Sunday 7 May 2017

19th Century Rules Written Up

I continue with painting the final units of my 19th century imagi-nation armies. By the end of this weekend I will have completed a couple of additional artillery units to add to the infantry unit completed during the week. This will leave only two infantry and two cavalry unit to finish.

Painting continues
I was able to salvage to artillery pieces from the various bit I had left over which have not broken over the years (brittle plastic has been an issue with these old miniatures). They are in the photo with a combination of grey, red and brown pieces.

To complete the 19th century project, I have continued to work on some home grown rules very much based and inspired on One-Hour Wargaming and 19th Century Wargaming both by Neil Thomas.

Initially I started with the rules using a 6" gridded tabletop, but have since switched to measuring movement and shooting. I cannot put my finger on why I prefer pushing around these miniatures with a measuring stick rather than using a grid, but I do.

So for those of you who are interested in the rule variations, I have written up the rules on a page link above.

4 comments:

  1. Peter,
    Good to see your steady progress on the Imaginations Project. Brittle Plastic - have only seen this once with old ESCI Plastics- not a lot that you can do about it- good that you salvaged the Guns. Cheers. KEV.

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    1. Hi KEV. I am a bit short on artillery pieces so being able to salvage the two from the remains was very pleasing. I am not sure why the plastic goes brittle, but about 25 percent of my collection was effected. Cheers Peter

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  2. Continued good progress on your 19th Century project, Peter.
    I read through your rules amalgamation and I like that you reduced the number of hits required to destroy a unit from 15 down to 5,6,7. Makes sense to reduce the casualty rate while reducing a unit's dispersal point. I did not like tracking 15 hits on each unit in OHW.

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  3. Thank you. There is light at the end of the tunnel in terms of my goals in terms of unit numbers.
    Like you I prefer not to track 15 hits on a unit. With 6 or so hits, a few matchsticks or single dice on the base is much more convenient when moving units around a table.

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