My 2024 gaming year is kicking off with a short Sharp Practice campaign called Muddy River Blues.
Set in April-May 1863, it's an exploration of Mississippi Marine Brigade operations against Confederate raiders in the swamplands of western Mississippi. Richard Phillips and Ron Pearce are signed up to play, respectively, Union and Confederate commanders.
I don't want to share too much information at present as we're only just getting started and hidden movement is going to be a major factor but here's the campaign map. If you were around in the 1970s I trust you will be able to detect the nominative theme.
Each of the grey-outline rectangles is a 6'x4' Sharp Practice tabletop. I'll be adding more details of each of them as the players visit them. The blue strip down the western edge of the map is the Mississippi River. The Union troops begin based at Hendricks and the Confederates at Badfinger.
I'll provide some updates as the campaign proceeds.
Now to check if I have enough in the way of wide river sections!
5 comments:
Looking forward to this 👍 Great start to the Wargaming year
A map with tables, how unusual but handy. I will keep tabs on you orocess, good luck.
Thanks guys!
This looks really good and quite easy to implement, which is of course good. Love the names too, as it's a bit of a blast from the past!
Cheers Steve! It'll be interesting balancing telling the emerging story here on the blog with retaining secrecy for the players. I may need to delay the news reports!
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