"Youtube channel on Napoleonic wargaming" Topic

There is a great channel on Youtube, for anybody starting in Napoleonic wargaming. It breaks down the different troop types like line infantry, light infantry, hussars, dragoon, in different videos. I think you will enjoy it. Here it is:

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Very nice. Thank you for the link.

Great channel. Highly recommended!

I have just watched the two video's related to the preparations for the Wagram game. Perhaps it's the problem with Black Powder, which appears to dumb down the organizations into units of certain sizes, or them just trying to do a portion of a very big battle with limited figures, but their approach is not something I would recommend to anyone really interested in pursuing wargaming the Napoleonic era.

Rather than twisting themselves into a pretzel to do a portion of Wagram, which usually results in a very unhistorical game, if you really want to simulate Napoleonic warfare reduce the approach so you can use the resources you have to replicate battalions, which were the basic maneuver element of the period and develop a generic scenario pitting a French division against an Austrian division.

The approach of creating unhistoric units because you've got to shoehorn your available figures and ground scale into a rigid set of rules makes no sense to me, especially if at the end of the day you just want to claim you refought a portion of the Battle of Wagram, which you really didn't.

So, what rules do you recommend to simulate Napoleonic Warfare?

General de Brigade similar unit size and captures the feel more IMHO

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