Slitherine

So what armies are playing at Ascot

cheers

Alasdair

Once Terry lets me know, I will post R & R here - unless of course Terry publishes the R & R here first!

Terry will be running a number of training/demonstration games of FOG Napoleonic on the Friday. Mike is also going to be around, I gather, so you will have a chance to buttonhole (politely!) both authors. I know that FOG N has been eagerly anticipated. We will be running a FOG N competition at Warfare this year, so come and have a taster.

Napoleon is of course famous for wanting lucky generals, but he also said that "One bad general is worth two good ones". Which will you be!?

Tim Child

Runners and Riders for the challenge are:

Paddy Bray: Russian 1812
Ian Colby: Anglo-Portuguese 1810-1811
Glenn Harrison: Austrian 1813
Warren McIntosh: Spanish 1812
Nigel Poole: French 1812
Terry Shaw: French 1813

Good luck to all the armies look a good mix, its nice to see spainish being taken as well.

Paddy I'll be following you into Napoleonic's, hope your at Britcon doing it. I always thought you had a bit of sharpe and the 95th about you.

Dave

No Prussians ? Are they that bad, or does nobody have the figures ?

Scrumpy wrote:No Prussians ? Are they that bad, or does nobody have the figures ?

Can't see them being bad maybe lack of figures just

Glad to hear it, just treated myself to some Prussian 15mm on ebay.

If people use Spainish and find them viable there must be something right with the rules. Mind thats from me who has a soft spot for them.

Dave

Guys,

There is no problem with Prussians. That is the only army I have and did me alright in the play testing.

From what I have seen, there is no killer army.

Don

Do you have a list you care to share Don ?

Unfortunately the list I was using for play testing does not look anything like the list in the rules.

All the light infantry has disappeared and you are now allowed an Exceptional commander.

I am playing this Friday, so will post a copy of that list when I sort it.

Don

Thanks.

Any chance of finding out how people got on over the weekend how were the armies ect.

Dave

Unfortunately Warren was ill so we didn't get to see how the mighty Spanish fared.
Positions were:
French 1812
British 1811
Russian 1812
Austrian 1813

My 1813 French didn't get enough games to qualify for a position, but it did beat the British (although it was a first game for Ian).

In general the positions ended in order of quality, but I think everyone would redesign their armies now they've played more games. Paddy was especially suffering from a lack of leadership quality in his army. The equivalent of 4 TC's doesn't get you very far in Napoleonics. The Austrian army of 1813 isn't their best, and would certainly have done better against the 1813 French (which thankfully I avoided).

Did Warren have an ironic dose of Spanish flu ?