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The Board Turn'd Upside Down
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An American's adventures in historical miniature wargaming: English Civil War, Victorian wars, early 20th century and beyond. Card-carrying True Leveller 🚩 Main acct: @redpgh.com
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I just painted all these exact same minis for Burma! Mine look uhhh somewhat less good
Anyone who has used Chain of Command rules for Very British Civil War settings (I assume you're out there!): Are there army lists published somewhere, officially or otherwise? I've seen folks play CoC in all sorts of cool settings, but haven't found references for most. #wargaming #spreadthelard
It took a long time because we introduced a lot of new (to us) rules: tanks, mortar barrages, fortifications etc. But still a good narrative and it'll only be quicker in the future!
Second game of Chain of Command with @buckyizzy.bsky.social! 🇲🇲 1945: The bloody British assault on the Kyat Phud Kan monastery peters out amid stubborn Japanese defense, but a mortar barrage and a Sherman of Probyn's Horse threaten to break the deadlock! Battle inconclusive due to lunch.
Further Burma progress for Chain of Command: A couple platoons' worth of British and Gurkhas, and the medieval Buddhist holy site of Kyat Phūd Kan (cat food can) #wargaming

Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!
(I believe I saw @desmondo.bsky.social's Burma setup with multiple figures to a base, but I'm sure others do the same!)
Seeking more wisdom from the #spreadthelard community as I start CoC2. What modifications do players make to use multi-based minis in, say 15mm? Do any rules (line of sight, teams, etc.) have to be changed? If so, has anyone written a guide?
Poor man's Burma continues to expand: A table's worth of jungle and bamboo, plus some foamcore-and-varnish rice paddies. Elmer's glue and green sand doing a great deal of work here! #wargaming
Foam-and-paper Nagaland continues to grow! #wargaming
I wonder whether there was a transition point at which wargaming moved from floor to tabletop. Was it once they no longer involved flinging objects (like in Wells' "Little Wars")?
Yes, Henry Cavill is a great ambassador for the hobby, however, Peter Cushing would be my personal choice for 'Warmaster of Wargaming.'

If I'm not wrong, I believe he has a copy of HG Wells' 'Little Wars' in the last photograph too. 👍
Florist foam + cheap plastic trees + old Axis & Allies minis = extremely cheap Burma setting (in progress) for learning Chain of Command!
Loving all this inspiration as someone working on a (much less attractive!) Burma setting to try out CoC for the first time
Can any #spreadthelard folk advise on US-friendly sources for Chain of Command markers and tokens (even printable PDFs one can cut out)? I refuse to let my fascist government kill my interest in a new system before I've even tried it!
Beach vacation reading list a pretty good cross-section of my obsessions
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Ambush on the North West Frontier! An Imperial column is about to be attacked by Waziris. Bring up the Lewis. #wargaming #upthekhyber #nerdlings
Very British Civil War inspo
#OTD in 1940, Littlestone-on-Sea. Pretty special. A 4-inch and a 12-pounder gun, made mobile. #WW2 #HISTORY
I only know of it because my dad lived in Arundel for a brief time; in the process of designing a Siege of Arundel Castle campaign to play with him, I had to learn about all the tiny engagements surrounding the siege.
Whoops, River Adur! Pardon my local English geographical knowledge from several thousand miles away
Taught a friend Pikeman's Lament today. His Royalists walloped my Parliamentarians at a loosely recreated Battle of Bramber Bridge (1643). The River Arun is lost! #wargaming
Asking the #spreadthelard folks: We're thinking of trying Chain of Command to use some already-owned 15mm minis.

If I want to play e.g. Burma scenarios, can I use the new rules edition? Or is Far East only doable under the older rules until more army lists are released? Never tried either!
First run of Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket was a success! A skirmish on the streets of Paris ended with Ethos of the King's Harquebusiers rescuing two spies from a band of mercenaries.

The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming
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My aspirations are small -- I mean a single barricade or alley, maybe a half-dozen Communards against the same number of soldiers!
(Should stress that I am not the artist in the image above -- purely aspirational!)