Blending the old and the new

Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Sylvania, OHIO

Bring out your tired and dusty old rules and submit your favorite parts so we can glean the best of the old for our efforts with FOW Napoleonics.

I liked the rating value concept of the old Empire 2nd edition rules (1977) ranging from untrained militia to guard. The old matrix of crossindexing value vs value to get the combat % to win melee was a timesaver.

Using 2 d10 to give up to 100% chances for whatever you needed to roll. Cool

I still remember having my French Old Guard fail 2 die tests at 4% or less to fail. Mad

Steve

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:09 am

Napoleons battles

Messengers to relay orders they were always fun. Especially if they didnt make it in time !

Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 9

TB,
While I see your angle in the start of this thread, I would like to see what the thoughts are on keeping a few of the rules used in FoW.

I still would like to keep a simpler ranking system such as the one used in FoW.

Conscript - Trained - Veteran and maybe and additional 'Elite' ranking... ???

While I dont quite know how to clearly assign values, I would like to see what the feedback is from those of you who read this.

Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 174

My favorite part of Empire V is the "telescoping" scale between Tactical and Grand Tactical.

There are, I'm sure, lots of great parts of different wargaming systems. Unfortunately, none of them seem to provide to Napoleonics what Flames of War brings to the Napoleonic genre; so I'm excited about the idea of something uniquely Flames of War to be applied to that time period. Smile

I would like to see all troops rated along the Fearless/Confident/Reluctant and Veteran/Trained/Conscript lines. I think anything that needs to be illustrated beyond that realm can be done so with special rules (on a need basis as opposed to a want basis).

Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Oz

I agree with the troop rating Dillingham regards mic

Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Oslo, Norway

Seconded! (or should it be "thirded") Confused

Lets keep it simple and as close to FOW as possible.

Jonas