The Loose Association of Wargamers

This thread is about buying wargaming stuff so let’s take note of VBs very sensible prescription on another thread and get back to it. There are plenty of places on the interweb to disagree with people on non wargaming topics.

Anyway this week on the recommendation of CB I have taken delivery of a boardgame called Tarletons Quarter which has a rather nice map of the Carolinas which I’m hoping to convert into a campaign map for use with my AWI armies which are......(drumroll) NEARLY FINISHED ....

If it’s not LARPing The Patriot, then Simon, we frankly aren’t interested.

Coincidentally it came with a set of counters for The Patriot

I'm up for a few church burnings. Pref with the priest nailed to a cross outside the entrance, like a goat at an Argentinian barbecue.

In all seriousness I think the southern campaign has a lot in it that can work as a wargaming campaign - big enough to be more than pre battle manoeuvre, small enough to be gameable with proper battles rather than only skirmishes and the ability to fight more than one big battle. I’m going to be putting some of my - albeit limited - brainpower into this into 2021 .

Yeah. Boardgames like this are great for the tactical aspect of the campaign and then fighting the encounters on the tabletop

Jeremy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:21 pm Yeah. Boardgames like this are great for the tactical aspect of the campaign and then fighting the encounters on the tabletop

Yes, we did a superb Napoleonic campaign once with an Avalon Hill boardgame that directly linked into the Napoleon's Battles rules, also by Avalon Hill. So you could play the interesting battles on the table or just let the boardgame mechanics handle the less interesting ones.

We played Napoleons battles ALOT some 25 years ago. Had great games with them

goat major wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:11 pm Coincidentally it came with a set of counters for The Patriot

Yes, that's a six! (Or a "maximum" as the pyjama cricket commentators now insist on calling it.)

I believe that the Lardies do a campaign booklet for Francis Marion called the Swamp Fox, covering the Caroline's in 1780-81.