15/18mm Friendly, not too big table, uncomplicated Napoleonic Rules

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Re: 15/18mm Friendly, not too big table, uncomplicated Napoleonic Rules

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Dark Ages slogs in my experience are never that exciting, unless they are really small scale heroic almost RPG. It's why I reckon you need the campaign background.
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Yeah, the campaign background for Dux is excellent. We spent the whole of the first campaign year just playing the raids as Jamie hasn’t achieved enough fame yet to force a pitched battle
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Shahbahraz wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 2:24 pm Dark Ages slogs in my experience are never that exciting, unless they are really small scale heroic almost RPG. It's why I reckon you need the campaign background.
I like SAGA (version 2.0) for the same reason, but like you have never been into Dark Ages "big battles".
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Jamie hasn’t achieved enough fame yet to force a pitched battle
What? Even after screeching his now famous Ayton battle cry at the enemy?
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Nope! Not for lack of trying
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Zenbadger, if you liked the DBN rules, have you considered using the 60mm base frontage size with 15/18mm figures, at 12 to a base, to give you the look you're looking for. More cavalry figures too, probably 5-6. And so on.
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My old 15/18mm are being, slowly, rebased on 60 by 40mm. I have gone for 18 figures in 3 ranks. Cavalry as Mr P suggests 5 or 6. Looks good.
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Partly the thinking behind going for 20mm frontage basing was to allow me to use DBN, LaSalle and Black Powder by putting various numbers of bases together.
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Unnecessarily fiddly I would have thought. My more recent basing has all been predicated on me doing both sides, so if I decide I want to play DBN on 60mm frontage with 6mm - that's how it is going to be.
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