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Game With The Dragoons => Saturday Night Fights & Tabletop Simulator => Topic started by: Cyrano on July 21, 2019, 12:24:31 AM
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So, after a lot of talk, &c., and even more drinking, we've decided to REBOOT Teugn-Hausen.
This is Black Powder 2.
Unfortunately, the mighty and mad SDR cannot join us.
This means we've got:
Barthheart
JasonPratt
Panzerde
Who will be the fourth?
WHO!!??
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But SDR wants to shoot Mirth!
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Everyone Wants to Shoot Mirth is my hot new sitcom
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I, again, confess my sins against rules...
https://kriegsspieler.blogspot.com/2019/07/damnation-black-powder-2-are-you-being.html (https://kriegsspieler.blogspot.com/2019/07/damnation-black-powder-2-are-you-being.html)
I fear Vance's head may esplode...
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Oh sure, now I’ll have to go and purchase the rules as well just to keep you on the straight and narrow. It will be the only item I possess that will be even remotely Napoleonic. :waiting:
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You might still be able to get the 1st edition pdf for free. They were giving it away a while back.
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Should've checked before posting. No longer available. :-[
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I fear Vance's head may esplode...
Seems only fair since he's actively trying to destroy the universe.
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But SDR wants to shoot Mirth!
AHEM! --- that was me. Mirth would be replacing SDR.
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Hey now...we're reasonable men here. I think we can all agree that we want to shoot Mirth.
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But SDR wants to shoot Mirth!
AHEM! --- that was me. Mirth would be replacing SDR.
Now, now. No one could replace SDR.
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(https://media1.tenor.com/images/459e7f968c1a73df002afd4773da06a7/tenor.gif?itemid=8720184)
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I stand corrected. :bigthumb:
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I think we can all agree that we want to shoot Mirth.
I am a consensus builder.
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But SDR wants to shoot Mirth!
AHEM! --- that was me. Mirth would be replacing SDR.
I was quoting SDR at the end of the Video, he said he wanted to shoot Mirth
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So, I've still got game-start targeted for 1800 on Saturday.
Red -- You in?
This does, of course, require you to have TTS and the ability to communicate!
Not that we're all that lucid...
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Hour early? ???
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Yes. We discussed that. You said you could make it.
Dear Lord...
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I came home last night to discover that my aging Netgear transceiver had bit the dust.
I'm unsure if I can find a good one in time for tomorrow night; and I already know my Surface Pro (on which I'm writing) won't be able to handle TTS. Not multiplayer lag TTS anyway. ;)
I'll be looking around to see what I can do before Monday, but I figured I needed to update asap. :'(
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Yes. We discussed that. You said you could make it.
Dear Lord...
Sure I did... was I drunk?
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Yes. We discussed that. You said you could make it.
Dear Lord...
Sure I did... was I drunk?
I try very hard to ignore questions I take to be rhetorical.
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Sounding like we may be short Jason.
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Sounding like we may be short Jason.
I thought Vance was the short one
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I will attempt to run some experiments on the Surface this afternoon, but I'm doubtful (having tried before). Especially since this module is so thick as to crash the server if we pick up too many troops at once!
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So.... are we doing this? Or did I get liquored up.. well as usual fer Saturday Night in the Nations Capitol... ???
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Is your Airport busy?
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Ummm…. sometimes..... ???
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Gimme 12 run-throughs and I'll get this thing yet.
Actually, last night was pretty crisp and moved very well.
An AAR, of a sort:
https://kriegsspieler.blogspot.com/2019/07/so-howd-we-do-teugn-hausen-revisited-aar.html (https://kriegsspieler.blogspot.com/2019/07/so-howd-we-do-teugn-hausen-revisited-aar.html)
Thanks to Vance and Doug.
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Interesting that despite implementing the movement rules better, the Austrians still aren't over the wooded pass yet after three hours of play. They look in better order, at least!
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But they are! I have a reserve gun battery already in the front line at the end. :D
The real problem is going to be trying position all the new troops in such a small area.... was the real battlefield this "cramped"? It all being relative of course but are the north and south boundaries on the table real life restrictions?
Although, now that I think a bit, maybe yer supposed to push troops to the front, blast away until they nearly break then retire them and bring up "fresh" troops while yer commanders hang out at the rear reducing combat effects to get them ready to feed back into the front.... crap is this turning me into a Nappy freak?!? :idiot2:
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But they are! I have a reserve gun battery already in the front line at the end. :D
The real problem is going to be trying position all the new troops in such a small area.... was the real battlefield this "cramped"? It all being relative of course but are the north and south boundaries on the table real life restrictions?
Although, now that I think a bit, maybe yer supposed to push troops to the front, blast away until they nearly break then retire them and bring up "fresh" troops while yer commanders hang out at the rear reducing combat effects to get them ready to feed back into the front.... crap is this turning me into a Nappy freak?!? :idiot2:
The battalions cover more frontage than I think they should in BP. Having said that the Austrians didn't historically move everyone to the front. There are villages south of the river that they garrisoned with a good part of those troops you are moving forward.
But yeah, you have it right. You really want to keep pretty significant reserves. As battalions get worn down, rotate them out and replace them with fresh battalions. At the point that the enemy seems to be running out of fresh battalions, then you hit him with your entire reserve to break him. It's an adage of Napoleonic warfare that "he who commits his reserve last wins the day."
And yes, you are getting addicted. ;D
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There's that old saw about madness being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
Every time I visit battlefields I am caught in the same cycle:
1. I love miniatures.
2. Miniatures are usually played on terrain.
3. Whether the more academic difference between figure height and ground scale or the substantive matter of ground scale versus the terrain we depict on the tabletop, you can either do what most do and point out -- as Doug did during the video -- that the terrain is representational -- or you can tear your hair out, scream mightily, and swear off miniatures forever.
4. I then return to #1.
Start here, although BP2 doesn't state its ground scale -- deliberately -- I believe there's a consensus out there that it's 1'' to 20 yards.
If that be so, our map is well too small. I based it on a scenario I found on-line that seemed to work and I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome. I will not lie, however, and I will be having a look at a significant expansion of its size.
One note as to something I now believe will every piece of me, though, the only way to do hills/slopes/&c., that are of military consequence correctly is to draw them or, if you're truly loony, create a purpose-built model.
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if you're truly loony, create a purpose-built model.
"If" seems to indicate the possibility of another condition....
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If that be so, our map is well too small. I based it on a scenario I found on-line that seemed to work and I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome. I will not lie, however, and I will be having a look at a significant expansion of its size.
I correct myself! Assuming one is not including the action to the East -- which admittedly many do -- our table is very close indeed.
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If that be so, our map is well too small. I based it on a scenario I found on-line that seemed to work and I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome. I will not lie, however, and I will be having a look at a significant expansion of its size.
I correct myself! Assuming one is not including the action to the East -- which admittedly many do -- our table is very close indeed.
Rats! Was hoping for more maneuvering room...... :biggrin: