Hi, We played a game last night using all the optional rules because next weekend we are entering a tournament in Barcelona. A doubt we came across was when firing with a 6 base Austrian unit, one of the bases at the end of the line was blocked by another friendly unit. Can the other 5 bases fire ? In the book it only mentions obstructing terrain, so we decided that the unit couldn't fire at all. was this correct.
Also under this rule does it matter if one target is full and the other is partial.

Another doubt was when placing additional terrain, if placing a stream may it be placed on top of another terrain e.g field or wood etc.

Thanks Phil

Here are some more dipped French Legere, this time the Chasseurs to go with my Carabiniers. There are even some blue French now (albeit a bit of a "Pan-Am" blue, I guess the uniforms faded in the sun!).

and the three batalions together:

Hi All

Here are some photos of my 18mm French:

regards

Stephen

Hi guys,

Artillery is deployed on a hill– there is much better observation, the shot will clear intervening terrain, and it is easier to observe the fall of the shot. But…

Page 45: Fire (Artillery)
“If … the artillery unit is on the same elevation as its target…then the unit uses the full long range bracket. However, … if the shooter is on a different elevation from the point at which the ball first bounced (the beginning of the “long” range), then the unit uses the reduced long range bracket.”

So according to the letyter of the rules, artillery on a hill means that it has reduced range?

I am wondering if this is correct? i.e. that the text should actually read:
“the artillery unit is on the same OR HIGHER elevation as its target, then the unit uses the full long range bracket. However, if the shooter is on A LOWER elevation from the point at which the ball first bounced, then the unit uses the reduced long range bracket.”

Cheers

Paul

For the Kiwi's (and/or nearby Australians and such) - Cam and I have briefly discussed a couple of times whether it I worth aiming to organise a Lasalle Napoleonic Tournament of the Annual Auckland "BattleCry" Tournament in February (2012). Dates would be Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February. At present Cam and I felt there would be insufficient numbers to warrant it - however I thought I'd see if we could gauge any interest from the Kiwis on here (especially those out of Auckland) to see if it's worth investigating?

What are people's thoughts - if you were interested would you have a high likelihood of attending, and if so what scale preference (15mm or 28mm), and would you be happy with (or able to field an army for) a Core +2 Supports (rather than Core +1) Tournament?

Interested in anyone's feedback?

Cheers,

John
Wargaming.info

Page 74: "As the player sets them up, these irregular units may remain part of their forces, or they may become independent units."

What is an independent unit? I thought all units had to be subordinated to a CinC or sub-commander.

I tried searching this forum but came up with naught. Any comments?

Hi

Could someone suggest what a good base size and number of figures on it for 10mm. A bunch of us are keen to get a jump on th epainting so we can be ready to go when the books is published.

Simon

Our group has been experimenting with some national characteristics rules.

Austria: We feel the battalion mass rule, large units, and optional irregular grenzer rules give the Austrians appropriate national characteristics so we have added nothing.

Britain (and British trained Portuguese): 2 rank line: Infantry in line receive one extra shooting dice (on top of any skirmisher advantage) but are penalized -1 melee dice.

France: Flexible tactics: French infantry rated experienced in all periods and theaters may move full after changing formation from attack column or line while French infantry rated amateurs in all periods and theaters may move half in the same circumstances. Enemy proximity reduces this to half for experienced and none for amateurs.

Prussia: Superbly drilled: Prussian infantry in the Conquest period may move half after changing formation even though they are linear tactics. Enemy proximity has no effect on this. In the Empire, Liberation, 100 Days Prussian infantry get the same Flexible tactics rule as the French above.

Russia: Stoic infantry: Russian infantry units are broken when they take +1 Disruption over the number of bases in a unit (usually 5 Disruption will be needed to break a Russian infantry unit).

Spain: None. We feel the existing list reflects the Spanish well with the Home Field Advantage and Unpredictable rules.

I want to remind everybody that this particular iteration of the HONOUR forum has only about a month left to live. In March we'll be transitioning to a spiffy new model that is superior in every way.

That means that all the old discussions here will vanish into the aether. So if there are any that you particularly cherish, now is the time to say your goodbyes.

Here are some national characteristics rules our group has been experimenting with.

Austria: We feel the battalion mass rule, large units, and optional irregular grenzer rules give the Austrians appropriate national characteristics so we have added nothing.

Britain (and British trained Portuguese): 2 rank line: Infantry in line receive one extra shooting dice (on top of any skirmisher advantage) but are penalized -1 melee dice.

France: Flexible tactics: French infantry rated experienced in all periods and theaters may move full after changing formation from attack column or line while French infantry rated amateurs in all periods and theaters may move half in the same circumstances. Enemy proximity reduces this to half for experienced and none for amateurs.

Prussia: Superbly drilled: Prussian infantry in the Conquest period may move half after changing formation even though they are linear tactics. Enemy proximity has no effect on this. In the Empire, Liberation, 100 Days Prussian infantry get the same Flexible tactics rule as the French above.

Russia: Stoic infantry: Russian infantry units are broken when they take +1 Disruption over the number of bases in a unit (usually 5 Disruption will be needed to break a Russian infantry unit).

Spain: None. We feel the existing list reflects the Spanish well with the Home Field Advantage and Unpredictable rules.

Okay, so we've done some minor surgery and tests on the Scenario-Wiki, and the only hitch is that each person has to be "invited" to join, in order to access the features. This is a pain, and I can't do it myself, given all the other emails and posts I'm answering at the moment, so the Valiant Tod Creasey has volunteered to co-own and let you guys into the sandbox.

Some of you know Tod from his many Grande Armée and Might & Reason scenarios, so he seemed like the perfect guy for the job.

Here's what you need to do: Just post on this thread by listing your email address - that's it. Tod will then invite you, and you can use the Wiki.

I will be running Staroi-Borosov at 10AM Friday this year at Cold Wars (see https://sites.google.com/site/honourscenarios/scenario-staroi---borosov-27-novemer-1812).

Last year we did a Friday night pickup game which I am willing to host again. Is anyone interested?

With my Austrians pretty much done I had a go at doing some French with dip (AP Strong Shade) especially as I wanted to see if blue remained blue. So here are some 1805 Legere Carabiniers in campaign dress (well actually Victrix Guard Chasseurs):

Chasseurs in campaign gear next.

Just bought the rules and I am having download problems? Is this common?

Followed the link in the receipt and got a "this website is not responding or is not available message". No download started just the browser error message.

Clicked the link twice and got the same message. No download started.

On third attempt I got a wordpress error message "you have reached the download limit for this file".

So I seem to have paid for something that I can not get.

What is the way around this and is this a common problem for ebooks from this site?

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Hello All,

A friend and I played a Maurice game today with 3 guns, 7 infantry, and 6 cavalry per side. A most enjoyable affair as we worked our way through the rules, however we have some questions that require (or request) clarification. We are not sure if these situations have been missed, but we did enjoy a couple of Reds during the game, hence our judgement may have been blurred ;-)

Artillery
We had two situations where a unit of three guns was frontally charged, one by cavalry, and later in the game this time by the opposite side, by infantry. In the first case (cav v art), two of the guns had fired in the volley phase, but one gun was out of range and did not bombard in the actions phase. The guns were frontally charged by cavalry and destroyed. In the second case all of the guns were 'loaded' and were frontally charged by infantry, the three guns were also destroyed. We looked through the Lite rules for a closing fire option for the guns, but could not find anything. Are we then to assume that the guns loaded or otherwise just sit there and take it? In the second case no volley was initiated by the active player, hence the enemy artillery did not get a chance to shoot in the volley phase. Artillery have very little chance of defending themselves with a factor of 1 compared to 6 for infantry and cav. Even if cav or inf have two or three DISRs they are still ahead of the game.
Related to the above situations each of lost 3 guns that counted towards the number of destroyed units. I was fortunate to be left with 1 army morale, whilst my opponent's army was broken with the loss of the 3 guns. Does this seem fair that one gun equals one cavalry or infantry unit for morale loss?
The artillery as a homogenous command also is restrictive. We believe that artillery should be allowed to be a part of (at least) and infantry command. The French at Blenheim (and most of the WSS) tended to 'distribute' their guns across the battlefield, the 2BW force rule does not really allow this to happen. My reading also indicates that Marlborough was probably the only commander who took the placement of guns seriously, and would justify a homogenous artillery force. Thought?

Cheers

Ray

Having looked through the rules I'm already planning a couple of Maurice armies and a campaign.
Do you have a first version of one of the army lists? This is for planning my first army for an Imagi-Nations campaign or possibly the War of the Spanish Succession.

So reading through my rulebook again-P73, office tactics and training-optional ab- I surmised that if an army commander is killed or wounded, a chief of staff takes over, and the said commanders control influence is reduced from 10 band widths to 6-If a sub commander is killed, his vigour and tactics ratings are reduced by one level down-The only way it seems to me that a commander can get killed is to participate in combat and have a tactics rating that you have to roll for at game start-Am i wrong,or have I not got the ammendments sheet?--Cheers Marc--Just brought the rule book last week Sam!

Question: using the Army Builder, is a player allowed to mix & match the units (task organize), or do they have to be commanded as presented in the list. For example, if a Core has 6 inf and 1 battery, an Organic has 4 inf and 1 battery, and Reserves are 4 cav and a horse bty, can the total list (10 inf, 3 btys, and 4 cav) be organized differently than presented in the list?

Are there any actions that a unit can perform before it charges?

Specifically can a unit change formation before it charges assuming it has movement available after the formation change?

Assume I am using the Army Builder to construct a French Force. My opponent and I have agreed to use a core unit, an organic unit, and a reserve unit to build our forces. I choose French Guard infantry for my core unit and add another French infantry unit and an Allied Polish cavalry brigade. Can all three units start on the board by counting the Polish brigade as the "reserve" unit and following the rule that all Allied forces start on the board or is an Allied brigade always counted as an "organic" unit?

if a rifle battalion is deployed in iregular formation-does it still get its 8 base widths range for firing?

Hi there!

I'm new to LaSalle (brand spanking new in fact) and I am trying to learn the game in a vacuum (ie: I am the first of my Warmachine addicted cronies to branch out). I had a question to see if I understand force composition and basing correctly.

The Brit Peninsular Infantry Division is, correct me please if I am incorrect, based on the 4-15mm figs per 20mm base:

4 Infantry Units (of 4 bases each) = 64 figs (4x4x4)
1 Elite Infantry Unit (Large - 6 bases) = 24 figs (4x6)
1 RA BTY (3 bases) 2 cannon w/ crew; 1 how w/crew
2 SK bases - here I'm thrown..is that per unit (the elites have an SK3?)or 2 for the entire Division?

As Attacker, I would have an additional:

2 Infantry Units (of 4 bases each) = 32 figs

If I took a support choice of Dragoon Reserves (of which I may only take 1)
that Brigade would be:

2 Heavy Dragoon units (large - of 6 bases each of 3 figs) = 32 figs. 2x6x3
1 RHA BTY 2 horse drawn cannon w/ crew, 1 horse drawn how. (3 bases)

Do I understand correctly?

Thanks for the help!

Chuck
Everett, WA

As I understand it a destroyed unit(by fire/melee) has no effect on units behind...which means if you shoot to death a frontal unit you can receive a "fresh" volley from the one behind it when they return volley...which seems strange..almost not worth volleying in some cases as you get back more than you can dish-out. Was wondering if this revealing fire was meant to happen???

Any update on the Cav changes??....they proved useless once again in our last game esp as they rally on 5+ ...but noticed they can freely about face and run in front of shooters which we failed to notice previously

Hi

Here is the link to my blog that has more photos of my British army as it starts to take shape and paint.

http://ghalgor.blogspot.com/

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Greetings

I'm painting my small 10mm SYW forces over the holiday season. They are based on 1 inch/25mm frontage so should be suitable for Maurice.

The French are pretty much done - see http://kustenjaeger.blogspot.com/2011/12/holiday-project-part-1.html .

Regards

Edward

After a 30 year break from Napoleonics I saw the Lasalle rules, excellent Victrix plastics and decided to use my "dip" method (developed on Hordes Skorne) to produce these fellas:

I was pleased with the effect, especially considering I didn't use any white or black on any of the figures (other than the white undercoat) and it only took 7 weeks to paint 150 of them! I used the Strong Tone AP dip with no highlighting other than P3 paints "Menoth White Highlight" on uniforms and "Umbral Umber"/white highlight mix on the grenadiers bearskins.

Dipped French in campaign greatcoats next!

says "Modify a Charge action."... can this be an enemy's charge action???...ie can I use this in defence as I am modifying a charge action....?? We played yes but unsure of intent.

Brought home to us the wording on cards needs to be unambiguous...