Hi Folks ..Just played Waterloo using the Lasalle ruleset and I must say it played spot on! We played with the core mechanics of the rules system and left out the Tactical generals etc. we had 2 to 3 players per side and it was played very relaxingly over 2 days (we could have finished it in the day) but we stopped to talk to bystanders and drink plenty of vigorating liquids.
Everybody at the show seemed very impressed by everything that was going on:)
Cheers Paul
A great sight!
What is the unit scale?
Regards
Rafa
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My God, at least tell us who won!
Hope you will provide more info - how many units were used, how big was the table, how did you arrange the multiplayer so it did not bog down? Any problems with Lasalle in a big game?
Cam
Hi Folks ...Just a quickie...I will let you know all the details later as I am rushing off to work! ....The Scale was 6mm using double bases 60mm x 30mm.
Sam ...who do you thing won? ....
Cam ...all will be revealed later...but it did play rather good!
cheers Paul
Here is a brief outline of the game:
The table size was 8 foot by 5 foot
Artllery could fire out at troops within sight but, but no Bounce through was allowed over normal rules ranges.
We allowed overhead fire at and from troops on higher elevations.
We did not play with the Tactical commanders rule and allowed everybody to be within command distances (as long as the brigades/Division operated together)
Other than that we played with all the Lasalle rules! and to be honest the game played realistically and smoothly ...The Core rule system work spot on even for larger Battles, I hope that the Blucher mechanics will be similar. We had plenty of people commenting on the game and giving positive views about Lasalle. (nice one Sam)
The French won basically because the British General did not use the reverse slope tactics and allowed his good British brigades to get chewed up by the French Artillery!
Then the French struck on the British right flank (around Hougomont) and turned the British flank. Hougomont fell as well and the French guard cavalry went through the Dutch Belgians like a knife through hot butter!
When the Prussians came on the Young and Middle guard with cavalry and Artillery support easily screened and held them back whilst the Brits did a runner back to blighty!
In large Battles like this you really need to keep a good reserve available, the Brits did not keep the Heavy Cavalry reserve in the centre and sent it off to support the wings in piecemeal attacks ....by the way I played the French but would like to refight the battle using the Brits and proper reverse slope tactics! ...who knows I might be able to then pull of the charge of the Scots Greys!
Cheers Paul
Very encouraging to hear that Lassalle was scalable to this size of engagement.
Although the rules were designed for small tactical engagments I have plans to use them for much bigger battles once I am 100% familiar with them. I just plan to add a command and control layer to stop telepathic maneuvering of brigades. As a first try I will just 'cut and paste' the C&C rules from General de Brigade onto Lassalle.
The rules play very fast so there seems to be no reason why with enough commanders per side they should not run in near real time. Even if they are a bit slower than that for big engagements I wouldn't see that as a problem. Two days playing time (a weekend game) is a fair trade off for a one day (real time) battle.
I would be very interested to hear anyone elses experience of bigger Lassalle games.
Very nice, any more pictures?
Good to hear it works out well with larger games.
Hi
So all units in your battle were battalions?
Regards
Rafa
Wargaming with Napoleonic Miniatures
Project Leipzig
Alkaid Ediciones
Hi...yes we played basically that way, we used the OOB then created the game loosely around that. It played really smoothly. .cheers Paul
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