Epic revolution
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About the Project
I'm planning a birthday game for next year. As my birthday falls on may the fourth we usually play starwars. But as I'll be 50 next t year it coincides with the anniversary of the declaration of American independence. So why not do another rebellion again an empire
Related Company: Warlord Games
Related Genre: Historical
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Extra pics from the game
I was sent some pics taken during the game by other players. Mainly a record of every figure that died and the animals that I sprinkled around the board. Although a few pics of the actual game did make it such as the rifleman trying to take the house from the Germans.
Chimney chicken starts the pics sent to me of animals which some people find more interesting 
He's out of here
Why?
Birthday gaming session
Finally had the birthday game. It took over an hour to get folk to pay attention but once it got going everyone had fun. Everyone had a unit to control and the card driven system of muskets and tomahawks kept everyone on their toes. The colonial forces were trying to gain control of the hamlet from the British 
The brits and Germans deployed across the middle of hhe table while the Americans moved in from 4 different areas. They found it difficult to get close to their objectives. A well placed cannon shot from the hill had continentals running as they tried to cross a bridge and were kept at bay by musket fire.
Rifleman storm a building only to get shot up by brunswick fusiliers. They fallback outside and the germans take positions at the windows. Meanwhile the Dragoons splash across the stream and see off the militia
Where did he come from
Unable to advance the Americans after over three hours of play retreat off the tanke. Clearly the 13 colonies will remain in British control Getting out the 28m
All ready for tomorrow's birthday wargame. I took some photos today because I feel I might not get time to take many on the day. Obe of the reasons I've gone for a bigger scale is for the animals. Folk love a chicken
Table build
3d printed tiles making a modular table I can change the lay out with. The trees flit into holes. Used a lot of flock on this
I've been working on this for sometime readyvhor the game this may 4thThanks guys
Thank you very much for the feedback on this project. Smaller scale goes look great and will be used. The point of using a system designed for 28m with Smaller scales is something I've been thinking about. I might try that with eagles of empire franco prussian war and use the 28m minis for muskets and tomahawks which now covers that conflict. For my birthday game I have created some unit cards for folk so I'm not flicking through rule books. For this I got some forces together gor muskets and tomahawks 
Rebel army complete
I powered through and completed my rebel army in all it's colours. I still have xlme cavalry units for both sides to do but I have everything done for the scenarios j had planned but I'm still planning on swapping to 28m and muskets and tomahawks for my birthday game. These smaller chaps will see some action at a different date. They may be dull to paint but once complete a force does look good on the table
Getting bored now
I'm still plugging away at the rebel forces but I keep forgetting to post what I'm doing. I've found it very slow as I keep getting distracted
I only have one more militia unit to do and some officers. However I'm beginning to think that blackpowder might not be the way to go. From experience I know that my friends like the spectacle of my birthday games but they also like something narrative. I'm thinking thus small scale and system might be a bit slow for them. Now I've nearly painted everything I might look at a different scale and rule system Moving on to the rebels
The American rebels have a whole range of colour schemes fir their forces far beyond the usually seen blue. The blackpowder rebellion book and perry miniatures boxsets illustrate this with some guides. The early war has lots of confusing schemes as every state and unit had its own ideas. It's also hard to nail some uniforms down. 
The saratoga campaign had a few colours for the rebels including red which is confusing 
