Sharp Practice and the Mohawk Valley Campaign

[Belisarius]

The Basementeers are starting a little ladder campaign set in the Fr & Indian Wars next Tuesday. I,m using the 3 X lists for Fr. and British as published in the book ,P86 & 89,  a different list for each game to reflect the losses or gains following each battle. I d,ont intend to re - invent the wheel and as Mr. Clark has done all the spade work , well , let's use it. First game is the Encounter scenario , the Frogs having progressed from the left towards their objective on the far right, a farmhouse / trading post / settlement which they intend to loot and burn. The British objective is to eventually push them back across the Mohawk River on the far left. I thought I,d give each Leader a suitable name and one from each side a back story, " Blooding the Dauphinoise " or    " Clear your Name " , perhaps P. 77 & 78 , as a side task. I thought I,d assign command to different people each night as I d,ont want the games to stall thro over caution plus It dos,nt depend on a particular person being there. I include the basic ladder map and a sample Force , Fr. Raiding Party at 45 points , you can see that a lack of suitable figures w,ont stop us.

[zippyfusenet]

Good looking figures and terrain. I like dark skin tones on Indians - that's what I see in the old paintings. I figure they must have spent more time outdoors than most modern people, even their direct descendants, and maybe were using bear grease as a bug repellant and cosmetic. I saw a photo, once, of some Blackfoot men, I think they were, in a teepee with their shirts off. They all had farmer's tans - their faces and hands were three shades darker than their chests.

Interesting that your white-coat French regulars are multi-mounted on stands. I thought Sharpe Practice called for single-mounted figures. Was I mistaken?

[Belisarius]

Hi Z, we use both single and multiple based figures with no problem, just add a mini dice for casualties beside the base , with perhaps tokens or different coloured dice to denote " shock " .   Agree with you about Native American skin tones , also Mediterranean / Latin and Indian / Pathan skin types.  White / pink tones should be reserved for Caucasian / N. European . Any ways thanks for the comments .                                 Colin.

[Belisarius]

In our first game the British relearned why Regulars d,ont like fighting in wooded terrain, and the Fr Capt. Gaston du Pont got shot in the arsenal by his own side on a  Bad things happen roll.next Tuesday for the second game Attack on an objective, a Trading Post.

[Belisarius]

Gentlemen, my apologies , it's obvious that I,m having problems posting pics on here.

[Belisarius]

We played the second game in the campaign on Tuesday night.

[sespe]

You have amazing terrain!

[Belisarius]

Thanks S, here is  Capt. Charles Edward "Binky " Faversham , painted last night , for the third game , tonight.