Role Playing in the age of Sharpe! And what I'm currently reading

Duty and Honour and Beat to Quarters are two role playing games that appear to be Sharpe the role playing game. There is also Dragon Brigade: Opening Salvo from Dragonlance fame Margaret Weis.

I shall have to acquire them.

I'm reading Wellington as Military Commander and I can see how you could make it a Fantasy RPG. 

Imperial Elves (as the French) invading the traditional and hidebound and stubborn Dwarfs (Spanish) Peninsula while a small Human contingent from Bad Cav Island come to help their ancient Half Elf allies (of Portugal). Ancient Fortresses and hidden dungeons fill a land full of lurking dangers and ancient secretes. Adventure...awaits!

Some wargame history

You and me are just passing through history.

This...this IS history. Came out in 1974-76. Picked up at the swap meet at House of War, which I was wish was 10 minutes closer to home so I could maybe play wargames there.  AFAIK they are the largest wargame store in Melbourne, with the largest Dragon too. 

Question I've always had - if Napoleonic was book 4, and WW2 book 15...what were the other Airfix ones???

I hope I can learn some better tactics from these!

And they were only $5 each!

It's very large and impressive

True Scale for 28mm I think!

GURPS: Age of Napoleon

 I had to get this second hand because it's long out of print.

I doubt I'll ever use it, and the history section of 20 years is barley covering anything. The Peninsula was a few paragraphs. Still, it gives an introduction to the topic at hand.

I have ordered some terrain, explosions, movement trays, markers and 2 books

Ordering some terrain, explosion markers and books

 

I have ordered some Flames of war pack 15mm blast marker - red and yellow ones from budsblastmarkers.com. There's a scene in Waterloo with a cavalry attack with smoke billowing behind them and it looks very cool. So I'm ordering some 15mmish scale markers to do the same thing for disordered (yellow) and wavering (red). Would be good for any wargame I think, designed as they are for tanks blowing up.

GURPS Age of Napoleon. No one seems to have written a novel of Wellington...IN SPACE. There's a bad series based on Hornblower, but not a land campaign. I'm surprised Games Workshop haven't done a 40k version.  Out of print and I'm getting a 2nd hand copy. Reviews say it's actually not very good, but I have a dozen GURPS source books to add to it already. 

Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon. Lots of people rave about this book, so it was either this or The Campaigns of Napoleon. 

Some plastic makers and steel movement trays from https://litko.net/. Showing fire, smoke, wavering/disrupted/routing and charging.

 

 

 

 

 

And some official Field of Glory terrain from https://miniatureworldmaker.com.au/. Hills, trees, enclosed fields, a village, impassible terrain and some other items.

What I'm reading: The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War by David Gates

A very illuminating book

 

Written in 1984, this book from Amazon The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War Paperback – Illustrated, November 1, 200 by David Gates (Author). 

I've just finished The Peninsula War, and Wellington in the Peninsula, which helped me in the Tournament last month.  However, they don't really talk about or touch on the SPANISH side of the war like this book does. I'm only a few chapters in and it's changed my opinion of getting a Spanish army in FOGN. I now want one. 

Books I got for Christmas

The Peninsula war is my fathers but the rest was presents.