Comstars Historical Wargames
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Covers articles about historical wargaming and Field of Glory Napoleonic and Oathmark battles of a lost age.
Comstars Historical Wargames
6d ago
I could only play 2 games for the first day (children birthday parties take precedence these days) and I got two draws, with both a loss on points.
At the end of the first day I was placed 7th, or 4th last.
The first battle I forgot the classic Napoleonic strategy: use combined arms. Something that is...hard with a British army that insists on not having mixed divisions. I placed my elite British division to outflank the enemy army, while moving the Portuguese and Cavalry divisions to fix his line in place. The Spanish sat back and defended the LOC.
And this plan lasted right up to ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
1w ago
If I ever get around to making video battle reports, I need to look at using Music for Video Library. I will need to become a patreon too to get protection to use them on YouTube ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
2w ago
In a few weeks the League of Ancients will have a Glory is Fleeting tournament, Below is my list ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
3M ago
The Time Napoleon Almost Exploded on Christmas
Ridley Scott should have made THIS movie!
A good graphic of how the French army worked.
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Comstars Historical Wargames
4M ago
So I saw a comedy called Napoleon. Seriously, there are many many scenes that end like they are missing a laugh track. The final shot of him in a chair needs a looney tunes gag sound like its Wile E Coyote hitting the dirt.
And they change so many little things like adding enough entrenchments at Waterloo to make you think it's WW2, including a scoped sniper rifle with a 1000 yard range. It didn't add anything! The British march OUT of them for a cavalry charge! There's no urgency or tension about any of the battle scenes either.
Meanwhile the entire first half of the movie is spending all i ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
4M ago
Only took 4 days to arrive ordered last week from amazon.com.au for less than $50.
Bigger pages too, A4 so easier to read ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
4M ago
Can you tell us a bit more about it? What's interesting about it?
It's a game to play table top miniature battles set in the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. What more can you want??
I know, I know, there's 100's of rules that do the same thing out there. Here's why I've been playing it:
- It's played a lot in AU and NZ (the writers come from there) at clubs. Rule #1 of wargaming - Play the game someone else locally plays to actually get a game of it.
- The rules and army lists are free in PDF, or you can buy it from Amazon.
- It's played at the brigade/division level. Each player ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
4M ago
Combined Army list and rules: Glory is Fleeting: Wargames Rules and Army Lists for the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Rules only
Army lists only
All on Amazon.com.au. Amazon.com lists as out of stock at this time.
Both the rules and army lists are in PDF format on the Glory is Fleeting Facebook group
And I get a small mention in the acknowledgment as a thank you! Beats being in the back of a kickstarter pledge list ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
6M ago
For Glory is Fleeting, I understand the rules are pretty much done, but I was awake all night overt thinking this and found my biggest issues:
Flank March is too powerful. This is going to be not liked much because everyone wants to take it and everyone needs to to block it. So it's very popular. It's too good. Because it allows the user of it to force their mission on everyone else.
And Prepared Attack is meaningless if you don't have 2 particular units which a lot of armies will lack one or the other (or both).
How do I would I fix flank attacks? Simple idea- force movement restriction on ..read more
Comstars Historical Wargames
6M ago
The last time I went this bad was back in the '90's at the GW Melbourne Grand Tournament where I lost all 4 games and came last out of 50 people. I don't think I ever played a game of 40K again after that.
Complete rout of the army vs 1 mildly inconvenienced enemy unit, both times.
For my future reference: things I learnt today:
1- Never, ever, use a loan army I have not seen or used before. I don't know how to use it, or how it works. It's not worth wasting my time vs someone whose been playing for decades who knows their army back and forwards. I would be willing to play ..read more