Thank you Bob!

I began wargaming with Empire I I I ; after then I played Nap.'s Batttles - only
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Now I am teaching it by Web.

http://claebpadova.forumattivo.com/napoleonico-f17/napoleon-s-battle-t690.htm#38\
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greetings,

stef


----- Original Message -----
From: rratisbon
To: napsbattles@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:16 PM
Subject: [napsbattles] Re: Artillery bases or I've got a big one





Stef,

I apologize. I've been around so long I forget others have not.

Column, Line and Square was a watershed set of Napoleonic rules designed by
Fred Vietmeyer in the late 50s/early 60s. It was the first set of rules that
attempted to distinguish between the army organization of the various nations. A
French battalion was 36 figures made up of four six figure stands. An Austrian
battalion was 10 stands or 60 figures. Save for the British most cavalry
regiments were 40/50 figures. At a figure scale of 1:20 the units were rather
oversized but it was a start for historical reasearch. When you combine this
with the fact that Fred's group, which was in Indiana, used 30mm figures, even
his 30 foot table was not large enough to prevent wall to wall units.

I played them till Empire II another watershed set of rules and Empire III yet
another watershed rules set by Scott Bowden and Jim Getz. Then 6 years
developing NBs before it was first published in 89.

Good gaming.

Bob Coggins

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> --- In napsbattles@yahoogroups.com, "rratisbon" <rratisbon@> wrote:

> .................Many of today's new rules look quite like those of the 60s,
wall-to-wall units with no room to maneuver, such a CLS......
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> > > Excuse my naivety, but what does it mean CLS? ;)
>
> stef

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