"The Fight for Ward's Crossing". Sharp Practice battle report- Full report...

[Silent Invader]

I thought I looked quite dashing  

Great days gaming   Thanks again for hosting  

I concur with the second para .... the first..... am not qute so sure!   

Was indeed a great days gaming..... the change of light reveals how long, accompanied throughout by tunes from the Alamo soundtrack and then, somewhat spookingly as the main battle raged, the sound of fireworks from outside.

[Malamute]

I concur with the second para .... the first..... am not qute so sure!   

Was indeed a great days gaming..... the change of light reveals how long, accompanied throughout by tunes from the Alamo soundtrack and then, somewhat spookingly as the main battle raged, the sound of fireworks from outside.

No comment on Mr Bibbly's delusions about his looks

I think we played for something close to 10 hours. It certainly didnt feel like a marathon slog and the battle could have gone either way on many occasions. It was certainly a very close thing, I am confident we shall get a good deal of mileage out of the rules.

[Captain Blood]

Davy Crockett, sniped once - missed.
Gregorio Mendoza, chosen man, sniped three, hit three - two 'big men' and one Davy Crockett. Dead 

Ah one shouldn't gloat, but I did enjoy that (sorry James  )

I was a little worried when I first saw the rules ran to three volumes! But they were fairly straightforward once you got going...
Not without a few flaws though.
The random card activation, for instance, seems to require a bit of work. As I discovered when, after my first move, I ran a unit of Mexican infantry across the dusty square - after which they totally failed to activate. At all, for the next SEVEN moves. Their card simply never came up. So they just stood there whilst the assembled Texians poured fire into them from the surrounding rooftops. For seven rounds! Miraculously, none of them were killed - but they took a ludicrous amount of shock points. In reality, even lacking initiative, after a couple of rounds of this, a unit in these circumstances would have fallen back to cover, rather than just standing there and taking a beating.
So this is one rule we agreed we would introduce in any future game - a discretionary withdrawal to nearest cover if no activation is forthcoming after say, three rounds...

Apart from that. Jolly good show 

[Aaron]

Not without a few flaws though.
The random card activation, for instance, seems to require a bit of work. As I discovered when, after my first move, I ran a unit of Mexican infantry across the dusty square - after which they totally failed to activate. At all, for the next SEVEN moves. Their card simply never came up. So they just stood there whilst the assembled Texians poured fire into them from the surrounding rooftops. For seven rounds!

We allow units not activated during the turn to fall back as if they lost their bottle (in other words they have to move away from all visible threats). Makes perfect sense.

[Dr. The Viking]

Wouldn't they be allowed to act upon the tea break card and shoot at the nearest enemy?

Or didn't that make it to Sharpe?

[OSHIROmodels]

They were shooting when the tiffin (taquila) card was pulled out but stood standing there like buffoons 

Oh, and Richard... I'll get my own back at some point 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

We allow units not activated during the turn to fall back as if they lost their bottle (in other words they have to move away from all visible threats). Makes perfect sense.

This is an option I have in my F&IW version (added after a try-out game in which a group were repeatedly passed by hordes of scalping indians and did exactly nothing for turn after turn).  Unfortunately, on Friday night I forgot all about it.... D'oh.   I was playing in the third scenario rather than being 'rules monitor' and as it hadn't cropped up before I was probably too intent on trying to hold the eastern flank of the town square (not that I succeeded, as I eventually ran away).

[Galloping Major]

Superb stuff 


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

[Colonel Tubby]

Well made figures, brilliantly painted and then involved in a great looking game is sort of insperation that really gets you thining about a new project - and I have to say this thread ticks all the boxes.

So my 'no new lead this year' (already broken in a small way) vow may now become 'no new lead till the end of June!' vow!

[Johnno]

Brilliant collection of minis and terrain and well summarized report.

[Sambeaux]

In the rule the group in the open may move towards cover at 1D6 inch per turn if they stand in the open like you say.  So they fire and withdraw towards cover.  This seems covered to me.

Also, I do not understand that the rules are three volumes.  I have only one book.  Is this not right?

These pictures are very wonderful. I am painting my figures for my first game with Sharp Practice and very much look forward to it.

[timg]

Ah jist caint berlieve ol Davey done missed! Never happened when he was shooting baars back in Tennersee, why it's a regular sin aginst Crockett pard................

[Silent Invader]

 

For those of us on the Texian side, Davey's performance was something of a disappointment!

In the rule the group in the open may move towards cover at 1D6 inch per turn if they stand in the open like you say.  So they fire and withdraw towards cover. 

Ahh, I don't remember reading a rule quite like that; can you point me to where it is?  Thanks  

Also, I do not understand that the rules are three volumes.  I have only one book.  Is this not right?

The printed set comes as one volume but I bought the pdf, which I then printed and bound (along with my own F&IW notes) as three.

[Malamute]

I am sure it wasn' the real Davy Crockett, perhaps it was just someone who looked like him

[Plynkes]

Maybe he was pissed off at you all calling him "Davy." I hear he didn't care for that nickname.