Hello Bob You are right when you say that early napoleonic period was different from the end at Waterloo. In some ways it s another way of fighting a battle. At Austerlitz cavalry was in masse facing enemy cavalry. Infantry faced infantry. Waterloo is a particular battle, very chaotic with some guer...

Hello Barry This forum makes rules living. Some wants to get rules precisions or explanations, other wants to know about AAR or new scenarios, discuss about historical battle events, and some wants to share their point of view and propose some house rules. In the napoleonic miniatures market i was s...

Hello David I played RTE many times with a friend, missing plenty of rules points. Progressively i learn the rules, and i can t say i master them 100% today. But perhaps near 95% about cavalry subject. Pull up, attempt to Rein in from a charge, or to cease pursuit, break off, all these points were p...

Ok Ray, don t be upset. I m working on a house rules project, keeping the structure of RTE. I ll send it on this forum, everybody interested will have a look and give their point of view if they want, and keep playing RTE in the book of course. First i read again the RTE rules, P 38, ADVANCE ORDERS ...

Hello Ray You say "I think the best thing to do is keep your cavalry away from infantry squares and let your artillery deal with them. " Yes, that s wisdom, but when you charge an infantry not in square, it can suddenly form square. So wisdom would be to never charge cavalry. The fact is that there ...

Thank you for your reply, Barry. I understood some weeks ago your point of view, "losses" are an abstraction way of simulating wearing down cavalry, not pure melee effects. But, in game terms, it leads to non historical playing. For exemple, try to simulate 4 bras battle, Pire french cavalry divisio...

Hello Cavalry charging infantry in square, never, hardly ever, contact the infantry. It happenend at Garcia Hernandez in 1812 by chance because a wounded horse from KGL heavy dragoons was shot just a few spaces from the square and fell on it, opening a breach where other dragoons entered inside the ...

Thanks for your reply William Of course a lost battle is a lost one, you are right about the higher french officers, good ones were gone, Ney was just a good front line fighter. I wanted to say that the french military machine with Napoleon, Huge artillery, specialist cavalry (lancers and Cuirrassie...

Good evening William You are true, French columns go fast to close with the enemy, provoque its retreat, if not, try to deploy in line. But seeing british infantry suddenly too close, french columns are caught in defensive fire, unable to deploy in line because when rear ranks try to deploy they tak...

William I agree with what you said about British fire. They fired low, waited until Point blank range, fired together in diciplinated volley fire and fired one more shot per minute than other nationalities (apart imperial guard perhaps). So Rules british fire treatment looks like an understatement. ...

Yes William A cav unit can advance closer towards an enemy it can t see. And stop when it see it, if this enemy is closer than the charge distance. The enemy infantry risks to be too close of the cavalry and be unable to form in square suddenly if charged, as you said. The solution for the infantry ...

William I was joking about an anglo saxon bias, you are true later periods are more balanced. I am quite ignorant of the very early periods. The linear Frederick doctrinal system collided with the revolutionnary then napoleonic systems. Beautiful uniforms, wich became less fancy later. But when you ...

I would have voted (i don t know where voting is possible) for Peninsular war and 100 days. i have the armies for these periods. i live near Spain, and i have been to Bussaco and Fuentes de Onoro battle fields. Peninsular war is fascinating, very different from the other napoleonics campaigns. Water...

Hello Barry I woud like to ask you a question: Is The charge distance a "mouvement" potential influenced by terrain or is it a pure fixed distance ? The rules say a unit must stop when it is at "charge distance" , for exemple a french chasseur à cheval cavalry regiment in column of squadrons moves a...

Hello Obrien David Waterloo is unusual for british infantry,which, because of cavalry threat, was never in line but in double line (so with half firepower) or in square, or in column of companies to change easily of formation. In Spain, British infantry was in line, most of the time. A 500 men batal...