If you could see my command centre from which I play Tabletop Simulator -- really all I play these days -- you would see a growing pile of rulesets.
Last night, as these rulesets threatened to topple and crush me, I realized I have a mission -- perhaps even a calling.
I must find ALL the fast-play, grand tactical, Napoleonic rulesets in print, play, and review them.
With this in mind, I must first assemble the list of all FPGTNRs...which spells nothing...
My List:
Big Bloody Battles
Black Powder (Y)
Blucher (Y)
Commands and Colors: Napoleonics (Y)
De Bellis Napoleonicis
Fast-Play Grande Armee (X)
Horse and Musket
Horse, Foot, and Guns
Le Petit Empereur
March Attack
Morale Napoleon
Snappy Nappy
Volley and Bayonet (X)
X: Played, but not on TTS
Y: Played on TTS
If I were to confess it, Black Powder only BARELY makes the list, but I think it is intended as a fast-play system. Note that this is different from a system that plays quickly. Everyone who loves a rule system will tell you that it plays quickly once you get the hang of it. This is a nonsense. If I may be more clear, "Altar of Freedom" is so beautiful for what it does in the ACW that I sort of want to just mod it for Napoleonics. But I wonder if there's anything out there for Napoleonics! "Shako 2" -- a wonderful system -- is not fast-play, whether or not you think you can play Wagram using it. By the same token, neither is ESR. We will not here speak of LFS, GdB, CaG2, NB, AoE, RtE, GdA, &c., &c.
So, to begin, which systems am I missing?
I will then begin building TTS sets and YOU. Yes YOU will help me play them!
Best,
Jim
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