Reply To: Which bit of the 18th century attracts you most, and why?

[Brendan Morrissey]

Rudy Nelson wrote:

The amount of color diversity in uniforms is great. (Red, green, white, mid-blue, dark Blue, browns, tans and a myriad of frontier and militia dress colors) You can field forces for battle of both small and medium and still have a lot of fun and variety.

I would add two more attractions to that:-

1) It’s a small, small, small, small world: small armies, small units, small battlefields, small amount of time needed to play out an enjoyable game. No massed cavalry or large-calibre artillery to dominate the game, making tactical appreciation and innovation most important.

2) With low figure:man ratios you can have larger units than normal, and begin to get an idea of the temporal and spatial problems of manoeuvering troops in linear formations