Moys 1757

[olicana]

Finally, after a prolonged isolation period due to Covid19, the house is open again and I  can have the lads round to play a scenario based on The Combat of Moys 1757.

It's been set up for weeks, with everything gathering dust, but finally the game is about to be played. Tomorrow night the first domino will be turned and the first dice rolled for well over a month.

I'll do a report on the battle after it's been fought but, until then, here's a picture led scenario guide.







Link to blurb and more pics of the set up.
http://olicanalad.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-scenario-based-on-combat-of-moys-7th.html

Hope you like it.

[Mad Gadgeteer]

Very nice.  I'm starting to read through you blog post.  I scanned it quickly, but didn't find what I was looking for... what miniatures are you using?  Thanks!

[olicana]

Front Rank (Austrians and some Prussians) and Foundry (Prussians). All painted by me using enamels.

I also hand painted all the flags (about 130 for the collection, all told), in enamels, which is why each unit only gets one of them.





The SYW Project was a labour of love. Here, some of my Prussians meet most of my Russians at Zorndorf.

[Mad Gadgeteer]

Front Rank (Austrians and some Prussians) and Foundry (Prussians).

Thanks!

[syrinx0]

That looks like it will be a very entertaining battle.  Good to hear you have recovered your health and can game again.

[juergen c. olk]

Excellent looking game.

[FifteensAway]

Read through the block post.  Very nicely thought out adaptations to make the battle work on the table - sorry, exquisite table. 

Never heard of the rules you are using. 

[olicana]

The rules are my own adaption of classic Piquet for fighting larger battles than that for which the original rules were devised - at least that's how they started. Although I call them version 2, they are probably version 10. The original adaption pre-dates the publication of Field of Battle.

They still retain the sequence card element (revised), and the up and down opposed dice combat tables (revised) but, the way initiative is won and used are different; the command group and movement rules are different; the post combat rules including rout & pursuit are different; etc. Some of the new rules come out of ideas in Field of Battle. A lot of stuff I've developed myself during hundreds of hours of playtesting.

In short, although recognisably classic Piquet (as written by Bob Jones) with some elements from FoB (by Brent Oman) it is a very different set of rules to those commercially available: rewritten cover to cover in 30 pp, not including the army info stuff and tailored to be specifically WAS & SYW period, and central European theatre specific (I have Prussians, Austrians and Russians so I didn't bother writing them for anything else).

I'm happy to play classic Piquet providing the unit count doesn't exceed about 16 a side, and I'm happy to play FoB for large battles if that's what people are used to - the latter have a growing following because they do produce exciting games. However, I wanted something of classic Piquet's asymmetrical initiative (I don't use opposed D20s, I use domino theory, using dominos), characterisation decks and morale challenge rules streamlined for battles involving a lot of units. I've used an earlier version to refight Zorndorf (about 90 units all told) with success - classic Piquet would simply collapse under the weight of numbers.

Hope that's enough info, feels like it .

[Frostie]

Stunning and an inspiration as always

[MGH]

You say this project was a labor of love.

Dude, ALL your collections are so great you must have a lot of loves!

My favorite of your many collections is your Crusades but the Great Italian Wars is close.

Looking forward to the AAR.