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I've been looking ahead to our Big Christmas Game and have stuck this scenario together for the Battle of Kolin, 1757. It's designed for 'Tricorn' rules (my SYW variant of 'Shako' rules), but could easily be adapted to any other set:

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2022/11/11/ ... r-tricorn/

Excellent post.



Willz.

Willz the Wargamer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 5:03 pm Excellent post.



Willz.

Thanks Willz!

I visited Kolin nearly 20 years ago.



The church at Krechor defended by Austrian Grenz, still looks good today



Looking down from the Austrian position shows how open the ground is. The Prussians advanced up this slowly gentling slope towards the massed Austrian ranks.

Ilkley Old School wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 6:59 pm I visited Kolin nearly 20 years ago.



The church at Krechor defended by Austrian Grenz, still looks good today



Looking down from the Austrian position shows how open the ground is. The Prussians advanced up this slowly gentling slope towards the massed Austrian ranks.

Brilliant! I was once mates with Colonel Simon Millar, who wrote the Osprey book on Kolin and he also had a superb photo-album from the battlefield. Fascinating to see how little has changed there.

Mark, excellent pre-battle synopsis and impressive scenario. I look forward to the AAR.

Ilkley, thanks for sharing the photos, mate. That slope doesn't look that steep, but I wouldn't like to stroll up it on a warm day. How easy was it to get to?

A doddle. A short drive from Prague. If you stay in Prague you can also easily go to Lobositz as well.

Thanks, mate. Getting back to Prague is on my plans for my next trip. I only had a couple of days there, last time, and spent them exploring the city. A week there with some abject grovelling, a tantrum or two, and taking She Is Obeyed shopping might be doable for Kolin. Lobositz would be a bonus. Perhaps if I left her in Prague with all the plastic cards....

Well so much for the Big Christmas Game idea...

I originally suggested doing a Big Christmas Game Day at the club during Chrimbo Limbo, as I wanted to do Kolin.

"Great idea!" they said... Then proposed it to the club membership as a Facebook poll, who then picked a day when I'm stuck in work... Doubly irritating as none of them are working, so could be completely flexible if they wanted to, but they want to stick with Thursday as 'it's club day'...



So sod the lot of 'em! We're now going to play the game at my mate Phil's place on 14th January.

Looks good. How big is the table?