iefing ======
===== Recent Events =====
Towards the end of last year (1688) the wife of King James VII and II gave birth to a son. This brought home to those that he had upset with his toleration of Roman Catholics ... o England and replace James as King((technically they invited his daughter to be the queen but Prince
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Each complete game turn represents one day of the sitting of the Convention. Each of the phases represents a period of up to six hours.
===== Turn Sequence =====
- Morning (i.e. before the Convention sits)
- Arriving/leaving Edinburgh
rhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee ======
===== Offices Held =====
* Commander in Chief of the Army
* Privy Councillor
* Constable of Dundee
* Provost ... laverhouse' to many from his campaigning against the Covenanters in the South West during the 1670s and early 1680s. He is much hated by those who are Cov
ery unit must have a set of orders to carry out. These should not usually change every game turn. They should also have a posture which may well change from turn to turn as they carry out the orders.
Orders can be changed only by a senior officer. So a platoon commander needs
===== Bounce Into Action: Infantry ======
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low morale,
the battle is as good as lost.
**Douglas Haig**
There is no substitute for boots on the ground when it
low), uses 1d10 per stand firing. Officers (and other individually based figures) provide a positive modifier to a stand they are grouped with rather than an additional dice. If there are sufficient individually based figures in the same place to be
====== Bounce Into Action: Morale ======
The morale of the soldier is the greatest single
factor in war. **(Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery)**
===... morale number. This is determined in advance of the game and then used, with modifiers, to determine
====== Act Declaring the Scottish Convention a Free and Lawful Meeting ======
March 16, 1689
A printed version of the text can be found on pages 1 and 2 of The acts & orders of the meeting of the estates of the kingdom of Scotland held and begun at Edinburgh, t
====== Morale ======
The morale of the soldier is the greatest single
factor in war. (Field marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery)
This is only tested when one of the conditions mentioned below is reached
cope with orbital and air activity in support of the ground action
* it should cope with things too ... ds to support a campaign approach as typified in the Full Moon IFU campaign
* capable of playing wit... of Resolution =====
This should be two-down from the main action level. The size of action that we are most likely to play with these rules might have an
mpbell, 10th Earl of Argyll ======
===== Offices Held =====
* Chief of Clan Campbell
===== Reputat... staunch Williamite
* seeking to recover his father's estates and restore the Earldom of Argyll which was attainted when his father supported an uprising against King James VII in
====== Awa' to the Hills ======
This game is about the Highland campaign of Viscount Dundee, King James VII's second in command of the Army of Scotland in 1689. Unhappy with the Scots Parliament's declaration that James VII had forfeite
====== Logs ======
There is a famous((obviously so famed that I've forgotten the source)) quote that: "//Amateurs talk tactics, pr... ofessionals talk logistics//". Well in this game the Sergeants are the professionals that deal with logistics. Most of the contents of this section are on
====== Letter of King James VII to the Scottish Convention ======
March 1, 1689
[[:rules:clwg:1689:pe... le:James|King James VII]] wrote this letter while he was aboard the St Michael on the way to Ireland. It was alleged(("Bonnie Dundee: John Grahame of Claverhouse", Andre
Games Rules ======
I do more than just wargames, there are a host of other types of games that I design and run, mainly at [[http://www.clwg.org.uk/|Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group]] (CLWG).
===== About CLWG =====
Despite the 'wargames' in the title the group runs and plays
