Hello from Suffolk UK

[toxicpixie]

Leman - By the way, Ian is an entertaining whinger from the Wirral - not as amusing as Half Man Half Biscuit though.

Nothing is as amusing as the mighty Biscuit! Swiftly, to Youtube!

Unless Ian would like to give us a tune for comparison?

More on thread I was going to suggest BBB as well, it's a bit higher scale I think than you were considering but there's an entire FPW campaign in the main rule book and it plays brilliantly.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Drat, missed BBB off my list, I would give them a blast too! 

[Westmarcher]

Welcome, Dd. On a lower scale of action, Field of Battle (2nd ed.) are good rules, too.

Link to author's blog:- http://wargamesandstuff.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-07:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-07:00&max-results=45

[mollinary]

Welcome Dd,

As others have said, the Pendraken mid nineteenth century ranges are second to none.  If you want to fight Corp on Corps battles with battalions about the size you mention, then you could do a lot worse than start with the Realtime Wargames ruleset "To the Last Gaiter Button" for the Imperial phase of FPW, "Trapped Like a Fox"  for the APW, and, for the Republican phase of the FPW, "Paris, the City of Light". They are simple, great fun, and include a campaign system.

Mollinary

[toxicpixie]

I have "Trapped like a fox" and it's really good - well recommended! Although I'm more likely to use the campaugn structure with BBB for the battles, I think

[Leman]

Welcome, Dd. On a lower scale of action, Field of Battle (2nd ed.) are good rules, too.

Link to author's blog:- http://wargamesandstuff.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-07:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-07:00&max-results=45

And you can use the same figures to play both levels of action, especially if you base 25mm-30mm frontage.

[fsn]

Welcome Daz.

That's a very good description of FSN.

We Runcorn dwellers look to the Wirral in awe and wonder! It is a magical place where the streets are ... the streets are. It's Oz to our Munchkinland.

[Nosher]

Where in Suffolk chap?

[Dangerdaz]

Where in Suffolk chap?

Carlton colville, outskirts of Lowestoft.

Thanks for the warm welcome one n all. I will give the various rules a look, not heard of a few of those. I see nobody has recommended 1870 which I bought lol.
Still can never have enough rules!
Yup I like a decent amount of figures on the table but I guess I'm used to battalions rather than Regts.

[d_Guy]

Welcome to the forum Danger. I have nearly 400 Pendraken FPW (Bavarian, French and Prussian). Forty-five are actually painted. There are several regular posters who do FPW fairly intensely so you will be in very good company.

[mollinary]

1870 was a very wise and good value purchase.   I have all three of Bruce Weigle's rule sets, and they are brilliant intros to the period, full of OOBs, excellent scenarios, detailed descriptions of  weapons, and tactics, and the best and most helpful bibliographies I have come across. The rules are not quite my cup of tea, because I tend to go in for bigger scale units, but that doesn't mean they  are bad.  Enjoy the period, it is brilliant and addictive!

Mollinary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thus speaks one of the masters.
Anyadvice from Mollinary, Cameronian, Le Manchu, or Chad or Leman (or many others) is brilliant and has solved many quandaries I have had with 1870.
Just don't ask about Austrian jäger rifles in 1866...

[Nosher]

Carlton colville, outskirts of Lowestoft.

Here in Ipswich if you fancy a game some time. Is there a club in Loooowestofff?

[Dangerdaz]

Here in Ipswich if you fancy a game some time. Is there a club in Loooowestofff?

Sounds good bud. Not a club in Lowestoft but I am a member of new Buckenham historical wargamers. Which is a small but amazing club.
Check us out on FB. We recently did D-day in 20mm, which was spectacular.

[Nosher]

It would be good to meet up and have a game some time. Feel free to PM me buddy