Dr Dave

Thank you Peter.

Thanks Nat, but – and don’t tell Warlord this – but I’m using 1/6000 scale ships. So the ranges and model size discrepancy is much less apparent.

so where is the section on smoke?

Ha! Found it!

Page 59: “Squadrons”

I’d assume that the rules as written are trying to allow players to field variety over totally authentic lists? In reality the II Reserve cavalry Corps was composed entirely of Dragoon regiments (8 of them). Similarly the IV RCC was all Cuirassier.

It’s worth remembering that professionals call it “fire and movement” for a reason, not movement and fire!

It’s always struck me as odd that you advance against a prepared foe and you have the drop on him in the firefight. So as you plodded across the field to get within range what on earth was he doing?

Mick,

The point is that often a brigade would put an entire regiment up front in skirmish order. This way – if you use the mixed order as well of line plus skirmishers – you could really swamp someone with skirmish shooting, perhaps someone who was reluctant to (or couldn’t) use it – such as defending a fort, buildings, line of cover…[Read more]

Garry, you’re right to a point. But the aim was really that standard represents 300. The average strength of a confederate regt at Gettysburg say.

Cavalry dismount as skirmishers because that’s what they did. I’ve never read pf them being formed in ranks and files when fighting on foot.

Sorry to be the “wet blanket” here but the intention in “Glory Hallelujah!” was that a standard cavalry unit dismounts as a standard unit of skirmishers. It was that way for two reasons:

1) keep it simple

2) if units drop by one size when dismounted then it means that for a small unit 1/2 hold horses when it would become a tiny unit – obviously…[Read more]

Hi there Tom – I’m glad that you like it.

1) As per the normal rules troops in buildings would not count as formed. I take this t be because in a cluster of buildings the attacker would be able to tell precisely which buildings were occupied and which ones were not. So we play that just like normal.

2) Yes – that was the intention. The modifiers…[Read more]

Dave is assuming a miscalculation when it could simply be that whist the brigade commander ordered a charge, the unit command thought it wiser to advance and fire. I’d always allow them to fire. The idea of a unit doing nothing is just… well…. plain silly.

Why not count uber large units as two standard units in extreme cases. 1000+ might be in this realm of an average French bttn (at Waterloo) is 600.

…and while I’m here don’t forget that most cuirassier regts at Waterloo are small units!

Thanks Jim. Seems like a glaring omission though.

Ha – so there is. Somehow I missed that. Many thanks!

Thanks All. Don’t tell anyone – but I’m not going to use BA. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t going to wreck 300 infantry for future BA use.