"Black Powder Skirmish" Topic

Link to my blog below! A small skirmish with Black Powder rules. I was excited to use my Prussians for the first time, but sadly things didn't go as planned.

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Enjoy, and thanks for looking!

Thanks for that. I'm reading BP at the moment with a view to using them when my Peninsular collection gets under way – I'm due to start painting on Jan 1 2016.

I wonder if you, or someone else, can enlighten me as to how many skirmishers I'll actually need in practice. I mean, what proportion of units throw out skirmishers (mixed formation) in a typical PB game.

I've already bought thirty seven 24 man battalions of infantry and was working on having 4 skirmish figures per battalion (140+ skirmish figures). I was thinking 6 per battalion would look better but, that's another 70 figures and, at £1.20 GBP a figure (28mm), I'd rather spend the money on other things.

Please advise.

James

4 is plenty, always found them pretty symbolic in BP terms anyway.

I only use a stand with two figures to represent skirmishers. Looks fine on the table with lots of battalions.

Thanks for looking James!

I agree with the above. My French (pictured in game) throw out Skirmishers mostly when in attack column, but otherwise none of the other nations we play typically do. 2-4 Skirmishers per base should do. I'm currently in the process of adding Jagers to the Prussians, and they will have 2 bases per battalion of 2 men on each. When you have many battalions on the field it'll look good. That was a small game by our standards.