Sunday 15 March 2015

Seven Years War Campaign

In Sam Mustafa Might and Reason rules he has campaign rules using the board game 'Soldier Kings' by Avalanche Games. I have had a copy of this for a number of years and I thought it would be interesting to run a solo campaign using the game.


The game used area movement and can be played as European or worldwide conflicts including North America, the Caribbean, India and the Spice Islands.

This is the European Map.


I am going to kick off this campaign using  the Global Map and the "The World at War' set up. I am going to use the 2 player set up. This will see France and Austria, with Saxony as an Austrian minor ally, up against Prussia and Britain. 

My plans are to use the Board Game rules for Naval Combat as I don't have any ships. For land combat I will use different rules and figures.  

The figure collections I am thinking of using include:

40mm Prince August Imaginations
28mm SYW
28mm French and Indian Wars

I may also fight the odd game using my 28mm Great Northern War and 15mm Napoleonic collections.

For rules I have a wide choice of options including:

The War Game
Charge
Jim Purkeys SYW rules
Musket and Tomahawks
Might and Reason
Don Featherstone 1750 Newsletter rules
Beneath the Lily Banners
Maurice
Lasalle if I do a Napoleonic game.

Whatever rules I use I will translate the campaign battles into tabletop battles and having fought a battle translate the loses back into board game and flip/remove armies as required.

I am going to set the game up over the next week and I hope to be able to fight the first battle in the coming weeks




4 comments:

John Ray said...

Mark,

Look forward to following the Campaign.

John

Der Alte Fritz said...

Best of luck with your campaign It should provide a lot of fun

Brian Carrick said...

An interesting undertaking, I look forward to seeing how it unfolds.
Best wishes, Brian

Corporal_Trim said...

Sounds good, Mark. I look forward to reading more.