Types of the NQSYW — Schoeffen-Buschhagen General and Staff

 

I recently noted that next month will see the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the Not Quite Seven Years War.  I suppose that 25 is not quite 7 …

Anyway, when Ross originally set up a separate blog, one of my intentions was to start posting a uniform recognition series.  So, we will start at the top.

Seen here is General von Stewart, commander of the S-B army, his personal standard, and an aide de camp with a rolled dispatch or set of orders.  Note the red edging on the cuffs and coat turnbacks; this is a staff distinction not found in any of the line regiments.  

 

Ooops I have been Delinquent

It seems that I have not added any links to games here in years. I'm afraid I didn't do full write ups on the last couple of convention games nor my own solo games nor make links to my own or Rob or Chris's blogs. Must do better.

In the meantime here are links to a couple of my own reports and a stray picture from a 2015 convention game.

2015 Charge! at Huzzah. Wow 4 years since Rob and I ran a Not Quite The Seven Years War convention game. So many rules and periods, so little time. There will be more in the next decade. 

Rob reading the players their rights...sorry, rules before the game begins.
Scenario 1 from CSG's Scenarios for Wargames, aka The Not Quite Fontenoy scenario.

2013 Solo ambush game. Link to battle report below

https://gameofmonth.blogspot.com/2013/12/nqsyw-anything-to-declare.html

It belatedly occurred to me that this would be a good place for a link to the last 2 NQSYW convention reports on my main blog. In each case the link will give a selection of posts on that event. Final entry first, first entry last in blogger's inimitable style.

Cold Wars 2010 The Raid on St. Michel  A play through of C.S. Grant's  mini-campaign. Blogger being what it is the battle reports are in reverse order so best to scroll down and start with the oldest posts.

A beehive of activity erupts as the Rosish garrison of the border town of St. Stephen spots the advance of the Pragmatic Alliance.

Historicon 2011: The Siege of Adelheim  A series of siege games using the rules from Duffy's Fire & Stone for the siege bits with Charge! for the sorties and assaults.

 The view from inside looking out and.....

and outside looking in.

Hats off to Duncan, Norman and Rob for actually building the fort. 

A Remote Game

Rob, Norman, William & I managed a remote NQSYW game using Skype. A battle report has been posted on my main blog. Rather than repeat it, here is a link to that report.

http://gameofmonth.blogspot.ca/2012/04/not-quite-face-to-face-wargame.html

 

Not Quite Lobositz.

At Cold Wars 2009, the HAWKS staged a refight of C.S. Grant's version of Lobositz. Here are some pictures and comments on that event. This and a few more upcoming posts have been rescued from my defunct webpage. Perhaps they were always that bad but the pictures seem to have lost something in the process. New material will eventually follow.


The scenario was an adaptation for Charge! and our armies of C.S. Grant's Lobositz game from his excellent book the Wargame Companion. A total of 10 "countries" contributed forces: North Polenburg, Rosmark and their allies provided the bulk of the Austrian forces while Shoeffen-Busch-Hagen and their allies and mercenaries took the role of Prussia. Astute observers will note that while the old Rosmark brigades, The Queen Regent's, the Foreign Regiment, the Gensdarmes and the Voluntaires de St. Lambert fought as allies of North Polenburg,  MacDuff's Fusiliers, The Crown Prince Carabiniers and the Ostmark Hussars fought on the other side. Could it be that a War of Succession is looming now that the Crown Prince is of age?

 An overview of the "Austrian" positions at the start of the game. Rosish infantry and cavalry in front, Stanz Back Anwatch behind them, North Polenburg infantry to the right of them. The "Prussians" can be seen massing off table in the far distance. 

Rosmark's Les Voluntaires de St. Lambert defend the Lobosch 

The game begins. The "Prussians" advance their cavalry while the "Austrian" left splits, some crossing ahead and wheeling, others moving to the center, rushing to cross the bridge before the "Prussians" can interfere.

The Rosish Yellow Hussars have joined the International Hussar Brigade along with Wachovian Brown and Schoeffen Buschhagen Blue comrades. 

MacDuff's storms the Lobosch.

The Wachovians deploy on the "Prussian" right to stem the tide of attacking "Austrian"

 cavalry and infantry. They will hold the flank but will be destroyed in the process

The climax approaches. During a lull in the indecisive series of cavalry charges, the "Austrian" reserve squadrons charge into the "Prussian" foot. These hold them off but are then hit by the "Austrian" infantry while rallying and are broken. 

The "Prussians" have finally cleared the Lobosch only to find their worn units facing 

fresh "Austrian" reserves. After 3 hours of fighting the attacking "Prussians" have 

lost heavily and made almost no inroads into the Austrian position and are being 

pressed on the right by an Austrian counter attack. It is time to fall back.