Muskets & Tomahawks AAR 1

Some weeks ago I and Jonas had out first tryout of the Muskets & Tomahawk rules. I run my Mohawks and Jonas his Frogeaters;)

OOB

Mohawk Indians
1x Sachem w Rifle and Natural Talent
2x6 Warriors
2x6 Bloodthirsty Warriors

French
1x Light Troop Officer
1x10 Compagnies Frenches de la Marine
1x6 Canadian Militia
1x5 Indians

We set up the terrain per the rules and rolled for scenarios, my Mohawks got the Slaughter objective and Jonas French men got the Scout objective, so Jonas also added 20points of free Civilians that I was to try to Slaughter... We have later understand that the ones haveing the Slaughter Objective seems to have a greate advantage...

As both forces was Indians and/or Irregulars they started on blinds, we used singel minis with a postit piece under the base to tell if they where a real unit or a dummy, worked fine as we both disslike gaming tables with "confetti" on:)

Now some pictures from the game:

The French Civilians was deployed on the back side of the cabin, Jonas hoping to be able to get them away and meet hes troop arriving from of table...

The single Mohawks are the blinds for hiden movement.

A note about the terrain, arround the houses and the field it was considered open terrain, The templates with big trees was considered Very Difficult Terrain and the rest of the board with the light wood was considered Difficult terrain.

A group of Bloodthirsty Mohawks made a swift advance on the left flank to try to catch the fleeing Civilians that got caught up by the Difficult terrain...

A group of Mohawk warriors seeking cover in the field and behind a fence to give fire support to the Mohawks moving in for the kill...

The Compagnies Frenches de la Marine moved quickly to try to save the poor Civilians...BUT not quick enough as just in close sight they witness a the Slaughter of all the civilians... anti climax for the froggys in turn one !

We decided to play out the whole turn to try out the rules some more...

2 Mohawk blinds on the right flank.

The frenchmen sent in the Canadian Militia to help out to pick of the Mohawks...but to no vain...

Fire support from the cornfield... and the french officer seems to try to save his own skin...

The small group of Hurons that sided with the French meet up with a Bloodthirsty bunch of Mohawks...a good end for the Mohawks in this very short first try out game...

Even though our game turned out very short it was a nice first tryout of the rules. We surley forgott several rules but we also discovered plenty of rules that was not clearly writen/explained in the rules, we will have to take some time to run through the Studio Tomahawk forum in search for answers

There will absolutely be more Muskets & Tomahawk games played:)

Please also wisit Jonsa blog to see his side of the story:)