Black Powder Napoleonics - French and British

[scrivs]

Adie and I had a cracking game of Black Powder on Tuesday night pitting his British against my French.



A full report and more images are available on the Scrivsland blog

[Cubster]

That looks ace!

[grant]

Nice!

[ady2650]

My Hanoverian Brigade didnt move all game even when Picton rode up and rounded on the Brigade commander, with well chosen expletives..... Unreliable troops are ace !!

[ady2650]

Should have said that it was an ace game despite me losing 20 to 8 my biggest loss ever in our round of 500 point games selected from our army lists

[grecian1959]

Guys in your blackpowder battles are you only using the main rule set or have you added your own ammendments to give it a specific napoleonic feel? how long do your games take and do you use any terrain generator -so you have some but not too much -we game on a9x5 table
Peter

[ady2650]

Hi Peter,

We play on anything from 12ft by 8 ft (big Games, most recent being Quatra Bras) to 6ft by 4ft which is the standard size game for our 500 points 'competition' type game (still all very friendly) we have a terrain generator that scrivs sorted. I sorted the army lists and special rules for each army that have been play tested and work well. The games are fought over 8 turns and last a couple of hours. We have a simple scoring system 2 points for breaking a standard unit 1 point for a small etc. Really Really fun approach to Napoleonics. We are holding a mini tourney at Maelstrom early April which I am sure Scrivs will do a write up on

[grecian1959]

Thanks Ady -may i ask are the army lists/special rules/terrain generator etc top secret or ????? if not pls letme know as we'd like to try them out over here-have a lot of 25/28mm units french and allied -more into 1812/13/14 myself

thanks Peter

[ady2650]

Thanks Ady -may i ask are the army lists/special rules/terrain generator etc top secret or ????? if not pls letme know as we'd like to try them out over here-have a lot of 25/28mm units french and allied -more into 1812/13/14 myself

thanks Peter

Do you know Peter I don't know ..... Calling Paul Sawyer

[ady2650]

Hi Peter, The bad news is that the lists and rules are for the books , but the good news is that they are coming soon, the first Albion Triumphant looks at the struggle in the Peninsular and has list for Anglo Portuguese, French and Spanish. It also includes how to get foreign troops in the French lists as well as shaking up column v line combats a little. This will be followed by the 100 days campaign which brings with it the Anglo Netherlands list, another French list and book at the Prussians. I am working on the third at the moment ( I call it Of Empire and Eagles) this brings the best of the rest into play from 1792 onwards and has loads and loads of special rules, lists and game ideas. The special rules in the main bring in national characteristics, some thing I grew up with being a massive fan of Bruce Quarrie,

they are coming soon and I cannot wait

ady