While reading through Cosmas and Nofi I took notes to use for rules varients for both skirmish and campaigns that I thought worthwhile. I offer them for your use however you deem.

GENERAL

Weather: It's the rainy season, malaria and yellow fever rampant.

Transport and Supply Only one small steam lighter is available to bring supplies to shore. Because of this only men, ammo, hardtack, canned meat, and some medical supplies are available for the first week. After that smaller field pieces are available but no siege guns.

Supplies come in across an open beach. You have no wagons, but you have seven pack trains of mules and horses available. Only single trails through the jungle, wide enough for one wagon or one gun carriage, they ford streams, no bridges, they follow creek beds and bottoms of ravines.

Blockhouses, Spanish Generally square, made out of wood or cement, a few are of stone. Windows and some doors have wood planks covering them with either cracks between the boards or cut loopholes. Orange tile or corregated metal roofs most with square cupolas. Some have porches that wrap aroound the structures. A few have stucco walls painted yellow.

CUBA:

Command Shafter and division commanding officers are without experience in conducting an open order corps-sized attack, therefore, they fell back on the methods of the Civil War. They put more men into the attack than the frontage could accomodate and kept the men in close order columns too far into the lethal zone of the Spanish Mauser rifles.

No briefings are provided to small unit commanders. Division and Brigade commanders simply rode forward at the heads of their columns until they could see the enemy, made plans on the spot and issued orders in person or by aides. The result, especially when action took unexpected turns, was much confusion and slow responce to the situation, as well as heavy casualties among commanders and aides as they tried to distribute orders under fire.

Training

Only US regular troops are trained in small unit open order, but not in large units.

Volunteers Loose cohesion and are demoralized by artillery and rifle fire on trails to the front.

Artillery

American There is no indirect fire. Direct fire visually controlled by battery commanding officer. Artillery was supposed to push their guns right up to the infantry skirmish line.

Spanish shrapnel shells are limited to one hours worth.

Morale

Spanish - by the readings the Spanish troops don't seem to break, if that's the word, until after they take 50 percent casualties. Therefore, I would conduct morale checks after hitting 45 percent casualties.

Spanish commanders order counter attacks, fighting retreats, resistance generally to the Americans is high.

San Juan Hill

The Spaniards had constructed their trenches on the actual crest of the hill instead of at the military crest; the military crest is the hip-roof angle of a hill, or the rim where troops may fire down on the enemy as he reaches the foot, which cannot be done if the trench is dug at the actual crest. Thus, when our men were at the foot of the hill, the Spaniards were unable to see them. From the military crest to the actual crest was but twenty to thirty feet and no charge can be stopped within such a distance.

Puerto Rico

There were no supply or transportation problems as in Cuba.

1300 Spanish troops are at Aibonito where the main road from Ponce crosses the mountains to San Juan. There are a total of 8000 Spanish regular troops on Puerto Rico. The local volunteers defect almost immediately.

Philippines

There are 20000 Spanish troops here. 13,000 to protect Manila and 7,000 scattered throughout the islands. Aquinaldo has 12,000 Filipino Nationalists that are willing to fight with the Americans but the American commander appears to have orders to keep them out of the fight. After Spain capitulates the American then face Filipino Nationalists in a three year long insurrection.

Spanish troops used trenches and blockhouses.

US troops

Anderson 2500
Greene 3500
MacArthur 4800 all under Merritt.

There are plenty of stores available.

Philippine Insurrection After being frustrated in their attmpt to gain independence the Filipinos attack the Americans in Manila and are repulsed. US troops then take the offensive in the guerilla war and capture the rebel capitol of Malolos. Aquinaldo retreats to Tarlac when this city fell the Filipino forces begin to disintegrate. Aquinaldo flees to Northern Luzon where he continues to harass American occupation troops until captures by a ruse carried out by Col. Frederick Funston. Resistence finally ends in 1902.