anyone tried the WAB Napoleonic rules ?

[Greenjacket]

Or old school wargames where there was no command and control system - units moved where their players wanted them to, and the only role of generals was to give Ld modifier for morale tests!
A Napoleonic wargame without taking into account the command and control systems of the era is, well, not terribly Napoleonic really.

[Cubster]

What about lobbing marbles at plastic soldiers?

[Big Al]

What about lobbing marbles at plastic soldiers?

Now that's very "Old School"

[Alan Charlesworth]

Ah! Now were back to HG Wells and Little Wars. Its the 100th anniversary of its publication next year.

The old ways live on:

http://funnylittlewars-gardencampaigns. ... date=false

Some of you young chaps need to get out more.

[Darkwing Duck]

So has anyone tried WAB Napoleonics?

[ady2650]

Well, in the old days units didn't look so depleted because you had some book keeping to do. You had to note casualties and only remove figures when the ratio had been met (usually every 20 casualties). This meant that units didn't look like they were falling apart. Also, when a unit failed morale and broke, it would flee, making its way back to the player's table edge. Yes, it could be run down and possibly destroyed or it would make the table edge and leave the table. Either way the whole unit was removed from the table. These were rules from way back in the 70's, so it isn't just "modern" rules. The slow depletion and removal of figures from a unit is just a different way of achieving the same result of eventual removal of whole units from the table.

While Warlord's rules do remove whole units when they are destroyed or have broken, until that point is reached the whole unit stays on the table. Not only that, a break point is reached where a defeated army is recognised and the battle is over.

Played many a game in the 70's and 80's were I felt more like an accountant than a gamer 1 to 33 , 1 to 20

[ady2650]

So has anyone tried WAB Napoleonics?

nice nudge back on topic

[Correus]

I haven't played the rules, but it is a BEAUTIFUL book!!!

[ady2650]

Thats true lots of lovely pictures and background fluff

[Greenjacket]

Thats true lots of lovely pictures and background fluff

True, but most of the those lovely pictures and background seem to have been copied without attribution