I’m Home Alone, so the Dining Room Table is available.

Haven’t played Kriegsspiel for a while, and that beautiful Command Post Games Brandywine map has been just sitting in the garage……Why Not?  Use all available horizontal surfaces!

Cycled through any number of Internet sites as well as my West Point Atlas Of American Wars to put together Order of Battle, general dispositions, and background on the battle.  The process was time consuming, but interesting and fun work.

Decided to use Kriegsspiel’s standard scale of one block represents 450-500 men.   Since most of the brigades involved had 1,500-2,000 men, this works just fine.  However, the respective forces were organized in (divisions) groups of two (2) brigades.  I’ll have to ignore this lack of symmetry as my table-top groupings will have three (3) blocks, not  four (4)……just grit my teeth and suppress those compulsive instincts.

Here’s a viable map of the initial dispositions that I will use (North at top).  The Continentals were initially positioned along Brandywine Creek, but have reacted  to Howe’s flanking march from the north by pulling brigades off the line.  The remaining Continental brigades are facing Knyphausen’s force  moving east towards Chad’s Ford.

My map’s scale is roughly 1/16,000, while Kriegsspiel uses 1/8,000 scale maps.  Ranges and rates of movement are reduced by one-half.  Fortunately, the weapons used in 1777 are the same as those used in the 1824 Kriegsspiel rules, so no adjustments for effectiveness needed.

Another set of rules to read and become (semi) fluent with.  Also, I get to re-learn working with Kriegsspiel Dice.  That process is interesting in and of itself.