WSS Rules - Help needed (again!)

[warrenpeace]

I hope that you'll look at the WSS materials at warflag.com

There were two big battle projects, Blenheim 2004 and Ramilles 2006, that are documented there. Blenheim 2004 was played on a 6 ft x 32 ft table with 32 players. Ramilles 2006 was played on a 6 ft x 28 ft table with 20 players. In order to do that a fast play easy set of rules was developed to allow for such big battles. I think the rules can be downloaded from that website. Those projects used 25/28mm figures. The figures were Foundry, Irregular, Old Glory, Imperialist Enterprises, Front Rank, and a few others. Not sure if we had any Dixons painted.

If you don't go with 25/28mm, I'd suggest 10mm. That's not because of my personal experience, but because of the observation of a friend of mine that one is obligated to paint the detail on 15/18mm figures, but the detail on those figures become more difficult to see without a magnifying glass as one ages. The time input to speed paint 10mm is much less than the time required to paint 15/18mm or 25/28mm.

[Sarge Canard]

Some resources

http://royalfig.free.fr/index.php?/category/30

http://www.thewaroffice.co.uk/Blenheim/Blenheim.htm
http://www.tacitus.nu/karoliner/armeer/danmark/kavalleri.htm#3J


More flags than you can shake a stick at, and fast, efficient service from Stu.

http://www.maverick-models.com/flags.htm

Kronoskaf's Project WSS is behind a pay wall, but it promised to be really useful. Unfortunately it wasn't well supported, so it's closing next month. Here's the link in case it goes open.

http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Main_Page

[levied troop]

I've had a lot of fun with All The Kings Men.  It reads a little complicated but it's actually very simple once you get playing and it gives the players frequent and complex decisions during the game.  It's also free 

Available here:

http://www.allthekingsmentoysoldiers.com/documents/ATKMRules2ndEditionOnline.pdf

[Melnibonean]

Some great resources there. Thank you very much.
I've looed at a couple of them previously but all help is more than welcome.

[Lascaris]

I've always liked Might and Reason for the 18th century. Still available, I believe, in a pdf format.

[warrenpeace]

Melnibonean, if you decide to go with 25/28mm, note that there is a Word document on the "Blenheim_2004" Yahoo Group files section that is a guide to which Old Glory figures work for which nations. It's by Ian Croxall and it's the last file in the section. You probably have to join that very quiet Yahoo Group in order to access it, and then have to enlarge to read it:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Blenheim_2004/files

Also, the best painting and flag information that I've found is on the CD's from Robert Hall, Claus-Peter Goldberg, and Gianncarlo Boeri. You can usually find them at On Military Matters, a bookstore in New Jersey, USA. Here's the Marlburian section:

http://onmilitarymatters.com/pages/dfcatalog.php?period=1710

Another source worth checking is the Nec Pluribus Impar archives:

http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/archives/archiv.htm

[warrenpeace]

Found the rules that we used for Blenheim 2004 and Ramilles 2006 on the warflag.com site. These were for low detail and faster play to allow us to play really big battles with battalions and squadrons and batteries instead of brigades. The free download is a ZIP file:

http://www.warflag.com/blenheim2004/documents.html