Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Battle of Sahay - afterthoughts

YOU do not have to be my opponent to feel there is something wrong with the Command & Control rule.
I borrowed it from Bob Cordery, who tells in The Portable Wargame how he uses it for solo battles.
Bob writes that while one side might get a run of luck, it will tend to even out in the long term, and I hoped his scheme would make a Piquet-style system for my rules.
Unfortunately, I now have to admit, and my opponent, not surprisingly agrees, that the unpredictability given by the system is more than offset by the possibility of serious imbalance.
Our Sahay refight started off fine but by the end I had registered 38 activation points to my opponent's 12.
Clearly, I will have to rethink the whole idea.
Prinz von Lobkowitz personally thanks the Marquis de PriĆ©-Turinetti Foot, raised in the Austrian Netherlands as recently as 1725, for their outstanding contribution to his victory
So it is with some trepidation that I publish the updated standings in our War of the Austrian Succession campaign.
War of the Austrian Succession - campaign standings
2pts for a win, plus a bonus point if the win reverses a battle's historical outcome
PLAYERS
.......................Battles....Wins....Losses....Bonus Points....Total Points...Score*
Me......................3.............3...........0...............3.........................9............150%
Opponent............3.............0...........3...............0.........................0................0%
NATIONS
.......................Battles....Wins....Losses....Bonus Points....Total Points...Score*
Austria................3.............3...........0...............3.........................9............150%
Prussia................2.............0...........2...............0.........................0................0%
France.................1.............0...........1...............0.........................0................0%
Britain+..........Yet to fight
*Score is calculated on the basis that two points a battle counts as 100 percent, so it is possible with bonus points to score up to 150 percent.
+This is the Pragmatic Army. It was a thoroughly international affair, but Britain made major contributions in terms of finance and manpower as well as having overall command.

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