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| Some rather tasty French Hussars, part of my command |
Gary at the club arranged (and umpired) a Napoleonic encounter under the Black Powder rules, using his own rather extensive and very nice collection of largely plastic 28mm Napoleonics. We had 6 players, so myself, Carl and Chris took the French, and Gavin, Reuben and Grahame the Allies (I hope I remembered this right, it was nearly 3 weeks ago!).
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| Initial set up, viewed from the French right wing (mine!) |
With hindsight, and I'm sure Gary won't mind me saying, Black Powder at full scale doesn't lent itself to 4' wide tables - after all, it was play tested in the Perry's palatial wargames room - and next time we'll play on at least 12'x6', I think.
Having said that, the ensuing scrap was pretty close, although Carl's punch right through the Allied centre did ultimately break that division. I held my own on the right (oh look, a British force on the reverse slope of a hill - never seen that before), and Chris got a bit of a pounding from Reuben's forces on our left flank.
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| The Allied centre, garrisoning a lovely farm model. |
It was, all in all, great fun, and much kudos and thanks to Gary for organising it. I suspect we'll do it again sometime soon.
Nice looking figures and set up; although I agree that a wider table would allow for more "sweeping" moves. I last played on a 8 X 5' table with only two or three smallish brigades per side. This was for a rules refresher and worked great. Best, Dean
ReplyDeleteP.S. Black Powder is my current favorite set of rules - both for it's simplicity and fast play.
Nice work Mike but we need more pictures!
ReplyDeleteNice little report Mike! but like Fran said " More pics!"
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