The Important Bridge scenario from Wargames for All Ages, aka The Red Book.
Having two blogs may be one too many but here I am. The Gathering of Hosts was intended to be purely for Ancients, especially my Persians but to share the load all future Ancient and Medieval posts will go there. Not sure yet whether there is enough musket in pike and shot for it to stay here or if the armour and pointy sticks will land it there. Anyway there is a 2 line battle report there (the Scots lost) but I thought I would put some pictures of the board here.
The existing bases aren't perfect but close enough for now. The crooked unit had just routed ending the game and was plopped back down again any old how for the shot.
Over all I am happy with how the board is coming and didn't have much issue with the few vague areas. I'm still pondering whether rivers should run in between 2 squares like I did in this game or through one. The former makes it clear which side of a river that a unit is on but doesn't really leave room for a unit on either bank and hides some of the shorter grid delineations.
The wide dark areas are waiting for some highlights or foliage to break them up a bit. I may add "water" to some of the unflocked areas. See here for some of my local inspiration for comparison these squares will normally be considered to be about 100 yds across or perhaps between 50 and 150 yds depending on the game.
A is an area where 2 different colours of green flock look differnet in a good light but fade into sameness in poor light.
B is a rather too straight run of gravel or crops,
I have already forgotten what I thought the issue was with C! Oh well.
Oh and the stream is blue felt, the bright blue that shows, with streaks of darker blue to break it up. The edges were painted in an earth tone and flocked with coarse foliage since I don't expect to have to put a house or hill on it.
Here the dark green lines which represent tall weeds, bushes etc, need to be broken up a bit. There are also a couple of squares of brown that don't appear to be delineated at all.
I think these stout fellows were the same guys you ran a really memorable "pickup" game many Historicons ago...I was one of the lucky players that night...it was late but a really fun game that I never forgot!...It must be almost fifteen years ago!?
ReplyDeleteThese lads were down for Cold Wars 1997. That was the first HMGS con I attended. I went down in particular for the Armati Arena but not for the straight bash ups (I did play 1 or 2 with borrowed armies though), The rules said you could bring a scenario as long as you were willing to give any opponent the choice of sides. I broke my Scots into a Highland and Lowland armies, wrote up background set in the Harlaw campaign and staged 2 Grant scenarios, wagon train and bridgehead breakout. Played a couple of games and then opened it to others to play.
ReplyDeleteI had a blast. So much so that I came back next year and started GM'ing.
Looks excellent Ross. This has great potential for the soloist and in-particular matched the "Less is More" philosophy I preach on my Blog regarding terrain and size there of. Very well orchestrated in my opinion! Nice to see ... Jeff
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