Bloody Big (Taiping) Battles: A Partial Playtest of 2nd Hukou
Preamble While this blog has generally been devoted to Japanese subjects since its inception, with a smidge of WW2 thrown in, my actual historical specialism has generally been late imperial and modern China, with my graduate research having focussed on the Taiping. Unsurprisingly, then, the Taiping have been a long-considered but also long-dormant wargaming project of mine, unfortunately abandoned during Covid when I was separated from my collection (a mix of Irregular, Khurasan, and Blue Moon minis that I had eagerly acquired in the closing months of 2019) and pivoted to the Boshin War. Inconveniently, this was also the same time that a set of rules came out that, had I actually gone and painted the figures I had, I might have made some use of: Taiping Era by Graham Evans, a.k.a. "Trebian" . I still want to have a go at these one of these days, but in 2023 I started corresponding with Chris Pringle, the author of Bloody Big Battles, who himself also had a dormant Taiping ...