Tuesday 8 March 2011

The old and the new: Command&Colors: Napoleonics with vintage figures

I'm not really sure which blog to put this on, so I'm posting it here and on Vintage Wargaming.

This weekend saw a visit almost to the Kingdom of Fife, to join Tony of Prometheus in Aspic in test playing Richard Berg's new Command&Colors Napoleonics with vintage figures - Tony's Peninsular French against my Hinton Hunt and Der Kriegspieler Russians and Prussians.

An emergency visit to my local timber merchants on Thursday morning equipped me with around 40 120mm square sabots made from 4mm MDF (£6 the lot); with these and three trays of figure we were good to go.

Others have been playing C&C: Napoleonics with figures (see Conrad Kinch's recent excursion on Joy and Forgetfulness) but the combination of Tony's hex based set up, and the vintage figures we used, made for an interesting spectacle. We played three games - the Rolica first French position and second French position scenarios to a conclusion, all within one day including lunch out and an Indian takeaway. The Russians and Prussians stood in for the British in these scenarios, using French (rather than British) unit characteristics.

The game worked well, was easy to pick up, thoroughly enjoyable and somehow seemed appropriate to the figures. Along with Tony, I wouldn't want it to be the only Napoleonic rules I ever played, but it was thoroughly enjoyable and refreshing to get three games played right through in such a short time. Plenty of surprises to keep you on the toes, and of course Tony had done all the hard work of customising the dice and cards from the game.

Here are two slideshows, one for each of the scenarios (we played the second one twice.

Battle of Rolica: French first position



Battle of Rolica: French second position

3 comments:

Stryker said...

Great stuff Clive - I'm very jealous!!! Thanks for posting...

Ian

MSFoy said...

Clive

I regularly enjoy your blog and, since I am required to nominate some worthy recipients as part of my own Stylish Blog award, I hope you will take my nomination of your own blog in good spirit and accept!

If you are not sure what accepting requires of you, you'll find some clues at

http://prometheusinaspic.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-award-nominations-pass-it-on.html

Thanks very much for all your work - much appreciated!

Regards

Tony

Vintage Wargaming said...

Thanks very much Tonyfor your kind nomination. As I like your blog very much this is very gratifying, but after thinking about it I don't think this kind of thing is for me. I also didn't want to announce in a post (as some others have done) that I wasn't accepting - that seems to make a big show of it and to defeat the object - so I thought I'd just respond to the comment. No criticism is intended of those who have accepted these awards, and if you really want seven things you din't know about me let me know and I'll e-mail them to you. Thanks again

Clive