Its called a Barretina shako - very similar to the Belgic shako.

Most Napoleonic manufacturers have Portuguese figures in Barretina.

edb1815 wrote:There's an "unoffical" QRS available on the FOGN Yahoogroup - just uploaded last week.

Can you provide a link to this group? Thanks.


Jimi

One of my FOG-N opponents, Alan, is deeply in love with the Westphalians - he's collected them several times, in different scales, for different rules, and has begun to collect them, once again, in 15mm for FOG-N.

Having read the army list several times, he asked me to put forward a few comments ...

I agree that the Saxon heavy cavalry in 1812 should get a better rating - everyone held them in very high esteem because of what they were capable of doing, and it should be reflected in the army list.

Both the Garde du Corps and Zastrow Cuirassiers were virtually destroyed when storming the Grand ...

1) I believe the Initiative Level is based on who is the Corps Commander,
eg, if your Corps Commander is Prussian its 3, if Russian its 2, if Austrian its 1, and if Swedish its 0.

2) Yes, France and Central Europe.

* Hussars with no Lances - is deliberate

The Hussars were trained by the Uhlans to use the lance, why ignore this? ToN even includes the Osprey colour drawing showing a trooper from the Pavlograd Hussars armed with one! (Pg 99) :?

* Cossacks with no Lances - is deliberate

Its their main ...

Mine arrived this morning, and it was in my grubby hands about 10mins ago. Lots of army lists!!

But I'm a bit annoyed! The some of the errors found in the army lists from the main rulebook that were mentioned in the errata thread have re-appeared in ToN.
Was no-one reading the errata thread?

e.g ...

Started out at about 5hrs for a 800pt game due to the learning curve - we're now at 3hrs.

We upped our game to 1000pts and can finish in just over 4hrs.


Jimi

Myself and the other FOG-N players in my club have no problems with the 3x3 deployment method, and see no need to change it.


Jimi

Another cut at things instead of just topical forums: given that there is that wealth of data in existence and only 7 major powers, have country subforums like "All Things Austria" to include all country-specific oobs, historical research posts, army design and doctrine, modelling, tactics etc ...

Its not just the Anglo-Portuguese list that has problems - the French, Russian, and Prussian lists suffer too. I cannot speak for the Austrians or Ottomans as I have no experience or knowledge of either.

I can only hope that whoever is doing the lists in the two army books scheduled for release ...

My bad - you're right.


Jimi

Skirmishing Cavalry cannot provide rear support - page 57.


Jimi

I honestly think we are saying the same thing, but you keep taking these positions like cossacks could successfully charge French Cuirassier head on.

I have NEVER made that claim. Kindly stop attributing claims to me that I have never said.

But that doesn't make them battle troops.

Precisely ...

I suggest you go and read some books about Cossacks.


Jimi

Fudging has to come into it sometimes, but as long as its an 'honest' fudge then its fine.

For my Peninsular 1811 British army, I've fudged the Guards in the 1st Division into a large unit - they had 1943 effectives, close enough to 2000 for an 'honest' fudge.

However, if someone tried to fudge ...

A 1812 russian brigade being +/- 1600 people ..it is a 4 base brigade

For the start of the 1812 campaign, the Russian infantry regiments were virtually up to full strength, numbering some 1000+, with some reaching 1200+! This was done by calling up men to the 2nd (depot) battalion, and sending ...

This issue of whether Cossacks had or were trained to use lances is as old as Napoleonic wargaming itself in my experience

The first recorded usage of the word "Cossack" was in the 14th-century, and was used to describe a lance-armed marauding irregular cavalryman. To even try to say that ...

For other Napoleonic systems, I used the simple method of placing the artillery base behind the limber base when the guns were limbered up - not pleasing to the eye, but it worked.

For my FOG-N artillery units, I've recently purchased a number of extra guns off Ebay to place onto my limber bases ...

shadowdragon wrote:You've not visited TMP lately then.

A friend of mine recently stated:-

"If 'TMP' is in the answer then it must have been a really crappy question!"


Jimi