Flames of War - Hussars in Halftracks

[von Lucky]

Well Battlefront is on a roll. After months of speculation they have finally released their latest product, "Hussars in Halftracks":



It's set in a sort of weird Napoleonic Wars, where Napoleon won at Waterloo and the wars don't end in 1815.

John-Paul Brisigotti of Battlefront has stated that while many may think WWII and Napoleonics are the most overcrowded market for wargaming rules out there, he sincerely believes this new addition will be mind-blowing to those who have played Flames of War for years and those who are new to the period. He also plans to unite all Napoleonic gamers with one universal ruleset.

The release also talks about it allowing for massive blackpowder tanks running around, skirmishing brightly-coloured infantry, and hussars in halftracks gesticulating wildly and looking terrific doing it; hence the title of the first sourcebook covering the War of the Eighth Coalition (May-October 1816).

"Hussars in Halftracks" adds extra character to the period and those nations which are not quite so technically developed don't suffer an unfair advantage with the inclusion of the allies rule which Flames of War currently has.

I am excited, as unlike the Six-Day War and Great War booklets, Battlefront has decided to release this 218 page book without testing the waters. Why? Because this new period is awesome!!!

I'm just cleaning up my first pair of halftracks; some M3s with French crew. After that I plan to post some AARs, examples of play, some sense of the mechanics, that sort of thing for you all.

[YPU]

Colour me slightly confused and mostly interested. Alternative history always interests me and that guy waving a sabre out of a half-track feels like this is going the 40k stupidness route by way of Napoleon which I can only smile at.

[Engel]

 

[3 fingers]

wow ,I love the uniforms and swords etc of the  era,love sharpe the series ,so I'm interested.

[jamesmanto]

I think my Satire-meter just went off the scale!

[Metternich]

Sorry, don't like it. 

[Steve63]

Been playing with photoshop have we?
Your only about 10 weeks to late

[3 fingers]

Pants , was interested as well.

[von Lucky]

Yes, it's a mock cover unfortunately, inspired by this thread:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=67861.0

After reading the comments in it I remembered I had some unused M3 half-tracks and old Napoleonics somewhere.  I was never going to use either (the Napoleonics are old school sculpts, hand-me-downs from a fellow wargamer, and unfortunately no where near the quality of my ABs), but they would be good for this little side project.

After a wine or two, the mock cover seemed like a good idea (I haven't used Photoshop in years - I can see a few mistakes I made this morning). I don't know if I'll ever get a game with them (no one here is crazy enough), but I'm going to use this thread to chart my conversions.

Is any one else interested in doing some conversions too? I could see a Bolt Action version working.

[3 fingers]

I got some front rank post 1812 dragoons,trying to mate them to slannesh steeds for space cavalry .

[Cultist of Sooty]

trying to mate them to slannesh steeds

There really are no depths to which the devotees of Slaanesh will not sink, are there?

[von Lucky]

Is this what splits the WNW* crowd early? Like dinosaurs in the Weird World War II crowd, I'm sure we can accommodate these guys. Hmm, I have a 15mm brontosaurus somewhere too...

* Weird Napoleonic Wars. Yes, we need a better acronym.

[grant]

I love it!!! (Of course I do, I named it!)

I think we have some kind of a collaboration here... Looks like the art is on it's way! I was thinking of 10mm for this, but 15 or 28mm would be just dandy too.

[3 fingers]

There really are no depths to which the devotees of Slaanesh will not sink, are there?

,yeah it could worded that better couldn't i.
I like the whole swords/flintlock in space thing and was just trying to do cavalry with native mounts .
But I don't see why weird war should just be for 1 or 2.

[grant]

I have now summarised the whole thing on my blog
http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/hussars-in-halftracks/

You know, oddly, I think there's some life to this...