I used a French army under Suchet in the Peninsula against Stephens British (1000pts) .
I do so like the battle set up system in this set with my ending up in Positional Defence against his Flexible Defence.
This meant hard for enemy to move any terrain pieces but conversely I had to deploy my entire army first.
British skirmishing is better than French as on first eligible turn he had 16 dice to my 12 and ended up with 3 'excess' skirmishers to place on my units.
These are just like in Lasalle 2 (an almost direct copy it seems) and really crimp the activity of units under their 'spell', reducing shooting and causing Morale Tests and linger like bad smells.
My inability to rid myself of them really hurt my efforts and the British had some excellent defensive fire rolls and I had several units reeling in Disorder or Wavered.
A follow up charge by British inflicted more damage and French soon beaten.
The system seems designed to be bloody and therefore decisive.
Been a while since we used these but game played smoothly with only one or two rule look ups (the QRS is pretty good).
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