"For Amer Rev War: What is your ..." Topic

… favorite AWI battle to recreate on the table top?

And … what scale do you use for it?

Brandywine in 15mm

Princeton in 28mm

Guilford, 28mm

Battle of Newtown in 28mm

Curious. No one likes Monmouth, Saratoga, Cowpens or Kings Mountain? I have won Cowpens as Continental and British. Fun battle to fight.

I like 3 of those battles – just not my favorite – but they would make my top 5

Good topic!

I think Cowpens was a great battle with a brilliant plan, but it is difficult to pull of in a game. We know how and why Morgan deployed his troops, and how he got into the mind of Tarleton. Plus we have a bird's eye view of the terrain instead of the soldier's eye view. I've just never found it a great battle to game. Glad to hear 35thOVI found a way to make it fun. I guess my mileage varied. Played it in 28mm with Old Glory figures.

I would agree with Doc McBride. Guilford Courthouse. Played it in 15mm and 28mm, all original Old Glory.

BTW I grew up next to Valley Forge, knew the terrain with my eyes closed. Always disappointed no battle happened there! LoL.

Lots of great ideas and comments.

Probably Brandywine. The figure scale is immaterial. I prefer larger figures.

Brandywine in 28mm.
My group has also done a Lexington and Concord game which was great fun.

Eutaw Springs

A friend Steve, who wrote a set of Revolutionary War rules that I have seen a few of the people out hear use, had all the games. Did all the battles in the South. 25mm. Enjoyable and fast moving.

Saratoga and Huberton.

Just about any battle in AWI will do! I have a large collection of mainly 28mm figures based as regiments so I tend to set up larger battles as opposed to skirmishes. I currently have 53 British/German/Indian foot Regiments, 4 Horse with 2 Regiments left tp paint. To counter that I have roughly the same in American units. Got a few American and one French I am currently working on as well. Obviously not everything is on the table at once! It's something I've been working on for about 20 years now. Every time I say I am finished I decide something else needs completed…

We switched to Regimental Fire and Fury about a year ago and are really enjoying it.

One thing I have found that is fun to do as well is to recreate a battle, or part of a battle from a different period in AWI. I'll set the scenario and table up based on a a totally different time period and battle and not tell anyone until the game ends. I've done that with Civil War battles, obviously on a smaller scale for AWI.

Crooked Billet in 25mm.

Mostly because I've run it a bunch of times.

Eric

Cowpens is fun, played it recently with Regimental Fire and Fury. But as was said, it is well night impossible to recreate what actually happened.

Saratoga, 2mm