Friday, December 06, 2019

Bataille Empire solo play (Spring 1813 French vs Russians)

A quick solo game to help get Bataille Empire rules embedded in brain.
They are not difficult as such but have a lot of 'moving parts' and as they say practice makes perfect.
Set up a bash in Spring 1813 using French versus Russians both with 4 Divisions.
For my 40mm UD units I have settled on 150cm x 100cm as ideal for small 200pt game size.
Battle turned out to be an Encounter so only 1 Divn apiece starting on table with others 'marching to the sound of the guns'.
Whilst a solo game it was still rather fun.
Cavalry can move quite a distance in BE moving 8UD in Line with +2UD bonus if charging so some 40cm or nearly half the board.
6pdr guns fire 16 UD but over 8UD its generally ineffective fire or a single attrition (ie half-loss) hit.
Beginning to realise some of the nuances of this rule set although still some book look up required although the QRS is excellent (as is the same authors LADG version).
Pretty much have shooting/movement/shock combat/supports down now but still need to work on Opportunity/Reaction Charges and several outcomes.
Whilst not as slick a terrain/scenario set up as FOGN it has good variety and I like rolling for varied terrain effects as each can have light/medium/heavy effects on movement and/or combat.
I played 6 turns with Russians sort of getting best of situation having taken 2 objectives whilst killing 2 French units to 1 loss of their own.
Another game scheduled for next Friday with Stephen French vs British in Spain 1812.
(Would have played to completion but Tank Duel arrived so cleared table to sort this enticing title out :-) )
























4 comments:

  1. Great looking solo game Sgt!

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    1. Cheers. I find actually playing is best way to learn rules as simply reading through no longer enough for ageing brain cells :-)

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  2. Curious about the 40mm UD. I thought a UD was = to the width of a base. ( not the width of a unit in line). Or are your bases 40mm wide?

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    1. Hi Ken yes my bases 40mm wide (so 80mm per unit in line) hence larger table as works out same dimensions in UD.
      Playable on smaller table but prefer better proportions of larger table and lets us use our 40mm measuring sticks (from DBM days)

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