I don't have Age of Eagles having only played Napolleon's Battles (First Edition) as far as large army level combat rules are concerned. Howevver, I believe...
Alan You might try the Lost Battalion Games website. There is an article or two which may help you better understand the play of the rules. Also there is a...
As I previously posted LBG intends to host a number of games at Historicon. Which leads me to this question. If you intend to host a NBs would you like to be...
To clarify further the point about the generals and command. the way it works in NB is you measure the distance between your army commander/wing commander and...
AOE and Napoleons battles take approximately the same amount of time to play IMO.? If your group thinks AOE is too slow I don't know if Napoleons Battles will...
At the grand tactical level NB come out top on the historical accuracy side of things in my opinion. Havng said that, if I were looking for a set of grand ...
The question is also, how many times have you played? As with all rule sets, familiarity speeds the game up. When I began hosting games using Napoleon's ...
The experience factor is something I assume and so do not usually comment upon. Jeff's reccomendations are all good ideas. One thing I would add though is that...
By the way, its not difficurt at all to tweak NB - water it down to be more fluid and generic for newbies and multiplayer large scenarions. Justo [Non-text...
Napoleons battles is a very?enjoyable?system that?appears?to?capture the flavor of combat in?the Napoleonic era.??The game provides a good simulation of the...
No arguments from me about that. I use 6mm figures myself for most games although I do base them on the 15mm sized bases much as Paul suggests. You just mount...
Cubes seem a bit of a waste of a tree! I like the Fire and Fury approach of using figures and representative models for disorder, casualty, limber etc markers...
I use casualty figures to represent disorder, and for rout a casualty figure and the bases are just unformed. I have figures, horses and broken guns or most...
I use casualty figures for casualties and limbers for limbers (or more commonly simply reverse the gun on the base) I like the new wooden blocks and our group...
Hi all, I have been searching on the internet and on links that I was given by others on this forum (for French Line & Light Infantry colors etc) but now I'm...
Normal uniform for a French General de Division was a black bicorne/cocked hat (no plume)with a blue cockade; a dark blue coat with gold lace on the collar...
Interesting to know as I have Minifigs mounted line officers that come with shako and bicorne hats. The shako hats have a plume on them and even looking at...
As far as I can tell from several sources, in the Napoleonic French Army a plumed bicorne was normally worn only by Aides de Camp (ranks went from lieutenant...
Easy to pruchase online! i would like to introduce a good company who trades mainly in electornic products. Now the company is under sales promotion,all the...
guys, Division Generals generally wore what they wanted. In the field a dark blue single breasted habit with no lapels, trimmed gold with red turnbacks with...
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Any of you out there? Just moved back, and now with Napoleon's gone, there's no focus for the wargaming crowd here. Unless you count the FoW group at AIG, but...
I'm relatively new to Naps Battles - any gamers in the NOVA - Metro DC area that I can hook up with? I have a number of painted figures - Brit - French -...
3 rank. All my brits are mounted on 3 rank as well. While I love the game...I do not agree that the 1"x1" base for 2 rank best suits the Brits at this scale. ...
My British basing is inconsistent because I keep being torn on how to approach the wide stands. The main thing stopping me from embracing the 'wide stands for...
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