I've posted an AAR of Magenta 1859 on my blog

http://twomarshals.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/magenta-1859-using-bloody-big-battles.html

Good report  thanks for sharing

Take care

Andy

Great stuff.....Nice piccies, too ! 

Cheers - Phil

Beautiful game.

Great looking game and might get to see you at the Bash.

What a cracking looking game! Great layout and, with the photographs, prints and captions, a story well told. And even though the buildings are slightly smaller scale I think they fit in rather well.* Bravo!  

* btw I'm not averse to using 'one scale down' buildings either.

Very nice game. Looks great and lots of action right across the table.

good AAR, thanks for sharing.

That is a remarkably good looking game.

I've got armies for this period in 6mm based originally for the Bacchus rules in which a single 60x30mm base is used for a battalion. Would these work for BBB do you think. Got Austrians, Piedmontese and French.
Like the sound of the new Pendraken range but then I'd have to start posting in the "reducing the mountain" thread.

Looks like a great game, Solferino next?

Beautiful game - can't wait to see it at Bash Day next month!

Quote from: JeffNNN on 15 January 2017, 02:21:27 PM
I've got armies for this period in 6mm based originally for the Bacchus rules in which a single 60x30mm base is used for a battalion. Would these work for BBB do you think.

You could do it by treating each 60x30 base as being a double base (the BBB standard is 1"x1").

Solferino is in the "Bloody Big European Battles" scenario book and we fought it twice in a day at Bash Day last year (4 players, 8'x4' table).

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanks for the comments all

I've done the French-Austrian part of Solferino. Here's the AAR

At BBB Bash day 2016 the very sneaky tactically astute Austrians withdrew Benedek's VIII Korps (the best Austrian troops on the table) across the Redone river to fight the French leaving the Sardinian army to walk into San Martino whilst defending the 3 other objectives  in overwhelming numbers

Therefore I would split it into two separate games otherwise an on-the-ball Austrian commander will do the same

Re. Baccus based 6mm armies for BBB: I have based my 6mm FPW armies on 30mm x 30mm squares and have found these work just as well as the 25mm square bases. Furthermore Chris actually recommends basing up some double width bases to speed up play. Bear in mind though that losses are by individual bases and that there are also units of 7, 5 and 3 bases at starting strength, so it's probably a good idea to have between 1/3 and 1/2 the army on single bases. If you put units into road column then the double bases will have to march sideways, but in 10mm and below I don't regard this as much of a problem. The silver lining is that you do not have to rebase an entire army to switch from Polemos or Altar of Freedom to enjoy BBB.