Jacobite Raising Paper Soldier Armies

I am about two-thirds the way through completing my Jacobite Raising of 45 paper armies. I should be having a game in the next couple of weeks once I complete a few artillery, commanders, and British infantry units.

To motivate myself I decided to get all completed units onto the tabletop to see how they look. The figures are from "Wargame the Jacobite '45" paper soldier book by Peter Dennis. I chose to increase the original 28mm sized figures to 42mm.

The book also comes with a set of rules by Andy Callan. You can play the full 5 page ruleset or a streamlined 1 page subset of the rules. The full rules cover, amount other things, how units are deployed for a battle which are both interesting and add period flavour. I plan to use the streamlined rules for my first game. The rules are straightforward and each turn has the following stages:

1. Shoot
2. Move
3. Fight
4. Discipline

Players dice to decide who shoots first with units rolling a number of dice based upon the number of bases they have and adjusted for unit type and quality. Casualties are recorded and a base removed after every three casualties. The fight stage is similar to shooting and deals with charges and melee and dice rolls are again based upon the unit type and number of bases.

Movement like shooting is diced for to determine which player moves first, with move distances being variable for some units.

Unit discipline triggered in certain situations, such as when a base is lost, and units can become shaken or rout.

Anyway, here are some photos...

British infantry and artillery 

Jacobite infantry

A view of Jacobite forces from British lines 

British cavalry

The British lines 

A view of both armies

Jacobite forces

A closer view of the single artillery unit - more to be made