General d'Armee Video Series

[Lardy Rich]

Morning all

We had a busy day in the Reisswitz Press recording studio earlier this week, with Dave Brown recording eight short (well,seven short and one LONG) videos introducing his new rule set, General d'Armee.  Thus far we have edited four of them and they are now on YouTube.  Collectively they are a smashing introduction to GDA. 

You can find the first on here:

Then follow the trail...

Cheers

Rich

[Belisarius]

Thanks Rich , the videos are always useful for those of us who suffer from the " Hard of Learning " syndrome.

[c0cky30]

Superb stuff.  These are excellent.

[delbruck]

The video starts out by showing a typical French infantry division, which contains three infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades. I could be wrong, but I wasn't under the impression  that French divisions normally contained both infantry and cavalry brigades.

[jambo1]

Nice one, going to have a wee look at these vids tonight.

[Lardy Rich]

delbruck

You're right.  You may note that it is my voice dubbed over that as we lost a sequence of video.  I should have said 'French force', not 'French Division'.  Obviously we shot the film in the artificial situation of a studio and not a 'real' game, so it was an example of a the type of force that could be used in a game.  Mea culpa.

Rich

[WimVdB]

Looks like a good rulesset so far.
I'm interested, but probably need to paint more troops.

Richard,
how large should a table be (at least) for 28mm figures?

[Lardy Rich]

Wim, the table we used with 15mm is 6' by 4', so I would suggest that a similar size game in 28mm would be fine on a table about 8' by 5 (pretty much the same as any Black Powder games). 

Rich

[delbruck]

A force of six infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades could represent a corps of about 15,000 men. Depending on the campaign and the season, this a reasonable size corps. To many Napoleonic grognards terminology is important, especially in an introductory video.

[Lardy Rich]

Delbruck

I've already said, when faced with a corrupted sound file I did my best to fill in a gap rather than junk the whole section.  As the publisher, and not the author, I am entirely culpable in that respect; I mistakenly used the word Division when I should have said Force.

Hopefully some of the Napoleonic grognards can forgive such a base and vile error.

Rich

[nikephorous]

Thanks Rich , the videos are always useful for those of us who suffer from the " Hard of Learning " syndrome.

Or those of us who have exchange rate difficulties (4 hours work they cost!) to make sure of what we are getting!

 

[Belisarius]

Yes , but the videos are free , the Lardies did,nt have to do that.  " No good turn ever goes unpunished "

[Norm]

Thanks for the videos - excellent support (I have Pickets Charge).

[Eric the Shed]

Great videos...we might try these

Mind you I have some French to paint first

[gorillacrab]

As always with most Lard Island projects, these videos really have my attention. Question: how do the rules cover the very differing qualities of armies and command capabilities for the various powers; is there a national traits component?