Vauban's War Playtest for Historicon Game

G'Day wargamers!

We just completed my last playtest for the Historicon convention. Should be one helluva adventure at Historicon!

Pre-work

The sweatshop has been busy here at the Burgess household, as I have upgraded or completed the following VW items:

• Painted spies being hung (Hallmark figures - small 15mm). A little mood lighting for the game. :-) 
• Painted Gabions for the First Parallel. This took forever and was very tedious and repetitive. I really love the results though, and certainly better than my last post showing the base tan-colored gabions. Gag.
• Rebased and flocked sappers to make them easier to handle.
• Flocked the bases for seven wagons for the garrison and besiegers.
• Built three walls (actually four) to make the fort into a potential five-star fort, but only four bastions will be in the Historicon game. Made some more glacis terrain to properly encapsulate the fortress.
• Made a base to put the fort on to allow quicker setup and used glue dots to keep it in place. I still want to have flexibility in my fort designs so I'm very hesitant at gluing everything in place. I may buy more bastions from PaperTerrain, so I can glue some of these structures into place. I'm pretty concerned about setup time for my game, especially if I can't arrange a helper or two.
• Terrained the "ruined" version of all my PaperTerrain houses. I also made one burned out village to add to the table.
• Painted 24 artillery crew (from Hallmark) for my Siege Guns (also from Hallmark). Painting figures is much more difficult with older eyes!
• Created about 30 gun emplacements to use instead of foam markers I was using. I printed out a wood planking patter from an internet image and resized it for my miniatures. Then printed it on good paper than mounted it on the same foam paper sheets I was using. I like how they turned out.
• Painted the wood logs in my 2nd and 3rd parallel trench pieces. This took a while but was worth it.
• Upgraded the rosters to eliminate units not in play and added tips for both sides so they can read them and jump into the game.
• Changed my UI loss markers to stacks of cannon balls (BBs) that were black, so I just had to glue them together, add dirt, then seal them with flat matt finish. I really like how they look. One marker per UI lost. 
• Ordered double height gabions just in case I have the energy to upgrade my besieger rally point. This likely won't happen as I have too much on my plate right now.

AI Discussion of Vauban's Wars

NotebookLM 

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https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/50052286-bf70-4b20-9846-53071043e428/audio

The Game

I lost my phone in the ocean so I lost all of my game photos. Sigh.

Anyway, wanted to post the Pre-work stuff so I remember. :-)

Eric