Napoleonic siege thing

[martin goddard]

NST can be a working title?  (NFT might get more internet searches?)
Some rough thoughts.

1. The game will allow RFCM players to play Napoleonics.
2. It will need about 50 figures per player.
3. It will be a short game so might be played 3 times in a gaming session.
4. It will start as a copy of pirate land raid and  morph from there. ie the two games will be significantly different when finished.
5. Pirate land raid uses 3 x 2 feet. Probably retain this size for ease/cost of scenery population and player reachability.


This proposed game is about the mayhem just after the breach is made.
The breachers will have one consistent quality of bases. Same as pirate land raids.

Defenders will have the two types, also similar to land raids. The two types will be troops under control and troops not under control.
There may be a role for civilians too. Obstruction (mob) and distraction (nuns)? No fighting role.

Scenery. A wall along one edge. 6 inch height  2 foot length.
May or may not have a breach in it. This would look nice.  Maybe card, from some other game or 3D?

The game  concentrates on the forces once in, not the act of making a breach and pouring through.  This  will allow attackers to arrive from any edge as per the pirate game. Although maybe they should arrive mostly from the wall end?

Figures. The defender will  need poorer quality bases (13?) good quality bases (6)  officers (5)??
The attackers will need poorer quality bases ( good quality bases(10) officers (7)
This can all be covered by a small range?
Smaller if only French and British engaged.

Maybe a defender gun?
Maybe a defender chevaux de frise or similar barricade?
Maybe a hero /exceptional officer.
Maybe fires.

Searches will still be the major victory criteria.

martin

[Sean Clark]

I'd say yes to all of the above.

It would a great modelling opportunity too.

Are you thinking of the Penninsular as a setting?

[Colonel Kilgore]

I've been thinking about this...

If searching/pillaging is the attacker's main objective, the attackers should be French. The Spanish/Portuguese are unlikely to pillage themselves, and the British are supposed to be their allies.

The higher quality attackers could be flank companies with big plumes (nice and colourful), with the less good being centre companies.

The poorer defenders could be Spanish, and British the better quality.

There might be a rule variant whereby the French are on the defensive, the Brits attacking (still no pillaging) but the Spanish townsfolk are rising against their oppressors to take the French in the derriere?

There, I think the rules are largely done. Over to you to fine-tune the details, Martin? 

Simon

[Sean Clark]

Of course, if its the British or Spanish attacking, you might call it something other than pillaging. Maybe finding a high ranking French official, Sharpe might be looking g for his Eagle, destroying French powder stores or French uniform supplies. Any plot from the dozens of Sharpe novels could be a scenario where the British might attack!

I would hope for a character pack of Chosen Men...but maybe Major Blunt, Sgt Hooper and Rifleman Barris to avoid litigation 😁

[Colonel Kilgore]

I like it, Sean.

Just as long as the French still get it in the backside when defending 😆

Simon

[Sean Clark]

That's hiw it works in Sharpe! I do like the thought of some Chasseur a Cheval in the game, as I always find them quite splendid when painted up.

[martin goddard]

Often the storming parties are units volunteered by their officers. ie My chaps.mon braves,  fancy being the first in (the troops might say "is he mad?" )

Pillaging was the main activity. Either directed at specific targets or generally indulged by the officers. The reward for the storming troops was wanton pillaging. A great motivator. It would be some time afterwards (end of the game) that the storming officers gained full control.


martin

[martin goddard]

Peninsular Napoleonic setting.

Maybe I will get a couple of packs out for the play testing.
It would be easier to have generic figures ,but players will expect the uniforms to be clearly  identifiable?

I am thinking that players could be allowed to use normal napoleonic bases from their existing collections?


martin

[Sean Clark]

So long as there's a pack of Chosen men with Blunt, Hooper and Rifleman Barris  I don't mind 

[martin goddard]

There will certainly be pack of 95th riflemen.  An opportunity not to be missed


martin