Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Does the club have a preferred platform? I personally love the battleground series and I seem to see lots of members are playing the John Tiller's ones.

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Sous-Lieutenant Drew Brady
1ère Compagnie du 7ème Régiment d'Artillerie à Pied,
Artillerie Divisionnaire, 1ère Division, 5ème Corps d'Armée

The Napoleonic Battles series is the main pillar of the club. Looking at the DOR statistics the first 10 most played games are all from this series.

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Welcome to the club, Drew! As one of the founding members I hope you enjoy all that the club provides for the members. If you are new to the games you will be in for a steep learning curve for a while. This series is a notch up the ladder in difficulty from the WDS/JTS ACW series and the cavalry charges will drive you wild if you are not careful.

Many of us "Cut our teeth" on the old Talonsoft Battleground (BG) series ... I loved Napoleon in Russia (NIR) the most. Played it a lot.

That series left a lot to be desired so eventually several of us teamed up with John Tiller to produce more games of the Napoleonic Wars in the newer series (Napoleonic Battles - NB) and its been going strong since Campaign Eckmuhl debuted in 2000.

Some things I miss from the Talonsoft BG series:

1. The ability to square before the charge during the Defense Phase

2. The counter charge ability that was added in via later patches to the BG series.

I dont miss that skirmishers could block your path and not be pushed out of the way .... gamey players would use that a lot in those days.

With the Single Phase version of the NB series you attack them and then continue to move through that hex you have taken. Only in a chateau will a skirmisher hold you up ... which is correct.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

MDF, VP4LC, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.07)

In case recommendations are needed, you can't do much wrong with Leipzig.

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Great input from Bill & I second Christian's recommendation!

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support