| HappyHiker | 05 May 2018 8:27 a.m. PST |
Despite there already being 5000 different rule sets for napoleonics, I feel the need to convert kings of war (it's really so I can play with my 10yr old without him learning another rule set). This gives me the opportunity to have hero's in the battle. So Sharpe, Harper and maybe Hagman for the brits, but what about the frogs and prussians? Are there any french napoleonic hero's ? I'd add Voltaire, but he wasn't much use in a scrap. The 2 blokes from the dualists might do but we're they Russian? I can't think of any french (musketeers being a bit to early) . Worst case I'll have to use Captain Croissant and Major Moustache etc. But there must be some famous French soldiers ? Hugh Jackman maybe ? |
| Footslogger | 05 May 2018 8:30 a.m. PST |
You could have the named main characters from Delderfield's "Seven Men of Gascony" – a bunch of French voltiguers. |
| setsuko | 05 May 2018 8:35 a.m. PST |
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was said to have herculean strength and was also a very cunning commander. He left the French army after the Egyptian campaign, but you can always include him as a "what-if" scenario later on. link |
| Korvessa | 05 May 2018 8:43 a.m. PST |
There is this book
A small town boy becomes a grenadier in the old guard. link |
 deadhead  | 05 May 2018 8:49 a.m. PST |
It seems you are looking for fictional characters only, which dose limit you. Real life heroes are very well documented for the British and French, if only by themselves, as diarists, of course. Anyone from 95th, Parquin/Marbot/Sgt Burgoyne/LaSalle etc etc for the French. Every discount bookshop has some account by a diarist from the Peninsula, right now. Read up on the real history and you will enjoy it! |
 Whirlwind | 05 May 2018 8:55 a.m. PST |
Major Dulong of the 31st Light fits the bill nicely: link |
| holdit | 05 May 2018 9:34 a.m. PST |
For the French, what about Brigadier Gerard? link |
| HappyHiker | 05 May 2018 9:47 a.m. PST |
Thanks, there's some interesting reading there, Gerard looks good, as does Delderfield. Doesn't have to be fictional, Sharpe was real, right? Right ? ;-) All the real French heroes seem to be cavalry, glory hoggers. |
| Frederick | 05 May 2018 9:52 a.m. PST |
Louis Lepic link Antoine de Lasalle link Pierre Cambronne link
Pierre Lejeune (en francais but rose from Captain to Colonel of the 57th Infantry "Le Terrible" link For an infantrymen, Jean-Roch Coignet And for a gunner, Antoine Drout link link |
 Artilleryman | 05 May 2018 10:02 a.m. PST |
Go to any French novel and take out the names. Even British novels have Frenchmen; Duclos? Manette? LeFarge? Gerard? Rigaud? And who could resist Captain Neuville from the upcoming Napoleonic comedy 'The Return of the Hero'. |
| Winston Smith | 05 May 2018 10:33 a.m. PST |
The Sharpe books have plenty of evil French villains. Of course, Sharpe is the POV character. If the same episode was written from a French POV, who would then be the hero or villain? |
| Mike the Analyst | 05 May 2018 10:53 a.m. PST |
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 Unlucky General | 05 May 2018 11:21 a.m. PST |
Interesting how real French 'heroes' got promoted. I don't know your rule-set but do they need to be separate from Command? |
| Le Breton | 05 May 2018 1:11 p.m. PST |
If you want French heros, you might start with some selections from the 5 volumes of "Fastes de la Légion d'honneur". link The French had many real heros, in all arms of service. |
| Lilian | 06 May 2018 9:40 a.m. PST |
Cantona? Ah this famous english-speaking intellectual of Great Britain, in the land of the blind the one-eyed is king… |
| deadhead | 06 May 2018 11:57 a.m. PST |
Our Colonial colleagues across the Pond must be baffled. Cantona? Eric? Non, mais non. It is what we call football and you call soccer. There are more important things in life, but, end of the season right now, on balance………….naw. |
