I bought a large collection of 54mm Napoleonics last year from Andy Duff's widow (Andy sadly died in December 2017) and I have slowly been working through it making sense of the figures an rebasing them into my planned arrangement for 12 man units based on 4 stands of 60mm x 40mm. The figures are a some what eclectic mix (as Andy himself admitted) and contain a fair amount of austrians repainted as other nations which will evntually be restored to their white coats and correct uniforms.
I have also bought a fair number of Prussians from Anthony who has decided to move to metals for his napoleonic collection.
I now have enough based up for a game and so Anthony and I met up to play a game using Neil Thomas's Napoleonic rules with 8 units a side.
Each side had 1 cavalry, 1 gun, 5 line infantry, 1 poorer quality infantry, 1 general and 1 officer.
The game worked very well and we both enjoyed it - simple victory conditions were to claim the crossroads or reduce the enemy to 2 units. After a hard fought battle which swung both ways at times, the prussian jagers managed to almost completely destroy the last intact French unit with some lucky die rolling and I admitted defeat.
I need to finish the bases off for the figures but was keen to get them on the table as I always find that playing a game keeps up my interest in a project...
Lovely report.
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What a splendid looking game which also sounds as if it was great fun to play. The scenery and figures complement each other well.
ReplyDeleteI love the way Mike has managed to base three figures to a 60mm wide base. It gives his units a smaller footprint than is normal with 54mm figures which means more units can be deployed on an average 6' x 4' table without the game looking cramped. This was the first time that I had played Neil Thomas's Napoleonic rules and I thoroughly enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteThan you for posting the pictures.
ReplyDeleteSuperb looking figures, the eclectic mix among the French works very well.
ReplyDeleteA great looking game and wonderful figures Mike. It's interesting to me the visual impact that a unit with a relatively small number of figures has in 1/32nd scale. I'll look forward to seeing/reading more reports of games with these figures and rules as your project proceeds.
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