http://www.full-moon.info/ 2026-04-08T22:57:51+00:00 http://www.full-moon.info/ http://www.full-moon.info/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2007-04-10T12:00:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/convention Orange or Lemon? This is a working title for a game about the Scottish Parliament's convention in the Spring of 1689. The game has been play-tested once at the 2007 CLWG Games Weekend, refinements to the game mechanisms have been included on the relevant pages. More detailed specific player briefings text/html 2007-03-26T17:09:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/design Orange or Lemon? - Design Notes Player Roles Players would be the leaders of the two main factions plus a couple of other key protagonists (notably the catholic Duke of Gordon who was constable of Edinburgh Castle). There is a four player version with one umpire that doesn't worry about the rabble rousing in the streets overmuch. It focusses on the deals being made in the Convention and the efforts of text/html 2010-09-05T22:40:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/coin/pashtun The Pashtun Tribe Tribes have existed for millennia in the area that is present-day Afghanistan. They emerged over centuries in various sections of the country, taking form along extended kinship lines. Led by councils of elders, tribes provided their members with protection, financial support, a means to resolve disputes, and punishment of those who had committed crimes or broken tribal codes of conduct. text/html 2007-06-21T16:02:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/wargames/universe/firing Bounce Into Action: Firing Infantry Firing All infantry firing, except Small Arms Air Defence (see below), uses 1d10 per stand firing. Officers (and other individually based figures) provide a positive modifier to a stand they are grouped with rather than an additional dice. If there are sufficient individually based figures in the same place to be the same size as a stand would be then they may fire collectively as if they were one stand. text/html 2007-03-19T21:35:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/convention/lawful Act Declaring the Scottish Convention a Free and Lawful Meeting March 16, 1689 A printed version of the text can be found on pages 1 and 2 of The acts & orders of the meeting of the estates of the kingdom of Scotland held and begun at Edinburgh, the 14th day of March, 1689, Edinburgh: Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1690 (Wing / S1161). text/html 2007-06-21T16:28:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/wargames/universe Bounce into Action This is a provisional title for a series of games set in Jim Wallman's universe for medium to small actions involving infantry, vehicles, air and space assets. Bounce Into Action: Rules for Company Sized actions design criteria * quick battles (about two hours playing time to a decisive finish) text/html 2009-09-15T18:44:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/battles Awa' to the Hills This game is about the Highland campaign of Viscount Dundee, King James VII's second in command of the Army of Scotland in 1689. Unhappy with the Scots Parliament's declaration that James VII had forfeited his Crown Viscount Dundee returned home to his heavily pregnant wife at Dudhope just north of Dundee. After a few weeks he had gathered about him some of his very loyal troop of Horse. They rode out to Dundee Law where he raised the royal standard of King James VII and decla… text/html 2007-03-30T21:47:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/brief Orange or Lemon? - General Briefing Recent Events Towards the end of last year (1688) the wife of King James VII and II gave birth to a son. This brought home to those that he had upset with his toleration of Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters that this policy would continue. Accordingly a number of English nobles and bishops invited his son-in-law, Prince William of Orange, to come to England and replace James as King text/html 2007-04-01T20:49:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/rules Orange or Lemon? - Game Mechanics Each complete game turn represents one day of the sitting of the Convention. Each of the phases represents a period of up to six hours. Turn Sequence * Morning (i.e. before the Convention sits) * Arriving/leaving Edinburgh text/html 2007-06-21T15:45:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/wargames/universe/infantry Bounce Into Action: Infantry Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low morale, the battle is as good as lost. **Douglas Haig** There is no substitute for boots on the ground when it comes to winning battles and taking ground from the enemy. For this you need infantry. text/html 2007-06-21T17:30:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/wargames/universe/morale Bounce Into Action: Morale The morale of the soldier is the greatest single factor in war. **(Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery)** Overview Every unit has a morale number. This is determined in advance of the game and then used, with modifiers, to determine whether or not units will do what the player wants when the situation becomes difficult. text/html 2007-02-01T22:56:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/wargames/ww2/logs Logs There is a famous quote that: “Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics”. Well in this game the Sergeants are the professionals that deal with logistics. Most of the contents of this section are only carried out by those players acting as sergeants text/html 2007-06-15T17:07:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/wargames/ww2/morale Morale The morale of the soldier is the greatest single factor in war. (Field marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery) This is only tested when one of the conditions mentioned below is reached, once morale has been tested once for a particular condition then it should not be tested again for that group. text/html 2007-03-29T11:59:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/convention/structure The Three Estates The members were collectively referred to as the Three Estates (Middle Scots Thrie Estaitis), or 'community of the realm' (tres communitates), composed of: * the first estate of prelates (bishops and abbots) * the second estate of lairds (dukes, earls, parliamentary peers and lay tenants-in-chief) * the text/html 2007-03-19T21:20:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/convention/william Letter from Prince William of Orange to the Scottish Convention March 16, 1689 ---------- This letter was presented to the Scottish Convention, March 16, 1689, by the Earl of Leven. ---------- My Lords and Gentlemen, We are very sensible of the kindness and concern that many of your nation have evidenced towards us and our undertaking for the preservation of religion and liberty which were in such eminent danger. Neither can we in the least doubt of your confidence in us, after having seen… text/html 2007-03-24T21:32:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/people/argyll Archibald Campbell, 10th Earl of Argyll Offices Held * Chief of Clan Campbell Reputation * Known as a staunch Williamite * seeking to recover his father's estates and restore the Earldom of Argyll which was attainted when his father supported an uprising against King James VII in 1685. text/html 2007-03-25T11:29:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.full-moon.info/doku.php/rules/clwg/1689/people/gordon George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon Offices Held * Constable of Edinburgh Castle Reputation * a very fine gentleman, well bred and educated * physically and morally courageous, but tends to vacillate when course of action unclear Religion *