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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: carojon on 16 June 2025, 02:33:35 PM
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This weekend gone I had the pleasure of wheeling out the new AWI collection at club in a fictitious engagement modelled on that fought at Chatterton's Hill during the Battle of White Plains in October 1776.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8L2SAdN8wNz2Rl5mUF5IRWbDTYrP8GglRwu67SgM5nTMIdkxRRQ7ZmqZO_qgVesa2eng3st2cKkT_0YE5d6YUhD5fIuJIjRZ2_sqL5R_lvlmuOeLEz-rhMEfDNBqwAYhfOXhELWEDG3gVZ-EIfw90Nwy34kH1idjBHAOlSoVJ2Ndoaim9vSKCOX6_fDY/s4896/P1170871a.JPG)
As well as sorting out the forces for the game, there was a certain level of getting back up to speed with the rules in use, namely Rise & Fight Again by Stand to Games.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTpvSSF7NVL9gWu4vW8g1uurVIIEOQd84q193eN99Fo0ZSC6KqFU8njrhalcdQ7hEU-LC4isYRnRx8GYDszpDeDPUbnIpDP9q83-owW818csXKpUMP5PMtlP0eHPgY8k0Y_rUHOhjN18aWAFFAF5ZwIhjzuphc1477bVUfZVduUXPSgBaGTFD7hjftruA/s4548/P1170870a.JPG)
If you would like to know more then just follow the link to the club blog.
https://devonwargames.blogspot.com/2025/06/battle-of-telegraph-hill-october-1776.html
JJ
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Looks great!
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A great looking collection :-*
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Wonderful stuff!!
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question - the telegraph wasn't invented for another 50 odd years... what is the hill named after exactly?
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The original telegraphs were towers with signal arms mounted on them. It was a semaphore style of operation.
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As mentioned in the AAR, ‘named after a well known local landmark’, thus no relation to the historical invention of said telegraph, or any relation to places in 18th century America, and perfectly fitting for a ‘fictional’ action.
Historically, said local landmark has been used for centuries to light beacons in the 16th century to alert locals about movements of the Spanish Armada, and later as part of a chain of high features in the south of England linking Plymouth and Portsmouth to the Admiralty in London via a line of ‘telegraph’ or signal stations for communication with Royal Navy commands back in the 18th-19th centuries.
JJ
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Nice report and great looking figures!!!
Terry
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What a grand looking table, figures and write up. So jealous!! Thanks for sharing. Very inspirational.
Regards,
Hitman
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The original telegraphs were towers with signal arms mounted on them. It was a semaphore style of operation.
huh, didn't know the term refered to semaphore and heliographs as well, you live and learn.
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Devon, as always, puts on a great looking game.
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Hi Chaps,
Thanks for your comments and glad you liked the game. My AWI collection will be a theme going forward as I look to add to the collection and put together some larger battles.
More anon
JJ