Getting A Round Tuit

Not much hobby time recently but I decided that I needed a quick game today. A War of 1812 Square Brigadier game seemed about right.

About 2 years ago I decided that having done 1812 for 20 years in 54mm and 40mm at various level from skirmish games to refighting historical battles, I didn't want to continue as I had been doing but neither did I want to drop it. A few test games showed that a Square Brigadier version was just right for short, easy to set up and play, One Hour style games. More experiments showed that 2 stand, 12 figure infantry units on the 6" grid worked well for me. They could also supply 1 stand units for use on the 3" grid portable board.  All I had to do was rearrange my existing units and  rebase, touch up or add a few figures to fill out my existing 40mm British and American armies.

So there I was, starting to consider scenarios,  then I looked at the cluster of figures in three different basing systems with various organizations and a few figures needing repair.....oh......I had made the decision about what I needed to do to make my 1812 armies game ready at a minutes notice again, but..... I hadn't gotten around to it.

1 infantry, 2 light infantry, and 1 artillery unit waiting for the glue to dry.
Since basing doesn't matter in Square Brigadier I could have  played with the figures as was, but I decided to finally get a start on executing my decision. Tomorrow though, I plan to play a game  regardless.

A Square Brigadier game from Dec 2016 (click here for the battle report)


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