French and Indian War

The final campaign for the control of North America, 1754–1760 (Guerre de la Conquête). My interest in this period was originally stimulated by a trip to beautiful Quebec City (and other parts of Canada) in 1990. I was fortunate that this coincided roughly with the release of the wonderful ‘Ranger!’ rules by Peter Berry. These rules, which interestingly Pete derived from a system he used for the English Civil War (that I have not seen), are simple and elegant. They capture the key features of the nature and problems of European powers fighting in a land that they little understood. A feature of the rules is the officer ‘incidents’ which add to the flavour—and fun

This period is one of the few for which I move away from 'the one true scale', as there are limited figures available in 1/72nd and I already have forces painted in 15 mm. To these I have recently added some 1/32nd figures to enable me to wargame the period across scales, using additional rules.

A Battle of the French-Indian War (Wikimedia commons)

Games

Action at Pont à Buot, 4th June 1755
(on Avon Napoleonic Fellowship blog)

Books and Figures