While doing my new basing test for TYW figures, I remembered that I did not have very many dragoon units (when I checked, I had one). This is rather problematic for most…
Tag: Horse and Musket
15mm Thirty Years basing experiment.
After playing a ECW game earlier in the year, I kind of decided to move in a new direction for rules for the period. I had recently rebased my armies onto large…
Rank and File – Battle of Harlem Heights, September 1776.
Background The Battle of Harlem Heights was fought during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The action took place on September 16, 1776, in what is now the Morningside Heights area and east…
Gajo Napoleonic Cavalry.
I was cruising the Gajo painted mini website to pick up a few Italians to fill out one of my FoW companies. While doing that, I saw they have restocked their Napoleonic…
Napoleon’s Bloody Big Battles Scenario Book Review.
Anyone following this bog knows that our group is a fan of the Bloody Big Battles war-game rules. In addition to their stated 18th century focus, we have been using them for…
Jamestown Colony Museums and Parks.
As part of my short trip to the Williamsburg area, I swung by the Jamestown Virginia Museum and Park. One of my buddies had never been and I had not been there…
Yorktown Battlefield Museum and Battlefield Park.
Continuing my tidewater visit, next up was the federal Yorktown Battlefield Park and Museum. This is different than the state museum, which is close by. This is actually on the main Yorktown…
BBB – The Battle of Castiglione, August 1796.
For our Napoleonic game, we decided to play the Battle of Castiglione (1796), using Bloody Big Battles (BBB) as the rules. The battle in 1796 was one of several battles that were fought at…
Home Brew – Battle of Resaca de la Palma, May 1846.
The Battle of Resaca de la Palma was one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte (“Army of the North”) under General Mariano…
BBB – Battle of Caldiero, November 1796
We needed a scenario for our Tuesday horse-and-musket game, and the current issue (No.128) of “Wargames Soldiers and Strategy” magazine had one that was just right. To quote the magazine: “The Battle…