AWI campaign and trees

In preparation for my American War of Independence campaign I have drawn up my campaign map.  This map will be used to track the battle wins and losses and help create a narrative to the games being played. I could have just kept a record, but this seemed much more fun and I can draw on lines as the armies march around with crossed sabres for where battles occur. Essentially it is my visual record.

Campaign map

The next steps for me now are to write up the rules for weather which will for the most part effect the likelihood of a battle occurring and the availability of troops from a campaign point of view. The games themselves will be effected by weather, for example - when there are heavy rains (reducing shooting ability) and fog (reducing visibility for artillery).

The battle set up will use a dice generated terrain approach which worked out really well for my WW2 campaign battle games. I need to make some changes to those rules to better suit the nature of AWI terrain.

The final part of the campaign puzzle is the calculating what is a drawn game or victory. In my WW2 campaign it was the capture of terrain features. For this campaign my thinking is leaning towards the number of units lost with a couple of modifiers for some terrain features.

During the week I had an opportunity to visit to a model shop where I came across some cheap trees. So I have spent most of my remaining free time basing and getting them ready. These will be very useful. Some of my games can have a fair number of woods (thinking ACW here) and my tree layout on the tabletop gets rather sparse. These will remedy that.

Adding bases fro stability

All the trees based and flocked