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A DETAILED WARGAME CAMPAIGN SET IN A FICTITIOUS WORLD

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A WARS OF THE FALTENIAN SUCCESSION IMAGI-NATIONS DIARY

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Hove BN3 1TG
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Gladius Publications is a Trading Style of

Henry Hyde Limited Company No. 5616568

All text, design, photography, illustration and diagrams by Henry Hyde.

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Henry Hyde asserts his right to be acknowledged as

the author of this work and the illustrations contained herein.
© Henry Hyde 2023. All rights reserved.
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OTHER WORKS BY HENRY HYDE

The Wargaming Compendium, Pen & Sword 2013
Wargaming Campaigns, Pen & Sword 2022
The Wars of the Faltenian Succession, Gladius Publications 2014
Fictitious Wars (audiobook) Gladius Publications 2020
Photography for Wargamers, Gladius Publications 2020
Frederick the Great’s Instructions to His Generals (audiobook), Gladius Publications 2021
Terrain Squares for Wargamers Collection 1, Gladius Publications 2022
Terrain Squares for Wargamers Collection 2, Gladius Publications 2022
Tabletop Battle Tactics Book 1, Gladius Publications 2023
Tabletop Battle Tactics Book 2, Gladius Publications 2023
Tabletop Battle Tactics Combined Deluxe Edition, Gladius Publications 2023

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 CONTENTS
A Word About Illustrations 5 Week 7: 15th-21st March 1744 46

Introduction 7 Week 8: 22nd-28th March 1744 49

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What Are Imagi-Nations? 7 Week 9: 29th March-4th April 1744 52

Martinstaat 1744: The Background 9 Crossing the Steinwasser at W31 55

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Campaign Rules Used Specifically for 1744 10
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The Opposing Forces for 1744 12 Week 11: 12th-18th April 1744 62

Prunkland’s Armed Forces in 1744 15 Week 12: 19th-25th April 1744 67

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The Faltenian Army 20 Week 13: 26th April-2nd May 1744 70

My 1744 Planning Notes 23 Week 14: 3rd-9th May 1744 74

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The 1744 Campaign in Detail 24 Week 15: 10th-16th May 1744 77

Week 1: 1st-7th February 1744 26 Thoughts About the 1744 Campaign 79

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Week 2: 8th-14th February 1744 29 A Few More Detailed Hexes 81

Week 3: 15th-21st February 1744 32 More About the Opposing Forces 83

Week 4: 22nd-28th February 1744 36 The Cost of Raising an Army 89

Week 5: 1st-7th March 1744 39 A Partial Atlas 96

Week 6: 8th-14th March 1744 42 Afterword: Guy’s Perspective 103

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Two illustrations I created to accompany my first published article:

“Fictitious Wars”, in Miniature Wargames issue 47, April 1987.
Above, Prunkland’s Army Long Jump Champion, Gefreite Schulz,
about to get wet in the process of saving the colours of his regiment,
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the 12th Musketeers. Below, Vielficken Hussars charging into

Prunkland’s artillery redoubts, Mackenbach 1740.
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A WORD ABOUT ILLUSTRATIONS

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t would have been ideal, of course, to have been able to fill this book with photos
taken of the games played during the campaign, featuring the beautifully-painted
armies fielded by my old friend Guy Hancock and myself on Gilder-esque terrain.
Sadly, a number of factors prevent me from doing so.
Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, this campaign was fought back in the days of
cameras using film that needed to be developed at considerable expense, and I was in
any case certainly no master of the old hand-me-down early SLR that had once belonged
to my father. I may be a decent photographer now, but I have learned all my skills since
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wasting mere pixels rather than celluloid and expensive photographic paper. If nothing
else, this is a stark reminder of how snap-happy we all are nowadays, thinking nothing
of shooting dozens, even hundreds of pictures at an event or on holiday. And, as is
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many tens of thousands of images later, I am pretty competent at framing, focusing and
lighting a scene, whereas many of those early efforts were pretty disastrous!
Secondly, the fact is that back in the day, Guy and I were blessed neither with the cash
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to field elegant armies painted to a high standard, nor the skills or space to construct
photogenic terrain. Indeed, I wince at some of the memories of stepped chipboard hills
and chalk-drawn rivers and roads that graced our plain green plywood tables back then.
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Moreover, I think it’s fair to say that our units, where they did exist in miniature, were
somewhat scrappily painted—if at all. (Oh, the shame.) I may be a fan of ‘old school’, but
even I have my standards now!
And finally, as you will see, the campaign in question had a great deal more
manoeuvring than face-to-face fighting, so there weren’t a great many actions to record
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photographically in any case.

So, wanting to give you at least some ‘eye candy’ relief from the pages of text, many
filled with my rather dense, handwritten notes, I decided to sprinkle a combination of
more recent images of imagi-nation games that I have played or organised and, just for
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fun, some uniform plates of units fielded by Prunkland and Faltenland. As you’ll see,
I’ve also included a mini-Atlas of parts of my fictitious world. Whilst not all are directly
related to this 1744 campaign, I hope they will give you a flavour of the possibilities
offered by this kind of fictitious setting and an indication of just how immersed I have
become in imagi-nations madness!
As far as my watercolour illustrations of uniforms specifically are concerned, I am
not a highly trained military artist; I am a jobbing illustrator who uses tricks of the
trade to get things done in a hurry, and that includes making the talent of others the
starting point for my own work. That is precisely what I have done here, in homage to a
number of greats of the trade, and I have named them specifically alongside the images
in question. (Of course, none of them were daft enough to waste their time on totally
fictitious military dress in this way!) So, if you like my little pictures, thank the likes of
Menzel, Knötel, Haythornthwaite and McGregor—I, like all military history enthusiasts
and wargamers, am indebted to their ability to capture the mood and style of an era now
beyond our reach, and for the inspiration they have provided.

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Imagi-nations in action: the Battle of Sittangbad from Charge! staged at Partizan 2006 by The War Gamers using 30mm miniatures.
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INTRODUCTION
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n my book Wargaming Campaigns (Pen & Sword 2022),
I looked at the theory of campaigning and considered
a huge number of different approaches to the subject.
But, in the end, it’s all about your individual preferences
and what ‘turns you on’ in the hobby specifically to make
you want to invest the time and energy into creating a
campaign of your own. What would take you beyond the
boundaries of the tabletop and your lovingly collected
and painted miniatures, and into the realms of the
imagination?
Whilst I don’t really like the term that has become part
of modern wargaming parlance, ‘imagi-nations’ are what
really give me a kick. If you have read my books, The
Wargaming Compendium and Wargaming Campaigns or,
indeed, followed my career in magazines beginning with
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Battlegames and continuing as the Editor of Miniature
Wargames with Battlegames, then you’ll already be
familiar with my love of what I called “Fictitious Wars”
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in an article I wrote back in the 1980s (for Miniature
Wargames, as it happens—Fate obviously had a hand in
where I ended up). But for those for whom the concept
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may be unfamiliar, I offer the following brief explanation.
What are imagi-nations?
Imagi-nations are, quite simply, made-up countries,
confections of the wargamer’s own imagination—
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hence the name. The very idea of creating one’s own
peoples may seem strange, given the fact that history
itself provides such a rich tapestry of implausible-
sounding, but nonetheless real, principalities, dukedoms,
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electorates, enclaves, dictatorships and more. But the fact
is that such worldbuilding, especially set in the Age of
Enlightenment of the late 17th through to the late 18th
centuries, and set somewhere in a misty world that bears
a striking resemblance to central Europe, has become
rather popular, even amongst otherwise dyed-in-the-
wool historical wargamers who wouldn’t countenance
any such nonsense during, say, the Napoleonic era.
This begs the question, of course: “Why?”
Of course, fantasy and science fiction gamers rely
almost entirely on such creative endeavours, but it is not
just the descendants of those first inspired by Tolkien’s
Middle Earth who have a rich history of such imaginary
musings to draw upon. In fact, what is properly known
as ‘Ruritanian’ literature has watered the fertile ground of
artistic souls for a very long time.
“Ruritania is a fictional country, originally located
in central Europe as a setting for novels by Anthony
Hope, such as The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).
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Nowadays the term connotes a quaint minor
European country, or is used as a placeholder
name for an unspecified country in academic
discussions. The first known use of the demonym
Ruritanian was in 1896.
Hope’s setting lent its name to a literary genre
involving fictional countries, which is known as
Ruritanian romance.”1
So, given the fact that the Ruritanian inspiration stems,
in fact, from the latter part of the 19th century, why is
it that so many wargamers make their setting a century
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earlier, in the world of Marlborough, Eugene, Maria
Theresa and Frederick the Great?
I believe the blame lies squarely at the feet of two
authors who were prominent wargamers in the post-
WW2 era, when the hobby was establishing itself as a
popular pursuit: Brigadier Peter Young who, with co-
author Colonel James Lawford, wrote Charge! or How to
Play Wargames (1967); and Charles Grant, whose The
War Game was published in 1971 and certainly captured
my heart and imagination.
Both these authors went to extraordinary lengths to
make their rules comprehensive and realistic by the
standards of the time; and both (they were actually gaming
friends) created fictitious nations with which to play their
tabletop battles and campaigns. Young preferred the
Emperor and the Elector; Grant fielded The Grand Duchy
of Lorraine and Die Vereinigte Freie Städte.
But even they were standing on the shoulders of earlier
greats, luminaries who first wrote about the hobby of
wargaming that was evolving from merely playing with
toy soldiers, such as Robert Louis Stevenson and H G
Wells, to whose seminal Little Wars (1913) we can trace
the popular hobby’s origins.
But to answer that question, there are, and have always
been, a number of gamers who set their imagined conflicts
in other eras. The late Tony Bath famously peopled the
lands of Hyboria in ancient times with armies bearing
a striking resemblance to Romans, Greeks, Vikings
and others; Eric Knowles organised the long-running
Madasahatta colonial-style campaign; and I thoroughly
recommend a visit to the marvellous Bob Cordery’s blog
Wargaming Miscellany, where he has written at length
about imagi-nations set in more modern eras2. And I too
am dabbling in the ‘what ifs’ of both ancient and WWII
scenarios for my own creations. Watch this space!
1 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruritania
2 See https://bit.ly/3nH7gWz
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thought long and hard about the best way to demonstrate
the workings of a real wargame campaign and, in the
end, I decided to go back to a segment of the Wars of
the Faltenian Succession that I originally conducted with
my friend Guy Hancock because it encompasses so many
of the aspects of campaigning that I love.
Sadly, Guy didn’t keep notes that were as meticulous
as mine at the time, but I do have a full record of all
the coordinates he supplied as we manoeuvred across
the map of Martinstaat which, together with my own
comprehensive notes, including my plans and thoughts
about what he was up to, amounts to a pretty thorough
account of the campaign from my perspective. This is,
perhaps, no bad thing as it will, I hope, enable you to see
events through my eyes and give you ideas about how to
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I need to point out that there really was just the two of
us involved. Since Guy was joining a project that I had
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he had never fought a campaign of this kind before and all
the miniature forces to be used were in my collection at
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my house, we agreed that I would act as both player and
umpire.
Yes, you read that correctly!
It may seem like an astonishing concept, but in fact
it worked out fine. Back in those pre-Internet and pre-
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followed up by lengthy landline telephone conversations
to check for contacts, and made on-the-spot decisions by
gentlemanly agreement. If a contact was made, and both
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sides decided to stand their ground, we would make a
judgement call: I would fight out the small encounters on
my own as solo games, using Guy’s written intentions as
a guide; but for the largest encounters, we would try to
organize proper face-to-face games.
This was easier said than done—for most of our
campaigning, Guy and I lived in different towns, some 100
miles apart. Moreover, as young men building our different
careers, time was always at a premium, compounded by
him getting married and starting a family!
Anyway, it’s fair to say that Guy placed a great deal
of trust in my integrity to be impartial and, although at
times it was painful to see my own troops defeated, I
never betrayed that trust.
The Campaign Background
Events began—in real time—back in 1990, after Guy and I
had previously fought a couple of arduous and somewhat
unsatisfactory campaigns along the border between
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Prunkland and Faltenland themselves. As I discussed in
Wargaming Campaigns, one of the great problems with
campaigning is to attempt too much, too soon, and I
think it’s fair to say that we had been over-ambitious in
those early days, carried away by the limitless possibilities
and simply underestimating just how much work was
potentially involved without the aid of an independent
umpire.
So, our discussions at the end of the 1743 campaign
led us to decide that we wanted to play something of
more manageable proportions and we settled on the
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idea of two ‘expeditionary forces’ taking advantage of the
neighbouring, neutral state of Martinstaat, in the manner
of the historical precedent of the poor Low Countries
being repeatedly fought over in the 18th century. (See
map on p.8.)
This decision also freed us of the need to deal with the
complex budgetary and logistical plans that had formed
part of our previous campaigns, a classic case of learning
from experience! However, knowing how keen some of my
readers are to excavate this kind of detail, I have included
a chapter at the end of this book that is full of background
data that informed so much of my campaigning back
in those days and which you might find useful for your
own purposes. It certainly has plenty of potential for
solo gamers in particular, who can indulge in this sort of
minutiae to their heart’s content!
The two expeditionary forces were both under 25,000
strong (that’s men, not miniatures) and we made the
decision to mark our moves on photocopied maps
bearing hexagonal grids, as you will see. The rules we
used for the campaign were a forbear of those published
in The Wargaming Compendium, but I can see they were
much shorter and differed in a number of key respects,
in particular the allocation of wagons to each unit,
representing its supplies. I have therefore included them
below, as I know some readers like to track where changes
have been made. Movement is in hexes.
As you can see from the original pen outline map
shown on p.6, little Martinstaat was just minding its
own business, tucked up in the corner above Faltenland
(ruled by Queen Ingrid, her forces commanded by a
certain Luzian Marcklenburg) and Prunkland, whose
King Ludwig not only sat upon the throne but also acted
as Commander-in-Chief of its army. With southern
Faltenland being somewhat mountainous, Ludwig saw
that Martinstaat offered a potential gateway into the more
open, northern spaces of his neighbour.
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Campaign Rules Used Specifically for 1744 11. To ferry across a river using boats previously
1. Each campaign move represents one week of real assembled for the purpose requires half a campaign
time. move. Each boat may only ferry its normal capacity
2. Each hex represents an area approximately five in a normal move, which includes embarkation and
miles (8km) across. disembarkation.
3. Moves are considered to be simultaneous. 12. Crossing rivers other than by bridge or boat is
4. MOVEMENT POINTS (MP) not permitted to artillery. Infantry and cavalry as
Troop type Normal Forced follows:
• Close order infantry 2 3 • February-May: no fording allowed due to meltwater.
• Grenzer / Jäger 3 5 • June-October: Roll a d6—1-3, no luck in that hex;
• Heavy cavalry 4 6 4-6, crossing takes 1 move.
• Light/irregular cavalry 6 9 If crossing unsuccessful, inform the umpire [me!]
• Light artillery (4-6pdr) 2 3 of the location, which will henceforth be marked as
• Medium/heavy artillery (8-12pdr) 2 n/a unfordable.
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• Generals/ADCs/couriers 20 n/a full move.
• Scouts According to type 14. Disembarking: infantry require a quarter move,
5. MOVEMENT FACTORS (MF) others half a move.
Terrain type Movement Factor 15. Boats may not climb hills! If/when canals are
• Cross country
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only, reducing their pace to half normal speed.
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• In woods 2 • 1 figure = SCOUT
• To pass through a defile* +1 • 2-50 figures = DETACHMENT
• On roads on hills 1 • 51-150 figures = BRIGADE
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*Defined as bridges, towns, gaps of one hex or less • 151-300 figures = WING
between obstacles. • 301-500 figures = ARMY
6. MOVEMENT POINTS—BOATS (MP) • 501-800 figures = GRAND ARMY
Situation Speed • 801+ figures = SUPREME COMMAND
• Downriver 6 • Troops inside towns may be declared simply as
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• On lakes 5 GRAND GARRISON (i.e. 301+ figures).
7. No movement is permitted on purple or white 17. Towns other than Martinstadt [again, specific to
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8. Forced marches are permitted once every five
moves. The forced march need not be the last of the
five moves and a unit does not have to force march.
Forced marches may be ‘stored’—for example, up
to a maximum of twelve normal moves followed by
three forced marches.
9. Each side has five boat models. These begin on
the Steinwasser at A11 (Faltenland) and HH39
(Prunkland) [a specific requirement for this
particular campaign setting, but you could do
something similar for your own campaign]. A boat
model may carry 50 infantry figures or equivalent.
A cavalry figure equates to four infantry; a gun
model with limber and crew, or a wagon and
team with drivers equates to 25 infantry for load
purposes.
10. Each boat must be given a co-ordinate. There are no
replacements available during the campaign season.
They may be captured or destroyed.
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holding up to 500 figures. Martinstadt is a 1st Class
Fortress, capable of holding 1,500 figures.
18. SUPPLY. Each regiment of cavalry, battalion of
infantry or battery of artillery requires one wagon
model, representing its supply chain. If a wagon is
captured or destroyed, that unit will suffer -1 on all
its combat or moral die rolls until it is replaced by
a fresh wagon travelling from that side’s allocated
entry point and joining the unit again. This journey
is made at normal speed. Meanwhile, a unit that
captures an enemy wagon adds +1 to its morale
die rolls if engaged in combat within one campaign
week of having done so. (In other words, if a unit
captures a wagon on week 3, the bonus lasts until
the beginning of week 5.)
19. Wagons may be carried on boats as per artillery.
20. Pioneers gain bonuses in construction, demolition
and siege work—these should be covered in your
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21. Reinforcements Troops in hexes adjacent to a
contact hex may arrive to reinforce. Full details of
the flanking force, its commander and the order
of march of the units concerned must be written
down and sealed in an envelope. Then roll a d4.
The score gives the number of d6 that must then be
rolled to indicate the actual time of day on which
the force might arrive. (For example, the d4 comes
up 3, so three d6s are rolled, giving a total of 12—
the flanking force could arrive at 12 noon, which
might be, say, move 6 in the game.) When that
force arrives at the table edge, take the initiative
factor of the flanking force commander [I rate
every commander’s Courage, Charisma, Initiative,
Strength, Intelligence and Health out of 100] and roll
but return to their unit at normal speed. No forced
marches are allowed in this process.
27. Wounded are automatically captured if their unit
retreats or routs. Otherwise, they are helped by
comrades to a field hospital in the nearest friendly,
garrisoned town, requiring two helpers per casualty.
The helpers may force march back to their parent
unit after dropping off the casualty—no time is
deemed to elapse in the hex containing the hospital,
so they can turn around and set off back to their
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or equal to the Initiative factor, the force arrives on
time; if not, the force is delayed by one move for
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22. The order of precedence of command, in case of
doubt, should be:
a. Royalty
b. Guard (Guard Cavalry has precedence over
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c. Other élite (again, cavalry trumps infantry)
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e. Infantry
f. Artillery
g. Engineers
h. Other, such as Quartermaster.
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permanent guard until they can be handed over
to prison/garrison units. Prisoners always move at
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normal speed and cannot be made to force march.

24. Veterans are troops that have seen five or more
actions. They automatically go up one class, to a
maximum of B class, upon reaching veteran status.
If already A or B class, add +1 to all morale die rolls.
Veteran status does not confer additional fighting
abilities; only training can do this.
25. Post-battle casualties:
• 20% are dead, fatally wounded or permanently
invalided and lost to the unit.
• 20% stay with the unit and resume next day.
• 20% must be sent to a field hospital and resume
after one week.
A recent imagi-nations game at the author’s house featuring 30mm
• 20% must be sent to a field hospital and resume Spencer Smith and Holger Eriksson miniatures on typical ‘informal’
after 2 weeks. wargame terrain that includes base grass cloths, home-made woods
• 20% must be sent to a permanent hospital (deemed and rivers together with commercially-made roads, houses and hills.
It won’t win any awards, but is effective and works well with the simply
to be just one hex on the other side of the border)
painted and based miniatures evocative of an earlier era of the hobby.
and resume after 4 weeks. The rules used were the author’s own Shot, Steel & Stone, designed for
26. Wounded troops travel to hospital at wagon speed, big battles with big units of just this kind!
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The Opposing Forces for 1744
More ferreting around in very old folders has revealed the
force lists (shown below), which were typed on my very
first electric typewriter. I seem to recall it could memorise
half a dozen words or so before then hammering them out
like a Bren gun, enabling one to correct typos (as long as
you were paying attention to the little green letters on a
tiny black screen) without the need for gallons of Tipp-
Ex fluid. I’m quite sure the preceding revelation will be
utterly meaningless to at least half my audience, who have
been born and raised in the computer age. It’s also ironic
that, less than a year after typing those sheets, I would
become a graphic designer working with what was then
the latest Apple Mac technology, and would never touch
a classic typewriter again!
Why does that make me feel slightly sad?
Anyway, the opposing forces are as listed below. I had
forgotten how powerful Guy had made his artillery. Ouch!

FALTENLAND (Guy) PRUNKLAND (Me)

INFANTRY REGIMENTS INFANTRY REGIMENTS
FIGS PER FIGS PER
MEN PER TOTAL MEN PER TOTAL
UNITS TYPE SUBTOTAL REG’T UNITS TYPE SUBTOTAL REG’T
REG’T FIGURES REG’T FIGURES
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1 Leibgarde 960 960 48 48 3 Grenadiere 800 2400 40 120
3 Grenadiere 800 2400 40 120 14 Musketiere 800 11200 40 560
11 Fusiliere 720 7920 36 396 2 Grenzer 800 1600 40 80

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3 Grenzer 600 1800 30 90 1 Jäger 800 800 40 40
2 Jäger 600 1200 30 60 1 Pioniere 800 800 40 40
TOTAL INFANTRY 14,280 - 714 TOTAL INFANTRY 16,800 840
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CAVALRY REGIMENTS CAVALRY REGIMENTS
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FIGS PER FIGS PER

MEN PER TOTAL MEN PER TOTAL
UNITS TYPE SUBTOTAL REG’T UNITS TYPE SUBTOTAL REG’T
REG’T FIGURES REG’T FIGURES
(1:20) (1:20)
1 Leibgarde 640 640 32 32 2 Kürassiere 960 1920 48 96
1 Karabiniere 480 480 24 24 2 Dragoner 960 1920 48 96
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4 Ulanen 480 1920 24 96 1 Husaren 960 960 48 48
1 Husaren 600 600 30 30 TOTAL CAVALRY 5,760 288
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TOTAL CAVALRY 4,600 - 230

ARTILLERY BATTERIES
ARTILLERY BATTERIES MEN MODEL TOTAL
GUNS PER
MEN MODEL TOTAL UNITS TYPE PER GUNS PER MODEL
GUNS PER BATT’Y
UNITS TYPE PER GUNS PER MODEL BATT’Y BATT’Y GUNS
BATT’Y
BATT’Y BATT’Y GUNS 7 x 12lb
2 Heavy 320 4 8
8 x 12lb 4 8 1 x How.
2 Heavy 480
2 x How. 1 2 7 x 8lb
1 Medium 480 4 4
8 x 8lb 4 4 1 x How
1 Medium 480
4 x How 2 2 5 x 6lb
Light
1 240 3 3
8 x 6lb 4 4 Horse 1 x How
1 Light 480
4 x How 2 2 TOTAL GUNS - - 15
Leibgarde 8 x 6lb 4 4
1 480
Light 4 x How 2 2
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composition, leadership and dress of Prunkland’s army
going into this campaign. Some might call this madness; I
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The King’s Colour of Regiment Von Eintopf as it was designed later,
when I had access to Adobe Photoshop! I think the lion ‘passant
regardant’ shown here is more attractive than the lion (sort of) ’salient’
in the original sketch and it also provides room to have the unit name
on a banner below, as you can see. Overall, I think it looks much better.
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As you can see, every unit commander is listed
with their personality traits: Intelligence, Initiative,
Courage, Charisma, Strength and Health. I discuss
these characteristics at length in both The Wargaming
Compendium and Wargaming Campaigns, but essentially,
I simply stole the idea from Dungeons & Dragons! You
can also see the regimental facing colours listed, together
with details of the units’ colours and so on. You can find
more of this kind of thing later in the book, from p.83
onwards, where I have provided the notes made for 1743
as additional background, but I felt it was right to set the
scene, as it were, before plunging into the campaign itself,
by introducing you to the troops.
If you’re intending to create your own imagi-nations or,
indeed, have already embarked upon such a project, then
I thoroughly recommend you spend at least some time
doing something similar: seriously, the nostalgia kick
when you rediscover them years later is immense.
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Martinstaat 1744 is Henry’s

fourth major book project,
and the second to be self-
published via his Gladius
Publications imprint. These
are available via Amazon
and other bookstores
including Caliver Books.
You can find even more
digital products, including
audiobooks and PDFs for
gamers, on his Payhip site at
payhip.com/henryhyde
Henry also runs a Patreon at
patreon.com/battlegames
Find Henry on Twitter
@battlegames

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Given his first toy fort and soldiers in

1966, Henry Hyde has been wargaming
ever since. Influenced by Charles Grant
and Don Featherstone, Henry went on to
run his school wargames club and created

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his first imagi-nations whilst at university.
Always a fan of magazines and frustrated
by the closure of Stuart Asquith’s Practical
Wargamer, in 2006 Henry launched his

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own, bi-monthly Battlegames. In 2011 the
title was bought by Atlantic Publishers
who also owned Miniature Wargames.
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Henry was kept on as editor/designer, and in a surprise move, the two
titles were merged in 2013, with Henry staying at the helm. However,
in 2015, the title was sold on again to the magazine giant Warners,
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who wanted to make radical changes to the magazine’s content, so in

2016 he resigned to move on to other projects.
He continued to contribute to magazines and appear regularly on
podcasts until, in January 2018, he launched his own Patreon gig.
This now has a regular membership of over 200 patrons and as well
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as creating blog posts and various digital products, Henry has now
recorded over 100 podcasts which are exclusive to members for a
time before being released to the public.
Henry wrote and designed The Wargaming Compendium (2013)
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which many consider to be the hobby’s modern ‘Bible’; despite

enduring prostate cancer and the Covid-19 virus this was followed
by Wargaming Campaigns (2022). A graphic designer and writer by
trade, Henry has also produced a range of digital, audio and printed
products that he sells through his Payhip site, Wargame Vault and
Amazon, including PDFs of all his Battlegames magazines. His most
recent slef-published volume, received to critical acclaim, is Tabletop
Battle Tactics. Finally, he has championed the Combat Stress
veterans’ charity for many years, raising in excess of £30,000 so far
for this important cause.
In 2023, Henry was awarded the HMGS Legion of Honor for
outstanding services to the historical miniatures gaming hobby.
The best place to find Henry is on Twitter as @battlegames or via
his site at www.battlegames.co.uk.

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