Turkish infantry advance - note the Peabody Martini Henry Rifles
Now that the poll has closed the serious business of 'drilling down' into the war of 1877 can begin. The sources I possess are fairly modest; consisting as they do of the War in the East by Quintin Barry and the Osprey title covering the war. I also have some ebook histories including the work of Archibald Forbes which is a great read. Of course the internet will also be useful and for reasons that will become obvious the game at the end of all this research will look rather special. I will not go into details until a couple of experiments have taken place but if my plan works out OK then it will make a huge difference to the visual look of the action.
As far as the game itself is concerned I shall be using the hex based version of Bob Cordery's Big Battle Portable Wargame 19th century rules with a couple of very minor tweaks. I intend fighting an my usual 13 x 9 hexed playing area and of course, the action will be written up and recorded for posterity. At the moment though, the biggest issue I will have is finding an action to translate into a game that does not involve anything related to either the siege of Plevna or the numerous battles in the Shipka Pass!
Luckily there are a lot of other actions both great and small that could be worked into a game and that will be my main focus for the time being.
2 comments:
Did you get anywhere with this project? Im just starting up 15mm and 2mm armies for 1877, be intersted to hear what you found out regarding other battles .
rgds
Hi Deon,
Sadly no although I greatly enjoyed the research and fought a couple of games set during the war using my block armies.
I refought one of the actions set in Caucasus which went quite well.
All the best and good luck with your own efforts.
DC
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