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Title: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: Mad Guru on 28 August 2023, 10:18:54 PM

I post semi-regularly on this site, but usually over on the Colonials board, since that covers the vast majority of my hobby activity.  But I've always had an interest in the AWI and I grew up in Brooklyn, in a neighborhood built on the same ground where many of the most notable actions from the Battle of Long Island AKA: Battle of Brooklyn, took place, so I've always wanted to refight it as a tabletop game.

Yesterday, on its 247th Anniversary, the informal group of Southern California miniature wargamers I belong to, known as the St. Crispin's Irregulars, refought the August 27th 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, AKA: the Battle of Long Island, at the Knights of Columbus hall in Anaheim, California.

I'm happy to report it was a great game, hard-fought by both sides and a bit of a seesaw struggle with advantage and expectation of victory switching back-&-forth several times.  I hope to be back with a detailed AAR in the near future but for now, here's a link to a recent post on my blog, mostly re: terrain preparation for some water features, cattails and a modest wood bridge I made for the game.  If you take the time to visit and scroll through all the pics over there, I thank you in advance for your time...

http://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2023/08/prepping-for-todays-247th-anniversary.html (http://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2023/08/prepping-for-todays-247th-anniversary.html)

...but if you don't, here's a taste of the visuals I hope you will enjoy:

One of many maps of the battle we used for reference:

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WIP Gowanus Bay, salt marsh bases, cattails, and Gowanus Creek:

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WIP bridge for Gowanus Creek:

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Looking west towards the East River and Manhattan Island, with several key spots from the battle visible from left to right: The Red Lion Inn... Gowanus Bay & surrounding marsh... the Old Stone House aka: the Vechte House (aka: the Cortelyou House, but Cortelyou didn't buy it until after the war had ended)... Gouwer's Mill (aka: Freeke's Mill, but again, Freeke did not own it until after the war)... Gowanus Creek & the Porte Road leading to the bridge over same creek, which in this pic happens to be burning (in reality there were at least 2 such bridges but we reduced their number for the game)... the Southern end of the American fortifications in front of Brooklyn Heights (offscreen in this pic)... and finally, mounted on foam core atop a narrow table in the background, the New York City skyline c.1776:

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Something of a reverse view looking towards the Porte Road (through modern-day Prospect Park) and Flatbush Pass, with the East River & Gowanus Bay in the foreground and the American defensive works to the left:

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The Vechte house, AKA: the Old Stone House, a modern reproduction of which still stands in roughly the same spot (NOTE: I grew up around the corner from this historic building and went to Junior High across the street from it):

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Looking North from the British landing sites around Gravesend, with The Narrows at the lower left corner and the East River running North from there along the Western coast of Brooklyn/Long Island, all the way up to the Brooklyn Ferry dock at the foot of Brooklyn Heights, with the American fortifications on their inland side:

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View from the South-East, with the recently-established British camps in the foreground, the small village of Gravesend, the body of water known as "The Narrows" separating Brooklyn/Long Island and Staten Island (which would be located offscreen to the left) and King's Highway running North by North-East along the long table edge on the right:

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TO BE CONTINUED......

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: fred on 29 August 2023, 08:12:27 AM

Impressive looking table!

I like the B&W photo of old New York too

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: Tom Dulski on 29 August 2023, 11:56:12 AM

very cool, I was just at the old stone house the other day.

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: CapnJim on 29 August 2023, 02:19:03 PM

Looks great so far.  Well done!

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: Durban Gamer on 01 September 2023, 12:13:45 PM

I'm really looking forward to the game!

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: Anderson Collection on 01 September 2023, 04:10:33 PM

Great looking set up  :-* :-*

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: Mad Guru on 01 September 2023, 08:12:47 PM

Thanks very much for all the positive waves, LAFers (as Oddball might say).

Fred, glad to hear you like the B&W photo!  We originally intended to colorize it but we were so busy prepping other aspects of the game we left it undone for too long and then when we finally got around to it the deadline for the game did not permit the added time it turned out would be required.  If and when we run it again we should get it in color, but I think the B&W version has a charm of its own.

Tom Dulski, very cool that you recently visited the Old Stone House!  Though I grew up around the corner from it, I now live about 2,800 miles away, so this past Spring I dispatched my younger daughter, who was at school in NYC, there to take some pics for reference purposes.  Do you live in Brooklyn?  You may or may not know there is a very active wargaming club not far from the Old Stone House, across the street from John Jay High School on 5th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues.  I haven't managed to stop by there for at least a decade but last I knew it was still going strong.

Willie, my friend, it's been way too long, great to see your comment!

Okay, here's another handy LINK to the latest Battle of Brooklyn post on my blog.  This is not the AAR but the Scenario & Army Lists we used, plus a few of the maps we used as reference and a few more pics of the layout:

https://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2023/08/battle-of-brooklyn-1776-scenario-brief.html (https://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2023/08/battle-of-brooklyn-1776-scenario-brief.html)

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Like the British, the AAR is coming soon -- I gaurantee......

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Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: Old Contemptable on 02 September 2023, 12:13:02 AM

Excellent game! I like the attention to detail.

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: Mad Guru on 02 September 2023, 10:41:35 PM

Thanks, Old Contemptable, appreciate the compliment!

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: CapnJim on 03 September 2023, 04:51:06 PM

I may need to steal this scenario.  I have the forces with which to play it... :D

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: Anspach on 03 September 2023, 06:37:04 PM

Beautiful looking layout! I love the fort, and East River. Great job on all the scenery.

Title: Re: Prep for 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on 04 September 2023, 06:55:59 AM

Quote from: Mad Guru on 01 September 2023, 08:12:47 PM

Thanks very much for all the positive waves, LAFers (as Oddball might say).

Fred, glad to hear you like the B&W photo!  We originally intended to colorize it but we were so busy prepping other aspects of the game we left it undone for too long and then when we finally got around to it the deadline for the game did not permit the added time it turned out would be required.  If and when we run it again we should get it in color, but I think the B&W version has a charm of its own.

There was a contemporary series of drawings in a folio entitled Atlantic Neptune that I used in several of my Osprey Campaign books.  This included numerous views of NYC and the surrounding coastline - and you're right, the B/W versions do have a charm of their own.  They just......look right!

I actually did all the groundwork - maps, orbats, artwork prep, etc - for the New York Osprey Campaign, but had to stop due to illness and another author took over the writing of the text.  As part of the research, in 2004 I toured the area and visited  the Old Stone House (which featured in one of the "battle plates").  I had a great time, as I was accompanied and guided by the then Press Officer for the Brigade of the Revolution, Todd Post (currently the commanding officer of the re-created 2nd Virginia - post-NYC campaign impression though).  I was also one of the organisers of a mega-game of the battle over here in the UK in 2008, that ended with the victorious forces of King George (gawd bless 'im!) storming the fortifications before Glover's regiment could pull off the "American Dunkirk"; the game is still being talked about!

I am very much looking forward to your future posts on this.

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: Mad Guru on 04 September 2023, 11:57:45 AM

Thanks again for all the kind comments & compliments!

@Baron von Wreckedoften: Wow, that's quite a monicker you have, Baron!  I may be way off and completely wrong in this guess but that will not dissuade me from taking it: by any chance was that 2008 "mega" Battle of Brooklyn/Long Island game you helped organize (I must use the Rebel "Z" to spell that word!) played using the "British Grenadier" rules and was Mark Urban involved?  If so, then I have indeed heard of it all the way across the pond, so to speak!  ...but if I'm wrong then please forgive me my presumption.  Either way, are there any posts anyplace on the web still standing from that game?  If not, no worries, but if they do exist I would very much appreciate if you could post a link or links to them here.

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on 05 September 2023, 02:09:39 PM

It was indeed that game.  Here is Giles Allison's (Tarleton's Quarter) report on it:-

 https://gilesallison.blogspot.com/2008/11/long-island-27-august-2776.html

I know Henry Hyde (then editor of Battlegames was present and did a splendid write-up and photo-montage of the game for his blog, but I can't seem to find a link to it and he may have taken it down.  I'll see if I can find any more links (I did find the one to TMP, but all the links in that thread are dead now, except Giles' one).

A bunch of 15mm Napoleonic reprobates were re-playing Waterloo in the same room (yes, it was a VERY big room), so all-in-all an extremely memorable wargaming weekend.

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: FifteensAway on 05 September 2023, 10:58:05 PM

Missed this thread!  How dare I?!

MadGuru, nice to see you 'branching' out from Colonials.  AWI is a passion for me so I will be keeping an eye on this thread - and I've actually been working away on painting my AWI figures at long last - even hosted a game.  Have far, far too many but if I ever get them all painted, it will be an extremely versatile collection.  (Still busy with my FFL distraction for the moment. - well, after finishing off a small model train layout this week as a gift for a nephew.)

And, yes, Baron, I am a 15 mm unabashed 15 mm reprobate!  :D

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn game prep - updated Sept. 1
Post by: Mad Guru on 06 September 2023, 11:19:54 AM

Baron,

Many thanks for posting that link!  I wish it included more detailed Army Lists but still awesome to read!

Fifteens,

As usual you sound very busy indeed, and as usual in that same diminutive scale!  I've been known to play and enjoy most any/all games of any/all periods (as long as they're no smaller than 25mm and preferably 28mm!) but it's true I don't usually go this nuts on stuff that isn't c.19th Anglo-Afghan War related -- or 14th-15th Century Medievals in the prior epoch before I built my Maiwand terrain boards for the 130th anniversary of that battle, back in 2010.  But since I grew up on the battlefield for this one, it's always been on my to-do list.  I only contributed the water features and marshland for this version.  Some day, maybe I'll really go nuts and build an entirely new set of temperate green boards with an epoxy resin East River, Gowanus Bay, The Narrows, & the edge of the coast from The Narrows/present-day Fort Hamilton to Gravesend, to refight the Battle of Brooklyn on... but until then, this version was pretty dang awesome -- even for a terrain snob like me -- and that's not even touching on the great game we played, the results of which were somewhat in doubt until the very last turn.  Speaking of which...

It took a while but here's a link to the whole tricorne hat of an AAR, so to speak:

https://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2023/09/1776-battle-of-brooklyn-aar-direct-to.html (https://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2023/09/1776-battle-of-brooklyn-aar-direct-to.html)

It did not turn out exactly like the original battle in 1776... nor as Baron von Wreckedoften's version did in 2008.  I just spent way too many hours on the blog post, which no thanks to Blogger was a rather frustrating experience.  It worked out in the end but I really have to go to bed right now, so I shall leave the details on my blog, which if anyone is interested I invite you to click on the link above and come visit, and thanks in advance if you do!

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Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: CapnJim on 07 September 2023, 06:10:28 PM

Well that was quite the fight!  Huzzah to the Americans!  And, wow...Grant's Brigade really took it in the shorts, didn't they?   :o

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: FifteensAway on 08 September 2023, 03:16:01 PM

Took some time to go through the blog reports - but, unless I missed it, I didn't find what the final conclusion was (other than the casualty recap).  Or is there another report pending?  Was kind of hard to read with all those "[" inserted into the text - probably from converting the PDF to blog text.  I get the frustration - takes a lot of time, effort, and PATIENCE to put together such a post.  I did take a look at the PDF version which, though took a long time to populate, was much clearer with the text without the ']' all over the place.

Very nice table and the maps gave me a better perspective on the layout than I've had previously. 

Like the use of the 'underscale' ships - someone stole a page out of my pirate book with some mantle piece ships methinks!  ;)

One small bit in the photos I found pretty cool was the mini-coffin as the container for the casualty caps, just fun.

Not sure if I should encourage you to do the battle to the same degree as you did Maiwand but I'd love to see it if you do.  Kind of depends on your household situation and if the other members of the house would tolerate either a second board or a replacement board. 

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: Mad Guru on 08 September 2023, 07:20:34 PM

Thanks for the compliment, Fifteens!  Not sure if all those brackets “[]” you refer to were the occasional standard parenthesis “()” used for some die roll results & explanatory rule notes, or if it’s maybe an issue with the computer or phone or tablet you were reading it on.  TBH I don’t think there are that many parentheticals and certainly no more than are included in the PDF -- but of course that’s a matter of individual subjective judgement, & there are certainly enough for a person who doesn’t like parentheticals to find their presence annoying, which if that's the case for you, my apologies!

Re: the final result, I think it’s stated pretty clearly on TURN 15: "British C-in-C concedes," (but without the glow!) though it's true I didn’t elaborate on it much, as seen in this screenshot of that section, which comes just before the "Casualty Recap":

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Yes, re: me possibly building a full set of temperate "green" terrain boards equal in quality to my arid Afghan ones and tailored for a 250th Anniversary refight of the Battle of Brooklyn just under 3 years from now... storage is the number one thing weighing against it.

If I can somehow clean out AKA: throw out (Aiyeee!!!) enough stuff to make room for them, it might be possible, but that will be a tall order for a sentimental packrat like me.

A slightly easier alternative would be to make the boards truly "bespoke" for the battle, rather than interchangeable and reusable for myriad scenarios.  More like Duke Siegfried's old mega game terrain boards, that always went together the same way to refight the same "big battle" just at different convention venues.

Hahah -- at this point the only other full-time member of the household is my wife... so adding another set of full-blown boards covering 12' x 6' -- or for the 1776 battle of Brooklyn/Long Island maybe covering 7' or 7.5' (the size of the table we played this version on) will be... an interesting process.  In this case "interesting" is my own subtle code for "potentially problematic"!

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: Mad Guru on 08 September 2023, 08:12:16 PM

@CapnJim: Thanks for the kinds words!  Indeed Grant's brigade did suffer a lot, but overall the Americans took heavier casualties with their significantly smaller army… in the process of earning their hard-fought victory. (Had to add that last bit since I was one of the 2 American players!)

A friend of mine who played the Hessian commander in the game & who is a great photographer with very good camera just posted the photos he took.  I think they're worth checking out even if you've seen the full AAR, as his pics are in a different league quality wise from my own humble iPhone efforts.  If interested, here's a LINK...

https://rigdon.myportfolio.com/battle-of-brooklyn (https://rigdon.myportfolio.com/battle-of-brooklyn)

...and a handful of his pics to give you a sense of the highly-saturated tableaus which await you there:

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Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: Freddy on 08 September 2023, 08:36:49 PM

Impressive photos, this surely was a great battle!

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: FifteensAway on 08 September 2023, 11:17:54 PM

Oi!  Completely missed that turn 15 comment!  Very much my bad.  All hail the mighty Rebels! 

I was gently alluding to the "interesting" element with the potential wife situation - which I can relate to!  If I tried to keep something set up in our living room for too long - oh, would there be some issues!   lol. And forget the family room, that is where she watches television.

Your friends additional photos - and lots of them! - look good.

An iPhone can, supposedly, take great photos but I have yet to master doing so.  I did notice the nicer camera in one of your photos on a back table.

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: Stryder on 09 September 2023, 11:44:45 PM

MadGuru, Great job on the detail and terrain. I have an interest in AWI as well and hope to some day build my collection of 28mm up for games here in Sunny Arizona. Keep up the good work!

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: Mad Guru on 10 September 2023, 10:12:26 AM

Thanks for the very kind words, Freddy!

Happy you also enjoyed my friend Matthew’s pics, Fifteens!

Javier, your comment made me smile!  Thanks for the compliments!  Was hoping to see you next month here in California at Mini-Wars but heard from Harmon that you won't be there.  That's a bummer as I was looking forward to getting a chance to talk with you for 5 minutes while neither of us was running an event!  Maybe at the next Sand Wars in your neck of the South-Western woods, if you have any break-time built into your schedule.  Meanwhile I wish you all the best in growing your AWI collection, be it by big brigades or crunchy little skirmish units!

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: giorgio on 01 July 2024, 11:22:07 AM

Mad Guru, great battle! Amazing scenario! Your skillful talented genius spread from Afghanistan to one century before! We continue to fight in pashtun territories, as implacable and relentless enemies, but I have to grant you my best congrats for this outstanding work! :-*

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: JBaumal on 05 July 2024, 04:03:42 PM

Great AAR! Another beautiful table and fun looking game. What a perfect report and blog posts to read yesterday on our American Independence Day.

Title: Re: 247th anniversary Battle of Brooklyn prep & AAR - updated Sept. 6
Post by: MaleGriffin on 06 July 2024, 03:36:38 PM

Great looking game and fantastic AAR!