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So I am giving Samurai a break for a little bit but I am going to start Napoleonic's. I have just finished a test piece for my Warlord Chosen Men- British 95th Rifles and for those who may remember that is Sharpe's Company from the BBC's Sharpe's Rifles. My friend Jefferson and I are going to start playing Sharpe's Practice a skirmish level Napoleonic's game from Too Fat Lardies. So the great thing is you only 40 to 60 miniatures and I am fine with that. I really don't need an other great massive painting challenge like the Samurai. After all that I have painted for the Samurai I am still not half way finished with them.
As always Best of Luck on your future projects.

Looks great to me! Would like to see a group shot when they are all painted.

Very nice, better than mine (I chicken out of painting eyes for one thing), very nice models - those bases are probably ok for Sharp Practice skirmishers, but if you do rank and file troops go for something smaller (mine are on 1p coins).

Its a very fun little game though, just take you time to work through it, stuff makes sense once you read it a few times but only seems to click when you actually play it.

Oh yes, a brick of about 18 riflemen, with a couple of officers (one to command, one to rally shock - Sharp & Harper do well here) is evil to try and face, my French are used to having their legs handed to them by such blocks..

leopard wrote:
Very nice, better than mine (I chicken out of painting eyes for one thing), very nice models - those bases are probably ok for Sharp Practice skirmishers, but if you do rank and file troops go for something smaller (mine are on 1p coins).

Its a very fun little game though, just take you time to work through it, stuff makes sense once you read it a few times but only seems to click when you actually play it.

Oh yes, a brick of about 18 riflemen, with a couple of officers (one to command, one to rally shock - Sharp & Harper do well here) is evil to try and face, my French are used to having their legs handed to them by such blocks..

Thank you very much but I am only going to play skirmish level games with my Napoleonic's. My rank and file wargaming will be my Samurai.

Damn, he looks great!

I've been trying to find a good 1:1 scale skirmish game for Napoleonics. Sharpe's is fun but not quite 1:1 skirmish, two dozen figures per side kind of skirmish battles. Have you encountered any ruleset for that in your research? Barring any ideas, I was thinking of Legends of the Old West but would prefer something that is specific to Naps.

Chosen Men from Osprey will be out in December, but I do not know the scale. It is supposed to be Napoleanic Skirmish.

 Easy E wrote:
Chosen Men from Osprey will be out in December, but I do not know the scale. It is supposed to be Napoleanic Skirmish.

Unfortunately it is still a unit-scale game. "formations are broken down into small groups of up to a dozen men"

I will be playing Sharpe's Practice .

 judgedoug wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
Chosen Men from Osprey will be out in December, but I do not know the scale. It is supposed to be Napoleanic Skirmish.

Unfortunately it is still a unit-scale game. "formations are broken down into small groups of up to a dozen men"

I have been recommend "95th" by Two Hour Wargames, a scenario book for their Chain Reaction system. It is a 1:1 skirmish system for anyone else looking for individual model skirmish as I am. http://www.twohourwargames.com/95th.html