"‘Tricorn’: My Seven Years War Variant of ‘Shako’ Rules" Topic
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Tango01 | 24 Jun 2022 9:10 p.m. PST |
"Tricorn has actually been around since the mid-1990s, when the Wargames Association of South Pembrokeshire (W.A.S.P.) used it to fight the battles resulting from a massive War of Austrian Succession campaign that I organised and umpired. Although we didn't use it for Napoleonic wargaming, we found Shako (with some modification) to be be ideal for our needs, being sufficiently fast-playing to play a reasonably large 12-turn campaign battle in a single evening and also great for playing large historical refights to a conclusion in a single day. However, while Tricorn existed in our heads, we never actually got around to writing it down! Then, having perhaps having had ‘too much of a good thing' during the campaign, we moved on to other projects and Tricorn (along with the Seven Years War) was largely forgotten until late in 2020, when I played a Shako 2nd Edition game with my new chum Phil Portway…" link
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