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June 19, 2019 at 2:48 pm #1406489

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All of this talk of rule sets really makes me want to get back into wargaming this period.

@oriskany I have the first edition rulebook and your assessment isn’t wrong. I hold Black Powder responsible for killing Napoleonics, ACW, and the Franco Prussian war in my group. We were excited to do Black Powder in those eras. Our first game was a couple of French brigades with some cavalry and artillery in support facing off against a similar Prussian force in 1815. We quit and haven’t played since when a single small Prussian Hussar unit made a death ride all the way across the map in the open in one turn, survived and then drove off an artillery battery.