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Game With The Dragoons => Saturday Night Fights & Tabletop Simulator => Topic started by: Cyrano on December 27, 2019, 12:38:42 PM

Title: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: Cyrano on December 27, 2019, 12:38:42 PM

Blucher: Eggmuhl

C&C: Austerlitz

What a Tanker!

...and a bunch of other stuff...

Who’s here?

Title: Re: December 28: Planning
Post by: ojsdad on December 27, 2019, 02:46:38 PM

Ohio State vs Clemson, so I'm probably out. 

Wife was teasing me about that the other day.

Title: Re: December 28: Planning
Post by: Cyrano on December 27, 2019, 02:55:37 PM

You can and have had a game on in the background while you played!!!

Title: Re: December 28: Planning
Post by: ojsdad on December 27, 2019, 04:36:56 PM

Put me down as a maybe. 

Title: Re: December 28: Planning
Post by: panzerde on December 27, 2019, 07:56:01 PM

I have my third head cold of the season going on. I’ve decided I hate children and their snot nosed viruses.


Assuming I feel alright, I’ll be there.

Title: Re: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: Cyrano on December 28, 2019, 10:48:08 PM

Man, let none doubt that C&C:N hauls freight and gets to a conclusion in a reasonable amount of time.

And, as Doug said after, it does tell a good story.

Thanks for those who showed 'round.

Title: Re: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: panzerde on December 29, 2019, 01:30:50 PM

I some ways, it's the counter to Blucher. The game last night had none of the complex maneuver we saw in the Teugn-Hausen game. It didn't have the interesting narrative bits of taking the time to deploy that we see in Blucher. Combat is far deadlier than in Blucher. The terrain is far more abstract.


And yet...the system still tells a good story. It still rewards reasonable tactics. It still feel like a Napoleonic battle.


I guess it shows that even among quick play systems, there can be significant variety in the approach yet the different systems can still yield very satisfactory games. I like that we can chose what level of abstraction we want to deal with but still get a game over in three hours or less.

Title: Re: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 29, 2019, 03:12:34 PM

so who wants to tackle the comparison article for the site?   :dreamer:

Title: Re: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: Redd Saxx on January 01, 2020, 02:50:17 PM

Very enjoyable game to watch.

Title: Re: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: beetcafe on January 02, 2020, 01:46:58 PM

Cyrano,

I've been enjoying watching your C&C Napoleonics games.  I noticed you were missing the die. Try the attached file. It should load into TTS. Let me know if it needs to be modified in any way. I got the schema from the GMT living rules.

Cheers,

Greg

aka beetcafe

Title: Re: December 28: 2019 -- The Battle of Eggmuhl (Day One) -- C&C: Napoleonics
Post by: ojsdad on January 07, 2020, 03:55:49 PM

https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/1214333075989114882