Cheers guys, thanks for your comments.
MG, I am looking forward to hearing how things go at Historicon, as you say very exciting. Yes you raise a good point about the fire effect from the Seminary. The accounts talk about the British troops having enough time before the French were aware of their prescence to build a fire step. When the attack came it was uncoordinated and the British seemed to have no trouble in driving it off. I have therefore erred towards these facts by a) having the French on defend orders at the start, thus restricting them to having to attach Foy to be able to charge, and b) letting the British fire at full effect .
I did consider reducing the fire to say 70% effect to model the disorder of the firing step, but given what happened in reality I don't think it makes a huge difference, and as was shown the French attack helped deliver a French win by allowing them to match Soult's performance on the day.
The five turns of contesting the Seminary seems to model the historical events quite well and the bonus on offer to the French if they launch an assault gives them choices to decide on which will make one play through quite different from another as we have demonstrated.
Hi EB, well both my sons are eager to start playing the 28mm collection and as I am keen to encourage a younger generation into the hobby, I feel duty bound to foster that enthusiasm. Never fear though, Napoleonics have the priority at the moment as Talavera for 2015 is the plan and I will mix in a few Roman and Dacian units to add a bit of variety and bring a new audience in to JJ's little corner of the web.
Cheers
Jonathan