WIP VIENNA 1683

 

I have got the figures ready, the objective markers are done,  the scenario is clear.....just need to give the rules a run. I have a home grown set that are fairly brief and bloody that I have used consistently for the last 10 years for my big games in the period 1680-1720. There are tweaks for specific battles and in general they work ( it wouldn't be worth all this effort of they didn't!)
With this dry run, I learnt some valuable lessons.

I think it's ready. Time to gather All the Brothers.

The Relieving force- From the Right: Imperial Foot, Imperial cuirassiers, Bavarian cuirassiers and Dragoons, Saxon Cuirassiers and at the far end with all those flags, the Bavarian and Saxon foot.

The Turkish command tent- The Turkenschanze! An Orta of Janissaries in front!

Fraustadt- testing the rules.

 So I had some Saxon battalions out and the Swedes charging them- to see how they game could possibly progress.

Four Veteran Swedish battalions vs 6 Raw Saxon Battalions and 2 guns

The whole Saxon line behind field defences.

WIP - SAXONS Great Northern War

 

I had the opportunity to take all my GNW Saxons out the other day and put them on a large table. I have been planning the Battle of Fraustadt 1706 and I now have enough units to do it,  along with the Russians. I was experimenting with the frontage of the allied army and its deployment. I won't be fielding the complete order of battle ( see below) but a scaled down version.

The Saxons all laid out- 9 Regiments of Foot , 1 regiment of Dragoons ( 2 Squadrons) and 4 Regiments of Cuirassiers ( 8 Squadrons) with three guns. 

Saxon Foot with chevaux de frise

QUEBEC 1759

 I had cut the article describing this battle from an old Wargames Illustrated a long time ago and had it filed away in my 'scenarios' folder - yes..PAPER....not an electronic copy.

I always thought it would make an interesting, if fairly straight forward, table encounter. Ross had his SYW French. We didn't have Wolfe's Redcoats ( but I had the Osprey book!!) but I had more than enough AWI British troops that could double up. Now I can hear the screams about accuracy and purity of representation - total poo of course. The figures are nice- they look about right so I used them!

The cover of the issue!

The Redcoats on the left. French on the right. Indians and Coureur de Bois in the woods on the British flank.

                    

   The original article was for WRG Horse and Musket rules which is one of my most played and favourite rulesets of all time. We have moved on from it ( sadly I guess) and translated it across to the rules we currently use, Honours of War.