Sunday, September 02, 2012

Wilderness War (Vassal) 1757 ends

Norman and myself eventually finished 1757 turn of our Vassal Wilderness War game (delays due to work/holidays for us both throughout July/August).
An eventful year (ie I played too many bloody events !) with Johnston dying early on a dent in British ambitions.
French launched several unsuccessful raids in the West.
They did however take Fort William Henry and Montcalm came South down the Hudson to try to drive off my force under Loudon which was trying to recapture the Fort.
The illustrious French General failed and had to retreat but Loudon then failed to conduct a siege of the fort.
General Wolfe appeared early in British OOB (made up somewhat for loss of Johnston) and made an Amphibious Assault into Louisbourg Fortress space.
He managed to established a siege but failed in his Assault upon the fortress.
Attrition at years end is brutal in this game (especially if you don't read the rule !!) with any Drilled troops in wilderness areas or as in our case both besieged and besiegers suffering grieviously (you loss half reduced Drilled troops and Reduce all full strength Drilled troops !!).
After a fitfull start with this Vassal game I think we are both getting into it a tad more now and hopefully will flow a bit more steadily from now on.

Overall situation at end of 1757
Hudson river has seen a lot of activity


Stalemate in west regions


7 comments:

  1. I've been meaning to ask - where / how have you been finding the modules for these boardgames, and for that matter, opponents?

    FMB

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    1. Have been using the VASSAL programme (link up on my Fav Web Links) which has modules galore There is also Cyberboard and Zun Tsu profs but I have not used these in anger
      As to opponents Norman and I teamed up via a post on this Blog but several sites have Opponents Wanted section such as BGG, Consimworld, Ahiks
      If you want a game give me a shout on sgt.steiner@virgin.net

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  2. I really like the look of this game!

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  3. I do too. It along with Washington's War has been gathering dust for a while now, although one of them is likely to feature soon in one of our "Off The Shelf" blog posts.

    For now we've settle into playing Twilight Struggle face-to-face and FAB: Sicily over VASSAL.

    Cheers
    Gary
    http://koffeeklub.blogspot.co.uk/

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  4. Hi GG

    I like look of TWS but sort of shying from until i have acquired all the 'proper' wargames I also like look of :-)
    Look forward to reading about FAB Sicily.

    I cant see a way to follow your blog ?

    Cheers

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  5. Fixed that now, we clearly didn't have all of our lights switched on.

    FAB Sicily write-up is done and it looks like we'll be heading towards Shifting Sands soon. That's one that you've played recently. did you get to run through a complete game?

    Cheers
    Gary
    http://koffeeklub.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. Hi

      Re Shifting Sands no i didn't complete game (got about 2/3rds way through turn track) as side tracked to other stuff But I did like the game a lot. Same system as Paths of Glory/Barbarossa To Berlin but with less units and smaller theatre of war it takes less time to complete

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