French Indian War - Game 15 setup

I am finally getting around to the next French Indian War campaign game. As usual campaign details and background to this game are to be found on Jonathan's Palouse Wargaming Journal. Game 15 has delivered the opportunity to undertake a siege game and use my recently completed fortress.

A print of Quebec

When setting up the tabletop it looked a little bit stark. So I decided to quickly make a backdrop of Quebec, as the tabletop represents an area of the city defences being targeted by the besiegers. A quick look at a print of the time helped provide some inspiration to turn one side of a cardboard box into a backdrop held in place by blu-tack.

A quick sketch using a large marker pen was washed over with watered down paint. Then gone over  again with teh marker to pick out details. Once dry it was cut out.

Backdrop held in place behind the fortress with Blu-Tack.

The siege is of Quebec, June 1758, and has Montcalm (A4D4) deciding to remain behind the fortress walls. All forces have been increased by a factor of two from those in the order of battle details from the campaign. French forces are:

• 4 x Regular units
• 2 x Militia units
• 3 x artillery pieces within the fortress

The fortress with troops

Another view from a higher angle

The attacking for commanded by Wolfe (A4D4) has:

• 7 x Regular units
• 1 x Grenadier unit
• 2 x Light Infantry
• 2 x Mortars
• 4 x Artillery pieces

British forces (a couple of my Napoleonic artillery units have been press-ganged into service)

As this is the first real test of my siege rules, or should I say scribbled rules, and I have opted to keep things as simple as possible. Setting aside the investment stage of a siege where the besieger sends out highly mobile troops to mop up stragglers before the main force arrives.

The game will start at the end of the counter-vallation stage after the British have built entrenched positions out of range of fortress guns to defend against French sorties.