The continuing adventures of Loki

Well hopefully you have made the journey safely from my personal blog to here without any troubles. If you have come straight here then you may need to pop over to my blog for a full understanding of events so far.

So a quick recap, due to a breach of my copyright some emails have been exchanged with the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp.

This morning I received a text from James asking if a generous contribution to the projects charity fund had anything to do with me? I could only reply maybe as he made me aware of where the contribution had come from, but this was very unexpected.

So Firstly let me thank Willie and the other committee members for the generous donation received, it is greatly appreciated and does a lot for a man's faith in conducting matters in a gentlemanly way.

About half an hour later I received an email from Willie that draws a full and happy conclusion to the whole event.

Andrew,

Indeed a very gentlemanly way to resolve this unfortunate matter.

As you said, in doing so we will be able to turn this whole thing into a positive result for all parties concerned.

So it goes without saying that we would be most honoured if  Bloggers For Charity would host a game at Crisis 2014. Just let me know what you need and I'll make sure everything is ready and waiting for you.
Crisis 14 by the way is scheduled for Nov. 8th next year, at the same venue as this year.
The venue itself is extremely easy to find as, coming from whichever direction, you don't have to leave the main motorway until the last few hundred meters. Anyway, if you need any additional info such as a more detailed roadmap. the exact SatNav setting or anything else you can think of please don't hesitate to contact me.

We will also give your organisation the maximum exposure at our disposal, details of which I still have to talk through with the more technically inclined members of our committee. But for certain 'Bloggers For Charity' will be mentioned on our adverts, flyers, posters and other forms of media coverage used for the Crisis events.

But somehow we felt a little more had to be done. So I hope you won't find it presumptuous of me that I made a small contribution, on behalf of the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp, to the organisation which is obviously so close to your heart. Just consider it as a group of wargamers supporting another group for a very worthwhile cause.

In closing I can only say that, despite an inauspicious start due to our negligence, it is a real pleasure to be able to communicate with you in such a constructive way.
And I know the following is an often used platitude but in this case it couldn't be closer to the truth when I say that I'm really looking forward to see you here in Antwerp.

best regards,Willie Bogaerts
A rather eventful few days with a very rewarding outcome and a new destination for us to take the charity event to hopefully we will be able to meet many of you there as well.

I am personally delighted with the outcome as it will enable the bloggers for charity event achieve a wider audience and share this with some of those that are contributing to this as well.

The Final Selections.

I am sure many of you, will have read on blogs that we spent this last weekend play testing the proposed game for the charity event I can happily report that we have finalised the rules, the terrain layout, table size and most importantly the forces we will use for the game.

The Rules  - we very quickly decided that the rules we will use for this game will now be Black Powder. We made this decision based one the ease of play and the fact that as it was going to be a demo game we can easily track what is happening as this will be a bit larger than a skirmish game.

The Terrain Layout - through the play testing we realised that 2 ft of the table will remain unused and have therefore decided to reorganise the layout. The final table will now be made as a 6ft x 6ft , which will be constructed from 4 x 3ft square sections this should make them easily transportable.

The Forces - Sorting these out proved to be relatively easy after the first run through of the game,we knew that we had to make the forces as historically accurate as we could and a lot of research went into getting the information.

The British and Allies:
3 x 12 figure line regiments
2 x 6 figure light infantry
1 x 8 colonial rangers
1 x 12 Provincial Allies
3 x 6 Indian units
In command of these forces will be Massey and 2 officers as well as an Indian Sachem.

The French Forces:
3 x 12 figure line regiments
4 x 8 figure courer de bois
2 x 8 figure Frances Marines
5 x 6 Indians
In command of these forces will be De Ligenere, Aubery, Montigny and 2 Indian Chiefs.

In addition to all the above we will be needing some move markers, about 24 disorder markers and the same amount of dead markers.

I will now be organising the lead pile for the project and contacting the painters who have volunteered to help.

First run through with too many French line and skirmishers

First run again

Second run small units instead of skirmishers more french Marine's and courer de bois

Second Game again with more Indians on the Brit side

Council of War

Just a quick picture of the weekend gamers who nailed down the details for the Bloggers for Charity game. Full report and details will follow.

Update from the front

Just a quick post to inform you all, that we will be play testing the proposed game and a couple of versions of rules prior to dispatching any figures to be painted. The play test is scheduled for the last weekend in August. Once that is completed we will have final quantities for the figures needed and I will begin sending them out. Apologies for the delays, but we want to get the game right before we send figures out to be painted and we only want to dispatch once and in the right quantities.

Thank you all for your continued patience in this matter.
Loki

Our French Regulars

After plenty of reading around the subject I thought I would share these pictures. Most of the regulars in our battle are French Marines, the first picture is the units formal uniform which was only worn in barracks and at formal occasions. The second picture is how the same troops dressed in the French and Indian War, these guys went native and started wearing many Indian/Canadian apparel.

 

History of Quebec - Part 3 - The French Indian Alliance

here is the third part for your viewing pleasure about 7 minutes

History of Quebec - Part 2 - the first settlers

here is part two in the current series of videos.