"Scenario & OOB for Battle of Bklyn 247th Anniversary game" Topic

Just posted this on my blog. No AAR yet but it should be coming soon. For now, like it says in the title, here's a LINK to the scenario and Orders of Battle we used, plus a few of the key maps we used to research the battlefield and some more pics of the tabletop just prior to commencement of miniature hostilities. Hope you enjoy…

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…and here's a taste of what you'll find there:

Super looking game! What rules did you use?

@Big Red: I was just about to reply to your question over on my earlier post, when I saw you had repeated it here. Sorry for the slight delay in response on my end! The rules we used were Home Brew, created a while back by one of the group, who often serves as GM, like he did for this Battle of Brooklyn game. The most original aspect of the rules is how they work logistics into the tabletop play, requiring the use of limited quantities of designated supplies for fire, movement, and other actions. The coin seen on the table beside General Washington is a "Command Coin," supply of which fluctuates turn by turn and which can be used to conduct double fire or double movement or to purchase additional supplies.

Wonderful research and breathtaking terrain. Very helpful to anyone who wants to refight this action. I'm really looking forward to the AAR!

Ahhh, your table looks AMAZING!! Love the water effects and the rowboats too!

You've also got all of my favorite scenic elements to see on a table: encampments, cut wheat fields, and corn fields. Plus I could stare at miniature fences and walls all day.

That star fort is spectacular.

Your water effects are awesome! I like the silvery sheen to the surface, looks like deep water on a sunny day. Very convincing!!

Thanks for the compliments, Baranovich!

Here's a link to the tutorial I posted on my blog when I built the second batch of them:

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I'm not sure if the "silver shimmer" effect you refer to is built-in or provided by the lighting effects. TBH my best guess is it's a combo of both working together!

I'll dig around on my blog and find the first post I did when I built the first set of river boards in that same style, to be laid over tabletop ground-cover, and when I do I'll come back and post it here when I do.

Awesome, I'll actually do the same. I've been going through your archives and looking at some past years.

You've got an impressive array of diversity in the games you play! I especially love your 19th Century British Colonial stuff, the Afghan War in particular! Second to the Am. Civil War, 19th Century British history is my favorite historical time period, with AWI being third.

But alas, I had to make hard choices due to space and storage restrictions here at home. So I opted for numerous fantasy games including Warhammer and 9th Age, 40k, Frostgrave, Badgers and Burrows, and then for historicals of course AWI in 28mm. I've got a smattering of WWII Bolt Action, just a squad each of Americans and Germans and a couple tanks. That's likely to stay at that size because I simply can't expand on it for the reasons I stated. For AWI it's the only period I'm doing in two scales, 28mm and 6mm. Not sure why I ended up gravitating towards 6mm but I thought it would be neat to the same way in two scales.

All the 28mm games' armies basically are filling an entire closet, so I'm at the limit of being able to absorb and store any new games in that scale.

I do have packed away a bunch of 10mm Zulu War which I will get to at some point, but there's lots of fantasy stuff ahead of it first, especially with the recent release of The Old World. I also bought the starter sets for both the ACW and Nap. Wars for the Epic Scale battles that Warlord games put out. I've got a decent chunk of that painted up as well as terrain. 13.5 allows for pretty huge armies to be in just a few shoe-size boxes!

That's sounds like a lot!

I thought I remembered you as being mostly a fantasy gamer, at least in terms of the terrain projects you've posted here over the years! Second Afghan War is my wargaming "bread & butter" so to speak, though I've used my Afghan terrain boards for a variety of different eras and locales.

Here's the link with the first tutorial I put on those hardboard "put it on top of the ground cover" river sections:

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Thanks for finding the tutorial! I'm curious, how do you keep 3/16" MDF from warping when you cut it into pieces that large?

I think I remember seeing a technique somewhere where if you paint a large "X" on the backside of the piece and then do your terrain painting/texturing surface on the opposite side it can arrest the warpage.

But I've always had challenges with warping and have had to resort to slight of hand stuff to keep it flat. One way was to use it as bases for terrain but with terrain pieces that come up right to the edge of the MDF so that it doesn't have sufficient surface area to perform the warp.

Another way I figured out was, or should say Quindia figured out and I copied, was to add that wooden framing around the outside of the MDF sheet and actually doing both screwing and gluing it down so that it "forces the MDF flat" when the screws tightens the framing down to it. You end up with that blank picture frame with a backing, before the foam is layed into it.

But it looks like there you're taking the pieces and straight up painting them on one side. I've never done that without the MDF curling on one end.

Oh man – that WWI table you did with the big bridge is NICE.

Oop, meant "WWII"!