What's on your table right now?

[BanzaiCat]

And leave the cat

So to speak

[Cyrano]

@B_C 

@OT:  Years ago, I was compelled to attend a smoking cessation class by my employer (caught me with my occasional cigar).  The nice young lady leading the event was in front of an awfully tough crowd that included, I later discovered, the entire company from one of our fire houses.  At one point in the session, she asked, in her ever-helpful and cheery way, "so, why DO you all smoke?"

A chiselled, grey veteran who I later found out to be a fire captain raised his hand and said, "saving lives, ma'am".

"How so," she replied.

"Well, every time I think to choke a bastard to death, I smoke a cigarette instead.  Twenty to a pack means 20 lives saved."

I cannot improve on his response.

[Bison]

I like the story Cyrano.

[Nefaro]

And leave the cat

It was the only one who didn't really care what you did as long as you fed it on time..

[GJK]

I gotta read the bloody rules, though, otherwise what's the point of a bunch of automated tables?

Carrier has a very detailed (and long) sequence of play that covers every possible step (with rules references).  You can almost just go through it step by step and referring to the rules for each step to learn the game.  The online tables will help you resolve the actions in those steps.


My ebook of the rules:

[BanzaiCat]

Is the ebook in the Vassal module?

[GJK]

Is the ebook in the Vassal module?

No, it's something that I made to help learn the game.  Ping me and I can give you a link to download it.

[Bison]

GJK has a lot of good stuff to share.  I've gotten some ASL stuff from him in the past.

[Bison]

Heading out the FLGS to play my first game of Eclipse.  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse

I've wanted to try for quite some time, but the player count and game length have always been a deterrent.  Not today.  I'm hunkering down for a good 4-5 hours to play the game.

[bayonetbrant]

Cool!  Take pix and let us know how it goes :)

[Bison]

Will do boss.

[mirth]

Pic from my local group's Friday night game. We were using the Baroque rules based on the Impetus system - http://www.dadiepiombo.it/english-baroque.html



Those are two units of Reiters, under my command,  charging into a unit of Imperial Lancers (we're fighting at a ford not in the river ;) ). The Lancers had previously pushed across the river, but went disordered on a bad die roll. That stopped them within range of my Reiters which charged, pushed them back to the ford and then followed up to hit them again at the ford. The Lancers were close to breaking at that point and withdrew. I was lucky and able to pull the Reiters back with minimal casualties from the infantry on the flanks.

[bayonetbrant]

Hey now - you're going to make Nevermore jealous!

[mirth]

I can't take any credit for the figs or terrain. I just pushed the minis and nitpicked the rules.

[BanzaiCat]

Pic from my local group's Friday night game. We were using the Baroque rules based on the Impetus system - http://www.dadiepiombo.it/english-baroque.html

What is it they say about those rules...?

If they're not Baroque, don't fix 'em!