General d’Armee in 28mm (Or Charge Plays Napoleonics and Likes It)
I’ve never really been excited about playing big-battle Napoleonics.
To be clear, I have no problem with the period. I enjoy Sharpe as much as any full-blooded Yorkshireman is required to, and I can be suitably wowed by a large-scale display of massed ranks on the field of battle (I’m not an unfeeling monster after all). The problem I have is three-fold. One, I don’t want to paint that many troops. Two, my knowledge of the period tactics and strategies isn’t anywhere close to things post the invention of bolt action rifles leaving me with the instinctive knowledge of what I should be doing at any one time. Finally, and most controversially, most of the black powder era games I’ve played have been boring as sin – all those pretty units sitting and doing not much aside from rolling dice to remove a figure or two, moving blocks of troops
More and more people are addicted to enjoying online video games. You aren’t a cat, you would not have 9 lives or so the myth goes. As soon as you are dropped onto the map you will have one life so play sensible. Preserve your senses in thoughts. Sight and sound might be the distinction between a superb sport and a disastrous one. Driving around beeping the horn of the automobile is simply asking for trouble. Attempt to assume like a player would. Typically considering just like the enemy can lead you to foretell their motion and attack patterns.
You don’t have to underline the letters that you’ve used from the phrase earlier than yours. I’ve only achieved so for demonstrative functions.