Liber Militum Tercios: The Road to Narva 1656

[streetgang]

Managed to get in a game of Liber Militum Tercios set during the Russo-Swedish War of 1656. I used ChatGPT to generate the hypothetical scenario "The Road to Narva" which has a Russian force trying to drive out Swedes from a village to consolidate holdings in Livonia.


Deployment map.


Russian Army above.


Swedish army above.


End of turn 3.


End of Turn 4.

The game started off well for the Swedes but the tides turned after round 3 when the Swedes decided on a bit of a counter-attack.

While the Russians couldn't dislodge the Swedes entrenched in the village, they managed to inflict significant casualties and killed both Swedish commanders to secure a victory.

Scenario details here: https://lecoqfou.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-road-to-narva-1656.html?m=1

Full battle report with more pictures here: https://lecoqfou.blogspot.com/2025/10/game-on.html?m=1

[Steve J]

Beautiful armies there ! The Little Wars TV chaps did a recent video of using ChatGPT to generate a scenario and forces etc too.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great report

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff

[streetgang]

Beautiful armies there ! The Little Wars TV chaps did a recent video of using ChatGPT to generate a scenario and forces etc too.

That LittleWarsTV video is what inspired me to try it out. I think I had only used the app once before to clean up a resume.

I was really impressed at the AI's ability to pull from all corners of the Internet to come up with a plausible scenario. I have heaps of reference books but sometimes you need a little nudge.

Once the AI came up with a scenario, I went back and changed the armies a bit to fit what I have in my collection and cleaned up some of the special rules to make them consistent with the rules.