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Tango01

16 Sep 2024 4:16 p.m. PST

" Today, at Phil's suggestion we had another game of The American Revolution using my rules – but being well and truly fed up with using the American Army pre Valley Forge, I opted for using the 1778 army, equally ragged, but trained in the simplified Prussian drill introduced by 'Baron' Von Steuben (actually, he was an Captain in Frei-Infanterie von Mayr in the Prussian army of the Seven Years War)…"