Onward Wooden Soldiers..

..marching as to war.

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More Wooden Wars

I've been coloring and staying in-between the lines like a big boy (mostly). Trying to get everything done before the deadline.  Doesn't help that I fell victim to Project Creep. After the fairly successful inaugural game of Wooden Wars (featured in the last post), naturally I decided there had to be MORE.  

Not long after, another box of wood from Thomas at Skull and Crown Miniatures arrived.  

What project creep looks like.
Looks like a box of fun times ahead.

The success of my quest

rests with inventiveness,

precious freshness is stressed

as this chart will suggest...

The idea now is to have an 8 player game that looks like:

This chart is super fancy

My thoughts being that each player (be they either a child or an adult with youthful joy in their hearts) would get 1 bog-standard-boring infantry unit of 14 figures, and one unit of something COOL; Could be a 3-cannon battery (two available), or a 7 figure cavalry unit, or a 14 figure elite infantry unit.  

What does an elite infantry unit look like? They have fancy hats.  

Sampling of the elite British.
See the fancy hats?

Sampling of Elite French with even fancier hats
They also have fancy boots.
The French just love to be fancy

Elite infantry are better at melee and get a save when knocked over by shooting balls.

Since I am such a loyal Wooden Wars customer, Mr. TF threw in some fun extras like some command sprues and flags. These don't get any special rules, just spice up the overall appearance of infantry.

Sampling of the Command; flags and drums.
French left, British right.
Cummin and Turmeric

Everybody knows that Napoleonic infantry were terrible, lazy soldiers.  to help them out with some necessary leadership I've added two Officers on foot for each side.

Officers also have fancy uniforms

Officers lead from the front and provide a rally and melee bonus.

That also rounds out all the infantry needed.

And now to sprinkle in some more Artillery to add some needed kick..

British 3-gun battery
3 cannons and 12 figures.

French battery of the same make up

Going back to my freshness chart above, all the infantry and artillery are done.  grand totals of 72 foot soldiers, 6 cannons, 24 cannon crew, and 1 mounted Army leader PER SIDE.  Not bad.

Put like that, it sounds like a lot of miniature flats.  Luckily, storage has never been easier...

The flats are quite robust, being all wood and glue,
so just tossed into a tub.

Final Effort

It's 3 weeks to the convention and it's the final push to get everything done.  A few more things for Wooden Wars and not to mention the 3 other games that I'm running that weekend.  

The crucial thing for Wooden Wars is the actual battlefield.  While we could play on whatever floor / carpet is there at the place, I'm gonna go the extra mile and make a 8 x 10 foot -ish sized battlefield by getting a big canvas drop cloth and painting it various browns and greens.  As long as it doesn't come out looking too much like bad camouflage it'll be acceptable.  Lay it out like a giant rug.

Also I'd like complete all the cavalry if possible:

Here's a big pile of cav sprues.
Cav is always a pain, no matter the game system.
And it looks like they also have fancy uniforms and saddles.
Nap cav must be Primadonnas.  

Wooden Wars uses a 12 inch stick for all it's measuring.
In some circles that's called a ruler.
But I got these fancy 'Batons' for extra class.
Not needed, but fun.

3 weeks out is a pretty good spot to be in, but one never has as much time as one thinks.  There's also in that timeframe Son #2's birthday and Easter coming up, which means I also need to make the Easter Egg Racing track for the traditional Easter Egg race down the stairs.  

Stupid family traditions that bring joy and laughter to family, why'd we ever start that one I'll never know.

Thanks for reading,

Double thanks for writing a comment, fancy or otherwise.

Till Next time.