"What rules do you play most?" Topic

Grande Armee with Fast play for the biggies (we did Wagram yesterday)

"Napoleonic Command" are my favorite rules – emphasis on command and control with elegant mechanisms.

the one and the only General de Brigade

Field of Battle by Piquet almost exclusively.

I also play CLS forover 26 years

For the record: Napoleon's Battles.

Would the folks that favor Le Feu Sacre by TFL please fill me in on its merits.
Thanks,
manders01

Volley and Bayonet
Battleground WW II
Dead Walk Again

Here is the facts, what makes a few blocks of figures a Napoleonic game.

Look the French have a +1 factor in column. Oh this block of figures it has a skirmish factor of +2. The Austrians can do battalion Masse. Oh put a lot of figures on the table that makes it Napoleonic. Have command chits or 6 pages of charts. This is all nonsence and BS.

The game must have four things to make it a Napoleonic game. COLUMN LINE SQUARE: rock paper scissors. The fourth thing is most important: what can that be, the units must fight linear. A division or a brigade must fight with all its units supporting each other, it cannot not be like a bee sworm where one unit goes this way and another goes that way, you where lucky to get them all moving just in one direction.

Happy to follow up Dave's comment to another testiment for Shako II.

Mark

Shako

So that's:

Votes System

6 Age of Eagles
4 Shako 2
3 Field of Battle
3 General de Brigade
3 Le Feu Sacre
3 Napoleon's Battles
2 Column, Line and Square
2 Grande Armee
2 Shako
1 Empire V
1 Fire and Steel
1 In The Grand Manner
1 In The Name of Glory
1 Johnny Reb
1 Napoleonic Command
1 Snappy Nappy
1 Uncle Duke's Napoleonette
1 Volley and Bayonet

You forgot to count the winning entry, which (as usual with Napoleonics) is:

"My Own Set."

By my count, "My Own" wins with 9 votes… although more if you consider the game authors here who endorsed their own set.

Oops, don't want them to feel left out!

Votes System

6 Age of Eagles
4 Shako 2
3 Field of Battle
3 General de Brigade
3 Le Feu Sacre
3 Napoleon's Battles
2 Column, Line and Square
2 Grande Armee
2 Shako
1 Empire V
1 Fire and Steel
1 In The Grand Manner
1 In The Name of Glory
1 Johnny Reb
1 My Own Set A
1 My Own Set B
1 My Own Set C
1 My Own Set D
1 My Own Set E
1 My Own Set F
1 My Own Set G
1 My Own Set H
1 My Own Set I
1 Napoleonic Command
1 Snappy Nappy
1 Uncle Duke's Napoleonette
1 Volley and Bayonet

One more for our own set.

I think it represents quite well the Napoleonic crowd! We all play something different…

My own set or Age of Eagles.

In The Grand Manner, 20 years and counting, never wanted to play anything else.

John

Quite frankly, I reckon you can aggregate the Shako and ShakoII scores giving Shako varianrs 6 and puttingg it on a par with Age of Eagles.

Hey, I voted for Napoleonic Field of Glory, Nap Principles of War, and Grand Armee…

Wow, the Napoleonic hobby is rapidly amalgamating.

68 posters have named only 29 different rulesets!

I wonder what is the cause of this dramatic streamlining of the hobby? What happened to our fabled diversity…..?

LFS

Miscounted Age of Eagles:

6 Shako/Shako 2
5 Age of Eagles
4 Le Feu Sacre
3 Field of Battle
3 General de Brigade
3 Napoleon's Battles
2 Column, Line and Square
2 Grande Armee
2 In The Grand Manner
1 Bagration1812's own set
1 Byrhthelm's own – heavily adapted from Young and Grant
1 Der Alte Fritz's Age of Napoleon rules
1 Empire V
1 Fire and Steel
1 Gnu2000's rules for 6mm grand-tactical games
1 In The Name of Glory
1 Johnny Reb
1 MichaelCollinsHimself's local group's rules
1 Napoleonic Command
1 Napoleon's Legacy
1 Old Trousers
1 Shane Devries' own set
1 Snappy Nappy
1 TKindred's mod for WAB/WHF
1 Uncle Duke's Napoleonette
1 Volley and Bayonet
1 angelbarracks' 1:1 scale rules for 6mm
1 donlowry's Easy Napoleonic Rules
1 rmaker's house rules, Strategos-N

And I noticed there was a second vote for Snappy Nappy…

but I am impressed at the breadth of systems.

My local group`s rule set is called "Sqaure One".

There really is a diversity of rules being used out there… we were asked which set of rules we play the most, and so we have had just that response… if one asks how many rule sets do each of us play, then we might have found that we play something like about 3-4 different rule sets each.
Personally, I play four different rule sets; two of them are specifically Napoleonic (my own and Shako) and two are rather more generalised; DBA/M and my local group`s rules.

Empire V

Legacy had more than one vote too I'm glad to say and it's been selling nicely. Thank you to all those who have supported the project.

Another vote for Empire V

shako these days

Legacy of Glory got left off, while I answered with JR2, and just noted LoG as an aside, it is a Napy board so … LoG should be my entry ;)

Cheers,

The Bandit

Even though it was posted on a Napoleonic board, the original question is a general one.
But, if it was only meant to apply to Napoleonics, then I would need to change my answer to my own Napoleonic rules, "Black Powder & Blue Steel".

I started with Napoleon's Battles for Brigade based and From Valmy to Waterloo for battalion based. Moved on to Grande Armee (love it) and our group's own Valmyish rules. Now I play and prefer Shako II for battalion based and continue with GA and NB, but am looking into Age of Eagles and Just bought Snappy Nappy (I like what I see) from Russ when I stopped in to see Dennis at OMM. I will probably be playing all 4 brigade based games in the future and our club's and Shako II for Battalion based. (ADD gamer….uggnh)

Legacy of Glory.

WRG "Bang You're Dead"

My own set (Le Baton)

I play a lot of Naps, so count all three.

I play very often:

Napoleonic Command – 10mm figures
Napoleon's Battles – 15mm figures