"New Napoleonic Rules by David Ensteness" Topic

"1. You just launched Et sans résultat! at Little Wars 2015 – How'd the launch go?
Awesome. Just awesome. We ran two games of ESR – the Battle of Eylau. At the height of things we had seven players and eight people observing the game, lot of interest. Each side had one veteran player who'd partaken in play testing acting as the army commander. Otherwise all the players were new to the game. Somewhat surprisingly the games resolved pretty historically, the Russians were very beat up but the French were exhausted after making very slow progress.
Sales of ESR were strong, the games we ran were terrific and the convention as a whole was a ton of fun! Leading up to the convention we sold out of our first print run during pre-orders, following the convention our second print run was nearly gone. There were a striking number of people who were really happy to see a new take on Napoleonics and that's exciting because it might be the least approachable period for new players and we really want to make Napoleonics approachable with ESR.

2. Let's get right to it: Does anyone on this side of the pond know how to pronounce Et sans résultat?
Well, my wife does but she speaks French… Mostly I refer to the game as ‘ESR'. Many games get referred to by letters – Does anyone call DBA by its actual name? – so no one should feel bad saying ‘ESR' instead of learning to pronounce ‘Eh sa ree-sul-ta'…"
Full review here
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