League Of Augsburg - Fighting Talk

Played a scenario loosely based on Mr O Brien's. First time muskets were not overpowering. Unfortunately this put Lt Prescot in a pickle.
Found here: http://Platoonforward.blogspot.com

Enjoy

Joe

Good looking game Joe, your prisoners are certainly better clothed than mine. Still no misfires on your shooting? You need to get Gerry to come along and show you how it's done
Cheers
Dave

I can cheerfully say that I've kept my end up with losing 8 men this morning to misfires, with 3 out of 4 men in one firing round!! Go figure!!!!

Cheers

Gerry

Gerryjd wrote:I can cheerfully say that I've kept my end up with losing 8 men this morning to misfires, with 3 out of 4 men in one firing round!! Go figure!!!! Gerry

Either your troops need more training or you need new dice, are you sure they only have one 1 printed on them?
You must dread everytime the reload card come up
Cheers
Dave

Wow that is some bad luck! I have had some misfires and I think it does add "color" that will be missing from later years. My question is how unreliable were the muskets? Could you really lose 3-4 men in one go? ( It does make for some great gaming stories!)
Not being an expert by any means that still seems high. As you can guess I have modified this rule as well. When I roll all my To Hit dice I also roll a single D6. If that D6 comes up a "1" then ONE of the To Hit "ones" will be live and counted. Thus there is still the same chance of a catastrophic misfire occurring but it can only occur to one person per unit per turn.
In my limited reading I have not read where units were decimated by their own muskets. You gentlemen clearly know the period better than I; am I missing something?

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Joe

Joe,
......Dave knows me and when my dice rolling is rubbish it certainly is VERY rubbish. My town watch unit of 4 men rolled their 4xd6 and I rolled 1,1,1, and a 2....... And then rolled 1,1,1! the remaining town watch chappie very sensibly decided not to fire his musket again the remainder of the game!!!!!

Oh, and don't mention grenades to Toggy.....he had a nightmare today with them!!!!!

Cheers

Gerry

Gerry,

That is a truely amazing run a dice rolling. Remind me to never take you to Vegas. I guess I just don't want the dice to affect the outcomes of my games THAT much.

Cheers

Joe