Play test of Horse and Musket Rules

[gamer Mac]

I have recently got the fistful of lead - Horse and Musket rules.
We ran a quick game last night on my Jacobite table, just a quick hash of one of the scenarios.
In this case it was a small group of Jacobite defending a farm from the vengeful redcoats.
We didn't have any figures to use as the settlers in the scenario so we just upped the number of defenders from four to five with the farm being attacked by 10 Redcoats. We agreed that All the figures were armed with at least a pistol on top of what the actual figure had.
The Jacobites went first and opened fire on some of the redcoats coming out of a wood from the east of the farm and on par with the rest of the game totally missed, the redcoats advanced from both the east and west laying done very accurate cover fire managing to pick off the Jacobites cowering behind their hard cover walls.



For the loss of a single man the redcoats managed to advance right up to the farm with the NCO armed with a Halberd jumping over the wall and advancing across the farm yard to engage the last remaining foes and after a short fight one more redcoat was dead but so were the remaining jacobites



Over all it was a quick fun, blood thirsty game with some very bad dice rolling from my brother, his one good roll of a 10 was cancelled out by a roll of 10 for the Halberd(+1) armed NCO.

 

Some picture of the action my brother may get over the shame of defeat and post some he took 

[OSHIROmodels]

Jolly good report, glad you like the rules 

[Andym]

Game?.....what game?!? I don't remember any game!

I couldn't believe those rolls. Shite all the way through, then I roll a 10 in close combat, only for him to beat me by rolling a 10 himself, but winning by having a better weapon!

Here's a pic of the farm, with the lads defending the stash of Stornoway Black Pudding and tattie scones!

[Eric the Shed]

Excellent stuff...

Having played about 10 scenarios using these rules we have introduced a few house rules that might be interesting to others

1. Figures can only take two wounds not three. Heroes all get three
2. The attacker in melee gets +1 to hit unless defender in cover in which case they get +1
3. Cavalry is underpowered...they get +3 to hit in charge, +1 thereafter
4. If you hit horsemen die to see if horse or rider hit ..if horse and suffers death or severe wound rider thrown and starts next turn shaken

[Black Burt]

Nice report, one of my favoured set of rules for Border reivers. What make is the croft I havent seen that one before. I like the rule suggestions I will give them a go next time I play a game.

[gamer Mac]

Excellent stuff...

Having played about 10 scenarios using these rules we have introduced a few house rules that might be interesting to others

1. Figures can only take two wounds not three. Heroes all get three
2. The attacker in melee gets +1 to hit unless defender in cover in which case they get +1
3. Cavalry is underpowered...they get +3 to hit in charge, +1 thereafter
4. If you hit horsemen die to see if horse or rider hit ..if horse and suffers death or severe wound rider thrown and starts next turn shaken

sounds like some interesting additions may try them out, thanks Giles

Nice report, one of my favoured set of rules for Border reivers. What make is the croft I havent seen that one before. I like the rule suggestions I will give them a go next time I play a game.

The croft is scratch built same as all the rest of the buildings and walls on that table built for this game on the following thread
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=84023.msg1122027#msg1122027 

[BaronVonJ]

Great game and terrain. You might up the Jacobites numbers a bit. The original scenario takes into account the Indians have poorer morale in the open, so more likely to run. Ofcourse, that doesn't matter if you can't hit them!
In the many times we have run this at cons, the Attacker wins a little more than half the time.
All good house rules. Melee has changed a wee bit in Galactic Heroes, so stay tuned for Horse&Musket 2.0.

[Romark]

Nice bat rep guys,looks like we'll all need to be up to speed with these rules for Blam 18 

[Malamute]

Excellent stuff...


4. If you hit horsemen die to see if horse or rider hit ..if horse and suffers death or severe wound rider thrown and starts next turn shaken

Mark and I have developed a table with specific results for figures on horseback being shot at. Will be using it at BLAM for my True Grit game.

Splendid looking game as well Colin. Good to see those Jacobite rebels being put in their place

[Ramirez Noname]

Great looking game and AAR.

RMZ

[Dr DeAth]

Nice looking game, welcome to the FFoX gang 

[flags_of_war]

Awesome mate. When do we get to see some of my boys on that table. Give me a shout when you are playing

[has.been]

All nice, scenery, figures, report & ammendments.
My mat Vodkafan & I have picked up Jacobites from Flags of war kickstarter.
We too are recent converts to FFoL (great stable of rules, fun & quick).
We plan unit games, but I might base some singly, with a view to use sabot bases
for the units. That way we will get to play with the nice figures sooner.