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Paddy Griffith's Napoleonic Wargaming for Fun

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In the early days of 'modern' wargaming, Napoleonic games were tremendously popular. They allowed the new, not necessarily young, wargamer to fight the glorious actions they had heard about in their school history lessons. Often starting with the Battle of Waterloo as their first action, the general would deploy his hastily painted soldiers from Airfix's Napoleonic range. Airfix offered British and French infantry, as well as cavalry and guns for both sides.

Napoleonic tactics were simple in principle, but were hard to master in practice; for example infantry in a line maximized its firepower, but was vulnerable to cavalry. Changing to a square kept the infantry safe from the cavalry, but made them vulnerable to artillery and reduced their musketry to ¼ of the unit's strength. The games, just like the battles of history, were all about combining the efforts of the infantry, cavalry and artillery using 'combined arms tactics' to sweep the enemy away. The key problem with these games was the 'helicopter overview' of the action the players had of their largely divisional sized games. While representing the battles of the Napoleonic Wars in some ways, they did not recreate experience of the commanders of the time.

Paddy Griffith's excellent book aimed to fill the gap and offer no less than seven different sets of rules to simulate the experience of command at different levels. Just as the early wargamers took the Airfix Napoleonic's and converted them for use in a wide range of periods, the ideas offered by Paddy in these rules have equal potential to transform any wargamer's tabletop experience.

This book contains no less than seven sets of rules:

Skirmish level
Divisional game
Brigade game
Army level game
Generalship game
Map Kriegsspiel
Tactic Exercises Without Troops

This revised edition includes:

A new comprehensive

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Paperback

Publisher: lulu.com

Release: January 22, 2009

ISBN: 1409233324

ISBN 13: 9781409233329

Paddy Griffith's Napoleonic Wargaming for Fun

4.4/5 ( ratings)

In the early days of 'modern' wargaming, Napoleonic games were tremendously popular. They allowed the new, not necessarily young, wargamer to fight the glorious actions they had heard about in their school history lessons. Often starting with the Battle of Waterloo as their first action, the general would deploy his hastily painted soldiers from Airfix's Napoleonic range. Airfix offered British and French infantry, as well as cavalry and guns for both sides.

Napoleonic tactics were simple in principle, but were hard to master in practice; for example infantry in a line maximized its firepower, but was vulnerable to cavalry. Changing to a square kept the infantry safe from the cavalry, but made them vulnerable to artillery and reduced their musketry to ¼ of the unit's strength. The games, just like the battles of history, were all about combining the efforts of the infantry, cavalry and artillery using 'combined arms tactics' to sweep the enemy away. The key problem with these games was the 'helicopter overview' of the action the players had of their largely divisional sized games. While representing the battles of the Napoleonic Wars in some ways, they did not recreate experience of the commanders of the time.

Paddy Griffith's excellent book aimed to fill the gap and offer no less than seven different sets of rules to simulate the experience of command at different levels. Just as the early wargamers took the Airfix Napoleonic's and converted them for use in a wide range of periods, the ideas offered by Paddy in these rules have equal potential to transform any wargamer's tabletop experience.

This book contains no less than seven sets of rules:

Skirmish level
Divisional game
Brigade game
Army level game
Generalship game
Map Kriegsspiel
Tactic Exercises Without Troops

This revised edition includes:

A new comprehensive

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Paperback

Publisher: lulu.com

Release: January 22, 2009

ISBN: 1409233324

ISBN 13: 9781409233329

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