Talking Wargaming Houses, churches, factories, etc., on the wargames table can either be constructed in such a manner that the wargamer can garrison them with a suitable number of figures or else this can be achieved by a card-slip, folded to rest on the peak of the roof, bearing the number of occupants and changed as casusalties occur. This token saves arguments about the numbers of men organiaed into a building and when men are detailed to garrison a house, then they are removed from the table and kept separately but count for all military purposes such as firing and fighting, being suitably reduced and placed in another box as casualties occur. Whether or not they have their muskets poking out of the windows on that side of the house which the enemy are approaching has to be considered - it can be solved by giving occupants an "all-round" field of fire. Houses are rated according to their size so that they can hold five or ten men. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter #141 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1973 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com