[Midisfi]

I will bravely start a new thread on this topic!

With the support from Roger and Mikael, I am now actively working on a scenario for Roger's GNWB system set in the latter stages of the Great Northern War - 1714 Napue in Finland. The Russian army was planning to oust the Swedes from Finland and create a buffer zone to protect St. Petersburg. In early 1714, they had advanced along the western shores and were threatening the remaining Swedish army in Finland. General Armfelt knew he was in a dire situation, but the time to do battle had come - you can't just keep pulling back forever!



This is a smaller battle than either Poltava or Helsingborg. It will be interesting to see how the system works in this scale. The Russians have something around 11.000 troops vs. 5.000+ or so of the Swedish-Finnish army.

After waiting in the lovely February weather for three days, the Swedish officers finally spotted the enemy approaching. Golitsyn had been cautious in his advance and took no risks. He actually expected to be outnumbered by the opponent, but was still confident as most enemy troops would be untrained militia.

This was not the Russian army at Narva in 1700. Although supplies were short, the Russian troops were of high quality. However, they were against people defending their homes. Golitsyn ordered a flanking movement through frozen marshes to hit the flank of the Swe... I mean Finns (all army except the officers were Finnish). They were guided by a turncoat.



Armfelt noticed the Russian plan and turned the army to meet the Russians emerging from the woods. A powerful attack almost crushed the Russian left wing, but Golitsyn's cavalry hit the flank and rear of the Swedish left - they had no reserves left to block this. The rest is history, as we tend to say in these cases.

[Scipio]

This looks like a very interesting situation to create a game on.
I'm looking forward testing it on FF.   

Also having much smaller footprint than Poltava and Helsingborg makes it a good introduction into the series rules for new players and it should be easily playable in an evening.
And at the same time almost everyone playing it will learn something about a little known battle (at least in Sweden).

[Delirium]

Great narrative! Good to see the series getting international attention! 

[Midisfi]

So, Mikael decided to use his magic skills to create an alpha version of the map! "Tack så mycket och en djup bugning!" som vi säger i Finland. I have long wondered why our common history has been so ignored in the wargames. Well, we must "fix" that!

Mikael's (@rensarn) karta, ehm, map:


And "my counters" (many are not needed) - there is a Vyborg unit on both sides!


The historical records are sketchy at best. There is little access to Russian records for obvious reasons now... One may have to be a little creative get everything in place 

[Scipio]

That is a great map!
Really looking forward to do a test run.   

[Scipio]

Mikko postade en fin AAR från speltesten som vi gjorde på Friendly Fire: GNWB: Napue 1714

[Midisfi]

An expanded review of the play test in FF last October was published today. 

As before, here is the English Google Translate link and original in Finnish (if you want to select translation).

Mikko

[Scipio]

Wow, thank you for that well written AAR, it was a very exciting read!   

I think that it is good for first test of a new battle in the system to be a sanity test of the designers research of the battle field, force strength, equipment and the designers subjective evaluation of the quality of the forces involved.
And according to the close to historical result of the test run that we did on Friendly Fire, I think you must be near to spot on in your evaluation!