"Hungary’s last battles: Szőreg and Temesvár, 1849" Topic

"For the last couple of years we have been fighting our way through all the major battles of the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-1849. I put a lot of effort into creating the scenarios: many, many hours of tracking down and translating Austrian and Hungarian sources, nailing down orders of battle, working out the detailed sequence of events, examining various historical maps to reproduce the terrain accurately.

One result of all this dedicated effort can be an excessively nerdy love of the tiny gems of detail discovered along the way. The risk that follows is that scenarios can be excessively adorned with special rules that delight us as scenario writers but just throw up to much radar clutter for our poor players' brains to cope with.

This month we fought the last two battles in the Hungary 1848-1849 series: Szőreg and Temesvár. I think that in these cases I got the balance right, including enough of the unique circumstances to make the games distinctive and memorable for the players, but mostly without complicating them so much as to cause brain pain (though see below)…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Hooray – I got Tangoed at last! Not sure why this particular post qualified, out of the 165 I've written since 2014 … but I'm happy the BBBBlog has finally been noticed. Thanks, Armand!

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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No mention my friend!. (smile)

Congratulations! (?)

Thanks for the good blog!.

Amicalement
Armand