Rules Crimea 28mm

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Rules Crimea 28mm

Post by TIMUR57 » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:27 pm

Hi Friends,
it's impossible no consider to paint the new fantastic Crimean range of GWM ....! :lol:
So, please, have you any idea about a set of rules for this period useful for a little game with 4 or5 units each part (... NO CASUALTIES REMOVAL and multiple figs. stand)?
I think units of 18/24 figs.

Thanks for help and best regards from Italy !!!

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Post by dashing blade » Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:09 pm

Your right, very hard to resist! :D
You could use the Black powder rules,although not universally popular on this forum,with a little tweak.
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Post by obriendavid » Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:06 am

dashing blade wrote:Your right, very hard to resist! :D
You could use the Black powder rules,although not universally popular on this forum
Apart from me I've not really noticed anyone else knocking Black Powder on this forum. you could just wait a little and get Barry's ammendments of R2E for the Crimean period.
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Post by barr7430 » Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:47 pm

Actually for a small game: March of Eagles would be fun
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Post by CoffinDodger » Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:47 pm

You could almost use RtE per se.

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Post by thinredline » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:05 pm

Almost "per se" but the main difference in the intervening 40 years from Waterloo was the advances made in weapons and ammunition. :)

The Minie and latterly (during the campaign - Enfield) were available to the Brits and French from the outset with some exceptions. The Russians only had 4% of their forces armed with Belgian Manufactured Minie Rifles. if these had been allocated to their troops in the Crimea, I would be surprised. Effectively, the allies had a superior fire rate, with better accuracy, and longer effective ranges. Then again Russian attack columns were pretty dense targets :!:
I am sure Barry will be addressing this "minor" point in his PDF / supplement :wink:

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Post by barr7430 » Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:09 pm

Bob, a really, really, really simple amendment to R2E to reflect rifling accuracy is as follows:

Rifled artillery - keep ranges the same and give rifled guns 1 extra shooting dice per gun to reflect the increased accuracy effect.

There is already rifled musket ranges in the rules. I honestly cannot see any huge further changes because artillery ranges are alrleady significant.. increasing a 12pdr to 110 inches is going to help no one except those hundreds of thousands of wargamers who have 13 feet long tables :wink:

I have not gotten to the 'official' mods publishing yet but haver done a lot of tinkering for Crimea and ACW. I think the above takes care of one of the few MAJOR differences
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Post by Anonymous » Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:40 pm

barr7430 wrote:.. increasing a 12pdr to 110 inches is going to help no one except those hundreds of thousands of wargamers who have 13 feet long tables :wink:
Hear, Hear.... I only have a 6' x 15' table if I place my parrots cage into the bedroom :twisted:
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Post by CoffinDodger » Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:30 pm

MarechalNey wrote:Hear, Hear.... I only have a 6' x 15' table if I place my parrots cage into the bedroom :twisted:
Same here... If I moved Norma out of the bedroom. :twisted:

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