The Attack on Morobad: Some scenario specific rules

In my previous blog post, I forgot to include the scenario specific rules for THE ATTACK ON MOROBAD. These are:

• Units attempting to climb unbreached walls must stop at the bottom of the wall and may not attempt to climb the wall until the next turn.
• Units climbing through breached walls treat them as entrenchments.
• Artillery can fire at a grid area containing a section of wall and tower/gate rather than at an enemy unit occupying that grid area.
• If a section of wall or a tower/gate receives three direct hits from artillery fire, it is deemed to have been breached, and any unit on that section at the time it is breached is deemed to have been hit.
• If two sections of wall are breached, the Hauserians must take a morale test. If they fail, the Sultan will surrender.
• To test their morale, the Hauserians throw a D6 die for each of their units (not including the commander) and total the dice scores. If the totaled score is greater than the army’s remaining SPs, the Hauserians fail the morale test.
• The morale test is repeated every time a further section of wall is breached.
• If an enemy unit manages to enter the city of Morobad, the Hauserians must take a morale test. If they fail, the Sultan will surrender.
• If the Sultan is killed, the Hauserians will surrender.

The Attack on Morobad: A Portable Colonial Wargame video

I have finally finished the video that I was working on towards the end of June and I uploaded it to the Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel earlier today. The video is entitled THE ATTACK ON MOROBAD: A PORTABLE COLONIAL WARGAME.

It lasts just under 36 minutes and includes a reasonably detailed blow-by-blow retelling of a Colonial wargame fought using the simple rules from THE PORTABLE COLONIAL WARGAME (i.e. 'The Gatling's jammed ...'), and I hope that it help people to understand how the main PORTABLE WARGAME mechanisms used in the rules work.

The video can be found here on the Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel.

The Armies of Europe Illustrated

On Saturday I received the very welcome gift of a facsimile book from Mark Cordone. The book is entitled THE ARMIES OF EUROPE ILLUSTRATED and was translated by Count Gleichen* from the original German book by Fedor von Köppen. The book was illustrated by Richard Knötel and contains a mixture of both coloured and black & white images.

Besides a Contents page, a Preface, and a Translator's Preface, the book is split into twelve chapters and an appendix.

• Army of the British Empire
• The German Army
• Austro-Hungary
• Italy
• France
• Russia
• Denmark
• Sweden and Norway
• Spain and Portugal
• Switzerland
• Holland and Belgium
• Turkey and the States of the Balkan Peninsular
• Appendix (Navies)

Each of the above chapters gives a fairly detailed snapshot of the army or armies it covers, including the organisation of units and formations, the length of training undertaken by officers and men, the numbers serving with the Colours and available for wartime service, the terms of service (e.g. universal conscription, voluntary service) etc.

This is a very useful book for anyone interested in the armies of the Belle Époque ... and the illustrations will provide plenty of inspiration for those of us who like to have colourful armies on our tabletops.

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* Count Gleichen was in fact Major-General Lord Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen KCVO CB CMG DSO (15th January 1863 to 14th December 1937). He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1881 and eventually became a Major General. He served with the Guards Camel Corps in the Sudan campaign during 1884 to 1885 and with the Egyptian army during the Dongala campaign in 1896. He served as a military attaché in Berlin (1903 to 1906) and then Washington (1906 to 1907). He commanded the 15th Brigade from 1911 to 1915 and 37th Division during 1915 and 1916. He then became an Intelligence Bureau director at the Department of Information from 1917 to 1918 and then served as Chairman of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names from 1919 onwards.

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THE ARMIES OF EUROPE ILLUSTRATED was originally translated by Count Gleichen. This facsimile edition was published by The Naval & Military Press Ltd (ISBN 978 1 78331 175 0).