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THE SOUTIlERN CAMPAIGN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - PART I SCOTT HOLDER describes the campaign.
CAMPAIGN RULES OF mE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR MICHAEL MCGINNIS presents his rules based on 1776 by Avalon Hill
ORGANIZATION AND MANEUVER IN ARMATI ARlY CONLIFFE provides insights into playing the game and some optional rules
MY YOU HAVE A1TRACTIVE FLANKS PHll.. JOHNSTON with a means of flanking your opponent from off table
THREE ROADS TO PARIS - THE REBUTTALS DICK BRYANT with a synopsis of responses to The Couriers review
RUSSIAN COLORS DURING THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR JEFF LESER describes the flags and organizational details of this interesting period.
OF CASUALTIES, ROSTERS & SUCH PAUL KOCH with a short discussion
INDEX #59-62 Tom Desmond
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SAPPERS REPORT Adding a fringe to spruce up your flags by Steven Brill
THE REVIEWING STAND Figures, Rules, and reference Works
THE COURIER DISPATCH News of the hobby
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COVER PHOTO: AMR action in tbe soutb. Pbotograpby and terrain by Jeff Leigbt071 (Publisber of Gettysburg in Miniature Video). 25mm figures painted by Cbris Hugbes and Dave Bonk; 15mm figures painted by Terry Sirko
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Response to last issue 's editiorial was most gratifying with quite a few of you sending in info and contact points for your wargame clubs. The HMGS National Board responded in the person of Clay Smith with a listing of clubs in Texas and a promise to send us an
update each issue as more people regisi[er their groups with HMGS. we will support :his endeavor for a while until the list threatens to overwhelm the space available for it. I firmly believe that HMGS should print a listing of all the Historical Miniature Gaming Clubs they can locate (and who want to be listed - but why wouldn't you want to be?) with a contact point and make it available for a reasonable fee (perhaps free to HMGS members). All of this is to the good, but does not address the pro' lem of
making non-garners or non-historical garners aware of the existance and/ or activities of Historical Miniature Gaming Clubs in their midst. This is the way we make the hobby grow - enlisting new members, presently not into the hobby. One thought is a general poster that contains general info about the hobby and where a club can list it 's contact point and display in local hobby stores, libraries , store bulletin boards, etc. Once again HMGS could design this , print it and make it available for a small fee , Perhaps you have some ideas we could present here.
DAVE CHANDLER RECOVERING Exciting News! Dave wrote in his own hand to thank all who
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THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION-PART I
BY SCOTT HOLDER
AMR Southern Campaign wargame in progress. photo by Jeff Leighton. See contents page for figure credits.
A review of really old issues of the Courier show a wealth of I :well done articles by people like Steve Haller on the American inear battles (like Camden) , seiges (as at Fort 96) , and skirn1ish-
War of Independance (A WI). But what has happened in the last ing (pick just about any militia encounter, cavalry operation, or 20 years? True, the Seven Years War has become popular, either anything Francis Marion did) all had equal play. Also, unlike as a linear event set in Europe or skirmish game occuring in North the Northern Theater, American troops , if commanded effec-America. The good old AWI seems left out, both in rules and tively, apparently did not have to play catch up with their activity. When "Gorget & Sash" was being published in the 1980s, British counterparts in fighting stand-up battles. Quite frankly , you would usually find at least one article per issue on some neat, the American forces up until 1778, with few exceptions, were eclectic portion of the A WI. Unfortunately, that publication is no not very adept at fighting linearly. When the Sou them Cam-longer produced leaving a void of sorts in the period. Fortunately, paign gets underway, there was a core of leaders and soldiers figures have not dropped out of the market. quite capable of standing toe-to-toe with the best troops of the
This article will, hopefully, be one of several on one aspect of British Empire. the A WI, the Southern Campaign, starting in late 1779 and run- The character of the war and its participants was also dramati-ning to Yorktown in October 1781 . I have always preferred this cally different. The Southern Campaign was more of a civil war, portion of the A WI over the probably more well known Northern not one against the "tyranny" of a seemingly foreign power. theater because of the battle styles, troops, and personalities in- Neighbor fought neighbor and certain aspects of the guerilla war valved. In later articles I hope to provide some analysis of the and British occupation have eerie parallels in modem insurgency battles and the leaders. Also, I will give a complete order of battle, movements. Many of the battles involved no British or Gern1an and uniforn1 guides. Just think of this as a "theme" series without soldiers, just American vs American. Furthermore, with the excep-the fornlality. tion of some of the minor skirmishes among opposing militias ,
With the exception of the battle of Camden and the seige at most of the Tory forces actually came from the New York and Yorktown, army sizes were small. Movement was swift, guerilla New Jersey area. warfare was extremely important, cavalry operations took on The people who stand out in this period are many and often greater emphaSiS, and the battles themselves offer many options are mistunderstood. Banastre "Bloody" Tarleton and Lord for the gamer. The Southern theater is easy to campaign as well Cornwallis are the best known of the British. The former , while as play out different aspects of warfare in the period. Standard being bold, his performance on the battlefield was mixed and was
