Yesterday, I got time to play my second game of Over the Hills, a set of rules for Napoleonics I reviewed back in October last year, and played at the first meeting of 2017 at the Devon Wargames Group
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| Hard fighting in Vimeiro yesterday at the DWG |
I have posted an AAR of our game on the DWG club blog and describe some additions to my game kit for using the rules including the first run out with my Force Morale Cards shown in my annual review.
Devon Wargames Group Vimeiro Hill AAR
In addition I played the rules using my C&G range sticks together with angle of fire gauge as I prefer working with paces and the angles of fire used in C&G as opposed to firing straight ahead as offered in OTH. The changes played seamlessly and I can see OTH working very well alongside C&G as an alternative to using the computer.
That said my poor old brain had to work harder than when playing C&G and I missed the extra granularity that it offers, but it's nice to have an alternative for some of my "dyed in the wool bone roller friends".
I have put up the scenario plus copies of the Force Morale Cards in "My Scenarios" under Vimeiro Hill Scenario - Over the Hills which should link you through to a zip file that you can download.
If I don't see the bone rolled, it didn't happen.
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Only through a dice tower though, none of those north Devon drops!
DeleteNice work as usual, a close game by the looks of it. May have to try this section of the Battle as a Friday night club game ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tony. It was a really good game and very close. I trust you found the link to the scenario briefing I have posted.
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