Wargames Rules: Volley & Bayonet (Road to Glory Edition) Designed by Frank Chadwick and Greg Novak, Volley & Bayonet is a premier grand-tactical ruleset engineered specifically to simulate massive 18th and 19th-century battles where whole divisions and corps take center stage. For 18th-century linear warfare—particularly clashes between Austria and Prussia during the Seven Years War—the system excels at depicting grand operational manoeuvres, high command friction, and army-level morale without getting bogged down in individual battalion tracking. The core mechanics operate at a grand scale: single stands represent whole brigades or regiments, and game turns cover half an hour of real time. Combat is resolved swiftly using simple D6 dice pools determined by strength points, modified by order status and troop quality. Linear formations, stiff Prussian discipline, and heavy Austrian artillery concentrations are elegantly abstracted into army morale limits and exhaustion th...
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This "feature" has been going on for much longer than a few weeks. I first reported on it back in May. See https://palousewargamingjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/testing.html.
ReplyDeleteThanks for highlighting that, Jonathan. Blimey, May?! That makes it even more infuriating that Google hasn't permanently sorted it. Mine stopped working a while back as well, but after things seemed to settle, I had assumed the issue was fixed—until I realised my feed had frozen all over again! It’s a real pain for our blogging community when we rely so heavily on those reading lists for updates. Thanks for sharing the link; at least we know it's a shared struggle across the hobby!
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