Black Powder and One Hour Wargames

[Norm]

Black Powder and One Hour Wargames,

A special Christmas blog post that covers a single scenario that is played twice ... once by each set of rules.

The post is unusually long and has several embedded video clips, it also has links to related articles and taken together will, I hope, provide some wargaming entertainment over the Christmas period.

I am not setting this post up as something that is particularly insightful, but rather the long post has been put together as one bloggers recognition that plenty of people have some spare time on Christmas Day and the internet for wargame content is pretty quiet.

So please wander over, there is probably about an hours worth of new material and countless hours of archived articles.

LINK -

http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/black-powder-and-one-hour-wargames.html

[Steve J]

Thanks for this post Norm. I enjoyed reading it this evening whilst waiting for the kids (teenagers) to go to bed so we can do their Xmas stockings

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Norm.

[Techno]

Excellent post, Norm !

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

I got "One Hour Wargames" from Mater for Xmas.

Undecided whether to read book first, then blog or vice versa. 

[d_Guy]

Morning.
...and I just got Black Powder this past week so this should be interesting to follow.

[petercooman]

Great stuff!

For some reason, the OHW book has always evaded my efforts to get them in my collection. Must really try to get them!

[d_Guy]

Have now gone through to the completion of the OHW battle. While I have looked through the M&P rules and the secenarios, this is the first play-through I have seen. You've mentioned elsewhere about recapturing the "old days" with simple rules and this example gives an excellent picture  of what can be done to achieve that recapture. Like your implementation of morale (which increases casualties on failure).

Hope to get through the BP example before family duties take over 


PS - I wanted to pivot the Rebel guns to cover the exit point! 

[d_Guy]

The above would not post until I removed an emoticon ending in a backslash at the very end of the post. Someone has said that this may be acting as an escape function. Seems so!