"Napoleonic Wargame Rules " Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Apr 2017 3:39 p.m. PST |
"I have decided to organise my classic Napoleonic collection on the same lines as other Hinton Hunt collectors. This means infantry units of 24 figures and cavalry with 12. What I have yet to decide is the rules I am going to use. I have a number of choices and thought I would share these.
Firstly there is the timeless classic Charge by Lawford and Young…"
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robert piepenbrink  | 11 Apr 2017 7:04 p.m. PST |
Well, I'll be interested in your other choices, but there's a reason Charge! is a classic. And it's a pretty robust system. You can generally tweak it--add troop types, change organization or adjust to a smaller table, say--without killing the whole thing. Certainly a strong contender. |
| Green Tiger | 12 Apr 2017 2:53 a.m. PST |
Not really Napoleonic – 18th century |
| Reactionary | 12 Apr 2017 3:02 a.m. PST |
Disagree, works through to 1815 no problems. |
| Tango01 | 12 Apr 2017 10:49 a.m. PST |
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| Musketier | 17 Apr 2017 3:20 a.m. PST |
The illustrations in 'Charge!' may be 18th C, but given the prominence of infantry columns and the effectiveness of light infantry, it arguably is a late 18th C and Napoleonics ruleset. It certainly worked fine for our Waterloo bicentennial game. |
| Rick Don Burnette | 26 Apr 2017 6:09 p.m. PST |
Old School Well maybe not that old
Paddy Griffiths various Napoleonic games Dick Bryants game in the old Empires, Eagles and Lions
Ned Zuparkos Vive L Emperuer
Scott Bowdens Empires nost of these had something to say
Many of todays rules are reinventions of these older sets |
| Analsim | 03 May 2017 12:25 p.m. PST |
Tango01, What about "Column, Line and Square" by Fred Vietmeyer & Co.? That's as old school as it gets here in the USA. |
| UshCha | 05 May 2017 12:58 p.m. PST |
Shako was a good one I cut my teeth on Barker's set, can't remember the title. Wargames in parts has gotten better, old may not by any means best. Classic cars are just that, few would swap for a good modern efficient comfortable modern car. The same with rules. |
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