A (musket) blast from the past...

While going through some old emails looking for hobby related messages, I uncovered photos and a battle report from April, 2015 with my old gaming buddy Frank. I decided to post this much belated battle report although the details will be fairly vague. 

The game was a refight of the Battle of Brandywine using Sam Mustafa's Maurice rules and Frank's 10mm Old Glory AWI armies. As a side bar, I once owned 10mm AWI armies myself...also Old Glory 10mm. I have to say that their 10mm AWI range is probably one of my least favorite. The figures were a bit 2-dimensional and felt flimsy. But I digress...

Here is the initial setup, I had the numerically superior but qualitatively inferior American army against Frank's British. 

Some more pictures of the battle. In an email posted after the game recapping the battle to my gaming buddy Rob, I stated the following: 

"It's tricky because it's a small battle table with a good amount of units compressed in there. The Brandywine "river" crosses the battlefield in the center. There are fords and roads but also lots of woods and hills. In Maurice, the only movement penalty for woods and the river is that you gain a disruption when you move thru it, which is huge (no movement distance penalty tho). ‎Also, units in different terrain types can't be included in the same "force". It really screws up both the attacking British and defending Americans. I was the American army and managed to fight Frank to a draw. He was about to crack my army morale but the store was closing and we had to call it. Both armies had "oblique movement" national advantage but the British also had "steady lads" and "Lethal volleys", plus they had some elite infantry units." 

I remember having a fun time playing this game, it reminds me that I really need to get in some more games of Maurice. Perhaps I should motivate myself to finish my French Revolutionary armies. 
Back in 2015, I was playing far more frequently at my local gaming store with old friends (Alex, Frank, Steve and the store owner Chris)...I hope I can return back to gaming that often sometime in the future. For now, I will continue to paint armies in preparation for future tabletop battles.