Paul Edward Smith

Hi

Just about to give the rules a go for the American War of Independence and I was wondering if people allow infantry to adopt the ‘attack column’ formation. I have only used the rules for the Seven Years War up to now where units were not allowed to use the formation.

Many thanks, Paul

Hi

Is there any penalty to an attacking unit charging across a stream (apart from the distance penalty) in combat or bonus for a defender being charged across a stream?

Cheers Paul

Hi

Still relatively new to Black Powder and trying to understand the ‘closing fire’ and ‘traversing fire’ rules.

Example:

Unit A is charged successfully by unit Z; both units are exactly the same size so no overlap is involved. Unit A can use ‘closing fire’ against Z.

However unit A has a friendly unit, unit B, alongside it in base to base con…[Read more]

Hi

Just had two trial games of Black Powder so far both of which were enjoyable. However there is one issue that is gnawing away at me and that is the range of smoothbore muskets relative to the ranges for artillery. So musket range is 18″ yet canister range is only 6″, my understanding is that cannister range was greater than musket range. And…[Read more]

Hi

Very new to BP but really enjoying them, one quick question when a commander of a brigade throws a ‘blunder’ does that mean no further orders can be issued by any other commander on that side that turn or just that the commander who threw the blunder can issue no further orders that turn (hope that makes sense)?

Cheers Paul