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Post by ooiittee on Aug 21, 2015 6:55:14 GMT
This has been posted here before but i have only just now grabbed a copy. Now i dont even know where this america is let alone the history of their war, i mean cavalry that doesnt charge.... who does that.
But having read the rules they stand up as a good easy to play game with a focus away form the micro magament and on the time control and timing, how 6mm is that. It may have something to do with the rules being written for 6mm.
Anyway as i was saying, these crazy yankies dont do it for me but my Austrian and Anglo-Dutch know how to use a horse for war.
I am wondering if anyone can recommend a mod to encompassing the napoleonic period for use in AOF. I understand Snap Nappy has been used with it. But i am keen to see a write up of a mod for nap play. It would only need to cover the units and generals and ofcourse improve on the GeeGee's riders not wanting crash into things....
Who does that....?
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Post by curlerman on Aug 21, 2015 8:11:00 GMT
I am wondering if anyone can recommend a mod to encompassing the napoleonic period for use in AOF. I understand Snap Nappy has been used with it. But i am keen to see a write up of a mod for nap play. It would only need to cover the units and generals and ofcourse improve on the GeeGee's riders not wanting crash into things.... Who does that....? I combined snappy nappy with "AoE" we simply combined the movement and the combat parts of "SN" with the C&C bit of "AoE" easy as that . Buy snappy nappy take the QRS and cross of the first page with orders etc. Then take "AoE" and throw away the move and combat bit. You get a high level variable length system with all the best of "AoE" and "AoE" gets a brutal moral system, cavalry charges and squares at brigade level. Bob
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Post by bruce on Aug 21, 2015 18:29:41 GMT
Yes, we are crazy Yankees! I do not know the details of AOF rules, which are gaining in popularity here. But by the time of the ACW, firepower was already making charges of all kinds pretty risky. Modern warfare was beginning, repeating rifles, Gatling machine guns, trench warfare, railroads, telegraph, balloons, ironclads, even a submarine! Tactics emphasized more defensive postures. Major infantry charges at Fredricksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, etc. were huge disasters. It was a time of transition. George Pickett was a broken man after his famous charge, Lee became a defensive master for the rest of the war after his most famous blunder.
Some of the greatest cavalry leaders in history, ie Jeb Stuart, Nathaniel, Forrest, mostly for the south, were around. Cavalry was for recon, raids, cutting supplies and communications. Very dashing! Some of the raids were large and spectacular. Once the armies clashed, it's role was much reduced from Napoleonic times. The Union's belated cavalry charge against infantry after Gettysburg was mostly over was a wasteful and tragic blunder ordered by a bad field officer. Er...Charge of the Light Brigade, anyone?
So I am thinking that there may be some rule differences that reflect the changes in warfare between the two periods to consider. Bruce
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Post by ooiittee on Aug 23, 2015 4:05:21 GMT
Thanks for the history lesson. We dont really hear much about the acw here is Australia. Not taught in schools at all, so it tends to be a era of little interest down under.
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Post by bruce on Aug 23, 2015 4:57:10 GMT
I never knew very much about Chile in 1817 until I joined this forum and met grizzlymc. The world is getting smaller all the time, always things to learn and share. The ACW is very popular to game here, but it was an internal struggle and the US was a minor player on the international stage during the 19th century. After the war ended, the military quickly declined and we were a backwater once again for a while. Not surprised it's not a hot topic in your part of the world.
Custer fought in the ACW as a cavalry general and was quite a dashing figure. This did not serve him well some years later when he ran into the finest light cavalry in the world, the Sioux, and was wiped out at Little Big Horn. This was a big deal for us and taught in schools here while the Franco Prussian War of the same period is barely mentioned. And I learned more about Gallipoli from Mel Gibson than I did in school!
On another note, I really enjoyed your detailed description on your blog about building your boards, even contacting Weigle, as you went along. Extremely helpful, looking forward to hearing about how the permutations were created for the new one. Bruce
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Post by mike1956 on Aug 24, 2015 1:06:56 GMT
Originally coming from England and born in the 1950's, I grew up with the Great War and WWII, still fresh in the minds of so many people. I seemed to have accumulated a wealth of knowledge on all conflicts through the ages in the UK and Europe and North America/Canada, from school and history classes, though I'm not any type of expert, just an interested bystander. My knowledge of the ACW started with a set of much loved sand colourful action cards from bubble gum packs, (very depicting and blood thirsty regards the fighting and carnage) and progressed from there. Images of the cards can be found on the internet, as those of a set of WWII cards. Didn't know much about South American wards though, always willing to learn. All that said I've dipped my hand into to many periods to wargame, should have just stayed with 1 or 2, maybe 3 at the most.
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