Absolute Emperor - Battle of Eylau: France vs Russia Napoleonic Battle Report

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Жыл бұрын

My second game of Absolute Emperor by Bruce Boyd, depicting the eastern half of the battle of Eylau - can Benningsen and Tolstoi fight off Davout, Murat and Augereau? Find out!
I made a few rules mistakes in this battle report, but I don't think it made a huge impact. Hope you like it!
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@Fredeye63 10 ай бұрын

I realize this is an old post but this was a great show of the rules. Good job!

@williamswargames 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Would like me to do more AE stuff?

@totalburnout5424 Жыл бұрын

Nice report. I so far never used the Skirmisher option. For big battles with more corps this is one of the rules to use. Build my own QRS, too and put it on my blog. later learned that the author put a QRS on his facebook side. By the way I have no Facebook account. 😉

@williamswargames 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info!

@NooneSonder Жыл бұрын

Very nice battle report. A very quick and dirty affair. Cheers

@williamswargames Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jon! Would you be interested in seeing more AE or something else?

@NooneSonder Жыл бұрын

AE is fantastic. I really enjoyed your Pikeman’s Lament as well. I’m not particular. I like your take on wargaming. Thanks for posting

@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Hadn't even heard of them. Thanks for the review, I'll take a look.

@williamswargames Жыл бұрын

They are really good, as I think I have tried to communicate :)

@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar Жыл бұрын

Copy duely ordered, a bargain £4.70 + p&p (new!) on Abe books - couldn't complain at that!!!

@JackSargePainting Жыл бұрын

I was aware of the rule set but hadn't heard much about them. They seem suited to smaller scales and large operations perhaps? Thanks for making the video.

@williamswargames Жыл бұрын

The rules by default are at army level, where each group is.a corps and each unit is a division. There are some slight modifications included in a rules variant in the book, such as the skirmishers rule, and that artillery have a 45 degree LoS - which bring it down to a divisional level where your groups are brigades and your units are regiments. IMO a much better way to play and that's how I do it. I use 2mm figures for ease/cost but I believe it would work well with any scale, you just change 'division' for 'brigade', or even 'regiment' !

@norm977 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for going through the play. I have the rules and will pull them back out for another look. It felt a bit strange that the infantry could just assault the guns without suffering losses themselves in that process, but overall, it looks like it runs quite slickly.

@williamswargames Жыл бұрын

Not the most dynamic of battles really, but I’m glad you enjoyed it. For the guns they really need to be supported - I’ll double check rules for closing fire though!

@norm977 Жыл бұрын

@@williamswargames I have just had a quick browse … p.32. Under post resolution combat results, 7th bullet suggests that the attack needs to be played out to see if the artillery get hits …. I imagine they mostly will🙂 also in the combat modifiers inf / cav V art get +2D6 and artillery gets a 1d6, so presumably artillery get to fight in close combat, even though they are not mentioned on p26 first paragraph. Anyway, thanks, my interest is peeked enough to put some figures out 🙂