Top 3 deadliest units in Black Powder

In this video we look at the three units best suited to bring the pain on the Napoleonic Black Powder battlefield! What are your top picks? Any units that always perform for you?
The Lifeguards at the end aren't mine, they are painted by the incredibly talented Tobias Kirchner.
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[@karlvonwestphalen3092]

Huh ... recently started Austrians just because I like the "look" without really looking up any of the rules - and lo and behold, their "basic" infantry units are actually good. :D

[@Glimt182]

Excellent content as always. Definitely would like to see this conversion video, can’t wait for that!

[@pbloomy9792]

Nice assessments. The most deadly unit I’ve used was the British Guard infantry. They were large units and they were like a rock. Column after column smashed against them and they barely moved!

[@Robin-fp6sx]

Yay! lanciers! Oh...perhaps do a Colbert-Chabanais special some day. (and maybe a Marbot special also).

[@vincentlavery3520]

Great upload by the way.

[@BootsontheTable]

Interesting, we usually play scenarios so never really thought of it this way. Luckily I have a box of Household cavalry waiting to be painted, so it might just have jumped up the pile a little bit now ;)

[@pancakepayneypayne6499]

Really enjoyed that.. cheers

[@OW...]

Nice one team..

[@jamesbarbour327]

I think Guard foot artillery with Napoleon's "pretty daughters" would be a VERY deadly unit.

[@LittleLouieLagazza]

Especially in compressed frontage formation

[@historypunkwargames4760]

Спасибо отец! 👍✌️

[@leonleese4919]

Quality counts 😉

[@allenatkins2263]

"Bring up the crazy mofos!'

[@mikoajbienkowski2305]

Wait, how could you not include Grenadiers a Cheval of the imperal guard from Clash of Eagles? You can make them large so you have TWELVE attack dice, heavy cavalry D3, Reliable and they are only cavalry in the game that has Elite 4+ (only cavalry in the game having elite at all) making them extremely reliable. Sure, british guard dragoons can get 8 hits if they are lucky on the charge. Guard grenadiers get that statistically. It is really weird that you did not include them here

[@henrikluffe3089]

where do you get elite 4+ from?

[@NapoleonicWargaming]

It's a great shout! So if you have them as number 1 (and you've put forward a good case for them being!) What would be your 2 and 3?

[@mikoajbienkowski2305]

@@henrikluffe3089 From the clash of eagles book

[@mikoajbienkowski2305]

@@NapoleonicWargaming Thats a harder question, I think i would put british guard infantry on second place. It's a very solid infantry (and indistinguishable from line infantry by uniform) with great nation rules. This made them crush my french columns more than one. On the third place i would put cuirassiers of any kind. People love to field them in large numbers and if they get to any infantry from the side its dead. Honorable mention to unit od dice makers, for all those 1s i rolled on morale save

[@henrikluffe3089]

@@mikoajbienkowski2305 In my book they dont have elite 4+, is that a printing error in my book or is there a rule I just dont get?

[@grandadsartspace5805]

Maybe I should change from Peninsular to Waterloo now I have seen this cavalry

[@NapoleonicWargaming]

Dragoons can do similar in the Peninsular, plus they don't have to fight cuirassiers there!

[@imrahilvondolamroth4205]

@@NapoleonicWargaming 13e cuirassiers?

[@vincentlavery3520]

Irish regiments?

[@goldcase9071]

where in the book do you find this?

[@NapoleonicWargaming]

I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific! 🤣

[@jd.3493]

They don’t seem so rare if every household has them like their name suggests... 🤣

[@donjardine8734]

No! No! No! The Blues and Royals is a, relatively, new amalgamation. They were at this time the Horse Guards. The blue uniform comes from the original regiment, the Earl of Oxford’s Blues. Calling them the Blues and Royals would be the same as me calling your beloved ‘Skins’ the 5th Royal Inniskillen Dragoon Guards. As the joke goes it’s a good job they didn’t amalgámate with the 4th Dragoon Guards

[@NapoleonicWargaming]

Well, everyday is a school day!