Hi
Few pics on blog of fun game we had with 1814 Prussians vs French
http://sgtsteiner.blogspot.com/2011/06/lasalle-prussian-vs-french-1814.html
Question arises due to Mud conditions, namely should the set up zone (6bw) or game length be extended for attacking player as even on a modest 6ft x 4ft table the attackers moving at half-speed due to mud even in march column have a hard time getting to defenders set up zone (and thereby objective marker) in basic 8 attacking turns ?
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I would allow the French to deploy 10 to 12 bw in those circumstances. Nice game report thanks for sharing
Very interesting, and nice miniatures.
I actually played a similar game earlier this year just before I was deployed overseas:
http://trailape.blogspot.com/2011/03/young-guard-rout-prussians-1813.html
In our game it was the YG who attacked. Fortunatly for them there was no mud on their boots.
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Hi
Yes I saw your post.
Not sure re mud wether to extend deployment zone or add extra turns for attacker ?
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I'd add extra turns. The mud should result in the attacker being subgected to long periods of fire, but less effective Artillery fire.
By extending the deployment zone they don't suffer the adverce conditions that would be the result of the mud, (which IMHO they should).
War isn't fair.
;o)
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Hi
As Prussian defenders I wasnt complaining :-)
Am thinking 3 turns extra ? hard one to quantify.
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We've been playing in 15mm on a 4'x6' table and running 20 turns (in good weather) and have found the games about right.We've extended the deployment zones to 12" (at our old Empire basing it works out that 1BW=1", so we tend to just use inches). With the extended game length, we've modified the Army Morale roll from 5 dice to 6. Our reasoning was that the average roll on 5D6 is 17.5, allowing an army at it's break point to stay the full 16 turn game. The average on 6D6 is 21, again allowing an army at it's BP to stay the full 20 turns on an average roll.
We've yet to play a game in mud (still getting comfortable with the game: we only get to play once a month or so), but I'd think extending the game length (and modifying the Army Morale roll to an appropriate number of dice) would be the answer. How many turns to add I'm not sure. I'd probably start with a 50% increase and go from there. Probably the best course would be to just ignore the turn limits for the first time or two until you figure out the best length.
A note on the Army Break roll. We've kept the 4D6 roll if the attacker controls the objective. Makes it a bit more important, especially as the game continues.
Nice pics. With 15mm and a 6'x4' table we have also had rpoblems with engaging and finishing. we use 30mm instead of 25mm for the BWs and this seems to be about right. I'll look at deeper deployment too.
:)
30mm base widths? Why not use 40mm base widths (like the rules suggest)?
We use standard 40mm and usually this if fine for advancing to contact. First time we had encountered mud and just found too long to cross table especially if opposing units deployed quite far back.
We actually use 25mm frontages for our bsaes as our minis are based for Naps Battles. With 15mm though and the std set up the advance is a little too slow. We haven't hit mud yet. Anyway using 30mm as the measurement for BW seems to work. We'll try 40mm too.
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