FoG Napoleonic

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Just got 'Empire & Eagles', oh wow! Lots of fun early lists, usable Brits, and, the best 'worst' army ever, why don't Pendraken do 1806 Prussians*?!!!

_{*Technically I could use 7 Years War Prussians, uniform didn't change greatly!}

[Nosher]

I particularly like the way the lists force a British Peninsula army to include lots of Poor Portugese and Spanish.

Cannon Fodder for my French

[sultanbev]

Nowt wrong with the Portuguese, esp after 1809, but an army list that "forces" you to have another army is obviously not an accurate army list. You field the units you have in models and get the game to fit that, rather than the other way round, surely? Are the Sicilians in there?

Am just doing more Peninsula lists for the MicroMark collection, and whilst many British divisions had a Portuguese brigade, and the Brits commanded 2 Portuguese Cavalry Brigades, the rest of the Portuguese fought on their own. And the Spanish hardly ever came under British command.

On the same basis, presumably the French Peninsula list forces you to use dubious Spanish , Neapolitans and KoI troops as well?

[Chad]

Lemmey

1806 Prussian Uniform is distinctly different from SYW, just as it was different to the the uniform of the revolutionary period.

Chad

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Chad, Thank you.
Thought the only major change was the length of tails and the facing - again, I stand corrected!