"Welcome to the Principles of War Board" Topic

Since the minimum required supporters have been found – TMP link – the new board has been launched. Enjoy!

Wont prisonrs of war find it offensive if we refer to the board as a PoW board?

Because the 90% agin' it had no voice. Lovely.

Allen

Its been so long since my staff course! What are the Principles of War again – I recollect:

Preparation
Concentration
Selection & Maintenance of the Aim
Surprise???

Tactfulness and Strategery

yet another useless board I had to track down and turn off.

***comments deleted because I'm just to old to start a pointless arguement and don't feel like hanging out in the dawghouse***

Found it shut it OFF.

Huh?

Serious Question: What are "Principles of War"? I assume a rules set. Where do I find information about them before deciding whether to turn off the board.

Get thar fustest with the mostest.

TMP link

Executive summary – A large scale ruleset for 19thC warfare, ACW, FPW etc.

Set at Corps level I think, with lowest unit a Bde. Played a couple of games organised by an enthusiast, and found them to be enjoyable and realistic, but not my period or scale, really…

Sparker wrote:

Its been so long since my staff course! What are the Principles of War again – I recollect:

Preparation
Concentration
Selection & Maintenance of the Aim
Surprise???

Fear
Surprise
Ruthless efficiency
Fanatical devotion to the Pope
Lovely red uniforms

All the best,

John.

So, remind me what post count per week is required to keep all these new boards alive?

The 1st Principle of War is 'Selection & maintenance of the aim', or at least it is in the British military.

So have we selected the aim and are we maintaining it?

What effect do we wish to employ?

Why would people come to this messgae board and tell us that they don't wish to visit it?

African or European?

Boards like this one and 'Empire' are precisely why I have declined to renew my "Supporting" membership.

Oi

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Why?

Objective is the overriding Principle of War!
So I recall from my Clausewitzian days.
Weaselhoffen.

LOGISTICS! Can't have a war without logistics.

@The OFM:
And hope you don't lastest with leastest.
Weaselhoffen.

Although I don't play Principles of War Napoleonic, I do have the rules, and I like them. Rather I built my armies first then looked for rules, how young and naive, mine were already to big to reduce down. PoWN is a Corps-level game where a player has 3-4 Divs, of 3-base brigades. It is very stylised, and designed to be used with paper rosters. A historical Corps is much larger, and so requires a clipboard per player and at least 2 sheets at minimum readable print. So I tried designing spreadsheet rosters but never really got aware from computer support and gave up. However the method it deals with deployment is allegedly "out of fashion" so I read a few years ago in a review. It effectively makes you plan the battle before you deploy, and at least makes changing the 1 word instruction and movement arrow very difficult. I should transpose this into Age of Eagles I try use now, because I fear I will have difficulty deploying a winning strategy against certain opponents, unless i appear to be trying to gain an unfair advantage myself. Another thing I didn't handle well with PoWN was the multiplications of large numbers that happened a lot. I'm low wits with maths. However I've never got away from needing maths. Anyway Napoleonic battles are hard to replicate on wargames tables because to effect properly apparently an L shaped table is needed to allow the customary flank attack of other forces reaching the field from another direction. This was one of the keys to breaking an enemy formation, when Napoleon wasn't sitting in front of the opposition and trying to outshoot it with his cavalry. Why people who don't like or don't know these rules should care if there is a forum, I don't know. I'd be happy to meet and play with some club local to me if they did these rules needing only a refresher but sadly my county and nearest city prefer fantasy to historic by a very large proportion.

I don't do Napoleonics, so I thought the board was for the discussion of the Clausewitzian principles of war. I do prefer him to Sun Tzu, whom I think is overrated for his very generalized sayings.

Hi everyone 1st timer here can anyone please explain to a thick Englishman the army lists at the back of the rules section? i.e all the prefixs i am confused as to what is FS FM, ETC, MUCH OBLIGED.

I didn't realize this was a specific ruleset.

Is there a general board for discussing strategy, tactics, and the like?