Latest Project

One of my favorite and most extensive collections is the one I have for the Seven Years War in 15mm. All of the figures are Old Glory. I have large contingents of Prussians, Austrians and Russians as well as units of French, Hanoverians and various German states. For many years I have used the SYW variant of General de Brigade, but I have lost my enthusiasm for those rules. I have thoroughly enjoyed the rules I developed for the Jacobite Rebellion, so I decided to adapt them to this period in 15mm. I have done a little play testing and made some adjustments accordingly. I am quite pleased with the results. I have relabeled all of my armies over the last couple of weeks. It gave me a chance to do some reorganizing of the units into more reasonable brigade sizes. I have also made command cards for all of the leaders as this is a very importand component of my rules system. I will need to add some more command figures and ADCs, but other than that I believe the project is just about complete. Here are some pictures from my latest play test.

In the pictures, the red dice are used to keep track of losses. The green dice show how many initiatives a battery needs to reload. As in Fire and Fury, units lose effectiveness as their numbers decrease. Once they reach a certain point they are removed from play. Once a brigade has lost half or more of its units (or the commander is killed or wounded), it must take a brigade morale test. On the horizon, I'd like to attempt a solo campaign. I have some ideas for how to randomly distribute the units onto a custom made map and then to use initiative rolls to add a "fog of war" effect to how they can move about.