At a recent exhibition at Redcar I saw a wonderful medieval battle being played by Bill Lamming, to his own rules. The scale, I believe, was 1:1, but that is not important - what is was his system of showing wounds. Plastic coloured hoops were hung around the necks of men -- white for light wound, yellow for serious wound and so on. Obviously plastic hoops cannot be placed on 5mm blocks, but small self-adhesive stickers can (take a look in Smiths!) These come in various shapes and colours and I am sure that a code could easily be worked out - eg. white circle for category A, red triangle for B, blue square for C ... and so on. These could be placed on top of a unit, and when not in use can easily be placed back on the sheet of paper they originally come on. Of course, this may alter the "visual side" but not too much I think. The purist could easily disguise these stickers as flags or something. The far reaching tactical revolution clearly manifested in the American Civil Was was the result of a new order of fire-power on the battlefield through improved weapons in the hands of large armies possessing an immense fire-power capability. Because of the impossibility of frontal attacks in the face of this fire-power, troops were forced to disperse so that battlefield formations became progressively more spread out and more flexible, while manoeuvre became the order of the day as commands sought to avoid suicidal frontal assaults. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 163 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1975 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