"Anyone ever use To the Last Gaiter Button for a campaign?" Topic

I'm working towards firing up a Franco-Prussian campaign to cover the frontier battles and my options are:
To the Last Gaiter Button
or boardgames like:
Le Aigle Foudroye
The Sedan Campaign
The Franco-Prussian War
or just inventing something myself. I'm curious if anyone has played To the Last Gaiter Button as a campaign and how it turned out.

Tom V.

Not the full campaign rules, but I did run a 4-game two-sided campaign using the terrain generation and tactical rules (minus the map and politics).

link

(scroll down to the campaign rules

When I plan a campaign I usually limit it to 4 or 5 games because of the tendency for campaigns longer than that to lose steam.

Thanks :) i like the 1870 rules for the table but may use the terrain generation portion of TLGB

I havent played them (still painting the models), but i think they should work. The double blind system is interesting.

I like 1870 too, but i wouldnt mix them. IMO the simple campaign and the simple battle rules fit perfectly together. And you dont have to play every battle, you can simply roll dice.

But i think the miniature armies needed are to big. I will play with 1 stand = 1 bataillon and casualties are marked. (to count strength 5 french bataillon with 2 casualties has strength 3 seems possible). So maybe i can really play with 2 corps on every side.

Yea I'm struggling a bit with integrating the two rules but I like 1870 a lot and worry that the TLGB rules will be too simplistic. I'm sure I'll figure something out or I'll use one of the board games as a system.