Today on Little Wars TV we commemorate the 250th anniversary of Bunker Hill with a spectacular miniature wargame played at the Army Heritage & Education Center in Carlisle.
Can our British players devise a new strategy to dislodge the rebels without suffering crippling casualties? Or will the stubborn colonials find a way to overcome a lack of centralized leadership and give King George a bloody nose?
We want to thank our hosts at AHEC, as well as veteran wargamer and Revolutionary War re-enactor Jim McGauhey for running the game.
Jim built this fantastic tabletop and painted the 15mm armies you see in the video. He used the rules British Grenadier, a descendent of Andy Callan's brilliant 1987 classic, Loose Files & American Scramble.
Wargames Illustrated magazine just re-released Andy's old article with beautiful new illustrations and design notes. Better yet--they made it available for free!While I still firmly believe that roleplaying games - on the whole - aren't a spectator sport, I've always had a soft spot for actual wargames, because of the beauty of the miniatures, terrain etc
Even though the subject matter of this game is (technically) outside the remit of my blog (my wargaming focus is on America's 19th Century - Wild West and Civil War) and in a scale I don't have any interest in playing (I'm a 28mm guy), this video is still a wonderful example of the attraction of historical wargaming.