Hi
Just placed my first order for 10mm Franco Prussians. Super excited because it's a period I have always wanted to do & 10mm will enable me to give the battles justice as I want lots of units 😀
Considering 1870 rules at Mo but any suggestions welcome!
Even though I'm looking at a regimental scale, I'm toying between 16-20 fig strong battalions for the Prussians & 12-14 strong for the French.
Thoughts on that also please 😀
Welcome, Pendraken is the right place to come for big armies!
This isn't my period, so I'm not sure about rules.
Big units are great, but just be aware of the amount of painting you will have to do. You don't want to run out of enthusiasm before you get enough troops done to play some games. That been said if you can build up big forces they will look great!
Hello.
Sounds great. I use Black Powder with some modifications, or Volley & Bayonet.
Hi Daz, welcome to the Forum!
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Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 November 2016, 10:18:49 PM
Hello.
Sounds great. I use Black Powder with some modifications, or Volley & Bayonet.
Cheers for the welcome. What mods do you use for black powder & how many figs do you use per regiment?
I use about 27-30, and if you pm me I'll send you the mods in the morning. :)
Welcome :-h
Not my period but I second Mad Lemmy's V&B recommendation, I use them for AWI and Napoleonic and will probably use them for the Sudan.
12-20 figure close order units work well, I use 16 figures for a wing, 32 for a battalion for AWI http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,14025.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,14025.0.html)
Make sure you paint a few units from each side so you can have some small games as you work your way through the project
A very warm welcome, Daz.
Cheers - Phil
Welcome on board :). I highly recommend Chris Pringle's Bloody Big Battles for this period.
Welcome aboard :)
Da*med Suffners, almost as bad as the Welsh.....
Velcomen
IanS ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 November 2016, 07:42:18 AM
Da*med Suffners, almost as bad as the Welsh.....
Velcomen
IanS ;)
Ian lives at the north pole, to steal someone else's line.
Welcome to the forum! FPW is a great period to game.
Since Steve was kind enough to recommend BBB, let me point you towards this collection of reviews I just put together to mark two years since publication:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/collected-reviews-of-bbb-bloody-big.html
Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
Greetins, boy; FPW eh? What a terrific period to choose to get into. Pendraken must have just about the best FPW range going. Don't know of another range that provides both styles of the pickelhaub that were worn. Would definitely urge a look at the Bloody Big Battles rules if you are keen to replay some of the actual battles with victory conditions that give the French a chance to snatch some victories.
By the way, Ian is an entertaining whinger from the Wirral - not as amusing as Half Man Half Biscuit though.
That's a very good description of FSN.
QuoteLeman - 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.
Drat, missed BBB off my list, I would give them a blast too! :D
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 (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)
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
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 :D
Quote from: Westmarcher on 02 November 2016, 10:06:14 AM
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 (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.
Welcome Daz.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 November 2016, 08:57:49 AM
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.
Where in Suffolk chap?
Quote from: Nosher on 02 November 2016, 07:21:47 PM
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.
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.
1870 was a very wise and good value purchase. :D :D :D 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
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...
Quote from: Dangerdaz on 02 November 2016, 11:00:13 PM
Carlton colville, outskirts of Lowestoft.
Here in Ipswich if you fancy a game some time. Is there a club in Loooowestofff?
Quote from: Nosher on 03 November 2016, 08:56:55 PM
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.
It would be good to meet up and have a game some time. Feel free to PM me buddy ;)
Welcome Daz