If they mean to have a war, let it begin here
Why the Revolution?
So why the Revolution?
I wanted to do a proper large scale wargame but at the same time I didn’t want to do something I already knew about. I wanted to use this army as a learning opportunity.
My first idea was to go way back to the Ancients but that died pretty quickly. Romans are cool but Romans get boring. You can go jump off a bridge if you think I’m even going to try and paint Persians. Pikes were always going to be out. Storing and Transporting them is just too hard with my now limited space.
Then I figured I try the ECW and Thirty Years war but the pikes were a deal breaker.
Then I got quite keen on doing the War between the States also known as the War of Northern Aggression and my personal favorite courtesy of Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies “The War twix the Yankee’s and the Americans”.
But one of the goals for this project is to be able to display it and take it to events. You start putting the Stars and Bars on the tabletop and people can get nervous.
This also ruled out any Colonial Warfare even 100% positive ones like the Sudan. It’s not worth dealing with the fallout.
So finally I settled on the American Revolution. There’s just one problem. I know quite a lot about the American Revolution. Or rather I know quite a lot about the Southern Theatre.
So the choice was easy. The New York Campaign is what I’m aiming for but I won’t restrict myself too much.
So I went out and picked up two boxes of each. They’re already built and primed.
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