tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post8279999721011572466..comments2023-12-26T17:07:06.724+08:00Comments on Avon Napoleonic Fellowship: Race for the bridge: Action at Pretzsch, 29 October 1759Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-60214906511116364012018-03-20T17:25:34.951+08:002018-03-20T17:25:34.951+08:00Thanks Matthew.
You are in for a tough life of war...Thanks Matthew.<br />You are in for a tough life of wargaming if you take the Austrians! :)James Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897755636246185173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-30686418389193477942018-03-20T15:50:20.512+08:002018-03-20T15:50:20.512+08:00Gosh Jim, what a ginormous table and what a brilli...Gosh Jim, what a ginormous table and what a brilliant spectacle. Great photos and write up too. I think I'm developing a yen for Austrians now.<br />Best regards<br />WMWellington Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08295966991101976478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-5927696580758685812017-07-25T17:09:38.510+08:002017-07-25T17:09:38.510+08:00Great write up James! And enjoyable photos.Great write up James! And enjoyable photos.David Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17148983897942472092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-68894113760010668492017-07-02T06:36:55.543+08:002017-07-02T06:36:55.543+08:00Interesting scenario and write up, and fine lookin...Interesting scenario and write up, and fine looking game, James!Gonsalvohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16531623280789478092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-72115564117945440152017-06-28T20:12:59.428+08:002017-06-28T20:12:59.428+08:00Thanks Mark.Thanks Mark.James Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897755636246185173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-3022641006887372492017-06-28T14:14:35.386+08:002017-06-28T14:14:35.386+08:00I like the look of this game, very nice!I like the look of this game, very nice!Chasseurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04919997382932080898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-40474227183426827702017-06-27T10:29:52.891+08:002017-06-27T10:29:52.891+08:00Thanks Jonathan and Ion. I hope that you don’t min...Thanks Jonathan and Ion. I hope that you don’t mind a combined reply.<br />For us, both sets played well and gave similar outcomes to one another and to history. <br />I may have given a bit of a false impression of version 1 in my precis. Coming in late in the piece, I took over to see how whether the Austrians could get away reasonably unharmed. With the Prussians closing in, I turned some units around to fight a rearguard action—perhaps more than Julian would have done? Anyway, they came ‘second’ too often which lead to an army withdrawal test, which we took as it gave a convenient ending to the game so that we could move to version 2!<br />An army withdrawal test is included in both sets of rules. For Zimmermann this is optional and may be done at 1/4, 1/3 and/or 1/2 (all or some as necessary depending on the outcome, naturally, and adjusted for a scenario). I can’t specifically recall if it is optional or set part of Age of Reason. Such tests are a good mechanism to prevent wargamers from always fighting to the death, or talking-up their position if time runs out. We could have ignored it in version 1, but the Austrians were basically ‘done’ so it gave an objective way of ‘calling’ the game so we could move on to version 2!<br />Even though I was only there for part of version 1, we’ve used Age of Reason a couple of times previously and from Mark’s comments to me, our (his and my) opinion of them is similar. They are a good set, but everything is just that bit more (unnecessarily in our view) difficult and slow to do due to scale of the rules and long list of (mainly unnecessary) modifiers. The elegance of Zimmermann is his inclusion of what is of key importance, so that you have appropriate mechanisms with a good ‘feel’ to the rules and a good game to boot. This seems to work for a smaller, but tricky action such as this one up to Leuthen or Mollwitz.<br />We used Age of Reason v2. Julian has v3 and he and Mark are looking them over. They are planning a game of an historical War of Spanish Succession battle (can’t remember the one) using them in the near future.James Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897755636246185173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-60360616103547220332017-06-27T07:26:57.781+08:002017-06-27T07:26:57.781+08:00To my mind, it has always been my test of a rule s...To my mind, it has always been my test of a rule set; under it, can one conduct a fighting withdrawal? How about a fighting withdrawal through a defile? In these games, there might be some doubt about the first rule set, the situation taken completely out of the player's hands with the loss of army morale.<br /><br />Of course, that isn't conclusive. It might simply mean that one needs to practise these types of operations to get the timings right. Having 'fought' a few fighting withdrawals on the table-top, I have found that it is all too easy to get your timing wrong, and a great deal depends on luck. As Napoleon discovered, having a sapper junior officer blow a bridge prematurely can not only ruin your day, it can ruin your army.<br /><br />Great to see those Airfix 'Washington's Army' figures doing battle! Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493556920707083758.post-7087755413067913602017-06-26T21:29:13.302+08:002017-06-26T21:29:13.302+08:00I enjoy ruleset comparisons using the same scenari...I enjoy ruleset comparisons using the same scenario. In the pair od trials, which ruleset provided the most interesting/believable/satisfying outcome?Jonathan Freitaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07862373894196924886noreply@blogger.com