Saturday, April 11, 2020

Revised Portable Napoleonic Wargame ACW Brigade Rules

After going over my version of the Portable Napoleonic Wargame Brigade level rules for the ACW I have made a few revisions to make them fit better with the overall rules and work better.

The major change is properly using actions to deal with the cavalry mounting and dismounting, otherwise I think the ranges work well to differentiate between smoothbore and rifled weapons.

Unit types

Unit
Strength Points
Movement
Range
Comments
Infantry (muskets)
4
Column 2
Line 1
3

Infantry (rifles)
4
Column 2
Line 1
4

Sharpshooters
3
Skirmish 3
Column 2
Line 1
5

Cavalry (mounted)
3
Column 4
Line 3
1
Cavalry (dismounted)
3
Column 2
Line 1
3

Cavalry (repeaters - dismounted)
3
Column 2
Line 1
3

Artillery (rifled)
2
March 2
Unlimbered 1
Firing 0
Cannon 8

Artillery (smoothbore)
2
March 2
Unlimbered 1
Firing 0
Cannon 6
Howitzer 5
Light 4
Light are 6 pound guns.
Commander
6
Mounted 4
Foot 2
-
No combat value

Actions

It costs 1 movement for cavalry to mount or dismount. 

Artillery firing modifiers

Rifled artillery
Increase D6 roll by 1 if firing at enemy unit at a range of 1 or 2 grid areas
Smoothbore artillery
 Increase D6 roll by 2 if firing at enemy unit at a range of 1 or 2 grid areas

Musketry firing modifiers

Add 1 to the D6 roll if using repeaters.

Resolving hits

Use the first chart only as I have not found evidence of ACW infantry forming square on being attacked by cavalry and cavalry primarily used firearms rather than sabers in this era,



1 comment:

Simon said...

Looks good. Are you planning any changes to your Divisional rules amendments?

Cheers

Simon

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