Vintage Wargaming: Siege warfare

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Siege warfare

This weekend involved a visit to North Berwick, amongst other things playtesting Tony's Napoleonic siege rules.

I''m hoping to do a mini-series of posts on siege wargaming (among which I refere you to an earlier post of a Paddy Griffith article in Minaiture Warfare here)

Meanwhile as an experiment I have set up a slide show from our playtesting.

5 comments:

Chris said...: Really nice slide show -- a successful experiment I'd say!; 22 June 2010 at 01:53
DeanM said...: I like that slideshow - very good progression and good timing. I'm very interested in reading your posts on the Siege rules. Nice Vauban fort! Dean; 22 June 2010 at 04:05
rhingley said...: Excellant slide show. Interesting report on how your game advanced.; 24 June 2010 at 00:45
Don M said...: Very nice slide show and report, only thing
I can take (minor) issue with is there should be
allot more ruble simulated (perhaps with brown felt?)that would at very least be considered rough ground to the attacker? Just a thought.; 21 February 2011 at 03:40
Vintage Wargaming said...: Thanks Don

this was a play test for the rules so not in full aesthetic mode...; 21 February 2011 at 10:47

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