Gravelotte St Privat, 1870, coming soon

[kipt]

GRAVELOTTE ST PRIVAT

Coming soon, the FPW Battle of Gravelotte St Privat.  The Northern California Gentlemen's Gourmet Wargaming Society will be playing this game on February 18th.  We will have 11 to 13 players and all the troops from both sides represented.  This is another tactical game using my adaptation of "Snappy Nappy" by Russ Lockwood.  My title is "Sappy Nappy" (hopefully for obvious reasons).  We will (or they will, I will again umpire) play on a 6' by 12' table using my base terrain boards and Geo Hex.

To make the terrain as close as possible with Geo Hex, I photocopied Bruce Weigel's map in his "1870" rules and enlarged it.  After scaling, I gridding it off in one foot squares.  I made a set of cardboard pieces at that scale to match the Geo Hex pieces (12" hexes for the solid pieces, so it would fit in the 12" square).  I have one cardboard piece per Geo Hex piece.  Then I colored in each level (contour) on the map on separate sheets.  After looking at the amount of terrain, I decided that level 4 would be my base terrain, and Geo Hex used for levels 5, 6 and 7.  (The cardboard pieces are rough approximations of the full size Geo Hex pieces).

I toyed with getting foam and exactly doing the terrain, but lack of time (and a place to store it) kept me using the Geo hex.

I have attached pictures of the 3 levels showing the scaled Geo Hex pieces.  I believe I have enough to do the terrain as depicted.  I will take pictures of the terrain as it is set up on the table and post them later, most likely before the game as I have given myself a week to get it right.

http://s915.photobucket.com/user/kiptrexel/media/Gravelotte%20St%20Privat/Gravlotte%20level%207_zpsbsmksvd3.jpg.html.

And after the battle, I will post a report and pictures.

[paulr]

Looking forward to seeing this come together 

That is certainly a lot of Geohex

[Techno]

Looking forward to seeing this come together 

Same here ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You're going to have a lot of fun wityn that, look forwards to seeing it.

[cameronian]

Ditto

[Leman]

As above. Coincidentally the BBB Bashday will also be taking place on Feb.18th.

[kipt]

Here is the next installment - setting up the table.

GRAVELOTTE ST PRIVAT
Table Set up

On February 11th my friend Didier and I set up the game board.  See the attached pictures (numbered for sequencing) for the construction thereof.

During this week I have been doing some small adjustments, naming villages, setting up rosters and gathering the supplied for the table.

Game day is February 18th.

http://s915.photobucket.com/user/kiptrexel/library/Gravelotte%20St%20Privat%20table%20set%20up

[d_Guy]

Another quite amazing setup. Look forward to the battle report(s).

[Shedman]

Excellent

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looks brilliant

[Leman]

It always gladdens my heart to see real effort being put into crerating terrain - must be the geographer in m

[paulr]

 

Excuse my ignorance of the battle, is the white 'fluffy' stuff fog?

I suspect we have all seen a similar look on our wife/significant others face

[fred.]

Great looking setup - really looks like real terrain, with the rolling hills and valleys.

Excuse my ignorance of the battle, is the white 'fluffy' stuff fog?

I wondered the same - it is mentioned in one of the captions - it represents haze/fog and limits visibility into it.

[cameronian]

Nice board. The Prussian right flank artillery shouldn't be able to hit Frossard so your infantry are going to have to do the heavy lifting there.

[kipt]

Only the 6# guns will reach (barely) if they displace forward.