Due to pressures of work and family we haven't been gaming as often as we would like. When we do, it's been alternating between WWII in Burma using Bolt Action, and Napoleonics using Black Powder.
Recently the planets lined up, with four of us available for a game. We decided it would be a good opportunity to once again try and chastise the great Thief of Europe .
With 28mm miniatures on my 6'x4' table. We found that using the BP rules with the scenarios from Neil Thomas'
One Hour Wargames makes for ideal games, with no more than six units a side leaving plenty of space for maneuver.
It's a stubborn myth that Black Powder- or just Napoleonics in general- only works with large games.
We managed to get two scenarios in on one day last Sunday- one a very abstracted and scaled-down battle of Wavre, the other based on Langensalza, 1866. Both were challenging and fun- a great success.
The table looked good, dice were fickle, and the scenarios themselves proved tense.
Really fun day.
