"They came at us in the same old way, and....." Topic

Hi

We have had enought talk. Knowing that our rules system is flexable enough to plug in armies from the bronze age to the present successfully, as the mechanisms are based on the Dupuy group approach.

And our rules always work……sneer.

We have decided to resolve the discussion about Hank the Fifth's army. Over several game sessions over the next week or so, we will deploy the field at agincourt. With the first wave of the french replaced by musket wielding late 18th century french line! (we considered using brits, but there was something wrong with that).

8000 french line, no mud, at the double.

Stay tuned for battle reports!

Rocky

Unless you use Napoleonic French in ordre mixte, Rocky, I refuse to recognise the validity of your "experiment". Good day to you, sir. Harrumph.
;^)

I tried to warn him, but Rocky insists there is no tactically significant difference between the buttons, epaulettes and colors, etc., of 18th century uniforms and Nappy's nappies on his boyos….

Yeah, but can an ordre mixte knock out a Panther from the front?

Yeah, but can an ordre mixte knock out a Panther from the front?

Henry wouldn't have had those, FV107 Scimitars a plenty, but no Panthers.

Yes it can, unless British were driving the Panther.

I contend the longbows will trounce them as long as Legolas and the elves show up in time.

They won't show up on time. Not with the Allied air superiority anyway.

Yeah, but can an ordre mixte knock out a Panther from the front?

Yes. If the accompanying artillery is being manhandled using true bricoles and not just ropes; and is at least 6-pdr weight. (German pounds and not French.) And I expect to see that made clear in your next edition of rules, Keith, A Bricole For Seven Brothers.

Doh! We will have to put out a free PDF with that in the addendum.

Disposable Grognards and a Bricole for Seven Young Guard.

I thought European cavalry had given up the bricole for charging en hay by the Napoleonic,sorry, the Archduke Charleonic era?

But which side are Superman and the Hulk on?

It really doesn't matter what uniforms or equipment the "French" have. HV's longbowmen will slaughter 'em – Proven Fact! (lol)

Hi

Stay Tuned. The first "proof" happens in 5 hours!

R

Hi

Well, it was horrid. Unbekownst to us, our joking had been monitored by that foule FU, who often seems to visit our club to destroy our minds. His ultimate goal, as part of the evil triumpherate is to take over the world. A while ago, he patented a machine that would pluck happless mesmerized troops from out of time and place and pluck them down to do his bidding.

The foul creature, toying with lives for his own amusmenet.

Once merely doing a study of the lost Hammanuaptra, he assaulted with French revolutionary peasants hoping to steal artifacts while the locals were distracted.

This time, French infanty found themselve ordered to assault englishlongbow and MAA on an open field.

Sadly, men died. The assault in serried lines with typical french elan found them failing, they took just too many casualties before they were in range. One despirate volley shook the english, but not enough and the arrows fell. Men died.

Then, in a foul act, Fu resurrected these men with a mere tiny manipulation of the space/time paradigm to reset, as it were, the fight. The diabolical nature of his time engine is too evident for rational discussion.

But there they were, the french brigadeer remembered the serried lines had failed. So, he threw out a screen of skirmishes and advanced at the double in column behind the screen. Oh the sad work of the screen being shot down. But the columns arraed in line, and volleyd. The britsh were again stuneed, some wavered, some stood and couln't quite shoot and there commenced a close in fire fight. the MAA were shot down, and the volley would be followed by bayonet.

It all devolved into which groups stood their ground and which failed. In this case, the french had more men steady and won.

But rumor has Fu likely to do another reset, and another tactic tried.

Rocky