First text of the Intro Scenario

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madaxeman
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First text of the Intro Scenario

Message par madaxeman » lun. 25 mai 2020 21:42

Having spent ages in Lockdown painting my 10mm Napoleonic French army, I have been keen to give the Bataille Empire rules a bit of a go.

This was the beginners scenario, with two smallish equal forces attacking each other across simple terrain which is intended to give players a chance to learn the basics of movement and combat before moving onto bigger games and adding the all-important "orders" layer to the game. The game was set up on a standard ADLG 80-120 mat, and I used 30mm MU move distances using some sticks I'd made from 30mm electrical spacers, and my units are a mix of 30mm and 40mm base widths - which seemed to cause no problem at all

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All in all I'm pleased to report that the mechanics flowed pretty clearly and allowed me to push lead around without too much head-scratching, to roll some dice and generate some outcomes.

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This was my very first time shoving Napoleonic lead around at all, so I mostly learnt that there is more to this lark than Ancients with more complicated uniforms - it's certainly a very different feel, with different mechanics built on the same fundamental D6-based engine as ADLG. All in all an encouraging start and proof that my 10mm painting frenzy has not been wasted.

The full photogenic rules walk-through is now online at https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Batai ... 2020_1.php

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Re: First text of the Intro Scenario

Message par gibbyj » mar. 26 mai 2020 09:10

Welcome aboard.
cheers
Jim

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Re: First text of the Intro Scenario

Message par RogerGreenwood » mar. 26 mai 2020 11:44

Nice to read your report. We were finding there was quite a lot of flicking through the rule book. It does have some layout issues. However, looks to be the best set of popular rules and we are sticking with them.

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Re: First text of the Intro Scenario

Message par gibbyj » mar. 26 mai 2020 12:23

Yep, I agree. There's a learning curve to come with some of the straight forward mechanisms.

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Re: First text of the Intro Scenario

Message par madaxeman » ven. 29 mai 2020 15:52

It's a lot harder when you've never played any Napoleonics at all :lol:

This week on the Madaxeman Podcast however the rest of the guys are trying to fix that with the start of a new regular feature to try and teach me about the Napoleonic Wars

https://madaxeman.podbean.com/e/the-loc ... s-part-10/

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