New Wargame Rule Blogs

The 1813 campaign has been running for more than a year, and I am running out of space on the original blog.

Over the past few months I have been making new maps using Profantasy, and this has prompted me to revamp the whole series of the 1813 Campaign blogs.

The first one to be tackled is the Wargame Rules Blog. Over the past year or so there have been many changes to the rules due to frequent play testing. I was going to amend this blog, but then I realised it would use up too much of the remaining space.

I have decided to start a new blog. It will cover the campaign background to the rules, the armies and orders of battle it is designed to use and how to set up the wargames. It will also consider each rule and explain what hope to achieve with that rule. Eventually there will be a new set of rules. There will be an index to each rule, which will allow me to amend and update it without affecting the other rules. Finally the blog will be used to notify each change in the rules and explain why it is necessary.

You can find the new blog at

http://napoleonicwargamerules.blogspot.com/

Introduction and Amendments to Wargame Rules

Introduction

I have had a number of enquiries about the rules Jan and I use for the wargames in the campaign. I have sent out about 20 copies so far, but I feel that they are not really "stand alone".

The rules have evolved from various commercial sets that Jan and I have used over the years, with the most recent influence being the very popular LFS.

Just as we designed the 1813 campaign to suit our particular collection of figures, scenery and wargames table, so we have designed the rules to suit our types and numbers of model soldiers plus the type of games we want to play.

These rules will allow you to fight multi corps games with a relatively small number of figures. They are designed to represent an army corps of 20,000 to 30,000 with just 32 infantry, 4 cavalry and 1 gun. If this is not the type of game you are interested in, then I would advise that you read no further!

The rules as they stand are really just a game aid to allow Jan and I to refer to the appropriate rule as the game goes along. They do not attempt to explain why or how. With this blog I hope to be able to do that. I also hope that I may get some useful suggestions back to help us to improve the rules.

So if you have any comments on the rules do drop me a line.