While we're waiting for a game, here's an ambush of a convoy from 2010. It is set during the American Revolution and was played solo using MacDuff to the Frontier.
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| See: Circle the Wagons! A squeaker of a MacDuff AWI game from 2010 <Click here to see> |
Is it possible that something similar might be about to happen during the French Revolution? Might agents of the Scarlet Pimpernal be involved?
We can only hope :-)
ReplyDeleteOn seeing the picture and not having read the last sentence, I was thinking to myself that the scenario was ripe for a replay!
It was a regular on my table for 3 decades but now I can't remember when I last played it.
DeleteI’d have to check my records. We used the similar ambush scenario from the Red Book at Huzzah in 2019, as I recall...
DeleteNope. That was the ambush scenario from the same book. We played a different but similar homemade scenario in 2014 at Huzzah with wagons and a fort using MacDuff and set in the AWI.
DeleteI sometimes wish I hadn't sold my copy of Scenarios for Wargamers. This scenario comes up often and I only recently acquired a wagon!
ReplyDeleteShouldn't be hard to come up with a smaller version. Throw in a pack mule and random entry for the ambushers and you should have a decent game capable!e of a win, lose, or draw.
DeleteNice pull from the Archives, Ross!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I don't like to go too long without a post and there's a lot of posts in the archives!
DeleteThe "Scarlet Pumpernickel?" Wouldn't an ambush pulled off by Sharpe, his Rifles and some of his light infantry work even a little better? Or you could move the events forward in time just a bit and have the Juaristas ambush the supply train carrying Maximillian's gold a la the film Vera Cruz.
ReplyDeleteWell, I wasn't planning on involving the Scarlet Pimpernal (or the Brown Pumpernickel) but in any case I don't have Sharpe and his Rifles or any Napoleonic French, nor any Mexicans. I also lack the space for 54mm wagons on my smaller table so it'll have to be 40mm something and I'd prefer to use single figures not that it couldn't be done with my multi-based War of 1812 troops but I've done 1st Frenchtown and Maguaga in the past, so this'll be something new.
Delete>Is it possible that something similar might be about to happen during the French Revolution? Might agents of the Scarlet Pimpernal be involved?
ReplyDeleteoh boy oh boy oh boy. It sounds like Snidely Whiplash is getting ready to pull yet another of his nefarious tricks! I presume you have the appropriate figure painted up featuring a black tophat and opera cape.