This is a long post, but I hope it will be of interest and invoke a few comments nonetheless. I put on two back-to-back games (never, ever, ever again) using...
Ramillies 1798. Here the game system (Age of Eagles) takes a different philosophical approach, that the French army in this year under Bonaparte does have...
Two observations from the two games played: 1. These are not battalions! Some players still look upon the F&F brigades as simply battalions with different...
... Interesting posts. Thanks for the reports. ... My understanding from people who have looked at Ramillies and Blenheim was that the battalions were pretty...
Hi Bill Thanks for putting on the two games - although I only took part in the First
one - an Englishman as Villeroi, what ever next :). I am content as I said...
Folks, The two previous messages from "me" with titles like Forum Notify, spoofed my address and evidently have virus's attached. Delete immediately if you got...
As the commander of the French Left (no wonder I had problems :) ) I want to thank Bill for a beautiful game. Not being familiar with the period I took it in...
How much experience do players have using the rules for fights between European line infantry and quasi-irregulars such as Ottoman armies or fights in India?...
Nice pictures. How were the figures based? They looked similiar to Age of Reason Basing and I thought NF&F was based like Nappys Battles? If someone has...
Regardless of how the pictures look, this is a Nappy's Battles friendly basing. Valmy to Waterloo does have this same basing scheme as its preferred option,...
Hi, Considering that the AWI ended only 15 years before the start of the revolutionary wars in Europe (1792). Could British military thinking have been...
... To some extent, yes, since the use of light troops went back well before the Revolution. But almost everything that had been learned by the army during the...
I just did a review of the Osprey book on Wellington's Light Regiments and IIRC Jan is pretty much correct, something I was not really aware of. Also remember...
I shall - putting together Castiglione as a third and final (one on one) scenario :). Warmest regards, // Bill // Wilbur E. Gray Colonel, US Army (Ret) ... ...
Hi Jan, Thanks for the reply. I'd not considered the inflexibillity of senior officers. What I'm trying to find out, is why the British were so successful in...
Mike, The simple answer is that they had modified linear drill some to make it work a bit better, then drilled it in to the soldiers. I don't remember the...
Hi: From: Jim O'Neil [mailto:jconeil@...] Mike, The simple answer is that they had modified linear drill some to make it work a bit better, then drilled...
Just to add my two cents here. The defeats during the American Revolution were embarrassments for the British. It had also stretched the British recruiting...
... Only if someone were calling. Junior officers don't go around deciding what drill and tactics to use (well, not in the British Army of the 19th century,...
... It was little [or no] differant in 1930's with tanks being slowed down in wargame/exercises in England, and only Germany taking the tactics suggested by a...
... There were two factors that went into this thinking, and to some degree they may have been quite correct. One was the geographic nature of the battlefield....
Good thoughts from Bill. Certainly, the traditional European military establishment did not have a lot of interest in light infantry beyond their value for...
This is a very good thread. I might also add as regards British success in Spain not only the qualities of the very fine general in charge, but also the...
Jan, In part true, But thick Brush in the wood lines is typical of America and very un-European. Our woods are quite wild with many saplings and no (or very...
Interesting thread... My take on the British tactical success in the Peninsula also includes proper disciplined fire doctrine and training. The French had a...
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