Four leftover Peleset Archers form a unit of skirmisher bowmen for To the Strongest!
I hope everybody enjoys the sunny weather this week. We Amsterdam6shooters hope to reopen soon, but as you may have noticed, our requests to our government to proclaim ‘wargame clubs’ an ‘essential service’ have not been honoured. Yet. We don’t surrender.
In the meantime, just to show you we’re alive and kicking and share fun, keeping digital distance, a link to two blogs.
The Amsterdam Battle Brothers (Dino Kho’s 40K tournament organization) published a ‘TableTop Journal‘, dedicated to 40K. Incredible painting examples. A few pics, from Amsterdam gamers.
I will ask Dean to share his knowledge about making ‘online magazine publishing’, so that we can make a true A6S clubzine, some day. His magazine looks good.
Beyond 40K I painted 1,8K. I slowpainted a showcase model, ‘Napoleon à Fontainebleau’. In March 1814, 207 years ago, he lost Paris. He went to his Fontainebleau palace and abdicated in April (probably thinking ‘I’ll be back’ as he did in 1815, when he found his Waterloo). I finally had time to paint this 90mm (!) miniature. Tutorial here.
Send us your pictures or post your current project in our Facebook forum. In the meantime, have fun and live life to the fullest! A true Emperor (Grimdark or Napoleonic) never abdicates, but drinks champagne!
Uw drie desperados – El Martino, El Jur Y Jano en El Tjo – kwamen heden bijeen voor spel annex playtest General D’Armee.
Wat kan ik er van zeggen?
Fotootjes:
5. Recensie? Ik haal deze aan:
These are not grand tactical rules in my view which is what you really need to handle battles involving Corps and Armies. I know that DB uses them for large multi-player games, but I would tend to equate that to playing a Big CoC game with Chain of Command. Effectively you are playing a series of parallel Divisional level games (…)
I put the skirmish just as an example, not that I have a problem with it.
My complaint is that micro-management of battalions (formations, orders, accounting of casualties, detail management of skirmish screens…) tend to both take a lot of time and distract from what the focus should be given the scale of the game; many of tehse actions should be undertaken by a colonel not an army general. There are alternative ways to introduce the effect of skirmishes in a battle without the need to go down into such level of minutae, for example with modifiers.
Having said that, the command, fire and melee systemas are great and the Napoleonic feel is definetivey therein GdA, and I won’t stop playing.
Clearly I’m on the side of large games and probably must continue searching and investigating other rules. This is the reason why I also stopped almost totally playing Sharp Practice, not that I found the rules badly designed or whatever (on the contrary, they are brilliant) but it was not the scale I wanted to play Napoleonics.
Revenge! revenge! a gory shroud
To tyrants, and the slaves that yield’
Eternal honor calls aloud
For courage in the battle-field.
Who loves or fears a conquered land
That bows beneath the despot’s hand?
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19562/19562-h/19562-h.htm#oath
Germany 1809 campaign
In 1809, the Austrians took advantage of the French pre-occupation with Spain to plan their revenge. They were in contact with the British and with German rebel leaders, members of the Tugendbund (League of Virtue).
Together, they came up with a coordinated plan of fomenting rebellion in the German states, while the British would invade the Dutch/German coast and the Austrians attack Bavaria (*). Napoleon did not return in time to take charge of the French, but below commanders were there in 2019, at the Skandal im Sperrbezirk Sharp Practice Campaign Day.
| Town/notable terrain | Game 1 Empire | Game 1 Coalition | Game 2 Empire | Game 2 Coalition |
| Donaustadt Bridge | Dick & Taco French/French (Italian) | Mark & Alex (Austrians) | ||
| Wies’n Hotel L’Amour | Phil & Rogier (French) | David & Steven (Brunswick/’Austrians’) | Bram & Dick French | Maarten & Mark Schill/Austrian |
| Mistdorf Heath | Jos & Jurjen French (Polish)/Westphalians | Joe & Maarten Schill Freikorps | Leigh & Jurjen French/Westphalian | Fred & Alex Austrian |
| Käseburg Customs House | Leigh & Marc French/Danish | Robert & Arjan British | Phil & Rory French/Holland | Steven & Robert British |
| Roompot Windmill | Rory Kingdom of Holland | Jenny British (KGL) | Rogier & Taco French | Joe & Arjan Schill/British |
| Handwerp Church | Marc & Jos Danish/French (Polish) | Jenny & David British (KGL)/Brunswick |
Games played. Bold: Major Win, Italic: Minor Loss
Marc (Danish) winner of the campaign
Marc’s Force Commander Johann von Ewald used to be a commander of Hessians in the American War of Independence. By 1809 he was of pensioner age and acted like a Coward accordingly. At Käseburg he let Leigh’s provisional Cuirassier unit win the day with a flank charge on the British Line, while holding off his own opponent. At Handwerp he tried to defend the church with his Jaegers, while Jos’ Poles stood in the open, volleying away with his Polish Uhlans harassing the rear of the coalition forces.
