m. PST |
Only the Russian artillery and Bavarian Division to go, have to do it in a notebook as my tablet couldn't handle it. But on the other hand a hard copy is a good thing Found a few units that seem to always do well, others that always disappoint so they are moving up or down 1 grade. |