General de Brigade

[drferling]

Hello everyone. I have been lurking for a while and enjoying all of the wonderful pictures in the gallery and the innumerable posts on basing.

I have 6 boxes of Perry French on the way and plan to ad Perry British for doing Peninsular Battles. I know that the French uniforms are not right for early Peninsular, but the figures are too beautiful not to use.

RAMCSEARCH has posted some terrific ORBATs and I my initial goal is to be able to do the Battle on the Cao followed by a zoomed in fight at Fuentes de Onoro.

My questions is can I go smaller that Battle on the Cao? These would not need to be historical scenarios, just reasons to get smaller numbers of painted figures on the table. At what point does GdB "break"?

Jay

[RAMCSEARCH]

Thats was one if its initial attractions for me. You can fight one brigade against another, as you build up your forces. It's a great way to learn the rules at the same time as you get light relief from painting. We've had many a happy lunchtime 'bash' with just two french battalions against two smaller british battalions in line. Admittedly they can be over rather quickly but then you just swap sides and refight try something different for your cunning plan ! Attack with the French deployed in a line, skirmish for three or four turns first on engage orders , before the final assault order is given. Get the British Line onto assault orders after the initial volley , or try and engage in a prolonged toe to toe firefight and see whose brigade morale breaks first ! etc

Then add some allies, then add some guns. Leave the cavalry until last.

Many happy years of gaming.
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Simon W

[rabbit]

One brigade against another can give you a game, I have had a number of games (mostly playtesting I admit) where a brigade of one or two units has played another. Add in a battery as an "artillery brigade" or a regiment of cavalry or even a couple of squadrons as a cavalry brigade and you can play.

while large complex games are fun and often how the period is remembered historically there were several skirmishes, you can re-create even as part(s) of a much larger battle, unless of course you wish to make it up as you go along, which is what many of us do to fit the armies we have.

rabbit

[Beresford]

Our first games were played with 3 bn of Prussian infantry, and 2 sqn of cavalry; against 3 French bn accompanied by an FAB. The objective was to seize a small village, or hill top.

It was a great introduction to the rules, and lots of fun.
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Cheers,
Beresford

[PrimusPilus]

Hi Guys,

I am new to GdB as well.

How long did you find these small games took?

It's a relief to know I can start playing at that level. I have only just started to collect my own figures.

What size table did you play on?

Happy Gaming,

Allan