{"id":5720,"date":"2016-09-19T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2016-09-19T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:12:42","slug":"war-of-1812-with-combat-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=5720","title":{"rendered":"War of 1812 with Combat Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long shot of the War of 1812 game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This weekend our club got together for a series of game in my war room. \u00a0The second game of the day was Duncan’s War of 1812 skirmish game using Combat Patrol(TM)<\/em>. \u00a0Duncan has been working on an adaptation of the Combat Patrol(TM): World War II<\/em> for the Napoleonic era for some months. \u00a0A purpose of this play test was to work through Duncan’s artillery rules. \u00a0While we think that artillery doesn’t really have a place in a black powder skirmish game, since its effects are sort of “nuclear” in a game with just a handful of figures, several Combat Patrol(TM)<\/em> players have asked for artillery rules.<\/p>\n

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This skirmish game involved several British units converging on an American supply dump in the upper Niagara area. \u00a0The British and Canadians had to gather supplies from the cabins and wagons while we Americans had to stop them.<\/p>\n

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American artillery position<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because we wanted to test the artillery rules, part of the Canadian objective was to capture this American gun emplacement. \u00a0The story was that the Canadians could bring a small ship to the dock to haul away supplies if the gun was silenced. \u00a0I was on the other end of the table, betting slapped around by Canadians, but I understand that the two shots of canister that were fired had a devastating effect.<\/p>\n

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The action begins to heat up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A couple of my defenders facing off against the Canadians in the woods in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the things that is different between this set of rules and the base WWII rules is that between shots, figures must spend an action to reload. \u00a0You can see some white pipe cleaners in the pictures. \u00a0Those were used to mark when a musket had been fired and needed to be reloaded. \u00a0In this picture you can also see a white rubber band around one figure (marking him as wounded) and a black rubber band (marking him as stunned).<\/p>\n

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There was a lot of fighting around this field.<\/p>\n

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With the small modifications that Duncan has made, Combat Patrol(TM)<\/em> is working very well for the black powder era. \u00a0We have accounted for the differences between close order and open order units, cavalry, and now artillery. \u00a0This supplement is getting very close to being releasable. \u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n