Battle of Devil's Ridge (2)

After our last ACW game, I still had to "update" our campaign records. Not there's much updating to do, since this game was the first in what hopefully can become a long continuing campaign.

It's also not really a campaign in the traditional sense. Campaigns in which troops are tracked on a map, supplies computed, etc. usually die out rather quickly. That's why I'm much more a believer in "narrative" campaigns. The continuity over many games is established by naming units and commanders, and give some of them an upgrade or downgrade after each game. In the next games, those units or commanders have a history, which will be the record of the campaign. It's a  much more freeform manner of linking games together, which usually also lasts much longer than rue map campaigns. The same player doesn't even have to play the same side. It's the units and commanders that acquires new abilities, not the players.

So, after the "Battle of Devil's Ridge", the following happened:

• The commanders that took place on each side received a "battle medal" (in my ACW games, commanders are chosen pseudo-randomly from a deck of 12 cards). A "battle medal" allows a commander to turn a missed command roll into a successful roll, once per game.
  
• Each player could also name a unit that behaved heroically during the game. The following units received the following abilities (units selected by the players, but abilities by me):
• Maker's Mark Militia: +1 firing die
• Rebel Yell Rangers: minimum 2 hexes movement
• Elijah Craig's Cavalry: +1 charge activation roll
• The units that were routed, are now known by adding a numerical indicator to their names:
• Eagle Rare Rangers ==> 2nd Eagle Rare Rangers
• Woodford Reserve Riflemen ==> 2nd Woodford Reserve Riflemen

I keep track of these extra abilities by adding small post-it notes or stickers (I have a sheet of card symbols) to the cards representing these nits or commanders.

Overall, these are light-weight mechanisms to keep track of how units are doing during their careers!