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by Contrarius
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: French Divisional Support options in GDA2
Replies: 6
Views: 324

Re: French Divisional Support options in GDA2

Dave, Thanks for the response. Yes, it certainly helps to know what the intention was! The extra skirmishers are simply detachments of skirmishers available to the player to deploy as he sees fit, nothing more than that. OK. I figured the bonus skirmishers must be a way of balancing what appears to ...
by Contrarius
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:12 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: Finished reading the rules. Bravo!
Replies: 13
Views: 542

Re: Finished reading the rules. Bravo!

In particular the skirmishing is the best adaption out there, and I so really like the army composition rules provided. The regimental and Divisional supports are very interesting and the whole thing manages to avoid points! Yes, skirmishers were a key part of GDA1, and now they’re an even more cru...
by Contrarius
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: Finished reading the rules. Bravo!
Replies: 13
Views: 542

Re: Finished reading the rules. Bravo!

It seems to me that attackers receive a bit of a boost with the ability to effectively move and fire and with the simplified charge rules. Yes, GDA2 has certainly shifted the balance in favour of the attacker: undoubtedly a good thing for gameplay. In most rule sets advancing infantry usually gets ...
by Contrarius
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: French Divisional Support options in GDA2
Replies: 6
Views: 324

Re: French Divisional Support options in GDA2

Please look at the French Army Training Characteristics on page 98, all French Veteran Line battalions can skirmish and operate as an independent skirmish line. As a result, both battalions are indeed trained as Light Infantry and can be used as such. Dave, (Thanks for the wonderful new edition of ...
by Contrarius
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: GDA2 Points values? (LoL)
Replies: 0
Views: 122

GDA2 Points values? (LoL)

I realise that points lists are probably anathema to Dave & Chris :D :D :D , but some of us have grown up with them, enjoy fiddling with numbers, and find it therapeutic to imagine that we can field two opposing armies that are vaguely balanced. Others of us have a lot(!) of Imperial Guard caval...
by Contrarius
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: French Divisional Support options in GDA2
Replies: 6
Views: 324

Re: French Divisional Support options in GDA2

Aha! (He says in an Alan Partridge voice.) Never suspected that hiding behind those ‘Elite Battalions’ would be converged battalions of grenadiers and voltigeurs. (I’m a bit slow sometimes.) Don’t know my Napoleonic unit history too well either, but I notice that such converged battalions disappeare...
by Contrarius
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:54 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: French Divisional Support options in GDA2
Replies: 6
Views: 324

French Divisional Support options in GDA2

On p102, one of the Divisional Support Options for the French is the following: 8th Bde — Elite Bttns/Young Guard 1x Line Bttn (Veteran) 1x Light Bttn (Grenadier) 3x Additional Skirmish Base Detachments What exactly do these represent in the real world? I’m assuming (for the early period) one bttn e...
by Contrarius
Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: Sharp Practice
Topic: Nassau Regt (grenadiers), Chevauxlegers and Artillery
Replies: 5
Views: 221

Re: Nassau Regt (grenadiers), Chevauxlegers and Artillery

Can anyone direct me to, or failing that, advise on, the appropriate stats for these units? There are SP2 stats for Nassau troops in 1815 in Nick Skinner’s article in Lard Mag 2018. However, the Nassau Grenadiers seem a little underrated (and cheap at 5 pts per group). They could probably do with a...
by Contrarius
Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: Total newbie question re cavalry 'units
Replies: 4
Views: 595

Re: Total newbie question re cavalry 'units

In smaller actions squadrons were indeed used independently as tactical units, but I believe the assumption in GdA is that in larger battles cavalry was used in entire regiments. The exception, as mentioned by @nikjen66, is very large regiments, which might well be split up into two or more tactical...
by Contrarius
Fri Nov 24, 2023 5:49 am
Forum: General d'Armee
Topic: French Cuirassier brigades in 1812 - Russia.
Replies: 8
Views: 2087

Re: French Cuirassier brigades in 1812 - Russia.

In the Hundred Days campaign you have a similar problem with the Brunswick cavalry, which consisted of a single large hussar regiment (730 men in 4 squadrons) and a single squadron of uhlans (250 strong). One solution is to field this as two separate “Standard” units of hussars (each of 2 squadrons)...