Monday 17 September 2018

Kickstarter Launch - O'er the Hills, Early Peninsular War Scenarios


Kickstarter - Oer the Hills Early Peninsula War Scenarios 1808-1809


I have a little announcement to make about a little project I have been working on with the chaps over at Stand to Games.

As of this evening the scenario book 'O'er the Hills', by me, covering the early Peninsular War period 1808 to 1809 has been launched on Kickstarter.


As many of you will know I have spent the last six years putting together various scenarios and games that covered the early British involvement in the Peninsular War up to and including the Battle of Talavera.


Those games have culminated in the book that is now on Kickstarter designed for using with 'Over the Hills' Napoleonic rules but very easily converted to other similar level systems should you prefer.

If you were following the series of play-tests run over the end of 2017 and start if this year you will have seen the development of this book and the testing done in the games we presented and both Steve and I had a great time working through the historical challenges presented in them.

If you are unfamiliar with those games you can follow the series in the link below where they are gathered together with our review of Over the Hills just after they were launched.

Over the Hills



If you would like to have a go at the challenge of doing better than Marshals Soult and Victor and driving the British Leopard from the Peninsula then you need to get over to the Kickstarter page in the link above.

Of course should you chose to support the Kickstarter and we pass the magic number you wont have to work from the 'Word' draft copies of orders of battle and scenario specific rules such as night fighting that we had to use, with all my scribbled notes, oh no, this is going to be a shiny colour tome from the chaps at Stand to Games with the scenarios and force specific army lists for the period to help you design your own. 

The description of the book is:

'The 101 page supplement includes twelve action packed scenarios that allow you the gamer to recreate some of the greatest battles of the early Peninsula War. Battles such as Roliça, Vimeiro, Oporto, Corunna and Talavera are all included. Each scenario comes complete with orders of battle, detailed map and deployment lay outs and scenario special rules. Also included within this supplement is the authors notes on the scenarios and helpful hints on how to game using the Over the Hills ruleset. The supplement also contains three detailed army lists for Anglo/Portuguese, Spanish and French forces.'


And if you need to gather any information on the units represented in the book you should find most of them covered here on JJ's to help you put them together with painting and modelling ideas as well.

Kickstarter - Oer the Hills Early Peninsula War Scenarios 1808-1809


So as of now we have thirty-three days to get this book up and running.

Cheers all
JJ

9 comments:

  1. Well I tried to be the first but I think I am the 6th. I know you put a lot of work into this so I am happy to get the book. As you know I play GdA but I suspect the scenarios will be easily convertible.

    Good luck with it.

    John

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    1. Hi John, thank you for your kind words and support.
      I'm sure you will be able to make any adaptions you need and you can always drop me a note for any clarifications.
      Thanks again
      JJ

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  2. Could I suggest that an option to buy the rules as well for those without might increase the numbers

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  3. Hi JJ any thoughts about adding a rule purchase option? And what is international postage like?

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    1. Hi Robert,
      I should say that I am the author of this particular supplement and am not part of Stand to Games.

      If you are interested in getting a copy of Over the Hills then perhaps it would be better to address your questions to Stand to Games via the Kickstarter or check out their Facebook page where Ady McWalter and Quinton Dalton are very happy to answer any questions about their rulesets.

      https://www.facebook.com/groups/1819455724949749/

      If you want to know more about O'er the Hills in terms of content, how they would work with a certain rule set etc then I can definitely help.

      Hope that helps
      JJ

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  4. Well, I'm a little late to the party. This is great stuff, and I'm excited to see what you've put together! I've made my pledge today. Looks like you are 99% of the way there.

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    1. Hi Adam, thank you for your support.
      Yes we have had a really positive response to the book which is really encouraging and I hope others have as much fun with the scenarios as Steve and I had putting them together.

      Cheers
      JJ

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  5. How can we got copies of the book? It is out stock.

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    1. Hi Bob,
      I see it is out of print with Stand to Games and I will see what the options are for interested parties after I have been in touch with Adrian.

      I assume you have been in contact and enquired about getting a copy, if not do drop a message expressing your interest.

      JJ

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