"Valour & Fortitude" Topic

We use these rules and find them very good, especially for larger games as they are quite fast play as you note. Artillery's key role is to put damage on units before they get into contact.

Fwiw we have a house rule that artillery can fire at any target if nothing (except other artillery) can charge or shoot at it. Otherwise there is no value in hills and even having position artillery.

Attack columns had +1 attack value in melee in earlier versions of the rules, that has been dropped, we find that makes line infantry overpowered (esp British with its extra shooting ability) so we retain the +1 for attack column in melee. French get an elan bonus as well, so are quite good in attack.

What is basing for these rules?

The rules, play sheets, and army lists are free (!!!) downloads from the Perry brothers at link

We've played several games using these rules with both 15mm and 25/28mm figures. They take a little getting used to them but they are fun to play.

Jim

We play them in 6mm, using centimeters for all measurements. Fast and easy rules with a nice twist on the phase order. The only issue I find is that you need very large tables relative to unit count in order to get the most out of the rules.

We have played the rules some games now. I mostly liked, that i wanted to test the biggest table i could build (4,20 m wide) and the rules still worked. Double move and double again on streets made rapid movement possible.

The feeling of the rules is Black Powder Light and not everyone will like that.

V&F is not a Bier unf pretzel game, the event interactions are simple so you can do a lot of them, but subtle. It comes into its own when its a big game IMO

This is what it does well – Borodino sized games on 18' tables :)

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