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Napoleon’s light infantry

The warlord starter armies have a 1K list included…. they often have a couple of models left over.

As a rough guide go to wg.easyarmy.  com (space left out) – however there are a couple of list errors & it contains units / Theater lists from ALL the armies of… books and the campagin books.

The pickup games missions…. they are an attempt at pickup /tournamaent games….. but the rounding of points doesnt exactly allow for ballanced tournaments….

If you are up for it I would look at the historical sceanrios and altering them to match your models /time

eg in the new year I’m planning on doing a version of the midway…. but…[Read more]

Imagin the distribution of just 7500 weapons made and you have the answer. 1/3 never reaching front units. The FG 42, first used in 43, was no replacement for the K98 in real  action. 1 in a squad in addition to the LMG, or often as bad replacement, would be historical.

Anything else is like the all Stug 44 units fielded by some gamers.   On…[Read more]

An idea from cruel seas is just to use little glass beads/ pebbles instead

Non aryans? But you ask for the Italians.   No racist ideology problems for the Nazi scum.

Late 43  15.000 volunteers went to Germany for training to form 29. Waffen-Grenadier – Division der SS = Italienische SS Division 1.  But 9.000 soon got kicked out, being of no military use.

It went to Italy as : Six Grenadier and a Füsilier Batt…[Read more]

Very decent of you, Lindsay 👍.  I hope they are not expecting you to do anything cooking though? 😆.

Nice work, Lindsay 👍.  Wessex looks like it has some defence against the dread Northmen!

Yeah RAW (and confirmed in the FAQ) is 0 flights can be used for scouting….

However the House Rule I like is when allocating ships to scouting you may replace up to a 1/3rd of any (/all) carriers flights with the Aircraft X trait (where X is the number of flights you replace).  You can then do it that these Aircraft X can then be allocated in…[Read more]

Light Infantry… depending on the unit (and the supplement your using) can deploy in one of 4 formations, depends on how YOU as the general want to deploy them!

Line (0 skirmishers)
mixed (33% skirmishers)
Light infantry mixed (50% skirmishers (rounding up IIRC)) – this is found in the clash of eagles supplement
skirmish (100% skirmishers) – if…[Read more]

When moving, the ship must end the turn on the table and not overlapping another ship.  I do go with during movement overlapping is fine (stops tactical blocking).  As only the bridge is the location of the ship I’d go with so long as the bridge doesnt go off the table then you are fine.

Ah yes, Chris Collingwood is outstanding.

I agree the bases of red and blue figures would be great for more abstract type games, sort of 3D counters.  A bit like the Perry’s battle in a box.

I think I would go for 3 bases in a regular sized using, 4 for large, and 2 for small, if I were using the epic figures under Black Powder.  This would the…[Read more]

Hilarious, good one Keith 😆!

Which of the Epic scale armies are you thinking of getting?

(Excuse me for asking, but are you the same Keith Flint, author of Shadow of the Eagles?  Interesting looking set of rules.  The cover alone is tempting!)

errata pg 4

age 25, Ranger squad. Change ‘Rangers Lead the Way!’ Special
Rule to:
Rangers lead the way! Units of Rangers are allowed to make a Run move after both sides have finished set-up, but before the first turn of the game. During this move, the unit cannot assault
enemy units, and cannot be targeted by enemies in Ambush.

page 23
If Ran…[Read more]

Yep… if you work out the points a number of units across all 3 books are a few points out …

Brunswick vanguard Battalions are a point over costed, the Nassau Jage Coy is 2 points UNDER costed…. the British Congreve & Howitzer artillery units  end up being 4 points under costed… then you get the change in books as to how much downgrading…[Read more]

Precisely historically accurate unit sizes are not particularly important in skirmish-scale games as the action is  not taking place on the parade ground, but mid-war or mid-fight, where forces varied due to shortages, official reorganisation, or on some temporary detachment/attachment at this scale at this point in time. Of course something…[Read more]

Hi Dave, Glad to hear your enjoying your games of Pike & Shotte.  Hope I can clarify the bits that are causing confusion.

The Disorder from melee is as a result of a Break Test.  If you look at the Break Test Result Table on page 76 you will see that when units are forced to retire as a break test result that they also become di…[Read more]

Stunning work as always 👍

Its normally a 3 month pre-order window with Warlord.  And is down on the UK site as as release date January….which can be any time in January :

One of the reasons why they’ve split the website down is to allow for delays in releases however so far its only been a couple of weeks between the US & UK with other systems (VaS, BA) that I’ve heard…[Read more]