"Starting French in Sharp Practice for under £50" Topic

I've seen the question now and then about what to get when starting out a Sharp Practice force. So I wrote about three ways to form a useful French core force for under £50.00 GBP GBP

Hopefully it can be useful if you're planning to get into Napoleonics, as it's a skirmish game and very beginner friendly. No need to paint up entire armies before you can get started!

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Plastics make Sharp Practice a very affordable game. I think I did the basic ACW union force from the rulebook for £25.00 GBP – 1 box of Perry plastics and a spare sprue of the same. Of course, it would be silly to stop there – cavalry, guns, mounted command, variant uniforms, the cost can be expanded as easily as your force.

True, it was pretty easy to get several viable options for less than £50.00 GBP If you start small, I Think you could even squeeze a beginner game out of a single Victrix box.

Plastics or 18 mm.
But beware you need buildings etc. preferably that can open. In 18mm if you are able you can do them in paper / card, they would be ok, not so much in 20mm.

Paper Terrain offers building etc. in multiple scales including 20mm.
paperterrain.com

That's the thing about skirmish games that people seem to ignore. The fewer figures, the more important terrain becomes, so that the time investment increases accordingly.