Last week I got a first look at my friend Mark’s “321 Napoleonic Fast Play Rules” in action with his French versus Matt’s Russian-Prussian Allied army; each of 1,000 points using the rules’ points system. These rules have the Battalion, Artillery Battery or Cavalry Regiment as the base unit and are designed to be fast play so a game of this size can be finished in 2 hours or so (incl. terrain set-up) by experienced players. They are also however designed to be scalable (so larger games on bigger tables with 70+ units a side or more), and more importantly to also allow historical refights, all with accurate tactics (i.e. no Napoleonic infantry pike phalanxes in these games).
“The moral is to the physical as three to one”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Origin of the name “321” for Mark’s ruleset.
These are just some random pictures of some of the units and specific actions in the game, as I did not photograph the game consistently as it progressed – so no big panoramic scenes of the whole table on this occasion I’m afraid.
The game was played with a draft of version 7.0 of the rules (the link to Mark’s Blog Page above currently has v5.1 on it – so hopefully he’ll update that soon, once he’s happy with 7.0 and its suitable to share).
You can read more about Mark’s 321 Napoleonic Fast Play Rules, and see lots of pictures of his fantastic Ancient & Napoleonic era armies (among other things), on his blog Chasseur à Cheval.
Your few random photos are really clear and quite lovely!
Regards, James
p.s. commenting is an involved procedure, but I persisted!