Hi All Please accept this note as, as close as I can get to, a personal invitation to you all to attend my 40th Anniversary in the Organized Hobby of Wargaming...
Have any of you read the rules to this new game? The rules seem very well written. However, I hate the game map that comes with the game and the names on the...
Is this Napoleon's Battles? Napoleonic Battles is a very close name, confusing. My sole criterion for judging if I like a set of rules is "do I know how to...
It's not a minaitures game, it's ideal for a quick throw down or chained set of scenario for a campaign. ... From: CLS-Column_Line_and_Square@yahoogroups.com ...
I have been thinking about how to run a big game where the players do not all know the rules, and where there is a time constraint. The original Fort Wayne...
My group has been playing CLS since 1970 and we've had many large games over the years. We used to mark moves on a map but that got cumbersome in large...
Bob i have tried to modify using the play sequence from a set of rules of the internet called sons of liberty by wes rogers the only problems i had was with...
One of the biggest games run by Fred and the Midwest Confederation was Leipzig. This was done in October 1969. The original Courier had an almost complete...
My 40th anniversary game at Historicon went very well. I was put into the Showroom but on a table that had some light over it so that was ok. Still a pain,...
I forgot to say a big thanks to Dennis Frank, my partner in old time games, for helping me carry all the boxes and set up and provide help through out the...
IMPERIAL HEADQAURTERS, PARIS: The time draws near for action. The troops have been given their orders, The fleets are ready to sail, and the aircraft are...
I have been buying groups of painted figures out of England trying to make up for the double theift of my army. I had included with a French shipment a full...
Mamelukes is what I call a luxury item for CLS. There were only a few of these historically, so not many in the game. Funkens say 250 in 1813, so that is 12...
The NAO that they have seems to be just the 1812. At that time it is before cls 1 was published (3 years). The book they have is 78 pages so it is not the same...
What I have from Fred and from the group in Melborne contains many other nationalities. Bavaria,Baden,Wesphalia,Holland and Many others. I am missing several...
Does anyone known if either the Bavarian Hussars or lancers participated at all in any of the 1813 or 1814 battles? I need some excuse to raise either or both...
I have a bunch of 15mm Anpoleonic figures manufactured by companies that are out of business or of figure lines that are no longer being manufactured by that...
Try the Stuff of Legends <http://www.solegends.com/index.htm>. They post old lines of miniature figures. Bob Burke ... **************************************...
When in final touch up a well painted 25 mm miniature if dropped will fall head down and fit perfectly into a full bottle of paint it could never fit into when...
The odds of a gravitational anomaly pulling your falling figure into an open bottle of gloss black enamel you never knew you owned are directly proportional to...
Bucquoy, "La Garde Imperiale: Troupes a cheval (vol 2)" quotes a decree of 9 Jan 1813 to the effect of what Bob writes below. At this stage quite a few were...
I have 138 pro painted Zulus and British troops painted by Mike Gilbert around 1979 and additional unpainted figures and rules that I would like to trade for...
