When I went camping a couple of weeks ago, the first day I was on my own, my wife having to work that day. At the last minute I decided to try a portable war-game. I packed up my homecast Austrian figures, some French WW1 figures, and a few pieces of landscaping and dice. In the end I used matchsticks for measuring.
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Above are some pictures of the action. Both sides hit the enemy's right flank. In the end French élan won the day. Each turn there was an intuitive roll. Only 4 units could be activated. I used short and long range fire. Short range was full strength, long distance half, rounded up. The pictures were taken with my cell phone and I had trouble transferring the pictures to my computer, so the pictures are scrambled and doesn't show the action in correct order. I do know my home cast Austrian army lost their first battle. |
Matchstick measuring sounds a great idea and seemed to work out well.
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When I packed the figures I didn't bring any measure along. I have made measure sticks in the past so a wooden match would do. Of course at the campground there were plenty of sticks, too.
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