"On your first Napoleonic wargame" Topic

… going back to the 1st thread from Armand …

"Battalions of 270 to 350 figures"

Did anyone else stop and think about this for a minute?

Yeah

That's a lot of figures

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At Larry Brom's house in Greensboro, NC using his
collection of Scruby, SAE and other Napoleonics,
and his rules. Early/Mid-60's.

1978 with minifigs 15mm British v French using the old WRG Napoleonics, a bit meh as the cavalry shuffled towards each other hoping to get the distance right to be the charging unit. Although it was all academic as the British infantry blew mine to pieces.

Gave it up did ancients. Then a couple of years ago went to the Holiday centre near Newbury with some mates, for a cast of thousands in 28mm, got hooked and now I'm slogging through painting an Austrian army!

Not so many years ago two of us picked up a 15mm naps starter set (Produced I think by a magzine and using Minifigs models)from Britcon, which had two small armies in. We swapped so he had the Frogs and I had the Brits. The rules in the set were awful (and didnt make any sense whatsoever) so we ditched them and looked around for an alternative.

Not long after Blackpowder came out, so we tried that, and enjoyed it very muchly.

Aprox 5/6 infantry battalions, a couple of cavalry regiments and some guns each (IIRC the frogs got 4 guns to my 2) fighting across switzerland. The french grand battery was overrun by skirmishing Riflemen, The british cavalry caught a battalion in the flank whilst in March Column, fluffed their dice and fled, and then the assault columns came on and were driven off by British musketry.

A right laugh, and a british win!