Wargame Rules, Ratios, etc


RAISING MINIATURE ARMIES FOR THE LATE 18TH CENTURY

I am very keen to keep my wargame rules as simple as possible, yet capture the character of the 1790s. Morale dominates the games as the opposing sides are very different. Most of the French troops are 'levee' battalions, which I have chosen to base in column as their ability to change formation on a battlefield must have been limited, nor do I believe their volley fire had any great value. Of better quality, able to change formation, will be white-coated regular and blue-coated volunteer battalions, aided by a fair number of skirmishers. The British, Austrian, Dutch and German armies are often outnumbered, but they maintain the discipline and order of typical 18th century armed forces. Interestingly, French revolutionary cavalry have little in common with their later Napoleonic counterparts, the former are few in number, often poorly mounted, and no match for those in the service of the Allies. All figures are 28mm in scale, using a 1=25 ratio.

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Tuesday 27 March 2018

You can never have enough dice!

A visit to a charity shop today furnished a bag of 39 dice, and all for £1. One of them is steel, and very heavy. Five are wooden so they can be drafted into my living history displays. Three are fruit/slot machine dice. Two are eight sided 0-7. One is linked to playing cards. And twenty-seven are standard issue 1-6. A nice little bargain!
MGB

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  1. James Fisher30 March 2018 at 19:20

    Thirty-nine for £1! How good is that? What a wonderful mix too. I especially like the older/aged dice, the metal and the decision dice.
    Pleased that you threw two 'bars'. Bottoms up!

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    1. MGB31 March 2018 at 02:06

      Same here James, I liked the older/aged dice. On further viewing, four turned out to be wooden, while one more I thought was bakelite is probably ivory or bone, and not even perfectly square. I took these out for my living-history collection. Decided to vet my entire store of dice, and gave away a few. My collection is now mainly small, traditional dice, and I think they look a lot less distracting on the war-games table, particularly if you use them for casualty markers.
      Regards,
      Michael

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