Very late to the party, but I recently discovered Blücher, and looked for videos on KZfaq and then fallen into the rabbit hole of your content using the system and making your cards with 6mm figures. Very awesome work, thanks a lot for doing all that.

Looks beautiful! Thx for doing this! Great and awesome job! Very inspiring!

Outstanding battle report as usual - thanks for the effort. You make the rules and the battle really come to life in this one. Your investment in time for these solo AAR’s is very much appreciated.

Captivating. Thank you. Love the way you are explaining the game.

outstanding battle report Alex.. I will definitely be looking into Blucher in the near future.. thanks for all your hard work

Love the explanation at the beginning. Great AAR mate!

Love your battle Reports!!Great game!

Sorry for posting a lot! This was a great AAR and great video. I loved that you put so much work to get this all done, and it was so beautifully presented. I love that you seemed to really enjoy playing this too, I'm hoping it was as fulfilling for you as you hoped. I also really enjoyed how your presentation of the game and the rules. It's perfectly OK that the rules did not run smoothly, and you pointed out any mistakes you made while editing. Blucher seems like a good set of rules, it has a decent and elegant core. Then to the core you add on some slight modifiers (shock, steady, heavy cannons, etc.) to allow for variance, this lets you really individualize units and show difference. I'm still not satisfied with the command system, but it let you run a pretty big battle. I didn't see where the momentum system really hindered either side and what they wanted to do, and it seems like Wellington is.a deal breaker with his super power. Not a biggie. Blucher worked, you reached a conclusion to the game, and you had fun! This is the best recommendation for a set of rules! Last thought before I gush more: Is there a good quick play sheet for Blucher? I'm thinking a real good quick play sheet can help with the rules you need at hand to help - like infancy does not retreat from Cav, etc. ¥ou did great here! Please continue doing what you do!

Another way to regulate the momentum that is is suitable for a solo game is, using playing cards select a "hand" consisting of a number of cards plus one joker. Once you complete a move turn over that number of cards, if the joker comes out that is turn over. You can adjust the number of cards for larger forces and add (or remove) cards during the game as reinforcements arrive. Obviously you need to shuffle the cards between turns. It also works for multiplayer games allowing each player their own deck. In extreme cases, for example to reflect particularly inept or reluctant commanders you can add an additional joker, there is lots of opportunities to customise a deck. It works well unless you have a member of your group (yes Ian I mean you) who has an uncanny knack of drawing the joker first every turn!

Really enjoyed watching this this morning. so intent, I forgot about my coffee.

rip those french brigades that did not prepare even though they did not move haha.

Good explanation at the start! Enjoyed it thoroughly

It’s fun to watch, it would be interesting to have had a French player. I always root for the French, just to disclose my biases! On the French left with Reilly’s Corp he could have put his front line in square and brought up the second line after the first large car charge by Wellington. The British Cav were decisive under Wellington, especially getting to charges against unprepared infantry. On the French right you had three French infantry brigades just sit and watch the British cav fight around the farm/village..... that was decisive as they could not reinforce Ney’s success...... I'm wondering if the French Guard had been committed a couple of turns earlier if that would have really helped. They could have been in position to reinforce Ney's success and help deal with any hasty reserves Wellington had. Just more armchair quarterbacking. I’m just making fun comments as I watched, I really value you doing this!

I struggled with playing Blucher, but you seem to have made me rethink it. Good job. o7

WELL DONE BUDDY

If you have access to excel, you can certainly roll blind and enter your activation against an opponent alert.

Outstanding!!!

Great, you actually make the game system sound interesting. Not easy to do when you’re looking at a camera. I’ll take a look at all your videos.

Very enjoyable video, i have blucher and may look at it again.

Excellent video- really enjoyed this. I fear the KGL was hard done by in their defence of LHS- you gave the French Guard eight dice, not seven, and they subsequently only took the farm by virtue of one more hit. I doubt it would have made any difference anyway. I'm now tempted to get my Blucher set out and give Waterloo a go.

Great Battle Report.. interesting Ruleset

brilliant. cheers

An excellent report and a great adaptation of the system into a solitaire variant. It's looking like my group is edging towards Blucher and 6mm Napoleonic gaming. Are you able to offer any advice on where to obtain Blucher bases from in the UK?

Great video, very helpful considering I'm currently pondering whether to base my Warlord Epic figures for this or for a brigade level game like GDA2. I could of course base them to accommodate both but I have a load of AB 15mm that I can use for brigade games, basing the Epic stuff permanently for Blucher would certainly allow for a great massed effect. Do you still play this?

Small point, on page 47 it states you can't fire at any unit in a BUA. You have to assault and it is very hard to do so. The attacker takes a -1 modifier and the defender a +2 p67

The card system works like this for 2 d6, games example 13 cards, 12 black and one red, shuffle cards, spend MO, draw cards if the red shows up end of mo turn For 3 d6 , 19 cards 18 black, one red.

Great AAR - very well explained. It may not be of interest to you, but if it is I have just created a solo MO dice roller for Blucher using Excel, where you 'roll dice' before the turn, the result is hidden, and when you add in the cumulative MO used, it tells you whether your turn is finished or not.

Great AAR? How wide is the BW and what size table was required to play Waterloo?

On the labels, laminated?

Great vid! where did you get the bases and labels?

Question: the stds. are based only for Bucher? And they look great!!!

How do you decide what each force will do each turn? Are you following historical orders, or is there an automated way to choose what happens or do you play each side equally, trying to beat yourself?

Its a great batrep but perhaps shows why Waterloo with no Prussians is unbalanced. In reality the the evident approach of the Prussians even early in the day meant Napoleon could not commit VI Corps against Wellington.

I wonder if it would be easier to roll the dice after spending momentum, but take away a die each time.

was it a 6ft by 4ft table ? thank you

Shouldn’t the French attack dice have been halved for their attack on Hougoumont?

Nice AAR but too many advertisements interrupting the flow

far too late for the guards, and, the French committed too much of their front line. They should have kept one aisle intact to support the guards early on, around 1 pm. It is very possible to win with the French, 55% chance but you have to engage the guard.

"but the Prussians also helped" ?????????????

Wow! You roll much better for the brits then the French! UnConscious bias/!😜😜😜😜😜

The momentum system sounds a bit "gimmicky" to me, why not simply roll for your own momentum, no need for it to be secret and also suitable for solo play so no need for cards etc.