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With four players, we settled on a game with just over 200 points a side. Many years ago I scratch-built a series of small Spanish-style buildings, so our test-game’s Peninsular setting also provided me with the opportunity of taking them out of the back of my cupboard and seeing the light of day! In any case, our little group’s overall gaming philosophy has never been particularly restricted to only follow historical orders of battle. But this was to be a fun game intended mainly to test the rules, not a serious historical reenactment. I say loosely as we included some troop types that were never even in Spain.

Our game was very loosely set during the Peninsula War. We roped in a few of our gaming friends (thanks Bryan, Richard and Ste!) to help push the lead round the table, and so last Sunday afternoon we were finally ready to test the rules in earnest. So with a minimum of arm-twisting, I persuaded Scott to host a Valour & Fortitude game at his place. My pal Scott Bowman (owner of Kapiti Hobbies) has a very well-equipped wargames room with three tables and an exquisite set of scratch-built terrain tiles.

So despite enjoying reading through the rules, I couldn’t actually play a game to test how they worked.

But although I have loads of Napoleonic troops, I don’t have a wargames table. Of course, I snapped them up straight away. Yep, Jervis Johnson and the Perry twins released their free downloadable Valour & Fortitude rules late last year. A set of new Napoleonic rules? Ingeniously simple rules? Only eight pages (and that includes the front cover and a quick reference sheet!)? Written by wargames legends Jervis Johnson, Alan Perry and Michael Perry? And continuously supported and updated by them? Hmm, intriguing.

Perry miniatures war of the roses download