"Black Powder Waterloo OOB" Topic
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mpanko  | 08 Nov 2012 12:41 p.m. PST |
I am working on D'Erlon's assualt at Waterloo and building out units at the BN scale to use for convention games in '13. As I do this I am finding quite a wide spread on the end strengths amongst the numbers for each BN/CAV REGT. For instance the British Life Guards and a couple French cuirassier regiments are half the size of most other horse regiments so I am going to class them as small. Now to me this seems like it makes sense. Well when I got to the French Guard Cavalry I found that the size of the regments were 900-1200 strong! So my question for those that have been here before – would you make the units 'large' for BP or make two regular size units to account for units like the Guard cavalry regiments? Thanks Mike |
Ligniere  | 08 Nov 2012 1:01 p.m. PST |
I don't use BP, but you should split the larger French Guard cavalry, and operate them as two separate units. npm |
 Sparker  | 08 Nov 2012 1:35 p.m. PST |
Yes that would be quite historical – the OG French 1st Regiments, Horse Grenadiers, Empress Dragoons, and Chasseurs were commanded by, as opposed to Honorary Colonel IC, Brigadier Generals so I think they were fielded as Brigades… |
| dwight shrute | 08 Nov 2012 2:33 p.m. PST |
Had similar issues converting GDB scenario books over to BP . I gave them 2 units and resisted the large tempation . |
| Maxshadow | 08 Nov 2012 5:30 p.m. PST |
My inclination would be to field as large.
Because
A: a few less figures to collect and paint
B: Thats how I field Austrian units of that size
C: You won't have to invent a new name for them. |
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