Warlord Games | Patto | Activity https://www.warlordgames.com/community-members/tony-pattison1/activity/ Activity feed for Patto. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:01:15 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 5a18f2a9cb7e0f571b92894e1ebe43f0 Patto replied to the topic Napoleonic Artillery - Using Half Batteries paired as full batteries in the forum Black Powder https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/napoleonic-artillery-using-half-batteries-paired-as-full-batteries/#post-179635 Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:57:12 +0100 There’s some really interesting ideas in this blog. I hope I can usefully add to this:

As far as I can tell it wasn’t unusual to deploy ‘sections’ of guns in support of a handful of battalions doing a specific job on the battle field. To allow for this in Napoleonics, rather than overdo the fire factors I intend to use battalion gun ratings as…[Read more]

]]> 0 7730c60f579657a0fe3e49bbf7aebf30 Patto replied to the topic Big Games Using Black Powder in the forum Black Powder https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/big-games-using-black-powder/#post-179424 Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:30:18 +0100 Thanks Phillip. Much appreciated. I think I have the movement covered in that all units are on movement trays which works well for both identification and ease of play on the table. Combat wise it might be worth fighting as a brigade, rather than as individual units within the brigade. Having said that it seems using the stats for a line infantry…[Read more]

]]> 0 27a6bc6b64425299a6e0a6dd1a6604e8 Patto replied to the topic Big Games Using Black Powder in the forum Black Powder https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/big-games-using-black-powder/#post-179391 Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:41:41 +0100 Thanks Karl. That’s definitely worth a try. Is that the only ‘change’ you implement? Do you alter anything in terms of game processes?

I was starting to think around how I could develop factors around brigades or half brigades. This would be more akin to moving blocks of troops rather than units. I was wondering if anyone else did something…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b0bc18e91e1f421bed60ab024105895 Patto started the topic Big Games Using Black Powder in the forum Black Powder https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/big-games-using-black-powder/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:26:45 +0100 We have been using BP for games which have used 100+ units of troops. We’ve found that this often becomes difficult to manage, whilst great to see. Has anyone made any rule adaptations for the larger games that enable the pace and flow of the game to be sustained?

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