This just in…

So I advertise an ECW PBEM campaign on my old blog about 3 years ago and got… <<crickets>>.

This time. Well this time the response was a bit unexpected.

Thanks to everyone who chucked their hat in the ring, (and to those that subsequently took it back out again to make room for others).

In the interests of fairness, I rolled a dice for each of those still in the mix and modified the scores by +1 if they were known to be really into the period and +1 if they’d sent me a bribe. Minus 1 was applied to all those deemed to be getting too much “gaming action” of late.

Two re rolls were needed to resolve a couple of ties and the eventual winners on this occasion were…

Drumroll…

Graham C and Chris / Nundanket.

The dice Gods further decreed that Graham will command the tax dodging sons of liberty and Chris the storm troopers of British imperialism.

Apologies to everyone else but I hope to run another campaign for the same period in late autumn and other interested folks will definitely get a look in then (mainly cos I’m going to bar these two). Lol. 

Thankfully it’s just a crappy game so it’s not like the rest of you missed out on a Nobel prize or something. 

Graham and Chris will be getting their background campaign info in the next few days and I hope to get started reporting on the campaign itself in the 1st week of September - ish.

This is the hexed version of the strategic map that both Commanders will be presented with. 1 hex on here will translate to an entire 6x4 table when fighting battles. Fair warning. Not all of the terrain will turn out to be as shown and units will remain hidden from their opponents until they occupy an adjacent hex or are scouted out at longer range.

Thanks again everyone.

Tut Tut

Yeah, tut tut, three parts of the way through the month and nary a post till now! 

In truth it’s been hell on wheels here for the last few weeks with various family members sucking on the hospitality teat of maison broom, followed by a stream of guests in our gîte. 

I know, I know, first world problems to have. 

The influx of guests did however give me a perfect excuse to lock myself away in the geek den and get on with some painting. The outcome of my uninterrupted labor has been several new AWI regiments and a sprinkling of British airships to pad out my forthcoming alternate history air war campaign. 

On the subject of campaigns I’ve been busy creating a brigade level AWI one to be played in instalments by a couple of volunteer generals. Orders would be issued via email, roughly one set per week, and any fighting played out on my table with the outcomes recorded on this blog. If anyone fancies a crack at it drop me a line and I’ll give you a few more deets (as the kids say). Players get to choose their starting units, supply levels, intelligence / influence based on a points value - and will gain and suffer from a bucket load of random events as things progress. Initially there will be complete ignorance of the opponents force composition and location. Players will be issued with hexed maps of the area with which to plot their units movement and the battles will be played out with C&C Tricorne rules.

I reckon I could still run it as a solo campaign but it would definitely be more fun with a couple of victims flailing around in the wilderness as they attempt to achieve their faction specific goals.

Anyone for tennis? One of these fancy pants 10mm Brigadier Generals could be you!

Here’s the totally made up area in South Carolina where it’ll all take place circa 1777. 

The Owls Head Peninsula, South Carolina, June 1777

Toodleooh.