"Carnage & Glory II, "Battle for Bassano, 1796" AAR" Topic

I've added a bunch of photo's for the "Battle of Bassano" 1796 from COLD WARS 20011. Stay tuned for more soon! Enjoy,

Chris

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Very nice – interesting to see yet more intererst in the Rev campaigns.

Chris Im presuming carnage and glory is a computerised game system for tabletop battles.Years a go i purchased both Follow the Eagle and Hardpounding computerised rules as i wanted most time spent gaming not leafing through large rule sets. my impressions werent great as despite their interesting army composition format they took a lot of time at the pc to enter,could crash a lot, with sometimes bizarre events occuring like Napoleon being killed several miles to the rear(with not an enemy in sight of him) in turn 3 or 4 cant remember exactly ?? so id love to hear your impressions of using Carnage and glory .thanks Peter

Peter,

I was first introduced to these rules back in 2006 after returning from Iraq by none other than my friend Keith Rocco! Nigel Marsh the rules creator has been a friend since then and the rules have been around since they were DOS based back in the 1980's, so they've been thoroughly battle tested. Nigel also is excellent on any questions, concerns, recommendations for improvement/s, or updates and responds quickly on his Yahoo Group support site;

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I highly recommend them for gaming, as well as solo-gaming. They do take some time to set up (i.e. input the data) but once you get the hang of it OOB's (Nafziger for example) can be input quickly. Nigel and I have also talked about him providing more OOB's in the future. He currently produces a small amount (1806, 1809, 1812);

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There are 3 Post Battle options as well;

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You may want to reconsider? I recently showed Nigel how to play them on an IPAD (For mobility). Hope this helps? Cheers,

Chris
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Ok, I have to know this; how do you play them on an iPad?

Colin,
This is the information that Chris provided to me – I have not attempted it personally, principally because I don't have an iPad [I'm waiting for the wife to break down and buy one……]:

It is attainable by remoting through an APP on your IPAD to your desktop pc. Therefore you'll need to have your program up and running on your desktop pc at home, hotel, etc…. (And install a remote desktop program to the desktop pc as well). The remote desktop option on your desktop pc has to be up and running also. This will allow you to connect through the app on your IPAD. I was able to connect and view my desktop/your program "G&GII" and run it successfully numerous times. It takes a little bit of getting used to as far as familiarity with both IPAD functionality and C&GII, but I was able to get through two turns successfully. The biggest hitch appears to be the battery drains quickly on the IPAD (depends on IPAD settings as well), so therefore you would have to have your recharging stand with you at the gaming table (Similar to your laptop), but you would be able to play in a game and move around the table with no problem.

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Thanks for sharing the photos'; always good to see a french revolutionary battle.
jan, DdL
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Jan,

Great BLOG I need to check it out further. I was attracted originally to WATERLOO in the Napoleonic Era, but lately am being drawn more towards the revolutionary period (Perhaps it's all the colorful characters?). For some reason the Vendee has particularly drawn my interest? I was wondering have you seen/used the Dixon line at all? Do all the various manufacturers match up well together. I'd appreciate any insight you might have on this!

Chris

Collin,

I work in an R&D and S&T arena so after chatting with some developers I found that this is the cheapest way possible to get C&G II to work on the IPAD. The application I used that can be loaded both on your PC & IPAD is called Crazy Remote and can be found as a free lite APP for the IPAD. There's a stronger version as well which you have to pay for.

More information on it can be found here,(Along with instructions on how to use it).

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Cheers,

Chris

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PS: This can be used for any computer application for that matter or just to access your home computer

Chaps,

Thanks for the info on how to do this with an iPad; I will give the crazyremote route a try.

Cheers,

Colin