Tuesday 5 February 2019

A quick AWI game

In searching for various spare bits to use on my sci-fi block buildings. I came across my American War of Independence (AWI) armies and thought it would good to get them on to the table top for a game. I have been playing a few games with the digital version of Worthington Publishing's game Hold the Line by Hexwar, which appears to be quite a faithful reworking of the boardgame, and thought I would try and use the rules on the tabletop. One hex would translate to 6 inches in the wargame.

Here are a few photos of one of the games. The figures are old Peter Laing miniatures.

American forces hold the hill and the British objective is to take it.
British forces lined up
American forces push forward on their right flank.
British artillery open fire at the Americans on the hill
British units push forward 
The assault on the hill begins, but failed to achieve the objective
I ended up playing a couple of enjoyable games using these rules and will most likely use them again for this period. Although I will see how they translate to a square grid, but for the moment the armies have been packed away for another day.

10 comments:

  1. Hi Peter,

    That looks really impressive - I love those old Peter Laing figures!

    All the best,

    DC

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    1. Thank you kindly. I do have a soft spot for these old figures.

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  2. Great looking game! You just “came across” an entire collection? That’s funny!

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    1. Because they were in boxes and on the top self, they were very much out of sight and out of mind.

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  3. Hi Peter- really like what you've done here - very nice Old School look about it. Regards. KEV.

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  4. Nice to see the AWI out. The problem that I found with Hold the Line is that there were never enough points set against the available game time to activate and move all units, so about a third of the army would end up sitting close to the rear line!

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    1. I have found that problem with the digital version of the game, but with a limited number of units on the tabletop the limitation was not so evident. Too many units do break the activation mechanism, but with a limited number of units the rules do seem to have a small battle feel to them.

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  5. Looks very nice.
    Perhaps Napoleon should have checked the top shelf as well when he was asked for more troops at Waterloo?

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