The Portable Napoleonic Wargame: Progress report

Over the past few days I have been making slow but steady progress with writing THE PORTABLE NAPOLEONIC WARGAME book.

It never ceases to amaze me that when I sit down at my keyboard to turn my notes into a properly laid-out set of wargame rules, I suddenly begin to notice the things that I have taken for granted and not actually included in my notes. Sometimes this requires me to go back to something that I wrote earlier, and to completely re-draft it and/or add footnotes to it so that the rules are less ambiguous.

Sometimes I need to take photographs or to draw diagrams to illustrate a point, and these can often take some time to set up or to draw. That said, feedback indicates that a lot of my readers find these illustrations very helpful, and although adding them can slow down the whole process of writing the book, the end product should be all the better for it.

One decision that I have made that I hope that readers will find useful is to add an appendix which will contain alternative terrain maps for the exemplar battles that the book contains. For example, the battle used to illustrate the way that the BRIGADE rules work was fought on a 9 x 8 hexed grid ... but the appendix has a map of the terrain for anyone who wishes to re-fight it on an 8 x 8 squared grid.