FIW in paper with StargruntII
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About the Project
I want to do french and indian war using paper minis and a modified version of Stargrunt II on a gridded table. Progress -if any - will be slow as this is my first project in 20 years.
Related Game: Destinies
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Day 2 - british are done
So now I have 3 units of british infantry of 9 and a leader on horse. I will count all british infantry as regular at campaign start and see how they perform from there.
The idea is to pitch them against a larger irregular french force to see how the startgrunt rules concerning different unit qualities work out.
Anyway next up will be the french. I’ve already printed them out. So it would be awesome to be ready for a game on the weekend.
This means that I need to start thinking about my board layout. I will use a gridded setup as I dont like measuring ranges. One cell in the grid will take one unit. With the ability to split and merge units, thus having variable amounts of actual models per cell. With me doing skirmishes “massing” troops is not an issue, but I am thinking about making larger troop bodies easier to hit by using a downshift on the range die for everything over 10 guys in a cell.
Anyways I will just paint away with water paints and start building hedges brushes and trees out of paper.
Building the board is actually making me really nervous, as I think it will in large parts make or break the look of the entire thing.
If done right this could become an awesome looking little gridded wargame of drawn soldiers in a waterpaint landscape ? how cool that would be.
Day 2 - british are done
So now I have 3 units of british infantry of 9 and a leader on horse. I will count all british infantry as regular at campaign start and see how they perform from their.
The idea is to pitch them against a larger irregular french force to see how the startgrunt rules concerning different unit qualities work out.
Anyway next up will be the french. I’ve already printed them out. So it would be awesome to be ready for a game on the weekend.
This means that I need to start thinking about my board layout. I will use a gridded setup as I dont like measuring ranges. One cell in the grid will take one unit. With the ability to split and merge units, thus having variable amounts of actual models per cell. With me doing skirmishes “massing” troops is not an issue, but I am thinking about making larger troop bodies easier to hit by using a downshift on the range die for everything over 10 guys in a cell.
My first unit
Next up:
- 2 units of 9 of british line
- 2 commanders
Then:
- 1 unit of french line
- 3 units french militia
- 2 commanders
Which will give me two small skirmishing forces. At that point I will build a small table and start playing.