The Seven Years War

Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm When we don’t want to do a particularly big game, and prefer someone else to do the thinking for us, we often resort to a Charles S. Grant scenario. In this case, we culled one from Scenarios for All Ages (1996), a little book he co-authored with Stuart Asquith. It

Seven Years War, Die Kreigskunst, 28mm You won’t find Kirriesdorf in any atlas. This was a fictional battle, fought out in Kirriemuir in Scotland, laid on by the local wargames club. They’d invited the “Tricorne” team (myself and Dougie Trail) up to umpire, so it presented an opportunity to put the rules through their paces.

Seven Years War, Die Kreigskunst, 28mm In the latest Battlegames (Issue 14), Charles S. Grant offered up a new “Tabletop Teaser”. Well, we planned to have a Seven Years War game today, as a sort of warm-up for a much larger game up in Kirriemuir over the weekend. Charles’ scenario looked ideal. It involved two

The Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm Last week, after my miserable defeat in the Advanced Column scenario, the Prussian commanders laid down a challenge. They said that if the Prussians had been attacking and the Russians defending, then they would have captured their objectives without any problem. Consequently we decided to repeat last week’s

The Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm I blame Charles S. Grant. He seems like a nice chap, a mild-mannered retired brigadier, but he’s really a sadistic individual, hell-bent on making a wargamer’s life an unpleasant one. Anyone who thinks this a bit harsh obviously hasn’t seen his Scenarios for Wargames (1981). You see, we decided

The Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm The aim of this game was to introduce a handful of new players to Die Kriegskunst – part of a greater bid to convert the world into Seven Years War aficionados. I wanted to run a small game, and came across the perfect scenario in Charles S. Grant’s

Seven Years War , Die Kriegskunst, 28mm I really haven’t been having much luck with my camera lately – a severe case of operator error. My apologies for the washed-out look of some of these pictures. Anyway, this game was all about testing out a scenario Dougie Trail concocted for our forthcoming Die Kriegskunst rules.

Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm This was another playtesting game, albeit a rather big one. In truth though, it was really an excuse to field our new cavalry units – the regiments we’d painted up for the Gross-Jagersdorf demo game at the start of the month. It involved a clash between two of my Russian

Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm On 3rd November we laid on a demo game at the Targe 2007 show in Kirriemuir. We refought part of the Battle of Gross-Jagersdorf (1757), with my Russians pitched against Dougie Trail’s Prussians. The battle turned out pretty much as expected – my cavalry were trounced (they were both outnumbered and

Seven Years War, Die Kriegskunst, 28mm Well, this made a change from what seemed like an interminable string 20th century games. The idea was to playtest a scenario for Die Kriegskunst, our Seven Years War adaptation ofGeneral de Brigade. Actually, it’ll be more than a scenario – we’ll be using this small engagement  – the