Field Days - enhanced Battalion rules for Funny Little Wars - new rules, for testing

 

Funny Little Wars and Garden Campaigns are situated in the 1913 'Edwardian' world of HG Wells.  The next project is to deepen the Little Wars rules in this era, without drastically overcomplicating things.  

So 'Militia Field Days for FLW' is designed to give some new challenges for Army Red (Great Britain and her Dominions) as they exercise in the Field, from Shorncliffe and Aldershot, to Australia, Canada and beyond.

The first test will be fire and manoeuvre - as a Battalion launches an attack against an entrenched enemy.  The British army of the Little Wars era had a highly accurate and fast rate of fire, which was aimed at the 'fixing' the enemy so that a bayonet charge could be delivered. Naturally.  

The usual FLW Battalion will be split into two x company units, and to begin there will be no character figures and the toy soldiers will fight to the last figure, as in Little Wars. Character figures will then be added. 

          To date, this is proving to be fairly tricky ...  more to follow.