It is about a 45 minute drive for me depending on traffic so I can forego the room. Maybe we can meet up at the show. I am debating whether to run a Coastal Patrol game or Kiss Me Hardy (using SoG ships) or maybe both. Sharp Practice is a great game. So is Chain of Command (noticing your armor there).Originally Posted by Wentworth
Lets stay in touch -- perhaps we can coordinate a Sharp Practice encounter that weekend. Please let me know when your games are scheduled at Historicon so I may sign up!
Bill
Will do.
They look great Bill.
My ACW troops are all 15mm but I have not painted in that scale since my eyes went.
Must have them out for a game shortly.
Rob.
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
My eyes are going too! Hence the move to 28mm. Many years ago I was in a year long campaign game in 15mm ACW, so I have many 100's of figures in that scale as well -- here are my 15mm Pennsylvania Bucktails and 15mm Hood's Texans;
Now I really need to look mine out Bill.
Rob.
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
I am playing French and Indian War Sharp Practice on Friday -- I haven't played this period for decades, since I lived in Pittsburgh and used the Sword and the Flame variant for the period. The Pittsburgh area is a hot bed of historical sites related to what we in the states call the French and Indian War and what the rest of the world calls the Seven Years War --the first great world war that grew out of a backwoods dispute outside of Pittsburgh, that raged across multiple oceans and multiple continents.
For those interested here are some links to sites in and around the Pittsburgh area related to this first great world war (I've visited them a number of times):
Jumonville Glen -- where a young George Washington ambushed a French party starting the whole bloody affair:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/jumonville-glen.htm
Fort Necessity -- where the British and allied forces made their last stand against the French and Indians:
https://www.nps.gov/fone/index.htm
Braddock's Grave Site -- where the British commanding officer was quickly buried on the hasty retreat (he has since been reburied in the UK):
https://www.nps.gov/fone/braddockgrave.htm
Fort Ligonier:
https://www.fortligonier.org/
Fort Pitt Blockhouse (Fort Pitt [then called Fort Duquesne by the French] was the original objective of the mission):
http://www.fortpittblockhouse.com/
Fort Pitt Museum:
https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/fort-pitt/
Bushy Run Battlefield:
https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/
A modest drive North of where I now live in the Hudson River Valley are other sites related to the war. This is the area where James Fenimore Cooper set his Leatherstocking Tales (The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, and most famously The Last of the Mohicans):
Fort William Henry -- (made so well known in Last of the Mohicans):
https://www.fwhmuseum.com/
Fort Ticonderoga:
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/
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