We play Shako II regularly in our group. You'll actually find my name in the play test group inside the cover.
Great game for battalion/regiment/battery game, line, column, square. Divisions being the command unit, sometimes brigades.
We can do a game in 3 hours with 5 to 6 divisions a side.
There are a few quirks, for instance line fires directly ahead, they cannot fire even 15 degrees at an angle.
We create scenario rules for certain games, such as Prussian Landwehr are rated as 3 but in 1813-14 we give them a 4 for melee and morale but still only take 3 hits to be destroyed.
We've played big battles, Wagram 36' table, Borodino 30' table, Eylau 26' table, Ligny 30' table and Waterloo 18' table with an extension for Plancenoit. All of these were played in 8 to 10 hours. Two were put on at Enfilade Convention. The largest number of figures we had on the table was just under 7000 for Wagram.
There are a number of scenario books available. Chris Leach's "Fields of Glory". Michael Hopper has written two books "Eagles Over Bavaria" and "Dual of Princes", that will work for Shako II, our group play tested a number of these scenarios.
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Here is a critique of Michael's books.
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I personally really like the set it gives a good flavor of the period.
's motivation to paint Napoleonic ships returns!
