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Heroes and Commanders can’t be targeted as long as they are within 6” (or in your half scale 3”) of a friendly unit.

Working on terrain while watching. Mainly planning out stuff for my 6mm armour. WWII . Great video sir. Always fun.

When I use jokers if one shows up whoever that card is for he gets to draw two and pick the best one for themselves

Ups... The wrong comment ended up here because YT was already a video ahead. (Delete.) But an interesting system and a good battle report.. as ever. 😉

Great report, but I think I will stick with Hordes of the Things and DBA version 1.1. Deo Gracias.

I don’t like elves…

One thing I would recommend to do is add orders so it adds another detail. An example of this would be attackers are probing and testing the strength of the defenders. The defenders are trying to drive off the attackers with as little losses as possible. Love the novel idea you are always pushing the boundaries of the hobby!

Evening

You're still selling it to me, although you and the AI? Must be what it was like watching Dylan go electric. (minus the boo's, of course.)

Why don't you look up the combat resolution for quick battles in Strongholds and Followers?

Also asked it to show a summary instead of a turn by turn report. Here’s an example reply detailing one of the companies involved Infantry Company 2 Casualties: 5 bases lost (5 remaining) Morale: Moderate; morale held until the retreat order was given. Involvement: Actively engaged in forest fighting and supported the assault on the hill. Experience: Slight upgrade in experience; soldiers gained confidence in close-quarters combat. Notable Actions: One squad successfully neutralized a defensive position in the forest, enabling a brief advance and causing some disruption to the defenders.

You can ask it to tell you what the casualties represent. I ran it using the same prompt as you but told it to represent casualties as bases, with 1 base being 10 men as in Helfire.

I am starting to think Mr. Wargaming will do anything to keep from going back to his initial black powder campaign. 😂

i know this is an oldie of yours but I just picked the rules and added the solo cards recommended at the back of the book adds some chaos when you get confused and can not move a unit

There are two reasons sailing ships did not fight at full sail; 1 - Risk of fire (from your own guns firing); ships would normally fight at All Plain Sail with the lower sail sheets furled on the lower yard arm, clear of the weather deck guns. 2 - Having a lot of sail set provides more opportunity for the enemy firing to damage your rigging. I do agree that smaller ship actions (frigates and unrated) do create interesting and more playable scenarios, historically this accounted most of the naval actions.

Table looks great!

My upcoming game, just Orcs n Hobgobs will have about 20 units of 12 figures...i must be nuts

What!?!? NO archers for the good guys?

BTW Macris is still right, he told us the proper number of figures on a table for a skirmish is 3-8 units of 3-8 figures. That guy seems to know a thing or two.

Such a great, concise video. And it's not just OPR that this can apply to. Any game that isn't just IGoUGo has this sort of dilemma

My favourite skirmish rules. Looking forward to seeing how it plays out. The One Hour Wargames scenarios work well with these rules too.

Thanks for the great intro to the game. Lances only get their reroll once. Then they’re broken/useless.

I should pick these rules up finally

Looking good. Can’t wait to see how it plays out.

Christian Hillcross is a name I can appreciate.

You’re really speaking my language with the videos recently! Obviously a huge fan, keep up the great work!

Great set up. Looking forward to part 2. I used these rules with my LOTR models. Gondor VS Orcs of Mordor solo. Worked very well. Gondor won but it wasn't easy.

15:16 I don’t come to the house of wargaming for the comedy but it’s a nice bonus!

As a gamer with a couple of very small armies I like this more with every episode. It may be something for me.

Mr. Smith to Mrs. Smith, "Art HISTORY" It's reputable.

Anyone here who hasn't voted yet, go out and do so! Vote like your life depends on it, cause it probably does at this point!

The Websterverse, in the hands of Mr Wargaming, is generating a true showcase of great campaigns! I just begun running a solo “Hell in microcosm” campaign on a “Wargaming campaigns” and here “Fall of the empire” comes. Have mercy, this is too much inspiration to bear.

Note that Militia are only paid then they are called up. When called up they will be paid for a full month, even if they were demobilised half way through it. Probably page 12 🙂

I love your maps. So simple yet beautiful! I might have to pick this game up to add to my collection.

Nice fight. Most rules I have read penalize full sails by increasing rigging damage, often doubling it.

The funny thing for the Celia is that brigs were sloops. There were two kinds of sloops, brig sloops (two masts) and ship sloops (three masts). So if your sloop has two masts -- it's a brig!

Historically, the basis for not usually being at full sail in combat was for a number of reasons. Mostly, it was not uncommon or unheard of for fully set course sails to catch fire from friendly or enemy cannon fire- black powder is a messy flamethrower with the sand-course cannon powder commonly used. Second, the strain on sails, spars, masts, and lines at full sail can be quite dangerous once you start adding damage to lines and masts/spars. Last major issue is the extremely restrictive effects of lower sails on men attempting to fight from the tops. As for the guns being undermanned, the top men have their jobs, the gun crews had theirs. With a long range gunnery duel with no major casualties, and only one broadside firing, the gun crews would likely be working with relatively peak efficiency. Great game! Always got to see the day to day actions getting played!

Phillies versus Pirates? That's just an average baseball game.

Nice to see this sort of little bread and butter battle played out 🙂

I think I'm starting to get this game a bit more now, thanks for sharing. I do find myself wondering what a game of Flashing Steel would be like; set up the burning of the Phili' as its grounded verses the Barbary Pirates trying to secure it. Always fun stringing games of different themes together for that comprehensive AltHistory play.

This campaign has been the best stuff I've seen on TH-cam for ages. It kept me glued to the screen and names like General Lacky are now firmly inprinted in my brain. Thanks for recording it!

A history lesson and a war game!

Islam definitely had a hand in making the American Navy! Lol

“The broke Barbary Pirates”??? They were paid off handsomely by most of the European nations, occasionally even by the Ottomans, and they plundered the ships of the rest , selling off crew and cargo.

Also, one book to recommend is Fletcher Pratt's Preble's Boys, which covered a lot of the Barbary pirates campaign. It is in this book that has the tidbit that the officers and crew of the Philadelphia when they were POWs whiled away the time doing what -- naval war gaming.

It is pretty normal that bigger ships often sailed faster than smaller ones. Because they could carry more sail and taller masts that would get sails out of the slower sea level winds.

Great stuff! Of course Jack Aubrey wouldn’t give up the chase that easily, flying every shred of canvas to chase down the enemy. Likely the odd shot from the bow chasers would further damage and slow the Frenchman, making their capture inevitable. Historical indeed.