Rules for 1870??

[sdennan]

Due to a sad event I have ended up with more figures for 1870 than I could ever expect. I need to get them painted and on the table. Thus will probably take me a few years to finish. There are that many.

I need a rule solution. Something easy to handle. Using Leven 6mm Napoleonic buildings as scenery. Maybe big bases. With 1870 flavour.

Big ask I know. What can you suggest?

Simon

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Volley and Bayonet is regimental scale
Big Bloody Battles is brigade scale and smaller units, so will let you get things on table quickly
I use Black Powder with these amendments
 https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/07/black-powder-1870-stats-and.html?m=1

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Shapre Pracice woukd also fit. Rebels and Patriots should do as well with a little adaption,

[sunjester]

I've used both Black Powder and Fire and Furia Francese (Fire and Fury based by Wyre Forest Gamers) and been very happy with both.

[steve_holmes_11]

It's a little beyond my preferred eras, but I'm aware of a few rules options:

 * Peter Pig's Square Bashing has an FPW supplement whose name I can't recall. (You'll need to google a bit).
 * Valour and Fortitude has FPW army sheets.
 * Real Time Wargames produce a PDF ruleset calles "To the last Gaiter Button". Like Square Bashing it's another gridded table game.

[flamingpig0]

It's a little beyond my preferred eras, but I'm aware of a few rules options:

 * Peter Pig's Square Bashing has an FPW supplement whose name I can't recall. (You'll need to google a bit).
 

Walter Schnapps  IIRC

[hammurabi70]

1870
https://grandtacticalrules.com/1870-rules/
Bloody Big Battles
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com

[Gwydion]

Just to be clear about Volley and Bayonet the unit of manoeuvre is a Regiment or Brigade depending on the organisation,
Examples here Franco Prussian Volley and Bayonet

[Hwiccee]

We use 'Mit Blut und Eisen' rules - https://www.wfgamers.org.uk/FUFF

[Shedman]

The Bloody Big Battles ruleset also includes scenarios for 9 of the major battles of the Franco-Prussian War. These are all playable on a 6x4 table in about 4-5 hours

I've played several of them and, in general, they are excellent

[Nick the Lemming]

BBB for me.

[Steve J]

BBB are a great set of rules, but I would also get Bruce Weigle's books too, as they contain loads of really useful information for the wargamer.

[mollinary]

BBB are a great set of rules, but I would also get Bruce Weigle's books too, as they contain loads of really useful information for the wargamer.

Indeed, I have all three, and they are an excellent resource.

[henjed]

I'm thinking of getting into 1870 as a retirement project (so 2-3 years off yet) and have been swayed by the enormous - yet non-manufactured - positivity around BBB. What puzzles me is that no-one ever mentions Baccus's Polemos rules. It's almost like no-one uses them (Perhaps no-one does.)

[rct75001]

Bruce Weigle's rules 1870 and their fast play development 1871.  Designed specifically for the period, they also encompass considerations for differing unit scales.  Also they include scenarios for the well known battles.

https://grandtacticalrules.com/1871-rules/