Lots of good ideas there from Aryaman! I think the factors of disease & supply would be particularly important in a game based on this period. Losses in battle actually represented quite a small proportion of overall wastage in pre-industrial warfare, and a serious wargame should reflect this fact, ...

Pocus wrote:Well there is a rule that would do 95% of what you describe, the cohesion rule, but its not ready and won't before autumn I would say. This will be added in BoA eventually though.

This sounds very promising; I'm really looking forward to trying it out!
Yours truly, FM Daun

Having been on the receiving end of the Germano-British blitzkrieg in PBEM games in both the above scenarios, I must agree that there is a fundamental ahistoricity about them. Granted few wargamers will be as timid as Gage, Howe & Clinton, but the way in which Crown forces parade blithely across New...