Tentative AWI mods for the Valour and Fortitude rules
Untested, so far. I am open to suggestions for the leaders for each side. In keeping with the Napoleonic army lists, no more than 3 or 4 leaders of note per side.
The Fencibles use single rank bases. Halve any mention of ranks in the rules, rounding up. Thus 3 ranks become 1.5, or two ranks of bases.
We also use 15mm figures with half the number of suggested figures. Halve all ranges and distances in the rules, but not those listed below.
No units can form attack columns – it wasn’t done except in sieges.
Infantry beaten by cavalry take a Valour test instead of automatic routs. Light dragoons in the New World weren’t that tough.
Jumpy: green militia units are Jumpy. For each friendly unit with equal or better tenacity, that routs within 6”, take a Valour test. If the routing unit has a higher tenacity than the testing unit, subtract 1 from the die roll. Some militia, such as over-mountain men, Marion’s partisans and the like had experience in combat and would not be jumpy. -3 points for jumpy troops.
Unsteady: Continental units before 1778 did not have confidence with bayonets, in fact often lacking bayonets. Militia all during the war are Unsteady, bayonet drill (and bayonets) being as rare as hen’s teeth. Unsteady units reroll 6s in assault. -2 points for Unsteady troops.
(this might be overdoing it. Treating Continentals as sate troops might be enough, and militia might be crappy enough as is.)
In some scenarios, American brigades might be the size of a regiment. In those cases, treat them as regiments and the division they belong to as a brigade. No leader is used for such small brigades.
Leaders:
Washington (10 points) may reroll one Valour test each turn for a unit within 6”
Wayne (10 points) add 1 to melee value of American units within 6”. Wayne may also move into contact with an enemy unit and lend melee support like a unit at the end of the action phase. Post melee Wayne tests and is removed if the score is less than 4.
Arnold (20 points) as Washington and also Wayne in all respects. He may not have any of these traits after changing sides – the British don’t really trust him. He costs no points for the British.
Morgan as Washington for rifles, militia and state troops.
Cornwallis (10 points) as Washington, for Crown troops.
Rawdon (10 points) as Wayne, for Crown troops.
Tarleton (5 points) as Wayne, for British Legion troops.
Rating troops:
British regulars in 1775 (Bunker Hill) were trained but green, unable to drill properly while cooped up n Boston. Treat lines units as Loyalists, elites as regular British Line.
American militia at Bunker Hill (yes, I know it was actually fought on Breed’s Hill) should be treated as unsteady state troops, since the jumpy chaps had all run away during the naval bombardment. Those remaining were up for a fight.
Continental troops in 1776 and many of them in 1777 should be rated as state troops. Later than that, only newly raised Continentals should be rated as state troops.
October 30, 2022, 11:21:13 PM
