The Bordurian Incursion (Sharpe Practice): Part 6 The final battle

[Sgt_T]

Thx Andrew!

In the final battle of our campaign both the Bordurians and the Syldavians threw all their remaining troops at each other in the town of Waswa.

The Syldavians cleary had the advantage of defening their hearth and home. They managed to wear the attacking Bordurians down while keeping their own force morale high.









More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-bordurian-incursion-part-6.html

I really enjoyed the campaign and gaming with more colorful figures (did a lot of ww2 gaming). I also like the Sharpe Practice rules a lot.
Our next games will also be Sharpe Practice games where our more historical American Civil War armies are going to face each other on the table.


T

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Brilliant stuff! Thank you for posting. A close one for the brave Syldavians (Rivers make good borders!). I’m interested in what you do with ACW (something I’ve considered many times looking at Peter Pigs range). Are you doing actual historical stuff or a fantasy/imagination style campaign within the setting? Are you using any part of v1’s Terrible Sharp Sword supplement or plain SP2? (Off to read your full post and scan re-read TSS to see what use it could be and what would need to be changed for v2 - as I can’t remember  ).

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[Sgt_T]

Thx Andrew!

I've collected ACW (and a few napoleonic suitable for ACW) scenarios, some historical, some fictional from magazines. I've also got "the coming thunder", a campaign supplement for TSS.
We will use SP2 and adapt the older TSS scenarios. According to the TSS author, negative TSS cards would best be changed into a random event and positive TSS cards changed into a unit characteristic.

After gaming the scenarios, a fictional campaign where a Confederate raiding party enters Union territory using a campaign map similar to the Bordurian incursion one is a definite possibility.

T.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

After gaming the scenarios, a fictional campaign where a Confederate raiding party enters Union territory using a campaign map similar to the Bordurian incursion one is a definite possibility.

T.

That’s pretty much what I love about Sharp practice - the scale of conflict and look on the table (I really struggle with 8 men being a battalion etc!).

My plan for my fictional (that was the word my morphine addled brain was searching for! ) AWI was a campaign based around the British finding out (sometime relatively early in the war) that some foreign specialists (dastardly frenchies) had taken a regiment/force of rebel militia away to a secluded area to train them and make a force to be reckoned with.

 I envisioned a campaign where the Brits are chasing the militia trying to find where they are going, losing them due to winter/bad weather and having to search on a map for clues, whilst the militia are becoming competent, trained, uniformed troops and the Brits uniforms changing to campaign style (using everything I have). I figured I could find lots of little plot points and interesting games along the way and maybe also use Muskets & Tomahawks (maybe even converted Forager) as well for some games. Hope that makes sense (I seem to forgotten some of my ideas/plans and need to have a think).

Thank you for posting and the inspiration to start looking back at my Sharpe practice stuff again.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain