French vs Imperial WSS

[Last Hussar]

From the game last Friday 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lasthussar/sets/72157630167051178/with/7389587022/
1128 Infantry, 384 Cavalry, 6 guns, 38 First Fire markers, 12 Generals, various hangers on, and 1 Carriage (containing Mistress, not seen).

[Hertsblue]

Now, that's what I call a game. None of your namby-pamby skirmishes. Good job LH. 

[nikharwood]

Agreed - very nicely done! 

[Ben Waterhouse]

That's how it should look, lovely.

[robert]

Marvellous game - well done - try Maurice rules though, much more fun than BP - imho

[Nosher]

Line em up and knock em down

Years since I have played 'everything you have got on the table'... Agreed that Maurice is tons better than BP though

[Last Hussar]

I've wriiten my own mod for BP

http://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/war-of-spanish-succession-for-black-powder/

[sunjester]

I think Last Hussar's mods work well for the period, or at least they give us a game that we are both happy with.

A lot of games end up in an infantry stalemate, we do not often get an decisive victory for either side. We usually agree in a civilised manner, as befits gentlemen, who has the advantage. These have been the only games I've experienced where I've have a prolonged debate at the end of the game with both generals insisting that the other had won!

Of course there's the odd battle, like this one, where Last Hussar's dice luck strikes and a third of his infantry run away at the first sight of French cold steel.

I did download Maurice Lite and read through it a couple of times, but it really didn't appeal to me at all. Each to their own.

[Last Hussar]

Sunjester is a very bad man.  At the moment he has 20 bn foot, I have 18, I have 14 Regt horse, he has 12 I think.  He has 'found' enough spares to make another 5 bns, having ordered the command recently.  That means I need to buy more, the git.

[nikharwood]

Sunjester is a very bad man.  At the moment he has 20 bn foot, I have 18, I have 14 Regt horse, he has 12 I think.  He has 'found' enough spares to make another 5 bns, having ordered the command recently.  That means I need to buy more, the git.

You two are heading down the joyous road to M.A.D. methinks  

[sunjester]

Sunjester is a very bad man.  At the moment he has 20 bn foot, I have 18, I have 14 Regt horse, he has 12 I think.  He has 'found' enough spares to make another 5 bns, having ordered the command recently.  That means I need to buy more, the git.

I think of it as doing my bit to help kickstart the economy, or at least put food on Dave and Leon's tables!

[Leon]

I think of it as doing my bit to help kickstart the economy, or at least put food on Dave and Leon's tables!

[Hertsblue]

Sunjester is a very bad man.  At the moment he has 20 bn foot, I have 18, I have 14 Regt horse, he has 12 I think.  He has 'found' enough spares to make another 5 bns, having ordered the command recently.  That means I need to buy more, the git.

Either; a) you're using very small battalions, or b) he grossly over-orders, or c) you're being played, mate. 

[sunjester]

Either; a) you're using very small battalions, or b) he grossly over-orders, or c) you're being played, mate. 

a) Last Hussar insists on using 6 figures per 20mm base, I use 4. So my battalions are 24 figures.

b) Originally I ordered some army packs, then added odd bits as I needed them. So I did have a fair number of "spare" infantry left.

c)   

[Last Hussar]

He is being very quiet about yesterday's game.  Ask him how his French did against the Prussians being led by my son, over whom he had 3:2 foot, and 2:1 cavalry advantage. 

As my dining table extends to 10ft long, and is 3'6" wide, and the fact my wife is in London for 2 weeks (she is a volunteer 'Games Maker' at Stratford - the people in purple and pink t-shirts at the Olympics) we got another 'Everything' game in.  My Austrians did it properly - nice straight lines, using cavalry to slowly roll up the Italians/Bavarians from the flank.  The Prussians managed to turn it into the Age of Reason equivalent of a back street bar brawl- at one point foming a cavalry square!