Guilford Courthouse - 235th Anniversary

[paulr]

I found an Order of Battle for the French at Yorktown on Jeff Glasco's blog

While I was nosing around for anything else useful I stumbled onto his link to this thread

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beautiful looking game

[Ace of Spades]

Great stuff folks, absolutely wonderfull looking table and figures and good reading!

Cheers,
Rob

[lowlylowlycook]

That's one amazing battlefield!

[paulr]

Thanks all 

Note I reposted these as the original pictures at the beginning of this thread are now blocked by Ph#t$b@ck*t

[Techno]

Absolutely terrific !!



Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

V&B wing scale is so well suited to AWI - I really loved playing Paul's Camden, Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse scenarios - some of the most fun games I played, even if I did only have a 33% win:loss ratio 

I look forward to using Paul's Redcoats in some actions against Lafayette, Rochambeau and the French expeditionary force sometime soon......was that subtle enough Paul     

Look what you and Roy have gone and done done http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,16732.msg245422.html#msg245422

[Tarty]

  .....fantastic

[Westmarcher]

Great report! Also, like the layout. 

[ErHo]

Wow!! Great report and fantastic field!!!

[d_Guy]

Running out of superlatives, but simply well done! I was a re-enactor in the 200th recreation, so it was a great revisit to one of the most interesting battles of the war. Bravo! 

[paulr]

Thanks All

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse has a very special place in my personal wargaming history.

The Christchurch Wargames club put on a refight of Guilford Courthouse to mark the American bicentennial and a teenage lad turned up to watch. I had been dabbling in wargaming up until that point, but after spending the entire day fascinated by that game I was hooked.

For a variety of reasons I focused on other periods until a couple of years ago. Then I found the wonderful Pendraken AWI range and Greg Novak's Wing scale Volley & Bayonet variant.

I was very pleased to be able to mark both the 235^th anniversary of the battle and my 40^th year of wargaming appropriately.

To top it off last year I got to meet and play against one of the organisers of the 1976 refight and thank him for ensuring I got to enjoy this amazing hobby.