Category Archives: Shako Rules

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: Our Bohemia 1757 Campaign

Posted on 11th May 2022 by jemima_fawr

As mentioned in another thread, we’re doing a small campaign based on Frederick the Great’s invasion of Bohemia in 1757 (which historically led to the Battles of Prague and Kolin). The original germ of the campaign was the ‘Bohemian Blitzkrieg’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigns, Eighteenth Century, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules), Tricorn Scenarios | 18 Comments

The Combat of Zinna 1759: The Refight

Posted on 3rd May 2022 by jemima_fawr

In my last post I presented a scenario for the Combat of Zinna (or First Torgau) 1759, fought between Prussian and Austro-Imperial forces during the Seven Years War.  As mentioned in that post, my mate Andy James and I played … Continue reading →

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‘Tricorn’ QRS Page 1 Amended to Version 1.1

Posted on 1st May 2022 by jemima_fawr

I knew it wouldn’t take long for people to find the flaws in Tricorn, so my sincere thanks to reader Maurizio for pointing out that we copied over an error in the artillery section of the QRS from Shako 1st … Continue reading →

Posted in Eighteenth Century, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules), Tricorn Rules Resources | 5 Comments

The Combat of Zinna 1759: A Scenario for ‘Tricorn’

Posted on 27th April 2022 by jemima_fawr

When a rare opportunity for a game presented itself a couple of weeks ago, I had a quick trawl of potential Seven Years War battles to find one that would be small enough to serve as a simple introductory ‘Tricorn’ … Continue reading →

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‘Tricorn’: My Seven Years War Variant of ‘Shako’ Rules

Posted on 19th April 2022 by jemima_fawr

Well it’s taken a while, but here is the first draft of Tricorn, being my adaptation of Shako Napoleonic rules for the wars of the mid-18th Century.  Tricorn has actually been around since the mid-1990s, when the Wargames Association of … Continue reading →

Posted in Eighteenth Century, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules), Tricorn Rules Resources | 62 Comments

“Thrice Blue And Thrice Damned To The Devil!”: SYW Prussian Frei-Infanterie

Posted on 11th March 2022 by jemima_fawr

“Dreimal blau und dreimal des Teufels!” Last month I played a small historical refight of the Combat of Pretzsch, to introduce my mate Lewys to Tricorn (my 18th Century version of Shako).  However, the Prussian order of battle required a … Continue reading →

Posted in 15mm Figures, Eighteenth Century, Painted Units, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years War Prussian Army, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules) | 29 Comments

All The Emperor’s Men (Part 3): Reichsarmee Cavalry

Posted on 16th February 2022 by jemima_fawr

Having flipped to painting Napoleonics for a few weeks, I’ve now flopped back to painting my Seven Years War armies, starting with some cavalry regiments for the Imperial Reichsarmee.  These were yet another über-stalled project, as I painted the first … Continue reading →

Posted in 15mm Figures, Eighteenth Century, Painted Units, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years War Austrian Army, Seven Years War Minor German States, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules) | 10 Comments

Reinforcements For King Louis! (Part 3: The ‘Royal-Nassau’ Hussars)

Posted on 9th January 2022 by jemima_fawr

As the surviving regular readers of this blog might remember, it’s almost a year since I started my ‘Frogruary Challenge’ to complete the core of my new French army for the Seven Years War during the month of February 2021.  … Continue reading →

Posted in 15mm Figures, Eighteenth Century, Painted Units, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years War French Army, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules) | 13 Comments

The Combat of Görlitz (or Moys), 7th September 1757: The Refight

Posted on 26th December 2021 by jemima_fawr

A slightly belated Merry Christmas to one and all! 🙂 Wargames have been like Maltese buses over the last two years; they’ve mostly been cancelled with very little warning or two turn up together.  So, having just got back from … Continue reading →

Posted in 15mm Figures, Eighteenth Century, Games, Seven Years War & War of Austrian Succession, Shako Rules, Tricorn (18th Century Shako Rules) | 23 Comments

The Combat of Görlitz (or Moys), 7th September 1757: A Scenario for ‘Tricorn’

Posted on 16th December 2021 by jemima_fawr

We recently played another playtest of my ‘Tricorn’ Seven Years War variant for ‘Shako’ rules.  The after-action report will be up soon, along with the finalised version of ‘Tricorn’, but for the time being here’s my scenario for the Combat … Continue reading →

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