On the day after Christmas, we had nine players available for our horse-and-musket game, so a large game was required. We created a scenario for the Battle of Hohenlinden, which fit the…
Tag: Napoleonics
The Wargaming Company – ESR 10mm Napoleonic Figures
Readers of this blog will know that one of my favorite sets of Napoleonic rules is “Et Sans Resultat” (ESR), published by The Wargaming Company. The company is now starting to produce a comprehensive…
BBB – Battle of La Rothiere, France 1814
The Battle of La Rothiere, fought on 1 February 1814, was the sequel to the Battle of Brienne, which was fought on 29 January (see our previous report). After the inconclusive battle…
BBB – Battle of Brienne, January 1814
For games in the Napoleonic era, our group has been using two sets of rules — Et Sans Resultat (ESR) and Bloody Big Battles (BBB). Several of our most recent games had been run using the…
ESR – Battle of Brienne, January 1814 (Part 2)
We continued playing the Battle of Brienne (France 1814) using the “Et Sans Resultat” rules and scenario. See our earlier report for details on the first part of this game. When we finished the…
ESR – Battle of Brienne, January 1814 (Part 1).
We played the Battle of Brienne (29 January 1814) using the Napoleonic rules, Et Sans Resultat (ESR)Version 3. The game required two sessions to complete; this report is Part 1. Our scenario was drawn…
Gajo Cossacks in 15mm
I have slowly been going though my miniature collection to streamline my storage. I am also trying to fill in holes in each collection and doing minor corrections to paint jobs where…
ESR – Battle of Laichling, April 1809
We played our third game of Et Sans Resultant Version 3 (ESR). The scenario was The Battle of Laichling (21 April 1809), which we took from the ESR Version 2 Campaign Guide titled, “The First…
ESR – Battle of Gorodechno, August 1812.
We played our second game of Et Sans Resultant (ESR) using the new rules. We played the “Gorodechno” scenario from the ESR book “Master of the World — 1812 in Russia” which…
Et Sans Resultant v3 – First Game, Battle of Swolna.
We played our first game using the newest version of the Et Sans Resultat (ESR) rules. For our first game, we chose the “Swolna” scenario from the ESR Campaign Guide, Master of the World, which…