| If you watched our Actium wargame, you heard Dr. Adrian Goldsworthy tease a future discussion of ancient naval tactics. How did fleet commanders in this period control so many ships? How did the communicate? We have a 7-minute bonus interview clip with Dr. Goldsworthy available for FREE on our Patreon page. We hope you enjoy the extended look! |  |
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Did you watch our club refight the Battle of Actium with 1/1200 scale ancient naval galleys and wish you could try this out at home? We have you covered! We're sharing our complete scenario, along with custom unit labels, for free over on Patreon. You do NOT need to be a paying patron to access this post. It's available for everyone right here.
 If you've been watching and enjoying our 1813 campaign event on YouTube, then you know we are using the classic 1990s Volley & Bayonet for our big battles. There is a second edition reprint with some minor updates, but we are still using the original game in the club. The original game does have one unfortunate issue...there's not a good quick reference sheet with all the relevant information well organized. So we made our own! Our QRS includes all key rules on a single-sided piece of paper. We did make a tweaks to ranges in our QRS, so be aware of that! Command range is much tighter. That's the biggest change of note. Otherwise we didn't adjust much else for our homemade QRS to this classic, fantastic game. 
The PDF GUideIn our 1813 campaign guide, you get our board game modifications, new unit counters, and the complete orders of battle for the Spring AND Fall of 1813. The OOBs are at the division level, but very easy to adapt to any game system you may prefer. The PDF also includes fog of war flags you can use as a fun optional game element. Everything you need is included in the PDF! Well, everything except a copy of the board game itself from Hollandspiele! It's a fun, lite hex and counter game that we really enjoyed playing. Even if you don't get a copy of the board game, you can still use our PDF guide for the army research and OOBs to run your own tabletop 1813 battles. Merry Christmas, friends! Thanks for watching the channel and hanging out with us.
CLICK HERE to watch the terrain tutorial video. We're hosting this "Free Stuff" video on our Patreon page, but the post is set to "public," so everyone can see it whether you're an active patron or not.
We again want to thank Mark and his club for designing the scenario. We've reformatted it and illustrated the PDF with a lovely new tabletop map, but all the design work and playtesting was done by Mark's Game Room.
You could almost play the entire game from our new QRS, but you'll still probably want a copy of the original rules from Osprey. The author of the game, Eric Farrington, addressed many of the most glaring holes in Men of Bronze with his follow-up game, Wars of the Republic. But if you want a quick, easy hoplite-era wargame, our revised version of the original is a good place to start!
Happy July 4th! If you enjoyed our Vicksburg "what if" operational game, you'll probably also enjoy the full length debrief discussion. Join Keith, Mark, and Miles for an in-depth chat about the game and what they could have done differently. Do Miles and Mark think they could have managed to win WITHOUT Longstreet's troops? Why didn't Keith go for Jackson? All those questions will be answered right here on the Free Stuff page. Thanks for stopping by the LWTV website to visit us.
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