Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Hastenbeck

Well the game has come and gone with a win for the Franco-Austrain alliance over the Prussian-British-Hessians.
A brilliant weekend of playing toy soldiers in great company.
We used Black Powder and they worked well for such a big game. Rules are never going to cover all events and I had my doubts but they gave us a fast fun game which is what you want with 13 players and 97 infantry battalions (1619 minis), 24 cavalry regiments (302) minis, 25 guns with 100 crew and the odd General figure or two.
We used 66% for range and movement, the Reliable rule for Prussian foot, all commanders were 7 rating, we changed the staff rating roll to 3 under for 2 moves and 4 under for 3 moves. However we think this may have changed the dynamic a bit to much and are considering changing it back for the next game which will be Penninsula Naps.
First 2 pics table layout, next 2 the French deploy.
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