Other people's Portable Wargames ... Nick Huband's Battle of the Little Big Horn pre-battle report

A few days ago, Nick Huband uploaded some very interesting photographs of his latest project to the Portable Wargame Facebook page. He has decided to refight the Battle of the Little Big Horn (or the Battle of the Greasy Grass or Custer's Last Stand) using figures from his very extensive collection of 15mm Peter Laing figures, and the setup is shown in the following photographs:

Nick Huband is planning to use 'The Gatling's Jammed' rules from the PORTABLE COLONIAL WARGAME book to fight this battle, but with the following modifications:

• Rifle and bow & arrow ranges are 2 hexes.
• Cavalry movement is 1 hex.
• Dismounted cavalry cannot move (i.e. they are pinned in place whilst dismounted and can only move by remounting).
• Dismounting and remounting takes one turn. Troops who have dismounted or remounted may fire that turn but suffer a -1 penalty on all D6 die scores.
• Indian warriors are Elite and will always accept the 'fall back' option rather than losing 1 SP.
• US Cavalry are average.
• Each Indian warband has its own Exhaustion Point. When its EP reaches 2/3rds of its original SP, it will withdraw from the battle.
• Indian warbands will attack once the US cavalry are three 3 hexes away from them.

Please note that photographs featured above are © Nick Huband.