Have to check with designer on that one!

IMO it's definitely doable. There's always something lost in operational naval games when you know more than you should, but Mark offers some Solo methods for playing in 35.0 of the rule set. (And it's easy for me to "forget" the other side's intentions when I switch sides.) Once you get to Strategic scenario level, the question is not so much knowing what the other side is doing, but simply managing all the stuff you have to do on each side.

Yup, didn’t catch that island marked Hellas-would have changed strategy. Another reason to revisit this!

I don’t think you’ll regret it!

N o matter which rule set you do--it's very accessible.

Yes, I’m in the P500 for Thunderbolt. Hoping it’s cleaned up when they publish that.

Well.the collection has slimmed down quite a bit since this video was posted. I had Quatre Batailles but didn't stcik with it.

Yes-I found out the hard way that having it guarding the passages as a threat is actually more important than using it. The Macedonian’s got desperate at the end (and lucky) when they sailed by.

Maybe they know, but the guy running their turns doesn’t! 😆

Thanks--you caught me! I had moved some counters off the board to experiment with tactical combat and forgot to put him back--will be corrected!

Yeah, working on it--i recorded some action on the tactical map, but not sure if I'll post that since I got the game more for the strategic level ancients.

Haha-me too! I might post some tactical first-we’ll see.

Indeed they are, thanks for the game Fabrizio!

True.

Yes, it's a good deal. I had sold mine before the new one was released. The new version does a good job of clearly setting out the different play levels (with separate books) but the older one is certainly playable as is.

Rats! Missed that...

You're welcome!

Yeah, that was a biggie for me--my mind was thinking that you just have to worry about getting that road movement (1/2 MP) rate and wasn't thinking about trestles. So even if you have to keep your distance between Road March units, it's much quicker to go into RM even in trails when there are a lot of streams.

Yes, I understand that, but if you play a card (not tactics card) during card phase, do you HAVE to use the event if possible? And if that’s so, then you will often gain negative VPs. I often find myself playing the least costly one-because there aren’t any desirable choices.

Because in 24.35 it says "when you play a card, you (or your opponent) have to execute the text instruction at the appropriate phase during the current or next player turn." So sometimes your stuck with playing something that could be appropriate but not necessarily useful.

⁠@@thegeneralsretreat1645Yes.. I’m certainly no expert at playing with the cards, so I had to look up the rules (24.0)… 24.6 says that for Game Cards and Status Cards “if the action prescribed can be performed, then it must be performed during the appropriate Phase, on the turn the card is played”. Tactic cards - as you said earlier - may be played for the MP’s only (24.81). There seem to be no specifications for Arrival Cards, or for March cards, though…

@@michaeldemeirleir I found this on one of the threads for La Patrie en Danger--with an answer by Kevin Zucker: boardgamegeek.com/thread/1442338/article/20457212#20457212

@@michaeldemeirleir so it appears that you could play a card and then if the activity on a card isn't used, per se, it doesn't count for VPs.

True-it was a little disconcerting that the main Coalition force had to basically start from scratch but as you’ll see later, the French got a little bit too bold and got their nose bloodied when that force showed up!

The units out of range of commanders have to roll for initiative. So it’s hit or miss that they will move each turn until they get closer.

Agreed! So easy to get started (if you have the setup charts!) and then get through each turn.

One thing good about this series is you got to the website, they have the setup sheets with the counter and hex to download and print out, makes it easy@@thegeneralsretreat1645

Thanks for catching these little details I missed--it helps when I pull the game out again. So many subtle little things that are impoortant!

i have looked at those two but haven't pulled the trigger on purchasing. here is the best site to look at and downoad rules sets. Basic or full rules. www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/mst/games/lbn/lbn.html Scroll down to see "Refits For Existing Games"

Correct on both counts!

I agree, the order system in Stumptner is a pretty big layer to add. I did like the chit pull idea with a chance to have two combined corps get a chance to go together, but there are only a couple of games where you can get the chits for--otherwise you have to make your own. (Or possibly use the casualty force markers) I'm actually having fun with the small 1st battle of Montenotte in the Piedmont volume. Lots of back and forth and maneuvering.

@@thegeneralsretreat1645 Yes, I also used the OSG morale markers (more than duplicated with both games) as game sequence chits. But it doesn't convince me much. There are very small units, especially British-Dutch, Spanish... which are basically divisions. There is very little capacity if you want to do something together with several divisions and in the end there are more activations but less powerful. I no longer used chit activation. I started to think about mixed activations, units at a certain distance from an active formation can activate and act together with the formation that has been activated... but it is complicated to then put markers of activated units when their own formation activation chit comes out . In the end, I use OSG activations. In general I don't like the issue of orders in these Napoleonic games. In the "Wise Bayonets" and "Moravian Sun" series (I don't have the third one (by Acies Edizioni)) they also have an elegant system of orders and markers, less restrictive. But they seem unplayable to me in solo and a little unrealistic too. By the way. I made my own strength markers for the Stumptner system... but the BCS (MMP) ones work very well :)

Hmm, I’ll have to take a look at the Acies games