What a fantastic after action report. I checked the timer, and it was indeed only 10 minutes, yet packed in more narrative than some videos three times the length. Use of an adapted Battle Cry was interesting. A quick and simple set of rules, so no risk of bogging down counting modifiers, yet the well painted figures and scenery elevated the action well above a mere boardgame. Much credit to players, designer and the crew who edited this together. Very entertaining.

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

We haven't played Battle Cry here in our club, but it's a pretty popular board game so this was cool to see it modified to tabletop.

This AAR is a total package. Great action, commentary, good camera work, explanation of goings-on, the strategies etc. I went to the blog and something I really like to see is there-- the source of the miniatures and terrain plus a painting guide. I think those are the flags that come with the Perry plastics. Try as I may, I can never get my flags to have the waving in the breeze look theirs have. Not that mine are horrible mind you, they just never come out this good. Granted most of my black powder era miniatures are 10mm but still.......

That whole battlefield should be a monument...to the greatness that is Uncle Dan Sickles!

Hey! Great minds think alike! I put out my QS video today as well. This is excellent, I hope they make more!

Nice to see Battle Cry being used I still have 2 battle cry Boardgames and it’s how I got into Wargaming. Very well indeed.

I enjoyed the narrative, but man what a beautiful room to set up a table game!

Mad props to whoever painted those miniatures!!!!! Some very fine work they almost look real.

Excellent bat rep and a great looking game. Can't ask for more than that!

Beautifully painted figures and very well done battlefield. Nice work!!

From France, congratulations for all of you and for the figures, the narrative, the painting. You're videos are very stimulating. Nice work et thanks a lot

Superb! Great rules adaptation, great table and scenery, great figures! The video looked very slick indeed. Nice to see the next generation of historical gamers there - hope the boy had a good time. I fully expected him to thoroughly trounce his elders.

@shawnzeppimiller

2 жыл бұрын

Stuart played very well, but if the cards and dice are not on your side, it doesn't matter. I also think he may have advanced too much in echelon, going for the "protection" of the woods in front of Culp's Hill, exposing his two forward brigades to the potential of a spoiling attack. The Union player can stockpile the necessary cards for a big counter attack while the Confederates on the left need to use them to advance.

Fantastic AAR! The game was exciting and the narrative excellent.

Love the gorgeous figures, the lovely terrain...and the great AAR!👍👍

Awesome looking battle. I don't understand the mechanics of that rule set, but visually with units turning 9nto casualties it looked great. I really liked the look of the battlefield with the subtle hexes in different colours.

@NefariousKoel

2 жыл бұрын

It's the "Command & Colors" rules set. There are quite a few lines which use it, for various wars, and Battle Cry is the simplest one. It's a great beginner wargame and comes packaged as a boardgame so everything's in the box. Unfortunately Battle Cry and it's second edition are both out of print at the moment. Since they've sold out a couple times already, I would expect Hasbro to do another run at some point. But who knows? It's Hasbro.

Battle Cry! Is an excellent game. Not expensive, easy to learn, fun, and plenty of battle scenarios.

I did ancient wargaming back in high school (30 yrs ago) but never did do Civil War. Been to Gettysburg many times as I am from PA. We did go to the wargaming convention in Harrisburg one year and I fought in a Franco-Prussian War game. Apparently i did well enough, the developer sent me a set of soldiers.

Loved it ! Very cool how they converted a set of board game rules into a big miniature wargame. Excellent .

That was great!!

Great job adapting streamlined rules with a large table and divided wing commands to make a satisfying game out of a sprawling battle

The 'Commands and Colours' system is good for all the various periods it covers and is still in print for Ancients, Napoleonics and WW1

Great video and those are beautifully painted figures!

An excellent AAR for sure, love to see more from this group. Well done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great work everyone.

Man, Hood just can't catch a break, can he?

An excellent piece of wargaming film. It was to the point and it covered the action well both from a visual and oral point of view. Well done!

Lovely game. Wonderful looking table. Well done AAR.

That was really fun to watch. Love Gettysburg and all the history around it. Great setup....artistic. Must have taken alot of work!

This was an awesome quickstrike!

Love the channel but still missing the days of consistent, internally made, full-length reports

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

I fear those days are over, Lewis. Our first "season" of 10 episodes took more than a year to produce and we did not intend to do more. But now that we have gone well beyond 10 episodes, we just can't afford to not make content for a year to then release a "season" in 4 months as we did originally. We felt it was best--and really our only option--to release content as we make it and not to go silent for months at a time. In terms of volume, we are actually producing at a higher rate now than ever before.

@weasel6535

2 жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTV I understand what you are saying about the time to create content, but myself I have to agree, I find the AAR not as exciting as watching the guys rolling and making decisions, I did not finish this video, first time ever doing that. Thanks for the effort though.

Lovely! Great AaR, nice to see the command and colours system in use!

That was great! Good job.

Kudos! Well done.

Damm sickles wining glory in another little wars TV video I think there is some divine fortune for him.

What a great video, exciting, interesting and fun,, what a way to learn about history. Well done to all concerned.

Awesome AAR. Wish my group would be up to the challenge!

lol didnt even bleep out the cursing. love it

A really good effort...we have been doing narrative wargaming for over five years and believe it is a great way to examine the history and relate the battle....As just a thought, perhaps a map with the moments of forces would really help and what occurred as well as what were the losses and what was learned. My Best wishes but alas I work 15mins for mine so I sense am ineligible

@user-uy1rg8td1v

2 жыл бұрын

I would also make the voice louder, the battle noises was a little loud.

Using BattleCry rules with 28mm mniatures is just awesome!!

Sickles should get more Credit for Breaking the Union Line and Advancing. It was a Pivotal Move that may have gave the Union the WIN at Gettysburg.

Fun video, great production quality!

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

These guys did a great job for their first video!

Thanks for posting this. You guys are the best! Looking forward to your Viet Nam AAR.

Great wee battle report :)

This was a great video, and really makes me wish that these guys had their own KZread channel! Even if they only made videos once in a blue moon, I feel like they could make some excellent content (they already have an excellent atmosphere as a gaming group, which carries over very well into video charisma).

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

We couldn't agree more! They did a fantastic job with this wargame report!

Battle Cry got me into this hobby! Love the Commands and Colors system!

Nice AAR Gettysburg

Well done!

Dan Sickles. The enigma.

Spoiling attack on Culp’s Hill seems the right move. Although it’s always Attack and Die!

“Sickles the incredible!” Lol. That’s what gaming is for: alternative history.

Awesome!

great vid

I didn't get a notification for this video nor does it show up on your channel. Just wanted to let you know, and I'm subscribed

@GerackSerack

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the problem was cause they had just uploaded the video? It seems fine now.

Excellent...give us war and action...huzzah!!

Liked the report, but thought we would be getting the Vietnam battle today. All well. Hopefully we'll get it in about a week.

What if General Wright’s brigade had been reinforced on July 2. Wright’s Georgians succeeded in breaking the Union centre, but were forced to withdraw when adjacent brigades failed to come up in support. A missed opportunity for sure. I’d like to see this hypothetical scenario gamed out. I’d like to see what might have happened if the adjacent brigades had indeed come forward as they should have. It would be both exciting and informative.

If only the real Dan Sickles had been half as good as his Wargaming counterparts.

The confederates should have rang Wellington and asked him How do you beat troops camped on a Ridge and any advice ?

ive been trying to find Battle Cry for awhile now, my dad lost his and it was a fun board game he showed me as a kid, i would like to replace it :/ hes enjoying axis & allies but hes a civil war buff

I thought this was so good I had to go look up how the Battle Cry rules work, and watch a few how-to videos. My only suggestion for this scenario would be to also give the commander-in-chief on both sides a couple of units of "reinforcements" they could assign them to one wing commander or the other one. I also looked at the club's rules and it looked like Little Round Top was impassible to infantry. So how can the confederates capture it? But maybe I am reading it wrong. Regardless. I'm ready to play.

@rickwynn1821

2 жыл бұрын

It is Big Round Top that is impassable; LRT is an ordinary hill.

@Anvilarm07

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickwynn1821 Ah thanks. That makes total sense.

Our Scout Troop visited Gettysburg last month. When I edit and post our video, I will link to this one. When.

What is it about Sickles and being the hero in Gettysburg wargames? First the LWTV/ABT wargame and now this one.

When is the cut off date to vote for the best AAR videos? Because I would like to view them all before I cast my vote! :)

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

Dec. 31st! You have time!

@michaelevan504

2 жыл бұрын

All will be on the website or channel to watch?

Its my boy Dan the Man Sickles

That was a great aar. Love the large minis for civil war.

REQUEST: The most common alternate to this battle is What if Lee agreed with Longstreet and flanked the union to the south instead of fighting at Gettysburg. Yet every game I know of this battle leaves no room in the south of the map to try this maneuver. Does such a game exist?

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

In a tabletop game you can certainly expand the southern flank as much as you want, but in terms of good scenario design an emphasis would need to be placed on the rugged nature of the terrain at this end stretching around Big Round Top and beyond. Also, Confederate intelligence of this sector was nonexistent. You may be looking for a more operational game, as Longstreet was advocating a withdraw from this battlefield entirely, shifting south to a different location. That level of game would be more of a board game.

Wait! There are Dan Sickles fans?

did anyone else skip over this thinking it was an older video you had already seen?

What scale are these figures?

@rickwynn1821

2 жыл бұрын

All of the figures are 28mm Perry miniatures (except the casualties which are Old Glory).

Any date for when the Pyrrhus campaign will be uploaded?

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

We will have a big update on the campaign status in the near future, but it's currently in the final turn. Our patrons have been getting updates each turn as it progresses and they know where things stand. We'll make a public update shortly, but it's very close going into the last turn.

@iratespartan13

2 жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTV I hope you are giving Pyrrhus the due respect that he so richly deserves!

@RodolfoGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTV nice one Pyrrhus irl only crumbled in the final year of the confilct. All the best with the campaign and can't wait to see how it unfolds vs irl version.

How to make a creative Hex mat video like this one would make a good tutorial video……

Great AAR but eh…186…two???

@branttreon7815

2 жыл бұрын

To clarify:if one searches under KZread “Can Sickles Save the Union” the title card(?) appears. Lowe left, white font says “July 2”, red font,lower right says “1862”

@stevewynn4612

2 жыл бұрын

Haha. Good catch. The narrative gets the date right at least.

@LittleWarsTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thumbnail error corrected! Thanks!

Boring

@shockerck4465

2 жыл бұрын

Show us better.