Wargaming in 2020 - A Look Forward

With 2019 in the rear-view mirror I wanted to get down on "paper" what I plan to do in the year 2020.

First, Happy New Year to all my gaming friends across the globe!

I'm setting some lofty goals around miniatures and publications for this new year and I hope I can get most of it accomplished!

Miniatures Work

• Publish Vauban’s Wars in the first quarter of 2020. I'm getting the last feedback from blind remote playtesters so I should have a real good idea of where I stand. I can't image this not being shipped by end of March 2020.
• Finish building my PaperTerrain Vauban fortress in 15mm. (Need it for photos for the rules)
• Finish painting and flocking my 15mm Potemkin Russian forces.
• Finish painting, basing, mounting flags, etc for my SYW Russians.
• Finish flocking\labeling my Maximilian collection (I rebased everything last year)
• See if I can finish my Japanese for the RJW 
• Finish painting Taiping collection, then flock them. (28mm)
• Dare I finish my WWI trench boards? Started them 15 years ago! 
• Finish Guns of Liberty 3rd Edition. This will be the last and final ruleset I will write for publication as it is too much work.

Miniature Gaming

• Maximilian in Mexico
• Seven Years War and War of the Austrian Succession
• WW2 Pacific with Jungle Terrain
• RJW
• Get Ottomans on the table vs Russians and Austrians.
• Sure would like to get my 1790s Poles and Lithuanians out of their boxes!

Board gaming:

• Virgin Queen Saturday
• Europe Engulfed Saturday
• Paths of Glory Saturday
• COIN games: Fire in the Sky and another
• Spanish Civil War CDG that Jan picked up.
• Empire of the Sun Sundays with EC
• Play Jaws, Freedom (Ottoman vs Greeks), and Stronghold too.
• Gaming with the family! 

Already got Jaws and Freedom on the table!

A shot of Freedom! Unique game system with nice decision matrix.

Eric

Moldavia Smackdown - Russo-Turkish War 1790

After the excellent game of the prior two weeks, I setup another Russo-Turkish battle using similar terrain and a much more straight forward deployment so players could get right into the combat.

Once again, we are using our favorite rules, Piquet - Cartouche 2 supplement.

I don't have time to write up the entire report, but the Russians won this nailbiter as the Ottomans hit zero morale chips after a vicious firefight in the last photo of the post.

In the picture above you can see that the Ottomans had  4 cavalry units (on the black cutting board) that they could deploy anywhere on the board. They chose to clump them behind the existing cavalry horde on their left flank.

Massive cavalry charge!

All Russian cavalry is engaged.

Below, the Russian left flank is harassed by Ottoman cavalry.

Djelli are thrown in by the Ottoman commander (the long column of 4 regiments)

The Russians push across the river and drive the Ottomans away while inflicting heavy casualties. The entire Ottoman line is about broken that was holding the river crossing.

Fierce counter-charge by the Silahtar (3 stand elite cavalry) drives back the Russians

After routing one Russian infantry unit the Silahtar hit the next on the flank!

Russian infantry come to grips with the Ottoman battle line!

the Silahtar caught up in the pursuit of a Russian infantry unit.

Serbians take 2 stand of damage and the Ottomans sink below zero morale chips and withdraw from the field.