Wednesday 29 April 2020

The Pennsylvania Militia in action


Fort Cumberland and Chester
The Pennsylvania Militia
Lt Quincy Adams Wagstaff @3 points each (Wobbly kneed)
Ensign Dick Tugger (the favourite nephew)
2 groups Militia Infantry Foot @ 4 points each

Ramjet's Fort
Ramjet's Rangers
Captain Roger Ramjet, 
(Resourceful and handsome)

"Lootenant" Bucky Barnes
Sergeant Chawplug
2 groups Light Infantry
1 group of scouting Iroqoius, under  Chief Chinyougeek

Coureurs de Bois
2 groups Coureurs de Bois (lead by the traitor Enoch Petain) 
2 Large Aggressive groups Mohawk Native Americans

The Delaware
1 Group Huron
1 Group Abenaki
1 Group Odawa


The Campaign map using the area of Braddock's advance to the Monongahela


And the map with my solo mechanism entry points on it.  Just where are those tricky French?

FR1 to FR6 selected with a simple D6 dice roll.
Select a Scenario with a D10
  1. First clash on Lament Ridge
  2. The Great River Chase
  3. Bridge to Victory
  4. Bullets and Beans
  5. Patrol to McClure's Field
  6. Retreat to the Sunken Road
  7. Widow Creek Bridge
  8. Attack at Fort Glory
  9. The Enemy's Enemy
  10. A Long way from Home
  11. Star Spangled Night
  12. Defending Mendenhall's Battery
Civilians 
Landscape Artist Langdon Town
Woodsman Hunk Marriner 
Reverend Belcher, Alcoholic Missionary
Charlie Mason and Geordie Dixon, surveyors.
Wiseman Claggitt trading guns to the Mohawks
Logan, the Algonquin Mingwe
Cayuga of the Six Nations and his two sons.

Game One
A long way from home; a small skirmish on the Conococheague.

Random events


6.  The Bear.
A large and angry Grizzly appears within 6" of a random group, between the group and the river.

5.  The Wolf
The howl of a lone wolf echoes across the tabletop.  A Ranger from a random group looses a shot at it.

4.  The coward
A figure in a random group breaks and runs for their home baseline.

3.  The trip/broken leg
A clumsy fall, and a figure in a random group breaks a leg.  A comrade will assist him towards the baseline at quarter speed.

2.  The mud pit
A randomly selected group discovers a mudpit to their direct front.

1.  Wet powder
The group nearest to the river has damp powder.  Hand to hand only from now on.

Game on.

The Pennsylvania Militia

Lt Quincy Adams Wagstaff @3 points each (Wobbly kneed)
Ensign Dick Tugger (the favourite nephew)
2 groups Militia Infantry Foot @ 4 points each
1 group Rangers, Sergeant Chawplug. (Ruthless)
Civilian: Reverend Belcher, drunk.

vs

French Coureurs de Bois 
French Lieutenant de Militia Jean Luc Petomaine (the ballroom darling)
Sergeant Christophe Courgette  (cad)
Marine Bou Baguette.  (Mon Bravé)
1 Group of French woodsmen
2 groups of 12 Abenaki Natives under Magwoo (unlucky)


The Militia and Rangers encounter the Abenaki and French.
First honours to the Militia 
The second Company volley is almost as effective


The French reply is pretty poor.

Magwoo, short sighted Abenaki chief goes against the Rangers and is hit..  we are going to need a new chief...

Ensign Dick Tugger, of the Boston Tuggers, leads his men forward in a skirmish line.  Their fire devastates the French.  In an event roll however one of his men falls and breaks a leg.  
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, hero of Pennsylvania, stands firm and volleys the Abenaki

The Rangers go after Magwoo's band and give them more flying lead.  Reverend Belcher is rescued.

Enoch Petain is the sole remaining Frenchman. The Militia just can't kill him!
And so a victory for Pennsylvania.  The Governor will love it...  6 honour points to Wagstaff...

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