Well, that's the Partizan game sorted!
We were play testing Simon Miller's proposed 'Lust for Glory' rules, which will cover warfare in the 18th Century. The rules are a development of his 'To the Strongest' ancient rules and 'For King and Parliament' rules for the English Civil Wars. The games are played on a gridded table, with each box being wide enough to accommodate an infantry battalion in line, so about 150 yards across.
In order to try some optional 'epic' rules I decided to represent the whole of the Kolin battlefield on the 18 box wide table, so the boxes represented about 500 yards across, and each battalion about 3 real ones - it actually worked out quite well. The cloth in use has 200x200mm boxes (the crosses marking out the corners are not very visible on the photos), into which my 160mm wide units fit quite nicely.
Thanks to the 12 volunteers who played the game in two shifts, the game was played in good spirits, and I hope they all enjoyed it. We did find some issues with the rules, the most noticeable one being that cavalry seem to be on a path of mutual destruction, with most of the hussars eliminated by lunchtime - or it could be the gung-ho players.
Further thanks to those of you who called in for a chat. It was interesting to hear your views on the range, and I was pleased to hear that in general you thought the figure styling is on the right track. I hope it inspired you to get casting😊
Below are, in no particular order some photos, the better ones taken by Ian Notter - the others ones mine.
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| Starting positions with Prussians to the left on the Kaiser Strasse |
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| Zieten's hussars on Prussian left. |
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| Hussars on Austrian right. |
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| Grenz garrison in Krzeczor. |
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| Cavalry on Prussian right. Cuirassiers are 'Rossbach' conversions (so small) |
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| Battle mid way through. Austrian cavalry on left are attacking. |
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| Battle near end. The hussars of each army have eliminated each other. |
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