tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73742842620254868672024-03-05T20:50:32.328+01:00The Miniature MayhemWhere really small men are broken.4xemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007166079482879561noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-66750215436551882032017-06-20T11:59:00.000+02:002017-07-07T22:51:37.325+02:00ACW, Kettle Creek 1862, Black Powder, Scenario and AAR<div>
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<i>Forno´s Brigade moving along the broken up railroad. Bristoe Station is in the background</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The Little Wars Stockholm Wargaming Club held a club meeting last Saturday.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> During this meeting We ran a session of Black Powder. The scenario picked for this occassion was the battle of Kettle Run, a battle that took place during the American Civil War. The rules used was as mentioned Black Powder, and We also used the supplement Glory Hallelujah. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">In this report I will give you the full stats of the game. As always building a scenario for a wargame demands certain compromises when it comes to playability vs historical facts. The main main is to build something that the players enjoy playing. My main resource for building this scenario is the Scenario boklet "Across Deadly Space" by George Anderson and Ryan Toews. It has been published by Potomac Publication and sold as a PDF on the <a href="http://www.wargamevault.com/product/107324/Across-a-Deadly-Space?src=hottest_filtered">Wargamers Vault webpage</a>. Some data, especially the ones concering the commanders, has been gathered from a number of sources and might be a arbitrary, but I do think they capture at least a part of the personality behind the commander in question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">In the final part of this report you will find a a short description how the game was played and a few notes regarding the historical outcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The battle took place after Mclellans failed Peninsular Campaign. General John Pope had been </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">appointed CinC for the so called Army of Virginia. McClellan was out of the picture, at least for the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">moment. Pope wasn't a modest character, and he boasted that he had the skills necessary to bring war to a descisive victory. His ambitious plans would eventually lead to yet another Northen disaster in the Eastern theatre, the battle of Second Manassas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The battle of Kettle Run was initiated on the 27 of August 1862. Stonewall Jackson had been raiding Union depots around Manassas. To protect his main force at Manassas he had posted 3 brigades with Major general Richard Ewell near Brisoe Station. A Union force lead by Joseph's Hooker closed in on Ewell's force and the Union and Cofederate forces clashed near Bristoe Station. The Union forces were larger than the Confederate ones. Ewell faced a dilemma. If h stayed than he risked getting a sound beating the Union force. If he withdrew he would no longer protect Stonewall Jacksson's main force. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The Uinion forces will try to force the Confederate forces out of their positions in the two major wooded areas in front of Bristoe Station. If the Union manage to drive out the Confederates out of first of the two wooded areas then it will be minor Union victory. If the Union capture bothe wooded areas then it will be a major Union victory. All other results will be Confederate victory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The Union will make the first move. The scenario last 10 rounds, with a possible prolongation with two rounds. When reaching round 10 the Union player rolls a d6. If the result is 1-2 the game ends. After round 11 one rolls the die ones more. If the result is 1-3 the game ends. The side that has taken least losses can add +1 to the result if they so chooses.</span></div>
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<i>Union units are blue and Confederate units are grey. Objective 1 is referred to the text as "the western woods. Objective 2 is referred to as the eastern woods. To win a major victory in the game the Union player must capture both objectives. If the Union player only capture objective number 1 then it is a minor Union Victory. <span style="text-align: center;">The map is based upon the map of Kettle Creek found in </span><a href="http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/Jeppan/IMG_0604_zpshc16st9d.jpg" style="text-align: center;">"Across a Deadly Space" </a></i></div>
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<i>Bristoe Station</i></div>
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A few other shots from Bristoe Station</div>
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<i>Confederate Artillery positioned on the partially wooded hill just south of Bristoe Station</i></div>
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<i>Lawton´s Brigade positioned just in front of the battery above</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The Southerners all start on the field. The Union 3rd brigade also starts on the field. The first `Union brigade enters on turn one by mobile deployment( they arrive on the field if the brigade commander rolls a successful brigade order) somewhere along the western Edberg of the battlefield. The second brigade(the Excelcior Brigade) arrive on round three, so where along the western edge of the board. The Union artillery is split between the Excelsior and the 3rd brigade(the Union player choose how to divide the artillery).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">All slopes are open terrain. All wooded areas are tough terrain and units can only move at half movement rate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">ORDER OF BATTLE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">For those of you that are not familiar with Black Powder I first want to give you an idea what the stats mean. It can be useful if you wish to try the scenario and convert it to another set of rules. In game Black Powder you basically play with units that are large, Normal, small or tiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">26th Pa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 </span><span style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Second (Exelsior) Brigade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Col. Nelson Taylor, average, 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">70th N.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">71st N.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">72th N.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">73th N.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 4 Shot 2 Morale 4 Stamina 2, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">74th N.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Third Brigade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Col. Joseph B. Carr, average, 8, Head Strong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">5th N.J. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">6th N.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">7th N.J. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">8th N.J. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">2nd N.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Smoothbore Musket, Uptity, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Pour it on, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">115th Pa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3, </span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Rifled Musket, Untested, Uptity, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Attached artillery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">D, Pa. Lt. Art. - 2 Rifled cannons </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">E, 1st R.I. - 2 Smoothboore cannons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">E, 4th U.S. - 2 Rifled cannons, elite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">CONFEDERATE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Ewell's Division</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, superior, 9, Timid, Low Independance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">A gaming note: Ewell is not normally a timid commander, nor did he lack initiative and aggressiveness, but in this battle he seemed to be rather nervous about his army's predicament and he was working hard to get Lee´s approval to withdraw. He was also man dependent upon clear and specific instructions. In this case he seems to lack such instructions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Early's Brigade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Brig. Gen. Jubal A. Early, superior, 8, Head Strong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">13th Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 Smoothbore</span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> Musket, Rebel Yell, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">25th Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 Smoothbore</span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> Musket, Rebel Yell, Pour it on, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">31st Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 Rifled</span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> Musket, Rebel Yell, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">44th Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 Smoothbore</span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> Musket, Rebel Yell, Pour it on, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">49th Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 6 Shot 3 Morale 4 Stamina 3 Rifled</span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> Musket, Rebel Yell, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">52nd Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Hth 4 Shot 2 Morale 4 Stamina 2 Smoothbore</span><span style="-en-paragraph: true; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7"> Musket, Rebel Yell, Pour it on, </span><span style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">First Fire</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">58th Va. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Col. Henry Forno, average, 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">In our game the Union was handled by my two Miniature Mayhem compatriots Ulf and Pål. Facing them(and posing as Cofederates) was Michael, Søren and Andy. On the side cheering whomever he felt needed it we had another Michael aka Dalauppror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Just like Joe Hooker the Union side started out with a major assault on the Cofederate lines in the western wooded area. The Confederates took a massive beating, but somehow they held their ground. </span><br />
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The intial Union assult on the Confederate lines around the wooded area to the west(Objective 1)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">Jubal Early(Søren) kept his position at the wooded area to the east. Forno(Michael) moved in all his units into the western woods. Lawton(Andy) followed suit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">As the first Union assault stalled the second Union wave moved in. The Excelsior brigade ignored the battle in the western woods and moved towards Jubal Early's brigade.To counter this Jubal Early's brigade then started to move up some of his units along the flank of the Excelsior brigade. This eventually proved to be a crucial move.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The battle turn into a situation were the brigades of Forno and Lawton was facing the bulk of the Union forces. For quite some time it looked as if the Union forces would break through Forno's brigade. If that would have happened the Confederates would have been flanked and the Union would at least have won a minor victory. Forno's brigade took quite a lot of casualties. </span><br />
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<i>The Excelsior Brigade is moving in - this is the second Union attack wave against the first objective</i></div>
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<i>The Excelsior Brigade is slugging it out in the Woods. The trees have been removed in order to make the situation playable.</i></div>
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<i>Another shot of the previous situation. Please note that one Union unit is about to flank the southern edge of the Confederate line. If this attack would have succesful, and if Lawton´s Brigade hadn´t arrived in time this would have led to a Confederate disaster.</i></div>
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<i>The Height of the Battle, in this situation all was in the balance, though if looking carefully to top of the picture one can see Confederates moving up on the Left flank of the Union line. This would be the thing that tipped the balance.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;" title="Page 7">The Excelcior brigade moved up a fairly large battery of artillery along the road leading towards the eastern wood and the second objective. Somewhere near the wooded hill in the northern part of the battlefield they encounter several Confederate units. This was a risky situation for both parts. Getting pounded by the battery would lead to a fire storm with the Union player throwing dices against any single unit nearby. Storming the battery straight on was not an option. However the Confederate player choose to sacrifice a unit in order to let others sneak past the battery. After all the battery could not reach units moving in the woods. Eventually a unit managed to open fire on the battery from the flank. The battery was now easy prey. With the loss of the battery all chances for a continued Union advance was gone. The game was over and the Union had lost this battle.</span><br />
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<i>The Situation towards the end of the game. The Union now has quite a lot of artillry close to the Confederate line.</i></div>
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<i>The move that ended the game</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We keep on working our own Musket Mayhem rules and in this context the “Siege of Vienna project” continues. I bought some ruined walls at Salute this year. The main idea was to create the walls of Vienna…sort of. During the siege the walls were indeed more or less torn down and much of the fighting took place among the rubble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When there is a wall or some kind of fortification involved then game balance becomes an issue. In our first game we just ran a straight forward game with two forces of equal size. In order not to give the “defender” a major advantage both sides deployed on roughly equal distance from the wall. The idea is to create a situation in which the attacking side has already breeched the wall and the defender rushes to stem the tide. The Austrians usually played the defenders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We played that kind of set up a few times. Usually it ended in a draw or a slight success for the defender. In our last game we opted for a situation in which the defender started with a smaller force and later on would receive reinforcements The reinforcements could also, given a bad die, be canceled. </span>The final game was of course the most balanced scenario. The reinforcements did not show up and the Turks almost won the day. The Austrians were saved by the bell.<br />
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<i>The board without the minis. This is supposed to be the outer defence works of Vienna.</i></div>
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<i>Enemy at the gates! The Turks are comming!!</i></div>
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<i>The defenders are rshing towards the breeched wall.</i></div>
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The Vienna 1683 project continues
After learning few harsh lessons trying to defeat Turkish opponents using mainly infantry I decided to field some more cavalry. You can read about these bungled attempts to save Vienna in the last posting. So I painted up some Polish Winged Hussars.<br />
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Now you may ask if one field these last knights of Europe side by side German/Austrian Infantry? The history books actually says yes. The Poles lacked infantry so they had rely on musketeers from the German Empire i for fire support. The Winged Hussars also launched a number of smaller attacks prior to the main effort, thus one can readily field them in a minor skirmish. Reconnaissance by sucidal attacks seemed to have occurred a few times Involving these heavily cavalry men.<br />
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By now we are well on our way with our new theatre of war - Vienna 1683. We have painted up a Turkish and an Imperial German/ Austrian force.</div>
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The historcal events these games are basen upon took place in 1683. The Turks Siege Vienna and a relief force was sent from the rest of the German empire(and Poland) to break the Siege. IT all culminated with the battle of Kahlenberg on the 12th of September 1683. The Turks were utterly defeated and the siege was lifted. The battle of Kahlenberg was also one of European history's greatest cavalry battles. Especially the Polish contribution consisted of large contingents of cavalry. The perhaps best known part of this contribution was a force of Winged hussars - the last armoured knights of Europe.<br />
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In our games thus far we have had two very different armies pitted against each other. One highly mobile(the Turks) and one that relies more on cohesion and fire power(the Austrians). If the Austrians stick together and first delivers a coordinated volley the result is often devastating on the other side. If the Austrians fight in piece meal then the execellent close combat fighting abilities of the Turkish side turn the whole Austrian effort into Shish-kebab.<br />
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The ambition of the Miniature Mayhem team is to create a set of rules that would span from the late 1600 century to the mid 1800. The name given to these rules is Musket Mayhem. Unfortunately we have to change the name eventually, since name may already been used for a gaming app on IOS.<br />
A slight change of the otters and the addition of an extra word might do the trick. Since the project is still in development we will not make any name changes just yet.</div>
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When changing theatre we have to consider amendmens to these rules in order to make the rules fit into a new situation. After all the ambition is is to create a set of rules that somehow mirrors the general themes of musket combat prior to the advent of rifle dominance. The Turks are given very<br />
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<b>The Scenario "Defend the Hills"</b><br />
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<i>The field of battle. Two hills in front of an Austrian village</i></div>
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<i>The Austrians deploy with the heavy cavalry defending the flank</i></div>
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<i>The heavy cavalry was the key to defend the flank. They soon got caught up with other tasks....and the Austrian defence fel apart</i></div>
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<i>The Austrians retreat in order to stage working defensive line...</i></div>
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In our games to this date most battles have been won by the Turk. The Austrians have failed to coordinate their efforts. A good example is the game that took place last week. The game situation are as follows. The Austrians are to defend a village. In front the village there are tow hills. A third of the Austrian command are supposed to be deployed by the hills, the rest in the village. The Turks arrives on the short side of the table on the opposite side seen from the village. It is essential for the Austrian player to swiftly move up the main force to the two hills in order to form single cohesive force, if they are to stand a chance against the Osmans. Another alternative would be to let the lone third abandon the hills and move to the village. The later alternative is punished by the victory conditions of the game. The initial order for the Austrians is to hold the hills or suffer victory points. However one loses victory points if one looses units. Thus the Austrian player has to make an important decision. In our game the Austrian tried the first alternative. Unfortunately the force in the village got stalled and the defends of the hills deployed a bit too exposed. It ended in major disaster and the game was clear Turkish victory. The hill defenders got mauled instantly and the slow main force could not turn the tide. Instead they ended up in an other debacle - they got flanked. The high mobility of the the Turks makes this a tough scenario for the Austrians. </div>
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The scenario itself is a good one borrowed from one of the scenario books of CS Grant. However we need to do few adjustments in order to make the scenario work for this particular theatre of war. The Austrian players( they were two in this game, among them yours truly) also need to rethink their basic tactics until next time. More games are to follow.....</div>
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Jeppanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103629393643258421noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-34234088304389942432017-02-19T18:43:00.003+01:002017-02-20T19:16:03.787+01:00Vienna 1683 Playtest: Capturing the Village<br />
Musket Mayhem is our home-grown set of rules that a few of the club members are developing. Several previous posts on this blog have featured these rules already, and they are still far from finished, but we're getting there.<br />
Here's a short AAR from one of our test games in a campaign using our new Austrian and Ottoman Turk armies set during the Great Turkish War, culminating in the siege of Vienna in 1683. This was the last major effort by the Ottoman Empire to conquer Austria. Some more historical background can be found here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Turkish_War" target="_blank">The Great Turkish War</a> and here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna" target="_blank">Vienna 1683</a>.<br />
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The armies of the period were very colourful and the campaign of 1683 involved military units from all over Europe and the Middle East.<br />
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In this scenario, my Ottomans are attacking Jeppan's Austrian village. The village is protected by a small wall, not proper fortifications in game terms, and defended by a small garrison.<br />
To complicate matters for the Turks, the Austrians have dispatched a relief force to aid their garrison. The Ottomans arrive at the village at the same time as the Austrian relief force. So the scenario is a race. Can the garrison hold off the attackers long enough for the relief force to arrive?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ottoman Siege Pioneer storming party supported by archers advance on the village</td></tr>
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In Musket Mayhem, the forces represent a roughly battalion-sized force with some support. In this scenario both sides had the same amount of army points, but the Austrian force was divided between the garrison and the relief force.<br />
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<b>Austrian Garrison</b><br />
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<li>2 Units of Musketeers</li>
<li>1 Unit of Light Musketeers (Skirmishers)</li>
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<li>1 Unit of Cuirassiers</li>
<li>2 Units of Musketeers</li>
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The relief force included the Austrian C-in-C, while the 2-in-Command led the garrison.<br />
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<li>3 Units of Janissaries (primarily musketeers, but also close combat assault troops)</li>
<li>1 Unit of Siege Pioneer storming party (armed with melee weapons, pistols and grenades only)</li>
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<li>1 Unit of Kapiqulu Spahis (Armoured Elite cavalry)</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Austrian relief force on their way to intercept the Ottomans and save their comrades in the village. The Austrian commander is acccompanied by his pet pig. Who knows why? Odd people, the Austrians.......</td></tr>
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The Ottomans had to have more units inside the village than the Austrians did before game end to win. The Austrians win by preventing this. Game length was 10 turns.<br />
The village was on the Ottomans' left. The Austrian garrison deployed next to the village, while the relief force entered from the right flank. <br />
My Ottomans could enter all along the long table edge. I chose to enter the infantry and the artillery opposite the village while the cavalry entered on right flank.<br />
Our plan was to delay the advance of the Austrian relief force with the cavalry while the infantry rushed for the village. Not awfully subtle, admittedly. Bur if it works.....<br />
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Opposite the village, the Ottoman advanced as quickly as possible towards the village. The Austrian garrison wasn't terribly lucky with their command rolls and advanced towards the wall at less than full speed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The local Austrian garrison rushes to man the improvised defences before the Ottoman assault hits.</td></tr>
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On the Ottoman right flank the cavalry advanced towards the Austrian relief force, which responded by deploying some of the infantry into firing line. This gives awesome firepower, but slows movement.<br />
Seeing this, the Ottoman cavalry commander wisely turned aside and sought cover behind a hill. The Tatar light horse is very fast and rushed out to skirmish against the Austrian cuirassiers.<br />
The cuirassiers charged the Tatars and actually managed to catch their opponents.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Austrian cuirassiers valiantly charge into the Ottomans' Tatar allies to clear the way for the Austrian infantry to reach the village. They inflict heavy casualties on the Tatars, but their reckless charge have carried them deep into the Ottoman force.....</td></tr>
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The cuirassiers' rode down a large number of Tatars. But their successful charge had a downside in that the cuirassiers were now stuck in melee in the midst of the ottoman main force....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Austrian cuirassiers are trapped as the Turkish Spahis charge in to relieve their Tatar comrades. The Turkish artillery struggle to keep up with the rapid advance.</td></tr>
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At the same time the ottoman infantry had advanced very rapidly towards the village and were threatening to rush over the wall before the Austrians could deploy to defend it properly. My Janissaries were very lucky and got a 'Force March' tactical card that allowed them to advance even quicker than normally possible. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The climax of the fight. The Janissary assault crashes into the austrian units manning the village perimeter before the defenders have time to form a proper fighting line. Will the Janissaries' ferocity in close combat be enough to overcome the Austrian musketeers protected by the wall? The Janissary commander is 'leading' his troops from a safe position in the rear. The Pascha will have to discuss that with him later.....</td></tr>
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The end came very quickly indeed. The Ottoman cavalry charged into the ongoing cavalry melee in support of their Tatar comrades. The Austrian cuirassiers hung on grimly but were suffering heavy casualties, while the rest of the Austrian relief force were still much too far away.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the decisive attack. The Austrian musketeers are overrun as the Janissaries flood into the village and win the game. The Austrian relief force was too slow, and failed to stop the headlong charge of the Turks.</td></tr>
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At the same time the Janissaries charged into contact before the Austrian garrison had organized a proper line to resist them. The Ottoman Pioneer storming party was not able to contact the enemy at the same time, but would have been able to provide a second attack wave.<br />
In the event, the Janissary charge was successful and both of the defending Austrian units were eliminated. They did manage to eliminate one of the three Janissary units, but this was not enough. A lone Austrian musketeer unit was left facing two surviving Janissary units inside the village. <br />
And with that the game was over with an Ottoman win.<br />
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The rules worked well, we think. But the scenario needs a little tweaking to give the defender's relief force a better chance of making it to the village in time. In this instance, they really did not have much chance to accomplish much.<br />
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<br />Tabletop Gamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09727027771844150890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-43983253593932802542017-01-25T23:49:00.001+01:002017-01-27T13:32:02.464+01:00Cavalry Battle in the EastLast week we got together at the club to play a game celebrating the imminent release of the Pikeman's Lament rules.<br />
If you've read this blog before, it will probably not come as a huge surprise that it was part of our ongoing club campaign set in the Swedish-Polish War in the 1620s.<br />
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This time, we were a total of 6 players with 3 on the Swedish side and 3 on the Polish side. This game was intended as a cavalry battle, so only mounted troops and commanded shot units were allowed. Each player could use 12 army points. This meant that each player had 2 or 3 units to run.<br />
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As usual I fielded my Pikeman's Lament officer, Henrik the Hammer. This time he was at the head of a unit of Aggressive Elite Gallopers. I also used a unit of cuirassiers (Trotters in game terms) and a unit of commanded shot.<br />
The other two commands on the Swedish side each consisted of 3 units of Aggressive Gallopers. One of Swedes and one of Scots mercenaries.<br />
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The Polish force consisted of a Flemish mercenary command with two Cuirassiers (Elite Trotters) and two commands of tatars with a mix of Trotters and skirmishing light cavalry (Dragoons in game terms)<br />
In this game the victory conditions involved controlling as many of 3 objectives as possible for as long as possible. On the Swedish right flank, there was an objective in a village, while the centre had an objective on a hill.On the left there was a bridge that was also an objective.<br />
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As the Swedish force consisted almost entirely of Aggressive Gallopers who will automatically attempt to charge the enemy if these are in range, our tactics were simple: Rush the enemy at the first opportunity and hope that superior close combat ability will be enough to win the day.<br />
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On the Polish side the Tatar light horse skirmished in an attempt to wear down the Swedish cavalry while avoiding close combat, while their Trotters (Flemish Cuirassiers and Tatar heavy horse) relied on pistol fire to do the same.<br />
In this the Flemish and Tatars were largely successful.<br />
The Swedes quickly won control of the objective in the village, while the Flemish took the bridge. That left the central hill objective, and the fighting was most intense there.<br />
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The Flemish and Tatars managed to use their firepower and skirmishing to weaken the Swedish cavalry before the Swedes could get into close combat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The notorious Flemish Mercenaries approach the bridge. </td></tr>
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Repeated Swedish charges all along the line did weaken the Tatars, but the Swedish cavalry suffered even worse and gradually lost several units.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The initial Swedish charge inflicts some losses on the Tatars, but is eventually repulsed with even greater losses to the Swedes. Darn....</td></tr>
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The Swedish cavalry then made a concerted charge at the centre hill, but was eventually forced off it with heavy losses.<br />
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Eventually, the Swedish cavalry only had a couple of units still at reasonable strength. In a desperate final attempt to retrieve the situation Henrik charged the hill at the head of his personal unit of elite cavalry. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The climax of the battle. The Tatars have secured the hill, but the Swedish cavalry prepares a final charge</td></tr>
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In a fine display of great bravery (if not terribly good thinking) Henrik's wild charge managed to wipe out one of the Tatar units on the hill, and then continued straight into another Tatar foe. Taking him ever deeper into the enemy ranks....<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henrik the Hammer charges the Tatars. it is the last attempt to turn the tide...</td></tr>
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Courageously, Henrik's Västgöta cavalry smashed this second Tatar unit as well. Unfortunately this had depleted this last combat-worthy Swedish unit severely and left it stranded among a great number of enemy.<br />
Amazingly, it managed to survive some Tatar shooting, but the last survivors fell when the wily Tatars lured them into some bad going.<br />
So this was indeed a Swedish defeat, although Henrik claims that it was a moral victory for him personally....<br />
And yes, Henrik did survive, although he was wounded. He will recover in time for the next battle, though......<br />
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As ever, this was another fun game of Pikeman's Lament.<br />
<br />Tabletop Gamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09727027771844150890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-75306484009417775912017-01-11T19:00:00.001+01:002017-01-11T22:50:11.747+01:00The Siege of Vienna 1683: The Forces of the Sultan<br />
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I now have enough Ottoman Turkish figures to actually play some games of our home grown Musket Mayhem rules as well as for the upcoming Pikeman's Lament rules from Osprey. <br />
There are now 3 units of Janissaries, 2 units of provincial cavalry and an artillery piece. There are also a few commanders.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A unit of Janissaries with cavalry in reserve.</td></tr>
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Most of the figures I've chosen would work for just about any Turkish campaign from mid-late 1500s and well into the 1700s.<br />
But to begin with, we are aiming at the campaigns culminating in the siege of Vienna in 1683. We chose this particular campaign as it is well documented, very dramatic and involved lots of different nationalities. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Janissary commander in front of his men. </td></tr>
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During this campaign there was not just the siege of Vienna itself, but also a lot of raids and maneuvers by both sides with many smaller sized actions over a wide area as the Turks advanced to start the siege operation. Then there was more raids and skirishes as the Allied armies marched to relieve the siege.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the Janiisaries</td></tr>
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This period lends itself to lots of painting and modelling. In this campaign alone there were not just Turks and Austrians taking part. There were also various German states (Würtenberg and Bavaria, etc), Poles, Hungarians and Tatars.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire Turk force. But some reinforcements have yet to come....</td></tr>
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There are still a few units to add. I will add a unit of Kapiqulu Spahis and a couple of irregular infantry units, for example.Tabletop Gamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09727027771844150890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-27648717355558831192017-01-08T20:33:00.002+01:002017-01-08T20:34:12.103+01:00Siege of Vienna 1683, The Forces of the Empire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time to show some more units for the upcoming Siege of Vienna project. The major battle of this campaign was the battle of Kaltenberg, a smashing victory for the Imperial forces. The German Emperor for once managed to call on his vasalls and they did what the Emperor asked them to do - defend the Empire. The bulk of this force comprised of German units or the different principalities of the empire. The largest contingents came from Austria, Bavaria and Saxony. An allied Polish force was also present. So whenbuilding an Anti-Turkish force one have to consider which units to build first. I have started with Austrians. I do wish to utterly defeat my adversary(you can see his evil minions in the last posting on this blog). Thus I do need some pikes and heavy cavalry. I might need some lighter cavalry units, but I have bought any suitable minis for that......a few decisions has to be made in a near future.<br />
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Imperial Austrian Curassiers, a unit know as "Graf Palfly-Erdöly"<br />
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<br />Jeppanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103629393643258421noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-28797447104142251392017-01-04T23:31:00.000+01:002017-01-04T23:36:35.673+01:00The Shape of Things to Come: The Turks Are Coming!<br />
As Jeppan posted a little while ago, we are working on a project covering the campaigns culminating with the Siege of Vienna in 1683 for our home-grown Musket Mayhem rules.<br />
I will be doing the Turks, with Jeppan covering the Austrians, Germans and probably some Poles as well.<br />
This is still very much work in progress, and I have quite a few figs still to paint, but here are a few pics of the first batch of completed units.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Turkish Pascha issuing orders in front of the provincial cavalry and some Janissaries</td></tr>
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The figures are a mix of Warlord Games and The Assault Group. <br />
The Turkish cavalry in these pictures are intended to depict the provincial turkish cavalry (Delis, Timariot Spahis, or similar). The figures are actually slightly converted 'Arab Light Cavalry' from Warlord Games.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A closer look at the turkish provincial cavalry and Janissaries</td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>The Janissaries are a mix. Some are from The Assault Group, with most from of Warlord Games' box of 'Janissary Infantry'. <br />
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I will add a couple more units of Janissaries and some Guard cavalry (Kapuqulu Spahis), some irregular infantry (Sekban, Basi-Bazouk, Sappers or similar low-grade). There will also be an artillery piece.<br />
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<br />Tabletop Gamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09727027771844150890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-29506067414172204842016-12-23T12:45:00.003+01:002016-12-23T15:54:59.973+01:00Playtest - the Battle of Plataea with l'Art de la GuerreEarlier this week a few members of the club got together to continue playtesting the l'Art de la Guerre rules. Myself and Gunnar have tried it a couple of times using my 15mm Byzantines and Arabs. Both times we've been quite pleased with the rules and had very enjoyable games.<br />
So this time we decided to try the rules with Gunnar's 6mm Greeks & Persians. These armies are very different from the Arabs and Byzantines. Not to mention that I've been looking forward to seeing Gunnar's tiny guys on the table....<br />
For this game we were joined by Mark who has a 6mm collection for other historical periods.<br />
To make it a little more interesting than just lining up 'equal points' armies and slugging it out, we decided to try for a more historical battle.<br />
I chose the battle of Plataea, very much a classic encounter (more info on the battle can be found here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plataea" target="_blank">Battle of Plataea</a>).<br />
The Greek army was a rather loose alliance of city states. We only used the parts that saw extensive fighting, The Spartans (under the nominal C-in-C Pausanias), the Tegeans and the Athenians.<br />
The Persians had a more coherent command structure and included a contingent of 'medizing' Greeks fighting on the Persian side against their fellow Greeks. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.....the Persian left wing with the medizing Greek hoplites along with some Persian cavalry and foot archers.</td></tr>
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I tried to use a variety of troop types in this scenario. partly to test the rules and partly to differentiate between the various contingents. For exampe, I graded the Spartans as the best spearmen possible in the rules (Heavy Spearmen, Armoured, Elite), while the Athenians were Armoured but not graded Elite. The Tegeans were graded as Heavy Spearmen but neither Armoured, nor Elite. In the game, this really did make a difference, as the Spartans shrugged of clouds of missiles. The Tegeans, on the other hand, did take quite a few casualties as they advanced on the massed Persian archers.<br />
Apart from Hoplites and a few undistinguished cavalry, the Greeks also fielded a few Peltasts and psiloi with javelins and a few archers. So the Greek army was very strong in close combat Heavy infantry, but weak in cavalry and with very limited missile capability. Mobility isn't that great either.<br />
The Persian force was more varied with numerous foot archers. Then there were medium spearmen and foot skirmishers.<br />
The Persians also had good quality Persian Noble cavalry (heavy cavalry, Elite archers) as well as light horse archers. The only really good Persian infantry was the Immortals (mixed medium swordsmen and bowmen, Elite) and 'medizing' Greek Hoplites from city states siding with the Persian empire.<br />
With the exception of the 'medizing' Hoplites almost the entire Persian army was armed with bows and javelins and could launch massive volleys of missiles. But close combat was a different story. As the Persians had more and better cavalry and skirmishers, they were also more mobile than the Greeks.<br />
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In our refight, I was playing the Greeks, while Gunnar and Mark ran the Persians. <br />
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<b>Deployment</b><br />
The Athenians faced the 'medizing' Greek Hoplites on the Greek right wing, while the Spartans met the Persian elite Immortals in the centre. On the Greek left wing the Tegeans faced a Persian command of massed foot archers supported by a lot of skirmishers and cavalry.<br />
This broadly corresponded to the historical deployment, although a lot of the Persian deployment is uncertain.<br />
In our game (as in the real battle) the Greek Hoplites were not numerous enough to cover the entire battlefield and had to rely on skirmishers to cover gaps in the line and secure the flanks.<br />
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<b>The Game</b><br />
As in the historical battle, the Greeks immediately started advancing to close with the enemy as soon as possible. I was fully aware of the awesome Persian firepower and the need to get into close combat as quickly as possible.<br />
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As the Greeks trundled forward, and into range of the Persian archers the difference that armour an Elite rating makes quickly became apparent. The Spartans and Athenians were hardly affected, but the Tegeans started to take a beating from Mark's massed Persian archers. The Persian dice were not kind as the Greeks rolled just well enough to escape being hit again and again. <br />
I suppose the Greek pre-battle religious ceremonies and sacrifices went down well with Zeus, Ares and the rest of the gang up on Mount Olympos.......<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The climax of the battle is near as the Spartan Hoplites charge the Persian Immortals and Guard cavalry. Persian archery proved ineffective against the armoured Spartans. This is going to hurt.......</td></tr>
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So both the Spartans and Athenians made it into charge distance of the Persian line in good shape. On the way forward the Athenians had even chased some light Persian cavalry off the table.<br />
But the Persian Immortals facing the Spartans were also Elite troops, while the Athenians were facing the 'medizing' Hoplites who were just as disciplined and armoured as they were themselves.<br />
The only urgent problem from a Greek point-of-view now was the Tegeans who were also advancing but were taking a beating from the Persian archers.<br />
Still, things were looking quite good.<br />
The Persians were a bit worried though, as the Greek Hoplites got closer and closer despite all those arrows shot at them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile on the Greek left wing, the Tegean Greeks are approaching the Persian right wing. This Persian force consisted almost exclusively of archers. The archers managed to cause quite a lot of damage to the Tegean Hoplites as these were not as heavily armoured as their Spartans and Athenian partners.</td></tr>
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The Greeks braved yet another missile volley (escaping damage again with some very lucky die rolls). And then the Spartans and Athenians finally charged into the Persian line...<br />
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Both commanders personally lead their men into battle, fighting in the front rank. No less can be expected of a Spartiate and a Persian Noble, of course ...<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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Spartan Victory! The Persian Guard cavalry are routed by the ferocious Spartan charge and Mardonius is killed. The Immortals also take heavy casualties. The Spartans did have an advantage, but also had a lot of luck. </div>
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The Spartans start by rolling extremely well in the fight against Mardonius' Guard cavalry. The Elite Persian Nobles are crushed in the very first clash, killing Mardonius. This is devastating as it saps Persian morale and also hampers their command-and-control. This trend continues with the Spartans making short work of the Immortals as well with some more good die rolls on top of their superior armour.<br />
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On the Athenian wing the results are less dramatic, but the 'medizing' Greek renegades on the Persian side are ground down in a couple of rounds of intense fighting.<br />
The same is true in the centre, where the Spartans continue to wipe out the Persian Immortals. <br />
At this point the Tegeans still have not managed to advance into the Persians facing them. But it does not matter, as the overall Persian losses, and the loss of Mardonius in the first clash, is enough to cause the entire Persian army tocollapse and run.<br />
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<b>Conclusions</b><br />
This was a very enjoyable battle that we were able to play in about 2.5 hours even though we are all new to these rules. We used the 'normal' 200pts game scale in the rule book.<br />
I am sure we missed some rule somewhere, but that's our own fault... The l'Art de la Guerre rules are well written and come complete with a huge variety of army lists in a large book. <br />
Overall the games we've had so far have all had a good feel to them. Among other things, they do not focus too much on the exact hardware the soldiers are using, but more on what their tactical role is and how good they are at it. Also command and control is very important and you do get major advantages from keeping the units together in coordinated lines. They also are forgiving when it comes to basing the troops, so we can easily use our existing DBA/DBM and FOG armies.<br />
And playing this battle in 6mm really did give a sense of a major battle between massive armies.<br />
We will certainly play some more games with these rules. <b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
Some more pics from the game can be found on Mark's blog (<a href="http://wargameinsvergie.blogspot.se/2016/12/ancient-battle.html" target="_blank">Wargaming in Sverige!</a>).<br />
<br />Tabletop Gamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09727027771844150890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-73375150457527114872016-12-11T16:22:00.002+01:002016-12-11T16:26:29.350+01:00The Shape of things to come, The Siege of Vienna 1683<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Trondheim Project will be the main project for some time. However a few steps have been taken to start up a new project for Musket Mayhem. In a not a far distant future we will start up a campaign based on the Sige of Vienna. The idea of having western(Austrian/German) troops facing Turks is too tempting to let it be. One can also add Polish Winged Hussars. I had some old Warfare minis left in my staches. They formed the first unit - Graf Reuss Plauen Infantry Regiment. I then bought some additional Front Rank miniatures. They formed yet a unit of Reuss-Plauen and in the works we have Graf Leslie. The history behind these units are not that clear to me. Well Graf Leslie is obviously a unit formed by a ancestor of a Brittish mercenary. There were a few such individuals in the Austrian nobility. There is no set time schedule for this coming project.....I will just add few units now and then. There is still quite a lot of research to do before this can be turned into a game.<br />
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<br />Jeppanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103629393643258421noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-78426147067580690682016-12-04T19:43:00.001+01:002016-12-04T19:43:39.880+01:00Great Northen War, The Trondheim Campaign 1718, Abduction and Arson<div>
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<i>Reverend Bödvar Pastorius and his wife Else-Trine- son to be kidnapped by the wicked Swedes</i></div>
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<b>Abduction and Arson- is that really legal?</b><br />
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-Yes, if it is done in 28mm and with slight Christmas feel to it...<br />
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We have now been able to run a few games all set in our wintery scenery. It all has indeed a certain Christmas feel to it. The Trondheim campaign 1718 has been quite useful to flesh out our rules and do the minute adjustments here and there in the game mechanics. </div>
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Recently we have tried out two different scenarios. First we have the abduction. The Swedes trying to seize control over the hearths and minds of the locals knows that control of information and propaganda is best done within the local churches. This leads them into the idea to kidnap the local Lutheran priest, Reverend Bödvar Pastorius. The Swedish army attacks the farmstead of the Reverend in order to aduct the man of the cloth. As always the Danish/Norwegian army is nearby and they intend to stop this. A battle is soon to be talking place around the farmstead. </div>
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<i>The game board in our first game in this report - the abduction of the local Priest. To the right help is on it´s way. The forces of the mighty Colonel Castrullenfjord is here to stop the wicked Swedes from kidnapping the Reverend. The Swedes are deploying to the left in this picture...</i></div>
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<i>Danish/Norwegian foces...Infantry, Grenadiers and dragoons...and most useful piece of ordonnance</i></div>
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<i>Fenno-Swedish forces(Åbo-län Infantry) are bothering the local peasantry....</i></div>
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More Swedes...Jamtlanders on the move towards the farmstead of the Reverend....</div>
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<i>Both sides advance towards the main building of the farmstead...the Reverend is not amused...</i>.</div>
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The main battle took place around the main building of the farmstead. The Swedes had troubles intially to get their units going and the Norwegians were quick to form a line. When the Swedes closer in a volley of lead was released upon them. The Norwegians then managed to seize the two minor objectives nearby and it looked as if the Swedes were about to fail. In the final staged of the game the Swedes managed to capture the holy man, but at a price that was quite steep. The fight was a draw.</div>
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<i>A new feature on the gaming table... hard hitting Swedish cavalry(Nyland Cavalry Regiment)...</i></div>
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<i>Colonel Castrullenfjord directs the troops....towards the Swedish main thrust...</i></div>
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<i>The gun is deployed ...ready to fire canister towards the Swedes...but shouldn't the Norwegians try to take the Reverend to safety rather than to blow his cottage in to smithereens?!... </i></div>
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<i>...and why do the infantry form a line in front of the cannon?</i></div>
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<i>The Swedes are closing in on the Reverend...</i></div>
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<i>A rather reckless canister bombardment stopped the first attempt to kidnap the Reverend....by grace of the All Mighty the Reverend survived the Norwegian Canister blast....but then the Jamtlanders moved in.... This was the end of the game...a draw actually...much due to the losses on the Swedish side...</i></div>
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In the second game the forces on each side was identical. The main Norweigan objective this time was the Bell tower. The Norweigans sees the enemy approaching. Thus they want to sound the Bell in order to call out a warning, and perhaps get some reenforcements. The Norweigans wins this game if they reach the Bell tower and manage to stay put for three consecutive turns. Then the bell sounds and they have accomplished theirs objective. The Swedes on the other hand are intent on doing some arson. If they spend one turn by a house the house will go up in flames if the Swedish player rolls 4-6 on a d6. The hintermost house is the main objective for the Swedes. Burning the other houses are minor objectives.</div>
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The Swedes managed to torch at least one building. The Norweigans managed to reach the bell tower quite fast. Then the fighting got serious. The Swedes staged a number of close quarter assaults. Bothe sides to quite a lot of casualties. In the end the Norweigan army broke first.<br />
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From our second game...Fenno-Swedes(Osthrobothians) playing with matches...the result is a torched building...a mighty Christmas Candle..</div>
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<i>Also from our second game...the Norwegians trying to reach their objective....the Bell Tower..</i></div>
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<i>The last attempt by the Norwegians to storm the Bell Tower...the Grenadiers are moving in...this failed and thus the Norwegians lost the second game..</i></div>
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This time we modelled the battle after the historical Battle of Wallhof on January 7, 1626.<br />
More information can be found here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wallhof" target="_blank">Battle of Wallhof</a><br />
The Swedish Army under King Gustav II Adolf has decided on an assault on the Polish army camp. This takes the Poles by surprise, but they nevertheless manage to form line of battle behind a gently sloping ridge.<br />
The Swedes approach the camp in battle formation and the battle became a fight for the ridge line. In the historical battle both sides´ forces consisted largely of cavalry, and we tried to portray this in our refight, although we probably used too much infantry on the Swedish side.<br />
In the historical battle the Swedes scored a major victory and for the first time the reformed Swedish cavalry managed to beat the formidable Polish cavalry with the support of detached bodies of musketeers integrated into the cavalry formations.<br />
For our refight Dalauppror, who also designed the scenario, had built a really nice looking ridge line using our winter terrain pieces and a winter mat.<br />
The victory conditions of the scenario were simple: force the enemy to withdraw. <br />
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Swedish Forces</h4>
Left Flank - Flemish Mercenaries, Captain van Kökkenpanne<br />
2 units Elite Trotters (Cuirassiers)<br />
1 unit Pikes<br />
2 units Shot<br />
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Centre - Scots Mercenaries, Captain Darrcounter<br />
2 units Aggressive Gallopers<br />
1 unit Pikes<br />
2 units Shot<br />
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Right Flank - Swedes, Captain Henrik the Hammer<br />
1 unit Elite Galloper<br />
1 unit Trotters<br />
1 unit Dragoons<br />
1 unit Forlorn Hope<br />
2 units Commanded Shot<br />
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Polish Forces</h4>
Left flank - Lihuanian Tatars, Rotmistrz Shere Khan<br />
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Centre - Poles, Rotmistrz Janosz Kowalski <br />
1 unit of Agressive Elite Gallopers (Hussar)<br />
2 units of Elite Gallopers (Panczerny)<br />
1 unit of Veteran Shot (Krakow)<br />
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Right Flank – German Mercenaries, Rittmeister Werner von Vögeli<br />
4 units of Elite Trotters (Cuirassiers)<br />
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Opening Moves</h4>
The Swedes moved first and basically moved forward in a line onto the slop of the ridge. On the right flank my Västgöta contingents sent the Forlorn Hope and skirmishing musketeers into the woods to prevent the Tatars from dominating the only extensive terrain providing cover.<br />
The Polish host rolled forward on their side of the ridge and sent some units up onto the top of the ridge to engage the Swedish units on the other side.<br />
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The initial part of the battle was very discouraging for the Swedes with the Flemish mercenaries suffering badly against the German mercenary Cuirassiers on the left flank. Van Kökkenpanne quickly lost the cavalry fight, but the Flemish infantry managed to remain in the fight.<br />
At the same time on the right flank my own Västgöta contingent quickly lost the Dragoons to efficient Tatar light cavalry, and repeated fire from the Musketeers and Forlorn Hope only caused minor casualties to the Tatars.<br />
The only success in the early game was the brave Pike infantry of the Scots contingent in the centre that quickly advanced up the ridge to push back the Polish musketeers and heavy cavalry.<br />
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Mid Game</h4>
Both sides hammered away at each other along the crest of the ridge. <br />
In the centre, the Scots pike were particularly prominent and destroyed the polish musketeers and beat back several cavalry charges. They were supported by the Scots cavalry counterattacked the Polish and German cavalry that were giving the remaining Flemish and the Scots musketeers a very rough time.<br />
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On the Swedish right, Henrik still had problems activating his units, but finally some of the shooting was having an effect on the Tatars.<br />
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End Game</h4>
Gradually the Polish forces were ground down by continued fire from the Swedish ranks, by the unrelenting assault by the lone Scots Pike unit and the Scots cavalry.<br />
Finally the Polish losses had mounted to such a degree that the entire army gave way and headed for home.<br />
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Unfortunately, I got so caught up in the game, that I managed to forget to take photos about half-way through the game. Sorry about that.<br />
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So while our game the battle was a Swedish victory, it was a much more even contest than in the historical battle.<br />
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Henrik “the Hammer” did not really make much of an impression, having failed any number of activation rolls. The fire of the Swedish units also had only limited effect.<br />
But somehow Henrik managed to be promoted yet again, and can now proudly call himself Major. As part of the promotion he also gained the ability “Fencing Master” giving him increased chance of winning duels.<br />
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Time to try out the classical Wagon Train Scenario. This is scenario no game rules can be without. So when we continued the work on our very own rules "Musket Mayhem" this had to tested with the rules just mentioned.<br />
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The basic outline of this scenario is that that one side is trying to protect a wagon train or a transport of some kind, moving from one end of the game board to the other. The opposing forces are trying to capture the train. Not too complicated but quite fun.<br />
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In our game the Swedish forces commanded by Colonel Jöns Von Djaefull are escorting a supply transport(consisting of a single sleigh). A third of the Swedish force is stationed at a supply depot at the other end of the game board(seen from Swedish main force). The Norwegians are trying to ambush the train and if possible capture it. As always the Norwegian side is boldly led by Colonel Castrullenfjord. Both side has 5 units each. The Swedes win if they manage to safely transport the supplies to the supply depot. The Norwegian win if they manage to stop the transport and capture the supplies.<br />
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The battlefield....most of it anyway. The Swedish supply depot is to the left of the bell tower.</div>
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<i>The Swedish supply train is on the move. The Ostrobothnians and Jämtlandians serving as close support</i></div>
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The Norwegians are moving in...unfortunately Castrullenfjord and his sub commander Flaeksnaes did not manage to get their orders trough and the Norwegian line was static for quite some time( In game terms: Snake eyes for the Norwegian player)</div>
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<i>The Norwegian left wing advanced towards the supply depot...</i></div>
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<i>A complete mess on the right flank...Dragoons making their way through the static infantry line. </i></div>
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<i>The defenders of the supply depot decided to go on the offensive....</i></div>
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<i>Soon to face the opposition on the other side of the frozen pond....a few volleys later and the Norwegians were halted....the Norwegian commander was not amused </i></div>
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Well the game was rather swift....the Norwegians got stuck and the Swedes counter attacked. The Norwegian right flank was wiped out and the left was halted. The centre manged to reach the units escorting the supply train. However after a number of rather feeble attempts to take down the Swedish pikes the Norwegian realized that they had to abort the attempt to stop the Swedish supply train.</div>
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<br />Jeppanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103629393643258421noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374284262025486867.post-13389488201386298172016-10-10T19:42:00.000+02:002016-10-10T22:09:24.531+02:00Great Northen War, Trondheim 1718, Castrullenfjord bites the dust<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Colonel Castrullenfjord bites the dust...well almost. He survived, but things did not exactly go his way.<br />
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The Danish-Norwegian army received som long awaited reinforcements - Dragoons. A small unit from the Nordenfjell Dragoons showed up on the battlefield. The units is capable of both mounted and dismounted combat. It looked spectacular, but did it pay off?<br />
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The Swedes attacked another Norwegian settlement(as usual), though the attack was expected an the Norwegians were supposed to be the more aggressive side. However the Swedish commander wasn't exactly playing a defence. Aggressive as usual the Blue and Yellow commander Colonel Jöns Von Djaefull ordered a full out counterattack. The Danish-Norwegian Commander messed up and once more his units got stacked up. What was supposed to be a offensive move turned out to be a bit too timid advance in the face of the oncoming Swedish horde.<br />
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<i>The Norwegians getting stacked once more..</i></div>
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<i>The Nordenfjell Dragoons are coming..</i></div>
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<i>Colonel Castrullenfjord trying to sort out a botched deployment....</i></div>
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<i>Colonel Jöns Von Djaevull orders a full out coordinated attack...<b>GÅ PÅ!</b></i></div>
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<i>Finns in Swedish service are closing in on the main objective....</i></div>
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<i>More Finns...</i></div>
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<i>Jämtlandians attacking....</i></div>
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<i>The Jämtlandians are closing in on their Objective....the Norwegians are forming up nearby</i></div>
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<i>The Norwegians have formed firing line...waiting for command...that came too late. The enemy reached the objective before the order came....</i></div>
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<i>Despite losses the Jämtlandians pushed through and seized the objective</i></div>
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<i>Lt Col. Fleaksnaes is trying to direct the Nordenfjell Dragoons. </i></div>
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<i>Norweigan Grenadiers are contesting the main objective....</i></div>
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<i>The enemy are a few too many and the cavalry is watching the action...the Swedes grabbed this one...</i></div>
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<i>The 1st Trondheim is trying desperately to turn the tide...they attached the Finns through the woods..</i></div>
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<i>Finally the Dragoons went into action, but by this time the Swedes had grabbed 2 out of three objectives.... this time Castrullenfjord lost...Jöns Von Djaefull won...</i></div>
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The rules are our very own Musket Mayhem- large scale skirmish rules. The development of these rules continues. We started with a rule set intended for the French-Indian War, but we have branched out to cover AWI as well and now finally the Great Northern War. The game development has been ongoing for more than a year. This was the first game were we tried the cavalry rules. We are quite pleased thus far, but there still a bit of tinkering. </div>
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<i>The Lt Colonel Vincent Fleksnaes directs the Norweigan infantry towards the Swedish menace</i></div>
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Time for another report from our ongoing Trondheim campaign. Set in the dead of winter 1718. The Swedes are slowly making their way towards Trondheim. In our last game session the Danish- Norweigans screwed up big time, and the cost for that was a defeat. The first Norweigan village fell to the dastardly Swedes and their evil Finnish minions. The Norweigan army was badly mauled by a rather unpleasant display of Gå På tactics. All that was dear and sacred in Norway was under threat. The Swedes celebrated by torching Norweigansupplies and in general way behaving badly. Now it is time to rectify this debacle for our great hero Colonel Marve Castrullenfjord.<br />
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<i>The setup of the sceond game. Norweigans to the left, Swedes to the right...</i></div>
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<i>The boxes on the sleigh was the second objective</i></div>
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The setup is similair to that of our last session. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Swedes had 4 musket infantry units and one unit of pike. One of the Swedish units had 12 figures( the Jamtland Dragoons - and yes it is a unit of foot Dragoons) the rest 10. The Norweigans had 4 musket infantry units and one unit of skirmishers. The Norweigan units had all 10 figures. The Norweigans also had a gun. </span><br />
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The 1st Tronheim Infantry forms afiring line to face the Swedish assult on the third objective</div>
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<i>The final fight around the main objective...this one the Norweigans won...</i></div>
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<b>So we finally made it! </b>The first game with the winter terrain and the miniatures painted up for the Trondheim 1718 Campaign was staged......</div>
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First a few picture before all hell broke loose....your average 18th century Scandinavian village. A nice place in all it´s snowy tranquillity. Who could suspect that the big bad from beyond the mountains are closing in.....<br />
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<i>The Village before the battle</i></div>
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<i>The local farmer doing ...uh....what farmer usally does...</i></div>
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<i>The Road into the village</i></div>
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<i>The main objective is the powder cart</i></div>
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<i>Nasty people are sneaking towards the village...the Swedes and their Swedish minions are about to do bad things to the brave Norweigans.</i></div>
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<i>The situation at the start of the game. The main objective is the cart in the centre of the village.</i></div>
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<i>The Norweigan army is on it´s way led by the brave <b>Colonel Marve Castrullenfjord</b></i></div>
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<i>The 1st National Trondheim Regiment is on it´s way....</i></div>
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<b>How we got started with this Project</b></div>
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Roughly a year ago we started to work on our very own rule set called Musket Mayhem. We begun it all with a setting in the North Americas during the French-Indian war. Then we moved on, mainly due to practical reason to the American Revolution. However we wanted something more close to home and settled for the Great Northen War. Still we wanted something even more diffrent so finally it was decided to stage possiblyone of the least known campaign of this war( at least outside Sweden and Norway) - the short winter campaign of 1718 around the city of Trondheim.<br />
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The Swedes tried to cut off Norway in the middle by talking the then significant city of Trondheim. It all failed due to the sudden and unexpected death of Charles XII in southern Norway (<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7374284262025486867">November 30th</a>). Due to bad communication the war lingered on until almost a month later until the news reach the Swedish Comander General Armfeldt. The infighting in the remains of the Swedish court led to the withdrawal of all Swedish troops in Norway. The retreat ended in a disaster since the units retreating from the Trondheim region ended up in a major blizzard in the Scandian mountains.<br />
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<i>Skirmishers in front of the infantry secures the Norweigan left flank...kind of pointless if one consider the outcome. The guys should have been more to the centre in order to play a significant role</i></div>
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<i>The Norweigan second in command <b>Lt Col Vincent Fleksnaes </b>is forming a firing line towards the incomming threat of pike armed Finns</i></div>
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In our first game a small unit of Swedes are trying to capture a Norweigan village. The objectives plays an important part in this game. The aim is to capture at least two objectives. The game ends when all objectives are captured. The winner the player that holds at least two of these objectives. The basic idea is to force he players to play aggressive. </div>
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<i>First clash by the main objective- the Norweigans manage to stop the first Swedish wave...</i></div>
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<i>Only to be mauled by the men from Hälsningland...Hälsinge Regiment enters the fight...<b>"GÅ PÅ!" </b>has been ordered...</i></div>
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<i>The Swedes are about to secure the final objective...but the Norweigans have a nasty surprise for them....a loaded cannon....</i></div>
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<i>Lt Col Fleksnaes men are closing in as well...unfortunatly the final clash was a major loss for the Norweigan side. The cannon was stormed by the Swedes before being able to fire effectively and the Swedes manged to fight off the Norweigans that remained..<b>.a Swedish victory this time....</b></i></div>
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The game was from the very start a race to capture the objectives. The Swedes moved at first swiftly towards the objective, while the Norweigans due to the poor logistical skills of the commander( your truely) got stacked. However the Norweigans soon got going and a major brawl started around the objectives. It was more close combat that actual shooting. Neither side manged to get the upper hand at first, Both sides manged to secure one objective each(there were three on the table marked by tow wooden cradles and a powder cart).</div>
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Time to introduce the Norweigan artillery. In the comming gaming campaign Trondheim 1718 the Norweigans needs a number of fortified artillery redoubts. The redoubts are stil in the works, but the artillery is ready.....well some of it at least.</div>
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This artillery piece is manned by a crew from the National Norweigan artillery. In 1718 the Norweigan artillery had red coats and purple cuffs(at least according to my main source: "Notes about the Norweigan army 1700-1720" by Daniel A Schorr). The miniatures are from Ebor miniatures and their 28mm WSS range.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The unit above is an artillery crew from the Trondheim artillery company. Most probably this was a unit that manned the fortifications around city of Trondheim itself. The uniform has almost reversed colours compared with the National artillery units. The uniform also comes awfully close to some worn by Swedish units in the same theatre of operations. The miniatures are from Reiver Castings.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">A "Hebre" - Scandinavian storage barn. The idea behind placing a barn on stilts is to keep roaming wildlife away from whatever is stored inside. The model is originally a souvenir piece that I repainted and added some minor details to it. The moose head was made from small pice of balsa wood. The platform in front of the door was reworked as well as the door. Finally I mounted the model on a piece of foam core, repainted it and added some snow flock from Game Workshop.</span></div>
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This cottage is scratch built. The design is a bit different than the last cottage I built. This one is not timbered. It is still typical for region and the period. There are still such cottages standing in parts of Scandinavia, although nowadays often painted red with white frames. The red painted cottages are typical for Scandinavia, but not very common until the mid 18th century, thus the grey colour scheme.</div>
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I have completed a few more buildings for my Trondheim project. The basic idea is to create buildings that will fit into a snowy Scandinavian enviroment. All buildings are built for 28mm miniatures. The basic design is of a generic Nordic kind. The same type of buildings can be found all over Scandinavia, especially the mid/Northen part of this region. The only exception is Denmark and the southermost part of Sweden(Scania), since those areas lacked suffcient sources of timber. One can also see similair wooden structures in parts of Russia and North America. My project has a focus on historical events that took place around 1718, but the same terrain pieces can be used for earlier as well as later periods. In this blog entry I will show off the first building of this new batch.</div>
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Here is a step by step description on how I built the timbered cottage you can see above.....<br />
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First a made a base on which to start to start making the basic structure. The base was made out of foam core. The timber was cut and placed in a similair fashion as when building a full sized timber building. The main challenge is to place the groves on the individual timber logs. There has to be certain degree of precision, otherwise the whole structure will become scewed. I began using sticks made out hard pine wood. This was a mistake. Cutting the groves proved to be a rather arduous task. The solution was to use soft balsa wood. My building is built out of balsa and pine wood, though do recommend you all to use balsa wood, unless you own a Dremel tool or something similar. </div>
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The chimney was made out of foam core. It was covered by tissue paper and model railway gravel.</div>
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The first layer of black coat. It is very important that every spot on the basic structure is covered by black base coat. If not then the unpainted spots will shine through. The next layer will be dry brushed green. Finally three shades of grey will be added. The cottage is now ready for summer use. However this is supposed to be a piece in a winter scenery. A layer of dry brushed white and snow flock will be added last.</div>
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We used the figures we've all painted for our ongoing Swedish-Polish War Campaign using the upcoming Pikeman's Lament rules.<br />
While Pikeman's Lament is a skirmish game, Tercio is intended to depict large scale actions. The Tercio rules assume that the figures are on multi-fig bases, and our existing figures are mostly on single bases or based in twos and threes. But in practice this is not really a problem as long as the centre points of the units are readily identifiable. Tercio is originally written in Spanish, but we used the English version of it.<br />
The armies in Tercio are divided into brigades, each with its own commander, all under the Control of a C-in-C.<br />
At the beginning of each turn, units are assigned orders using order cards which define what the units will attempt to do.<br />
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We decided to use a combined Swedish and Scots army vs a Polish army.<br />
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We used about 1000 pts per side, apparently a standard size game for this rules set.<br />
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Since we've only played these rules once before, we picked a straight up fight scenario and simply lined up our troops and went at it.<br />
The rules for commanders are quite extensive with many different traits that individual commanders can have. We forgot a bit of it (and probably failed to fully use our traits, even when we remembered them). Proper use of commanders and the Order cards are really crucial here. Fortunately, the whole thing is expained rather well. At the end of this game I think we had it down reasonably well.<br />
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The Swedish infantry has the best firepower in the entire game, but is not that strong in melee (which is a fair assessment, the units were smaller and had fewer pikemen, but were optimized for maximum firepower). <br />
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The Swedish/Scots plan was simple: advance the infantry to a good defensive position and use superior firepower to blast anything that moves close enough. The cavalry was strictly a reserve/flank protection force.<br />
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Almost immediately the artillery on both sides opened fire, but to little effect. The Polish heavy artillery did score some hits later in the game, but the Scots light artillery had very little effect.<br />
On the Swedish/Scots right flank, the Polish infantry trudged forward and engaged the Scots in a musketry duel. The Polish superior numbers began to tell almost immediately and the Scots infantry began to back away slowly.<br />
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An initial assault by Polish Pancerni lancers fail to make any impression on the scots infantry and the Poles fall back behind the Hussars. As it turned out, the Hussars were made of sterner stuff.....</div>
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In the centre, the Polish heavy cavalry moved forward as well. One of the Pancerni lancer units tried to move against the Swedish flank but was bogged down in bad terrain and subjected to surprisingly ineffective shooting while the second pancerni was forced to retire after failing a morale check.<br />
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The Hussars proved to be absolutely devastating as they charged and routed the Scots infantry unit and then went on to do the same to the Scots Curassiers. Ouch.<br />
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And then came the deciding moment. The victorious Hussars had advanced past the flank of one of the Swedish infantry squadrons. If the Hussars were to manage a flank charge, the entire Swedish position would likely collapse. If, on the other hand, the Swedish infantry could react in time, the Hussars would be at a disadvantage when fighting the Swedish pike & shot formation frontally. Real nail-biting moments.... Both sides were aware of the crucial nature of this combat and comitted their respective C-in-Cs.<br />
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The climax of the battle. The Hussars have destroyed the Scots Curassiers, and are just about to charge one of the Swedish infantry Squadrons. If the Swedes manage to react, they will be able to pivot and face the ferocious Polish lancers, if not the charge will git the Swedish flank. Very tense moment here.....</div>
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As it turned out, the Swedish infantry (which has very good Discipline rating in the game) did manage to react in time and promptly destroyed the polish Hussars, killing the Polish C-in-C in the process. It could easily have gone the other way, though.<br />
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Victory! The Swedes roll quite lucky Dice, while the Poles roll abysmal ones (not to mention being tired from the previous two combats). The awesome Hussars meet their match in th eiron discipline of the Swedish infantry. The Hussars are completely destroyed and the Polish C-in-C is killed in the front rank. </div>
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With the loss of the Polish C-in-C, the Swedes were suddenly in the lead as in this scenario the C-in-C is Worth a lot of victory points and the Poles are suddenly very close to losing the game....<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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In the following turn, the Poles failed to cause much damage to the Swedes and Scots, which meant that they lost the game as the Swedish victory point total was large enough to bring about the end of the game at that point.<br />
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This was a very enjoyable game, and we got to use our beloved 30 years war figs in the different setting in of a large battle rather than a skirmish. The Tercio rules also worked well. <br />
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The movement and the results of the various combats all seemed quite plausible, leadership is very important. And the game did not last overly long, even with allthree of us new to the rules and having to look things up in the rule book quite often.<br />
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Time to add a few more units to the rooster. Thus far I have mainly painted and presented Norweigan Units of the 1718 Trondheim Campaign. In a wargame there has to be some kind of opposition. The Swedish army trying to capture Trondheim in 1718 was called "The Army of Jämtland". It consisted of units from northen Sweden and from Finland. The unit above is despite it's name an infantry unit. It was recruited in the Swedish province of Jämtland(This is the Swedish region closest to the theatre of operations near and around Trondheim). The reason why they were called Dragoons, though they lacked horses, is unclear. There may once have been an intetion to give them mounts(sometimes prior to this conflict). The equipment and uniform issued to this unit is also a bit unclear. I have depicted them with grey coats, though some sources state that they should have been blue in 1718. The miniatures are a mix of Reiver Castings, Ebor and Warfare miniatures.</div>
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This is a Fenno-Swedish unit raised around present day Turku, Finland. The uniform this unit wore in 1718 is indeed a bit odd. Swedish units seldon wore green coats.Green was the most common colour of the main enemy Russia. However one can suspect that towards the end of the Great Northen War one had to used whatever was available, dyes were no exception. The minis are all with one execption from Warfare miniatures. The Sergeant in the background is from Ebor.</div>
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I have now completed a piece that will be most useful for big skirmish scenarios. The typical wagon train scenario is one of the most common wargaming scenarios out there, and quite fun too. So when putting together snowy terrain, for a frosty winter campaign, one definitly need some transports that can be raided( or defended) during a game. Now ordinary wagons used during the winter tend to bog down. Thus I do need horse sleighs. Now they are not easy to come by. I am not aware of any manufacturer out there that makes 28mm horse drawn sleighs. So if things are hard to find then one have to build things from scratch.<br />
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Using wooden spatulas and balsa wood I created a basic Scandinavian style horse drawn sleigh. The piece was put together using PVA glue. The basic model was then mounted on a piece of MDF.<br />
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The driver was created with left over pieces from 28mm hard plastic kits and Green Stuff.<br />
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Finally with a bit of paint, winter tufts and snow flock the piece was completed. I might have to create a pieces that will serve as a load(sacks and cradles)</div>
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It's in the middle of the Summer and I am still working on miniatures and terrain that definitly belongs to another season. As previously mentioned it's all part of my Trondheim Campaign project. Using homebrewed big skirmish style type rules we will refight battles(or rather skirmishes) that took place around Trondheim during the winter of 1718.</div>
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I have once more done a bit of scavaging. In a local fleamarket I found a souvenir belltower. It's a perfect model of the kind of belltower one kind find all over the Scandinavian peninsula. These were often used to warn the locals about imminent enemy attacks. A fine piece to recycle for wargaming purposes.<br />
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Then we have some more Norweigans. First we have some Nordenfjeldske Dragoons. This is a Dragoon regiment raised in the area around Trondheim. The Banner used by this unit is quite intricate and not that easy to reproduce. In this case I used a picture that I found in a source book, reproduced it and downsized the picture to suit 28mm miniature. The picture was printed. Then I used model colour to enhance the printed image.<br />
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I bought a souvenir house at a flea market. The size was roughly right for 28mm miniatures. So I decided to turn it into. Terrain piece for miniature wargaming. The piece was a bit too tall. Thus I removed the lower part house structure and then I mounted it on a piece of mdf.<br />
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The house was turned into a Scandinavan cottage from the early 18th century. Since I felt I needed some more snowy terrain I just GW snow flock to cover the ground and the roof. </div>
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The piece will be used for my latest Great Northen War project - the Trondheim Campaign 1718. </div>
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I also completed a few miniatures to go with the cottage. Below you can see a few Norweigan Grenadiers from the Akerhus regiment. I also competed a Norwegian General...actually probably a Dane or German, most of the Officers I the Norweigan army of the time were either Dane or Germans. The Norweigan army of the Danish-Norweigan kingdom was a separate entity compared with the Danish army, but there were comparably few Norweigans in the higher echelons of the army.</div>
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The miniatures are once more from Reiver Castings and Ebor.</div>
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This is the 1st National Trondheim Regiment 1718. This is a Norweigan Regiment. Norway was back then a part of the unified Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. The obvious enemy of these Chaps was of course Sweden. In 1718 they had to defend Norway and Trondheim against an invasion by the so called Swedish "Army of Jämtland". The Swedes invaded Norway in a two pronged attack. The northernmost came through the mountain passes of the Scandian mountains. The Army of Jämtland had the City of Trondheim as it's objective. The Norweigans was eventually pushed into o the city itself and Siege began. Luckily for the Norweigans the Swedish King Charles XII was killed while besieging Fredrikshall in Southern Norway. The siege of Trondheim was called off and the Army of Jämtland was called home. During the retreat through the mountains disaster struck the Swedish Army. A large proportion was cought in bad weather and perished.<br />
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The Campaign around Trondheim will be a new project that I will start upp. These minis are single based. There is actually one manufacturer that produces 28mm miniatures for this conflict. That is Reiver Castings. <br />
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The idea is to use our homebrewed large skirmish rules called Musket Mayhem. Thus far these rules have mainly been tested on the French Indian War and the American War of Independance. Now it's time to test them on the Great Northen War. The theatre chooses is rather obscure even by the standard of this war. However it is ideal for skirmishing. There were very few pitched battles, but there were numerous of small skirmishes.Jeppanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06103629393643258421noreply@blogger.com4