Dave,
thanks very much re: rules comments. I reached for General de Brigade when I got home just to see if all of the MODS we we're introducing to my rules were starting to make it similar(in complexity terms) to GdB. I am pleased to say that even with all of our most recent amendements we still are no where near it
What we have achieved with these big games is a level of momentum which I think we'll find it hard to beat. I was trying to calculate the number of turns we managed. Did we start at 0700 hours game time?, three turns per game hour until about 1400 when we changed to 30 minute turns which we continued with till 1700 or 1730?
20minute turns(3 x 7 hours) = 21
30 minute turns(2 x 3 hours) = 6
Did we really managed 27 turns on that table
That is amazing.
Dale gave up his career as Gallery Slave Over-seer to Umpire!!!! He was getting to you a couple of times with his Hurry up Harry approach
particularly rich because it was your birthday
Anyway, the dialogue post match has also been useful. Maybe on the big games(as Peter said) we could cut out some of the early events and get the troops on the table the night before.. if that had happened...
1. The Garde would have swept the Allies remaining divisions from the ridge.
2. You could have turned round and thumped the Prussians
3. I could have secured Plancenoit
4. We'd have offered terms to the British Guards Brigade
And still had time to eat a light supper in a cafe and then on to the theatre somewhere in central Bruxelles!!