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Title: Marengo BBB 1800 AAR
Post by: vtsaogames on August 25, 2017, 05:21:11 PM

The Fencibles played a first test of my Marengo scenario last night. This is the battle that gave rise to the dish Chicken Marengo but almost saw Bonaparte’s goose cooked 15 years early.

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Read all about it, hot off the presses: [url][https://corlearshookfencibles.blogspot.com//url]

Title: Re: Marengo BBB 1800 AAR
Post by: shedman on August 25, 2017, 05:33:16 PM

Excellent

Are there many rule changes for BBB Napoleonics?

Title: Re: Marengo BBB 1800 AAR
Post by: vtsaogames on August 25, 2017, 06:29:56 PM

No really, though we have some house rules. We don't replace leader casualties. We considered (and forgot) to give +1 for combined infantry/cavalry assaults. I find at the grand tactical level it works quite fine without a lot of changes.

We also don't replace leader casualties in the ACW, since it seems that both sides operated with a shoe-string staff compared to later European armies.

For Waterloo, we had heavy artillery (12 lb) give a column shift when firing. There are some other house rules from another group in the Yahoo group files, nothing too major.

Title: Re: Marengo BBB 1800 AAR
Post by: vtsaogames on August 28, 2017, 04:16:58 PM

We are going to try this again this coming Thursday. I have merged a couple tiny Austrian light infantry units into larger line brigades. I'll take the Austrians myself and see if they can be pushed all the way across the table. Damn the torpedoes...

Title: Re: Marengo BBB 1800 AAR
Post by: ChrisBBB on August 29, 2017, 08:38:00 AM

Good to see this classic battle getting the BBB treatment!

Personally I favour minimal tweaks - I have enjoyed some good Napoleonics games using the standard BBB rules untweaked. Maybe just one or two for period flavour or scenario-specific.

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!

https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

Title: Re: Marengo BBB 1800 AAR
Post by: vtsaogames on September 06, 2017, 03:31:29 AM

The best laid plans... Marengo test fizzled. I'm off to Maine and Canada soon, so the next test is scheduled for late September. We'll see....