Cossacks- Rules request

[bulldogger2000]

Been toying (pun intended) around with the idea of having some large skirmish style games between Cossack villages, or maybe against Poles or anything up to and including Napoleonics.  My vision is about 60-100 figures per side.  Easy, "hanging with your friends" kind of rules are preferred.

The one set I know of specifically for Cossack skirmishing is "Cossack Wars", but I haven't heard a single good review of them.

Any others out there that can chime in with suggestions?

[Siaba]

"Cossack Wars" is awful...just an incomplete set of rules.

You could try something more generic like "Sharp practice" or "Chosen men" 

[Rogerc]

I am planning to do 1812 retreat from Moscow with Cossacks and plan to use Sharpe Practice, think they will work well. Give them a try.

[Metternich]

You could try Osprey's En Garde.

[bulldogger2000]

I've obviously heard of Sharpe's Practice.  One of the guys in the group has played them and is familiar with them.  So that might work.

Haven't heard a thing about Osprey's En Garde....

Nothing out there that is more custom made for Cossacks?

[Poiter50]

Sharp Practice Guerrilla Wars.

[bulldogger2000]

Is that another variant of Sharpes Practice?

[Poiter50]

Yes, it is a download of the Guerrilla actions and the forces/lists for the actions that happened in the Peninsula but I think it could give you ideas for Cossack skirmishes. Actually it is a free download;
http://toofatlardies.co.uk/blog/?p=6396

Is that another variant of Sharpes Practice?

[Flashman14]

Now Osprey's Chosen Men would work too with a little extra thought.

[Leigh Metford]

The wording of your question suggests that you're leaning backwards; i.e. towards the pike and shot era. I have the Old Glory Cossack Wars figures, and to oppose them, their Balkans and Albanian 17th century irregulars and mounted and dismounted Tartars, and I've just acquired a copy of 'The Pikeman's Lament': the 17th century variant of Lion Rampant.

Although there are no lists for these types in the rule book, Cossacks do get a mention. It's suggested that they be treated as veteran dragoons (this troop category includes light cavalry). Under the rules Tartars would be dragoons too, and the irregulars would be commanded shot.   

[Thaddeu]

I also plan on using Pikeman's Lament for all sorts of Eastern European conflicts in approximately that model-count range.

I'll be fielding my Zaporozhians as mostly Shot and Commanded Shot, with some peasant rebels as Clubmen and the more swashbuckling Cossacks as Forlorn Hope.