Honour Forums

Discuss the Honour system.

1. Langley42
   Member

   I have been reading through the rules for the first time and under the army lists, the artillery values list a number for "Cannon." Does that tell you how many cannon bases should be included in each formation? Or is that the actual number of cannons (divided by 2 to get the number of bases)? I assume it is the first, as most of these numbers are not divisible by 2. Therefore, I assume a French Reserve BTY will have three cannon bases and one howitzer base?

   Thanks for your anticipated answer to this mundane question.

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Sam Mustafa
   Le Grand Fromage

   Correct.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. oldentired
   Member

   holy crap! does this mean that a french army of 1812 (empire) needs 18 bases of cannon, and 6 of howizters?!

   that's a lot of guns! :/

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. Ashur_dan
   Member

   Hi Olden'

   Not if you play with Core plus 1 support. 1 Med battery with the core and 1 reserve battery with the support (6 guns + 2 How) - but you then don't have any Cav at all!

   regards

   Stephen

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. Sam Mustafa
   Le Grand Fromage

   Most armies have two or three batteries on the board in a game.

   For small-battery armies like the British or Austrians, that's 6-9 gun/crew combinations. For most others, it's 8-12.

   For the Russians... well, better get started painting now.

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. MarkGrindlay
   Member

   Sam,

   just to make you feel better.

   For 10mm figs on a 40mm frontage, you can get 2 gun models per base.

   so guess what - we are using a 1 : 1 gun ratio!

   (and it was not the Russian players idea, I can tell you)

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. oldentired
   Member

   thanks sam, you confirmed my reading. supplementary question.

   so why, under the each of the wee boxes on page 108 there is artillery listed? if i bring on veteran infantry as an organic brigade does it bring more guns with it?

   Posted 2 years ago #

8. Sam Mustafa
   Le Grand Fromage

   Yes, as explained on p. 97, right column, penultimate paragraph.

   Most Core lists have one (sometimes two) batteries. Most support choices add another battery, sometimes two.

   Posted 2 years ago #

9. oldentired
   Member

   thanks for clearing that up.

   and now, i'm looking forward to painting enough to field a brigade!!

   Posted 2 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.