The Not Quite Seven Years War, view from the Author's Desk

NQSYW Order of Battle

Country	Gr	L	Lt	C	LC	G	E	O
Schoeffen-Buschhagen	1	7	2	4	1	2	-	-
North Polenburg	1	5	1	3	-	2	1	1M
Stanzbach-Anwatsch	1	3	1	3	-	2	1	-
Wachovia	-	3	1	-	1	1	-	-
Freedonia	-	2	-	-	-	2	-	S
Kamdenjard	-	2	-	-	-	1	-	-
Burgdorf-Reuthenheim	-	2	1	1	-	1	-	-
Saxe-Kirchdorf	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
von Hoggendorf Freikorps	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
Free City of Wiegenburg	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-
Bollmer-Hunz	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Saxe-Weilenz*	-	1	-	1	1	-	-	-
Rosmark	1	9	3	6	3	5	1	2M

Latest known troop strengths in companies of foot, squadrons of horse, and guns, 1 April 2011

Troop types: Grenadier, Line, Light, Cavalry, Light Cavalry, Guns, Engineers, Other (M=militia, S=siege mortar)

*Saxe-Weilenz: temporary name for Doug’s troops, in violent purple, not deployed for several years. Will be redubbed when I get a few units of proposed Army #2 built.

Owners: S-B Rob Dean, NP Chris Palmer, S-A Duncan Adams, W Norman Dean, F Geoff Graff, K Jamie Davis, B-R Buck Surdu, S-K Bob Suckling (inactive), vHF Don Hogge, IFCW William Dean, B-H Todd Harland-White, S-W Doug, R Ross Macfarlane

Commentary

The document shown above is a working record that I keep of all known participants in the Not Quite Seven Years War.  I'm in the process of updating it this week; I'm suspecting that I am behind the current situation in Rosmark somewhat.  The relative strengths of the contingents provided by the various participants has varied considerably over the years.  My mental image of the states behind the names has always varied with the size of their forces, and therefore changes regularly.  I have never, therefore, completed a map of the whole region.  We campaigned in 1999 over a map of the Shenandoah Valley, reflagged, which was originally published as a road and town campaign map for a Civil War product owned by one of the Schlegel brothers, HAWKs who do not (at this time) have NQSYW contingents.  The original NQSYW game, The Battle of the Tollgate, established that Schoeffen-Buschhagen and North Polenburg shared a border.  The '99 campaign established that S-B was generally to the west of N-P.  Rosmark keeps getting bigger, so it's on the eastern edge of the hypothetical map, where it won't get accidentally boxed in.  We've used the forces of Stanzbach-Anwatsch to balance convention scenarios, giving me a mental image of their country as bordering on both S-B and N-P, probably to the north, and the note in the previous blog post about a possible diplomatic revolution is an acknowledgment of the fact that we may switch them again this year, especially to put the engineers on the outside of the fortress.  Wachovia is known for its hussars, so I view them as being over to the south and east of S-B.  Freedonia long has had a proportionally oversized artillery contingent; I see them as a small city-state in a coal/iron mining valley, so that the Freedonian foundries are not reliant on imported raw materials.  I have been thinking about another actual map campaign, especially with the fortress model on the horizon, and have considered an effort by both sides to control Freedonia, which would suggest that they border S-B and N-P as well, and probably to the south, if S-A is to the north.  Additionally, I'm considering whether the blue and red forces we adopted at Cold Wars represent new countries...

So the map remains complex, and vague, so that it isn't locked in when some new participant adds a large contingent.

A quick sum on the units involved suggests that we could field about 1000 foot, 240 horse, and 17 guns, if we could gather everything in one place.  We put, we calculated, just over a thousand of all arms on the table for the Lobositz scenario at Cold Wars in 2009, so there's been some growth since then.