Hosted a “Napoleonic Skirmish” game using my old collection of 40mm-ish Flintloque figures; fantasy figures of the Napoleonic era and loosely based upon -originally- the ‘Sharpe’ series of historical fiction novels by Bernard Cornwell. But now it has expanded to included toads, dogs, undead and other such creatures.
Years ago a local fellow was a major distributor who wanted some painted which I did in exchange for some of the figures. I went about divesting the Orcs (their British types) of the tusks, the Elves (their French “Franche”) of pointy ears, and gathered together different historical units of Bog Orcs (their Irish) for a collection geared for the Peninsular War in Spain.
I tried to keep it roughly historical; the uniforms are as close as the sculpting allows.
Units are all the same size, no national characteristics, all fight the same. And no 'morale'; all continue to move along happily until 'dead'. Simplicity reduces the necessity of the number of rules to remember quite a bit I found. Thus rules are homemade and simple…real simple…for a convention setting you understand.
The kinda rules that have 6’s and 1’s hit regardless. Why the “and 1s” you ask? I seem only to roll 1’s and I want to have hits too! Actions by the highest card played by each of the players. Combat conducted with the highest dice rolled. That sort of rules in play. A five year old should certainly understand it, so it hopefully should work well enough at the local wargames club for a pick-up game……
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| the version of "Sweet William" and the 60th |
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| the French Grenadiers |
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| The French howitzer. A 40mm Perry gun; which gives you some perspective on the scale of the figures. |
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| My whole collection, with each unit of 10 figures. British and Allies to the left, French and Allies in the middle, and Spanish to the right. |
photos from the game:
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| the version of the French Imperial Guard Fusiliers-Chasseurs (front) and Fusiliers-Grenadiers (rear) Were these in Spain? Don't know or care, but the uniforms matched the figures! |
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| Spanish Walloon Regiment (the uniforms seem near enough) |
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| British Light Infantry. Sculpts with short legs, big hands, big heads! Lots of character nonetheless.... |
The game itself? Well ....I was massacred. Enough said. :)