"What rules do you play most?" Topic

Let's say in the last year or so, what rules did you use most often?

I would also like to hear from those who invented their own rules.

Just curious to see what's popular with the TMP Napoleonic crowd at the moment…

Le Feu Sacre by TFL.

Grande Armee by old pancreas, or who/whatever he is this week :)

"Age of Eagles" is my favorite, but I've played 1st editon "Napoleon's Battles" recently. Lord Ashram's "Musket and Mustaches" 2nd Edition makes for a fun game.

Over the last year (several actually) we've played more Age of Eagles than anything else. A couple of games of Le Feu Sacre and a group test drive of Grande Armee.
Phil

Volley and Bayonet. Oooh, Big surprise.

Age of Eagles

We used to play a lot with a set of rules by Peter Kingsman called Masse du Rupture, but now use AoE

Shako 2, and a fair amount of it too. We were getting into shape for our Wagram project.

General de Brigade,

Age of Eagles, almost exclusively.

Napoleon's Battles exclusively

"Regimente of Foote", boringly the same result as for at least the last three years.

Six months gao – LFS. Now Shako 2 almost exclusively

A local group`s rules – once a week. These are used for land-based games of all periods.

I also play & umpire my own Napoleonic rules (which some of you chaps are already aware) and some DBA/M adaptations for Ancients and Medievals.

Shako

Napoleon's Battles with Sharp Practice on the side.

My own rules for 6mm grand-tactical games

Available from
link

Well,

We used to game exclusively with 1st edition Napoleon's Battles in 15mm. Nobody ever bought the updated set, and with the house rules mods we added, it works pretty well for us.

However, now that the Perry & Victrix plastics are out, I've gone to a Napoleonic-era mod for WAB/WHF.

My own 1:1 scale rules for 6mm, small conflicts only please.

Michael.
angelbarracks.co.uk

Johnny Reb 2nd edition ;-)

And on occasion Legacy of Glory.

Cheers,

The Bandit

I've been playing an adaptation of the Leipzig Lite rules from the Baccus website. Now I've received my copy of Russ Lockwood's Snappy Nappy rules I'll be playing several games with them.

Paddy Griffith's rules for anything larger than skirmish and a modified from of our Six Gun Sound: Blaze of Glory for skirmishes.

Although now that I've tried Snappy Nappy, will probably use those mostly for the larger games.

In The Name of Glory

My own Easy Napoleonic Rules: link

No surprise here…Snappy Nappy.

[And thank you for the kind comments above]

Snappy Nappy is for big games, where each player wants to control a corp (or at least a division if you bump the scale down from 2 stands = 1 brigade unit to 2 stands = 1 regt unit).

For smaller battles, where each player controls one brigade, the group plays Empire V.

Grand Armee at the beginning of the year, playtesting NapFoG for the last couple of months.

My own "Age of Napoleon" rules.

General de Brigade, aussi.

Column, Line and Square, for the past 40 years.

Rick

shako 2

Regiment of foote is of course for the English Civil War. I am off to the opticians next week…..

No Napoleonics played around here for over a year.

My own – heavily adapted from Young and Grant.

My own set,

Btln level
1:40 scale
National charactoristics
Revolving Eliteness levels
Casualties in men, not figures
Best suited up to Corps level (10,000-30,000 per side)
Brigade Activation, but movement in btlns etc.
Very detailed Command Control system
Individual Commander statistics for every nation's Generals
Morale Based system
Very detailed Artillery rules

The battle of Maida was fought out in three hours, our re-fight of this battle ended exactly on the three hour mark. For huge battles the system blows out well more than a single sesion could handle. This system is not suited for Club games in a single day unless playing such battles as Maida, Saalfield and so on…

Comments I have received from guys who have joined my group is that they are complex but are the most realistic system they have ever played and that they are totally hooked. I am working on a simplified version that will one day be published.

Shane

easy:
link
And gratified to see so many copies now 'out there' and being used and, with a 'festival' to come, seems many players agree the rules met their 'brief'. The Charity is also delighted, of course.

Mostly our house rules, Strategos-N.

Uncle Duke's Napoleonette, exclusively.

Tom

Field of Battle.

Thanks,

John

Empire V with a few mods added over the years.
And Shane's rules from time to time.

Tried to move away from Empire but just could not let it go.

David
wardepot.blogspot.com
6to20painting.blogspot.com

Age of Eagles

Field of Battle by Piquet, although I still like Les Grognards for 1 on one games.

I've been in the wilderness. So no gaming. But I just ordered a copy of Shako II and will get LFS once the new edition is out.

"Fire and Steel"; yes someone still plays them.

La Feu Sacre

Le Feu Sacre for tactical, Volley & Bayonet for grand-tactical.

pretty much any you want …

"easy:
link
And gratified to see so many copies now 'out there' and being used and, with a 'festival' to come, seems many players agree the rules met their 'brief'. The Charity is also delighted, of course."

The blunder table amuses one.

Age of Eagles, Napoleon's Battles First Edition, and Snappy Nappy

I've only played to games, both were games to learn the rules.

One time with General De Brigade and one with Guns at gettysburg.

'Le Feu Sacre'

In The Grand Manner

Bdr.