After various futile efforts to make a new, successful, simple, quick play, one page, set of Horse & Musket rules, I decided to go back in time to seek inspiration.
Eventually, it was inevitable that I turned back to my first wargame book. I had purchased it with one of my first paycheques at Military College but had to wait till the end of the century to play a proper game with hordes of 40mm homecast figures. (Here's a link to one of our multi-player Charge! games, part of our 2010 play through of "Raid on St Michael". (On my rather dormant "Not Quite The Seven Years War" blog)
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| Battle renewed. |
Now, I'm not actually playing using Charge!, just taking a different approach, inspired by it.
To be continued.,...
Returning to “Charge” most interesting. I look forward to hearing more.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
If this works, there'll be more.....
DeleteCharge came late in my wargaming career as I was initially put off by the HUGE numbers of figures needed, still struggling to get 20 figures Airfix battalions together for a Featherstone game at the time . I remember borrowing it from the library and being impressed by the author being a military chap (as the all where in those days) .
ReplyDeleteBrigadier Young was a active reenactor as well as a wargamer but I think Col Lawford was responsible for most of the book and rules and the Sittingbad scenario was based on a battle he fought in against the Japanese.
DeleteThe search for ‘that’ rule set 🙂. Holy Grail or Mission Impossible?! 🙃. Thanks for the link to the dormant blog. Looks like some great fights over there 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.
ReplyDeleteThey were fun games.
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