Fire and Fury Spanish Succession

[Essex Boy]

I have about 100 French painted plus a couple of other bits (and naturally a horde of unpainted). All Front Rank.

I was just reviewing the box they’re in and wondering if I wanted to sell or finish them and my regular itch for F&F came back. Also, if we doing tricornes for Ayton20 I might give myself a deadline to finish them. I miss deadlines.

There you go, your Ayton army right there.

Iain

[levied troop]

The version I have is by Wilbur E Gray and is 14 pages of rules, with the suggestion that the original F&F is necessary + 16 pages of scenarios. It reads slightly fussy (something I’ve found with American rules before - although F&F is completely the opposite) and I recall dropping AoE very quickly. However a little tinkering should solve that to my satisfaction - I’ll have a look at the Regimental F&F and see if AoH can follow that master instead.

[Essex Boy]

Regimental may work better. One of the hurdles I couldn't quite clear with AoH was the brigading. It seemed to play much like ACW F&F. I confess though that my experience my have been tainted by my screaming mad attack kill mame slaughter opponent. Not the gentlemanly SEEMS type.

[valleyboy]

I confess though that my experience my have been tainted by my screaming mad attack kill mame slaughter opponent.

Err 'scuse me
Is there any other way then Bro?

[grizzlymc]

Civilised gentlemen parade their troops in front of massed batteries to give the other chap a chance.

Knowing nothing of F&F or 18th century leaves me wondering if rules where units are brigades are really going to work so well in the 18th century?

[levied troop]

Not too sure what the problem is. F&F worked off units that were anything from 3 to 19 bases (usually 4 figures to a base) depending on historical size. They called them brigades but basically they move/take or give casualties/take advantageous or disadvantageous consequences.

Call them regiments, standardise the unit size to something more fitting to professional armies, say 8 bases, reduce ranges and add a couple of fire factors representing more 18thC delivery and the rules should work at a basic level. Mind you, I haven’t tested that yet and I’m now flitting around my Vikings box. I’m a right flibberty-gibbet at the moment.

[Essex Boy]

I confess though that my experience my have been tainted by my screaming mad attack kill mame slaughter opponent.

Err 'scuse me
Is there any other way then Bro?

He's a nutter. Quite incapable of not attacking. Most disconcerting.

[goat major]

him incapable of not attacking, you incapable of defending or of attacking. Quite a match up.

[Buff Orpington]

You know what's coming don't you?

[Peeler]

Interesting to know which one's the first to get trampled by his own routing cavalry.