The Attack on Morobad: A wargame fought using rules from the Portable Colonial Wargame book

This video gives a blow-by-blow account of a wargame that was fought using the simple 'The Gatling's jammed...' rules from THE PORTABLE COLONIAL WARGAME book. If you are new to the Portable Wargame or are thinking of using the rules, this video should help you to understand how the main rule mechanisms work.
There are some scenario specific rules for this wargame:
1. Units attempting to climb unbreached walls must stop at the bottom of the wall and may not attempt to climb the wall until the next turn.
2. Units climbing through breached walls treat them as entrenchments.
3. Artillery can fire at a grid area containing a section of wall and tower/gate rather than at an enemy unit occupying that grid area.
4. If a section of wall or a tower/gate receives three direct hits from artillery fire, it is deemed to have been breached, and any unit on that section at the time it is breached is deemed to have been hit.
5. If two sections of wall are breached, the Hauserians must take a morale test. If they fail, the Sultan will surrender.
6. To test their morale, the Hauserians throw a D6 die for each of their units (not including the commander) and total the dice scores. If the totaled score is greater than the army’s remaining SPs, the Hauserians fail the morale test.
7. The morale test is repeated every time a further section of wall is breached.
8. If an enemy unit manages to enter the city of Morobad, the Hauserians must take a morale test. If they fail, the Sultan will surrender.
9. If the Sultan is killed, the Hauserians will surrender.

[@shawnhutson6853]

Excellent report. Ive got a number of your titles. Its great to see you play through Portable Wargames. Thanks.

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

I hope that you enjoy using the rules. I really should have made a video like this years ago but never seemed to have the time get around to it until now.

[@user-ot6vv5fz4d]

Bob, the 'smoke' effect to show musketry and artillery fire works very well. I'm not so sure about the icon to indicate loss of SP, as it looks as if the target has suffered an explosion. But the overall effect and clear explanation is good and will be very helpful to anyone wanting to discover how PW plays in practice.😀

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

Thanks for the feedback. I was very happy with the way the smoke and fire arrows worked but had my reservations about the Close Combat 'explosion'. I did try to find a crossed swords icon to use for Close Combat, but ended up using the explosion one as it was the best I could find at the time.

[@philRminiatures]

A nice report and a great looking game!

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

Cheers! I hope that you enjoy watching the other videos as well.

[@geoffbarker3644]

Interesting and, as you say Bob, it shows how easy the Portable Wargames rules are to play. Jolly enjoyable really 👏👏

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

I am in the process of creating a video that goes through the basic rules explaining how they work and my thinking behind the mechanisms that I used.

[@geoffbarker3644]

@@Wargaming_Miscellany That’ll be useful. And, as I’m now an OAP, it’ll help fill the hours in my day when I’m not doing whatever domestic chores my wife tells me to do. I’m hoping “wargaming” might eventually feature on the schedule. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼😉

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

@@geoffbarker3644 My wife was pleased that I had a hobby like wargaming as it mean that I would disappear for several hours on end and keep out of her way so that she could get on with hobbies of genealogy and dressmaking.

[@geoffbarker3644]

@@Wargaming_Miscellany my wife is still working (3 days a week as from 1 July - so she’s happier now) but she likes to remind me of the chores as she steps out of the door on the way to work… ☹