Dust-up in Belgium

[Philip]

I had an interesting game at the club today played using a Flames of War scenario, "Dust-up". My opponent Shaun felt that the standard attack/defence game was getting stale, so suggested using a scenario to generate other sorts of battles.

For those who are unfamiliar with the FOW dust-up scenario (and that includes me!), it begins with half of each army deployed on diagonally opposite corners aiming to capture an objective in the other deployment zone. The rest of the army arrives later as reinforcements.

I was using the Netherlands Reserve Corps (1815), and Shaun had 1814 French. My plan was to deploy all my infantry and artillery on table to hold their position until my reserve cavalry could arrive and counter-attack using their mobility to intervene in the most effective place. Well, the plan almost worked... but the cavalry arrived just in time to see lots of Dutch militia fleeing in rout and the French veterans sitting on the objective. An entertaining game though!

The game did highlight just how flexible the FOG-N system is. At the club we usually play a standard 800 point attack-defence game, but we have also just finished a campaign (1813 in Germany) with a variety of types of battle, and done several large refights involving most of the club including Waterloo (twice), Austerlitz and Leipzig. All good stuff.

What do the rest of you prefer to play, the standard game out of the box or some special set up for the game?

[Blathergut]

Dead. and I usually just hurl 900 points at each other as per the book.

[terrys]

We've played weekend historical battles with anything up to 3,500 pt per side (on a 12x6 table). These normally include lots of off-table reserves and special scenario rules - with break points calculated on a per corps basis.
We normally play standard 800pt games at the club, due to time restraints.

However I'll probably make the BHGS challenge a 900pt game, and will consider some special rules for that comp.