tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post116739648383568936..comments2024-03-28T03:31:19.790-07:00Comments on Archduke Piccolo: Retreat from Smolensk: Part the Fourth.Archduke Piccolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-26258467882799759042016-02-10T13:28:27.397-08:002016-02-10T13:28:27.397-08:00The questions you raise here, Ross, deserve a whol...The questions you raise here, Ross, deserve a whole posting (at least) to do justice by way of response. You will find in the pictures that a Division drawn up in line is in fact in two equal lines one behind the other. I see it as cognate to the F&F/AofE 'supported line'. A Division COULD be drawn up in a single line 24 figures wide, but you would have to be prepared to take the consequences, as Don Gregorio Garcia de la Cuesta did at Medellin.<br /><br />My standard 4 ranks of 6 figures (4x6) columns I see in two ways. One is the kind of deep columns that became rather a feature of Continental armies late in the period. But I also tend to see them as successive lines of 6-figure regiments. So I guess they are standing for (a) some sort of solid block; or (b) a column of battalions or regiments in line, 12 ranks of 400 men each. Given the frontage, the latter seems more likely, now that I think about it. Possibly the other shape, 6x4, would better represent the deeper, more inefficient columns. <br /><br />Thanks for bringing this up, Ross.<br />Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-1430115997395361842016-02-10T13:13:27.875-08:002016-02-10T13:13:27.875-08:00Cheers, Martin. It was a crowded table, for sure....Cheers, Martin. It was a crowded table, for sure. But then I have seen much larger tables equally crowded... Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-45458026705907408842016-02-10T13:12:11.572-08:002016-02-10T13:12:11.572-08:00All things considered I was surprised by how easil...All things considered I was surprised by how easily the Austrians overcame the French on this occasion. Not that they had it all their own way...<br />Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-90712856867993496232016-02-10T13:11:00.447-08:002016-02-10T13:11:00.447-08:00Thanks, Brian. It has taken me a long time to for...Thanks, Brian. It has taken me a long time to force myself to finish this sequence of postings! See my comment on your post. Those 'Russian' dragoons we were talking about turned out to be Austrian!Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-56535452520103776582016-02-10T08:52:55.108-08:002016-02-10T08:52:55.108-08:00I admit that I struggle with a division as a singl...I admit that I struggle with a division as a single block of troops. Took me a while to make the jump to brigades as units!<br /><br />When you say in line, are you picturing a SYW or Sikh War type deployment with every battalion in line and side by side or an arrangement with a front line of battalions in line supported at deploying intervals by a 2nd line of battalions (something like original F&F's supported line?<br /><br /><br />Is a division in column a column of lines,1 battalion wide and as deep as there are battalions, a rarely and extremely dangerous and ineffective formation where 90% of the manpower adds nothing or lines of columns at deploying intervals which are much more flexible and effective? Especially if deployed in 2 lines of columns. <br /><br />I haven't gone back to look at rules notes you posted a whle back but in a divisional column it really shouldn't have any greater fighting ability as only the front rank can shoot, just an ability to absorb more hits although there is some evidence that lines can typically suffer a higher % loss than columns since the men are busy fighting and the casualties spread out as opposed to deep columns where the rear ranks can do nothing and see nothing apart from a stream of wounded but they can hear the ferocity of the fight. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-80399255726551707022016-02-10T03:31:48.331-08:002016-02-10T03:31:48.331-08:00'Twas a famous victory! Nothing like well pai...'Twas a famous victory! Nothing like well painted miniatures combined with a interesting battle narrative to get the ol' juices flowing! Hard to believe that it all took place on a 4 ft. by 4 ft., 5 in. tabletop. Well done! Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09440393996804815125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-84987665810772413552016-02-10T03:03:17.885-08:002016-02-10T03:03:17.885-08:00Nice read and outcome!Nice read and outcome!The Angry Lurkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01227314379603418332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-57417038428753981682016-02-10T02:08:09.917-08:002016-02-10T02:08:09.917-08:00Great looking troops Ion! Rather inspiring AAR too...Great looking troops Ion! Rather inspiring AAR too! I may have to start painting my plastic Austrian hordes!Uncle Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00975932783227453858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-62745449137292318412016-02-10T02:02:23.821-08:002016-02-10T02:02:23.821-08:00All sorts of ideas come to mind up to and includin...All sorts of ideas come to mind up to and including the system used by the Age of Eagles rule set Napoleonic Fire and Fury. Another idea is to look further into the Sam Mustafa rule design. But for the basic game play I still prefer to use individually based figures with casualty removal. They have their inconveniences, true, but there is to my mind an indefinable something that makes up for that.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-88516782740724293752016-02-09T23:54:44.505-08:002016-02-09T23:54:44.505-08:00A good report Ion.
For solo play could use use a ...A good report Ion.<br /><br />For solo play could use use a card activated system to at least give some random element to how certain units behave. Alternatively a dice roll against some form of Command value to determine if what they do is actually want you wanted ?<br /><br />CheersJackohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01156243437690752780noreply@blogger.com