10mm Quatre Bras solo game using Blucher

[Shutuphippie]

As long as they are done when the lockdown finishes 

[Norm]

Really nice job and table - thanks.

[Orcs]

How does one person wear four tiny bras? 

[Last Hussar]

Nice!

Who made the Matt - Tiny or Cigarbox?

My mum and dad made me, why?

[Last Hussar]

That aside -

I've been looking at Blucher.  I already have Fields of Glory and that is very similar level - a unit is 1200-2000 (small) or 2000-3000 troops (Large).  Is it worth it?

How far is a BW in scale?

Is a base 'a brigade' or does it make allowances for different numbers? At Aspern- Essling French brigade Frirnon (IV Corps, 4 Div) contained only 2 Leger, and was 1365 men (2 bns), while the Austrian Brigades "Wacquant" and "Henneberg" (I Korps, 1 div) both contained 2 Regiments, each of over 3300 men, each of 3 bns, plus 8 guns in the Bde. Even if you took the IR only it is still twice as big as the French one. The BATTALIONs are almost the size of the French Regiment!

[monkeynut]

Great looking setup. This is my ultimate target to play, all units at 1:20 in10mm

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[toxicpixie]

I like Blucher - it's simple but not simplistic and gives a great feel of the making the big decisions. It's pretty chalk and cheese though - and the scenario generator (Schanrhorst) even more so.

[cameronian]

Lovely terrain esp those forests !

[Last Hussar]

How do you do the hidden Momentum?  I've written a spreadsheet that does it if you want.

[toxicpixie]

I haven't played it solo - a spreadsheet to track Momentum is an excellent plan!

I'd be interested in a copy, Last Hussar!

[Shutuphippie]

I would definitely be interested in a SS to have a look at thank you

Reference MO - I used a system that I had seen online (Storm of Stell Wargamming's Youtube video where he has refrought Quatre Bras and Waterloo)

Before rolling MO I would
1. Decide roughly what I wanted each unit to do and the priority that I wanted them to move before rolling the MO dice
2. Rolled MO dice  (3 dice for each side)
3. Started moving and activating units
4. After each activation I pulled a counter out of a bag (the counters were numbered 3-18 - i literally hand wrote the numbers with a sharpie on some pennies)
5. If the counter number pulled from the bag was lower that the MO used to activate the units up till that point the turn was over

The system worked really well and on a number of occasions  I was unable to complete all the movements I wanted or required

Cheers

Andy 

[Last Hussar]

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Its pretty simple.
Box for number of dice.
Boxes for MO.
Button for macro.
Macro clears mo count,
Sets mo to 0
I = 1 to dice
Mo = mo + int(rnd(1,6))+1
Next i

It then puts mo into a hidden  cell. This is because I lock off so I don't type to wrong boxes, the hidden cell is unlocked to allow macro to put the mo in.

Another cell is +A1 (the unlocked cell) and white text.
Enter the mo used in list, use SUM to total it
When sum >= MO make the text black using conditional formatting, and an if statement to print text saying MO used.

As storm of steel notes, the counters do t take account of bell curve.

[Organistus]

I haven't played it solo - a spreadsheet to track Momentum is an excellent plan!

I'd be interested in a copy, Last Hussar!

I am interested too

[Last Hussar]

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