Over the weekend Wayne and I managed to get together for a
game of Napoleon at War – a fun set of Napoleonics rules made by a small
Spanish company. The rules themselves feel like they have a bit of a Flames Of
War influence and are quite fast. Evan and the Palmerston North guys play them a
lot and have nothing but good things to say about them (okay, they have a few
not so good things to say, but more about that later).
I dusted off an old British army that I am in the process of
giving a little bit of a tidy up, whilst Wayne
brought his Swedes. We had pretty similar forces with a few Brigades of
infantry, a Squadron of Cavalry in reserve and some artillery (Wayne had 3 Batteries to my 2, as well as an
extra gun in one).
We both deployed centrally, with our reserves to fill in the
flanks. The short version of the game is that I managed to grind out in the
centre, where my infantry battalions shot the Swedes off the table, but on my
left flank Wayne’s
extra artillery battery took out my 95th Rifles and Portugese
Cacadores, allowing him to start enveloping me. On the right flank my Cavalry
came flying on, only the fail in a series of tests resulting in them standing
around in front of another artillery battery. Eventually they got their act
together and overran the guns and some of his Cav, but the damage was done and Wayne won the right
flank. At that point we called then game a win to the Swedes, a very close win,
but a win none the less…
The game was fun but one of the biggest frustrations was
referencing the rulebook during the game (this being the main complaint that I’ve
heard from players) and finding rules at the right time. We’ve downloaded the
FAQ and are planning on having another go soon, in the meantime we are both
going to need to read the rulebook another couple of times to try and get it to
sink in!
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| Holding the Centre |
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| British Cav sitting in front of the Swedish guns |
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| Before finally getting it together and breaking the Swedish lines |
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