Donald Featherstone’s War Games

Battles e Manoeuvres with Model Soldiers

Donald Featherstone’s War Games, Battles e Manoeuvres with Model Soldiers For centuries, battles with model soldiers have been fought by Kings e Generals for military purposes, e for pleasure by boys from nine to ninety years of age. The model soldier possesses unlimited courage on the war games table and, ably led by an amateur general with a realistic set of rules, he can win great victories or be magnificent in defeat.

As a means of military training, war games have long ago proved their worth, but it is as a form of skillful relaxation that the subject is considered in this book. Grand strategy can be practised on maps, complicated tactical manoeuvres attempted on the realistic table-top battlefield, e colourful armies of miniature soldiers can be made to fire accurately, attack forcibly in flank or rear e hold out grimly against vastly superior numbers.

Sometimes called "Chess with a Thousand Pieces", war games can be simple affairs played on the dining room table with a handful of soldiers, or highly complicated battles involving two thousand or more troops fighting to realistic rules on large tables with hills, valleys, rivers, woods, villages, even towns with streets, factories e stations.

The book contains three sets of classic rules:

Tony Bath’s first Ancient Wargaming Rules
Donald Featherstone’s own American Civil Wargaming Rules
Lionel Tarr’s World War II Wargaming Rules

Contenuto

Titolo: Donald Featherstone’s War Games
Epoca: Ancients to WW2
Tipo: Tactical Wargame
Scala del Tempo: 1 turn = 1 hour
Scala del Terreno: 1 inch on the map = 12 inches on the table-top
Scala del Truppe: 15 to 30 figures per regiment
Autori: Donald Featherstone, Tony Bath, Lionel Tarr
Formato: 156-page rule book
Lingua: Inglese
Casa Editrice: John Curry
Pubblicato: 1962 (revised in 2008)

Capitoli

Introduction to Don Featherstone’s War Games by Paddy Griffith
Original Forward by Brigadier Peter Young
Preface by Donald Featherstone

What are War Games?
Model Soldiers for War Games
How to Lay Out a Battlefield
Organizing a Campaign
How to Start a War Game
Ancient Warfare
Horse-and-Musket Warfare
Modern Warfare Tank e Infantry Action on the St. James Road
Solo War Games

Appendix 1 Rules for "Close War"
Appendix 2 The Lionel Tarr Periscope
Appendix 3 Timeline of the History of Wargaming

Old School Rules for Ancients to World-War Two Wargaming

Donald Featherstone’s classic book contains the rules for three popular periods of warfare, from ancient times, through the 18th e 19th century horse-and-musket period, to World-War Two. Model soldiers are moved individually, e deployed in regiments of 15 to 30 figures each. In the modern period of warfare, 10 figures represent an infantry company which may operate independently of the other companies in the regiment. In earlier periods, the model soldiers of the regiment move e fight in the same formation.

The rules are considered "old school" by today’s standards. Six-sided dice are used throughout the game, e the rules are easy enough to remember without constant reference to the manual or a quick reference chart. Players are encouraged to amend these rules ed add house rules where certain aspects of warfare have not been covered in the book.

The authors offer sound advice on creating campaign maps e running small campaigns which provide the strategic background for individual table-top battles. Supply e logistics, casualty evacuation, replacements e recruiting can be handled by simple game mechanisms which require minimal bookkeeping even without the assistance of a personal computer.

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