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Brendan as well as the link above there are some really good videos on youtube as well. Just try to pretend Peeler isnt there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRGeI ... 1PqdKWGZ4g
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Count Belisarius wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:29 pm I've already got 10mm based on 40mm frontage. One unit of 3 stands done and another started. And unpainted...

All 1806 though...

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goat major wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:45 pm Brendan as well as the link above there are some really good videos on youtube as well. Just try to pretend Peeler isnt there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRGeI ... 1PqdKWGZ4g
I watched the 12 point video and found it informative. Thanks
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Peeler was a good boy.
He only said the f word on about 10 occasions which must be some sort of record for a game. 🤔
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Purple wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:01 pm Peeler was a good boy.
He only said the f word on about 10 occasions which must be some sort of record for a game. 🤔
Don't you believe it, I was in charge of editing, !
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Purple wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:01 pm Peeler was a good boy.
He only said the f word on about 10 occasions which must be some sort of record for a game. 🤔
It's fine, current childcare guidelines advise it's fair to swear in front of children as it makes it deeply uncool when older people do it :evilgrin:
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goat major wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:45 pm Brendan as well as the link above there are some really good videos on youtube as well. Just try to pretend Peeler isnt there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRGeI ... 1PqdKWGZ4g
Thanks, Simon, they were indeed very useful.

Whilst I realise that the aim of the game is to remove the minutiae of battlefield tactics and replicate command at a higher level, am I right in thinking that the command level in DBN can, in effect, be whatever you want it to be? Or are there individual rules mechanisms that prevent that? It struck me that, provided I keep the French at the same level, I could base my Brunswickers as individual battalions, rather than entire brigades. I won't be able to form square or move in columns, but then 8 figures on a base is pretty abstract anyway; equally, I can't detach skirmishers, but I can allow for specific units to all be doing that.
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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:59 pm
goat major wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:45 pm Brendan as well as the link above there are some really good videos on youtube as well. Just try to pretend Peeler isnt there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRGeI ... 1PqdKWGZ4g
Thanks, Simon, they were indeed very useful.

Whilst I realise that the aim of the game is to remove the minutiae of battlefield tactics and replicate command at a higher level, am I right in thinking that the command level in DBN can, in effect, be whatever you want it to be? Or are there individual rules mechanisms that prevent that? It struck me that, provided I keep the French at the same level, I could base my Brunswickers as individual battalions, rather than entire brigades. I won't be able to form square or move in columns, but then 8 figures on a base is pretty abstract anyway; equally, I can't detach skirmishers, but I can allow for specific units to all be doing that.
Yes to all that except.
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Maybe 10mm and give them the Impetus or Blucher treatment?
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:57 am (I'm considering 25/28mm sized bases packed with 15/18mm figures, as I'd like them to look like more than a set of glorified colour parties)
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Alex T wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:57 pm
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:59 pm
goat major wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:45 pm Brendan as well as the link above there are some really good videos on youtube as well. Just try to pretend Peeler isnt there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRGeI ... 1PqdKWGZ4g
Thanks, Simon, they were indeed very useful.

Whilst I realise that the aim of the game is to remove the minutiae of battlefield tactics and replicate command at a higher level, am I right in thinking that the command level in DBN can, in effect, be whatever you want it to be? Or are there individual rules mechanisms that prevent that? It struck me that, provided I keep the French at the same level, I could base my Brunswickers as individual battalions, rather than entire brigades. I won't be able to form square or move in columns, but then 8 figures on a base is pretty abstract anyway; equally, I can't detach skirmishers, but I can allow for specific units to all be doing that.
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