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Post by sapper on May 2, 2008 11:09:21 GMT
Matt /Dave
To confirm, we agreed another Napoleonics game for Monday 5th, yes ?
Matt, could you helpfully post the units to be used like you did for last week's ? My British are for the Waterloo period, but I have yet to get any Dutch/Belgians. I have c. 8 infantry battalions, 4 cavalry regts. and 4 guns. If I need skirmishers I could base up the rifleman I used last week. What are the appropriate base sizes ?
Cheers
Martyn
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Post by sapper on May 2, 2008 12:38:43 GMT
Dave
If Matt can't come on Monday, as its bank holiday, do you fancy trying 'Age of Eagles' rules for our Napoleonics ?
Martyn
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Post by dave3 on May 2, 2008 13:39:38 GMT
Martyn,
Yes another Naps game would be good for Monday. I would like to get a better feel for EdC (yes another 3 letter rules!) before confusing my head completely with another system! And I would not like to comment on base sizes untill we are settled with the system we are likely to use regularly. But if you are pushing to get them done, I would go for 2 figures on the frontage taken by 4.
Dave
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Post by Matt on May 3, 2008 19:36:15 GMT
I'll drag out the rule book later.
When you say a battalion - how many bases per battalion?
I'll work out a list for you tomorrow.
Dave, as you have the rule book are you ok with doing your own? Are you going to use the French Waterloo list?
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Post by dave3 on May 4, 2008 8:50:51 GMT
OK Mat, I will sort out my French, not too difficult after all! I assume we are using 12 castings to a battalion, as we did last week? (so 3 of my 4 figure bases) Dave  |
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Post by Matt on May 4, 2008 16:50:37 GMT
You assume right for the french
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Post by sapper on May 4, 2008 18:29:31 GMT
Matt
My 'battalions' are of varying sizes (as they are brigades in AoE), but I only have 8 infantry command stands. My smallest battallions have 20 figures (on 5 stands) and the most have 32 on 8 stands.
Martyn
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Post by Matt on May 5, 2008 6:03:40 GMT
How many stands of Brits do you have then?
And Cav?
Thing to do would be to have two brigades of 4 Infantry Battalions, I Brigade of two Cav, Plus Division support Artillery, 1 Div Commander, and 3 Brigadiers.
If you can give me the number of bases I can work out what class of troops you should have.
If we're struggling for numbers we can bump them up to higher grade troops.
I won't be coming this evening as I'm being dragged out a 20 mile walk and I got beaten by Dave's Orc and goblin Army last night so the shame is just too much!!!
We won't even talk about how a unit of Night Goblins defeated my Minotaurs or how his giant managed to fend off my Shaggoth! So anybody want a large chaos army!!
Matt
(Just kidding was a good fun game, just goes to show you can buy all the fancy shiny 25th anniversary dice you like and sometimes it just doesn't help!)
[Next time I'm taking a greater Demon muahahahhahahaha]
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Post by sapper on May 5, 2008 15:03:47 GMT
Matt
About 45 stands of infantry, 20 of cavalry, & 4 guns.
Martyn
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Post by sapper on May 5, 2008 15:04:33 GMT
... that's 4 figures to a stand, of course, so c. 90 in EdC terms.
Martyn
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Post by Matt on May 5, 2008 15:08:55 GMT
Cheers Martyn, I'll crack on with that then.
I'll either post it on here or give the list to Dave. (or both!)
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Post by Matt on May 6, 2008 20:31:02 GMT
Martyn, Gather things didn't go too well  Shame I couldn't be there to assist. I'd agree while heartedly that the rules are badly written though. The commander system is key to the whole game and in this Nap version its very badly written. The ACW version uses the same system but its much much better explained (although still not great). I had the advantage of one of the key contributors showing me how to play. The impression I always get is that the people that play test are quite close to the author and are used to the rule systems. Personally I think the rules would benefit from being re-written by non-academics with examples. As it stands though I think the rules work well once you understand them - the trick is to understand them ;D I'm expecting alot from the black powder rules being produced by warlord games in conjunction with Jervis Johson and Rick Priestly. Have you ever tried Grand Armee? I read some good reports about that. Matt |
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Post by Matt on May 6, 2008 21:06:31 GMT
www.sammustafa.com/fpga.htmlFree rules what more could you ask - by the looks of this the Fast Play rules would be suitable for an evening and the main rules suitable for a Sunday. No idea if anybody else has played these.
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Post by sapper on May 7, 2008 21:06:10 GMT
Matt
Mmmm... yes, we did kind of throw the towel in ! I know what Trevor must have been thinking: "I don't know if thick people play my rules, frankly I don't want to know, I can do without their sort playing my rules !"
Happy to give the 'fast play' Grand Armee ago. I still fancy Age of Eagles myself. There must be a rule set out there to suit us all... isn't there !?
Martyn
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Post by dave3 on May 7, 2008 21:26:58 GMT
we could always write our own, there is a thought!
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