"Age of Valor Solferino 1859 Scenario Free Download‏" Topic

European Fire & Fury for the Age of Rifles.

This is a full playtest scenario for our upcoming Age of Valor expansion module for AOE. It will cover European warfare during the age of blood and iron, specifically from the 1848 Hungarian Revolution thru the 1905 Russo-Japanese War. Format will be similar to what we created for Age of Honor, so expect full color and lots of battles. This scenario has everything you need to play, providing someone has a copy of AOE. This version comes with revised charts with all changes highlighted in yellow. Solferino is a huge battle, but can be broken down into smaller engagements. Take a test drive and let us know what you think.

Again, for those who participated in our first playtest of this battle, the charts have been revised to reflect your comments and suggestions.

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Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides

Looks very good! I'm a huge fan of the new colored labels for the units. What is the timeline for publishing this supplement?

A highly attractive supplement. Will have a good look and report back on thoughts, I know is period well but haven't used these rules.

Well remember that this isn't the entire supplement, just a test scenario we ran and continue to tweak. However, so many people were asking about it, I just decided to post it.

As noted above, you can see where we tweaked the numbers on the charts by the yellow highlight.

Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides

Oh yes, one more thing (because this always comes up), when notice a category like Lorenze 1859 on the fire chart – or similar – the numbers not only represent the hardware, but also the training, competency and doctrine behind the hardware as well.

The hardware specific label is just a name of convenience.

Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides

I notice you have ignored the Piedmont effort in the North. Was this to allow a playable game due to space and size?

Thanks Bill

Looks Great

@Royal Marine,

Yup, pretty much. We did the initial playtest at Richard Hasenauer's house, and this is all the room he had, and all the figures he and Mike Montemarano could muster.

We will include San Martino, and given I just asked questions on several groups as to the color of Italian gun carriages (blue-grey evidently), guess who is likely going to build that army.

Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides

I do like that rationale… "we didn't have the troops so we didnt play that game …. Yet".

I used brown for my Italian guns BTW because I didn't know what color they were either, so went for the easiest option assuming the Italians hadn't got round to painting their guns during the war prep.

Out of curiosity are you going to be running AoV at Historicon this year? I had a chance to play in last years game (I was the Austrian CinC with the lucky dice) and I had a blast. I would be very interested in giving it a go again!

Yes. I will be running the the WSS battle of Chiari, then leaving the table up and redoing the battle again, only this time with 1859 French an Austrian forces, perhaps a tad reinforced. Its about 40,000 per side, and since the armies of 1859 tromped around in the vicinity anyway, a run in was not out of the question. I also got some period Austrian military maps and the place actually changed very little from the time of Prinz Eugen (save for a railroad line off table to the west).

Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides

Bill

Thanks for the scenario. Question….I am looking at using the Pendraken range in 10mm for this period and your rules.

How would you mount the figs? use 15mm stand size and mount 6 figures or go to a 5/8 x 7/8 base and mount 4 figs?

I currently use 5/8 x 7/8 for my 10mm Colonial so this is the best option for me at this time.

Thnaks in advance

Tom

Hi Bill

I note from the play sheet that the Austrian Lorenz rifle does pretty badly on fire points.

Is this intended to simulate the highly variable quality of build and performance or is there a "negative" factor relating to Austrian doctrine also present?

Thanks

Kelvin

tschuma1498

My player group uses the smaller base with 4 figures in 10mm for AoE.

It works well and looks great.

We intend to use this for AoV at present also

Thanks

Kelvin

In answer to the questions above:

- Most folks use the 15 mm basing and simply add in more figures. Good lord it does look impressive! Smaller base look fine as well, so its really up to you

- Yes, all hardware listed on under the fire combat tables have training and doctrine already built into the calculations. Calling the classification Lorenz or Dreyse is just a matter of simplicity.

Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides

Thanks Bill

There were a couple of versions of the Lorenz rifle. There was too much windage and the type issued to the line infantry did not have enough twists to give a good spin to the bullets.

For some historical background and maps see The 1859 Italian War, Operations Of War by Luigi Casali.

Druzhina
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Hello Bill.
Is there any chance of you publishing a supplement for your Regimental Fire and Fury rules that will cover the "Age of Valor" period. As you probably know, there were many smaller battles, especially during the Risorgimento.
Regards
Ernesto

Sorry, didn't see this until now. I think so, because I do know that Rich Hasenauer did create a 19th Century European quick reference sheet for RFF. I'm not on that project so I have no idea where it stands right now, or how soon you might see something officially published.

I'd check the forums out over at fireandfury.com.

Warmest regards,

/// BILL ///

Wilbur E Gray
Colonel, US Army (Ret)
AOE, PSS, HMGS WFG+

ageofeagles.com

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." Thucydides