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Cult Of Games XLBS: Gerry’s Perfect Napoleonic Wargame – Has He Found It?!
September 7, 2025 by crew
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Looked at ESR a few times and it’s a set if rules where you recognise rules from other games and put together to create a new set of rules which isn’t a bad thing. Originally they were selling Magister Militum but. It was costing too much to bring the figures to the states and selling them on again. Pretty sure I read that somewhere
Thanks for the button. My next aim is for a battle report. Its interesting seeing another project working on a game. I also follow someone who’s about to go to kickstarter with a range of fantasy goblins. I will learn from them.
Happy Sunday! I would imagine that for anyone who enjoys collecting, building and painting miniatures the rule of cool has to be the aspiration, even if it doesn’t always pan out. I would think that most tournament players (of miniatures games) would prefer to field what they think is cool, rather than a cookie cutter meta list, but if you don’t want your ass handed to you every game then you need to think meta. I am sure there is a small subset of gamers for whom the miniatures are a mere inconvenience, and the game is their outlet for an unhealthy competitiveness, but I would hope they are in the minority!!
I am drawn to games now where there are in-game bonuses for fielding themed lists – I think that is a neat way to make the cool more competitive.
And thank you for the Golden Button! I am really liking the paint sets. My small painting station in the living room now only has these paints on it. Being limited, but in a way where nothing is really off the table (bar a few colours), is quite liberating.
Thanks for high lighting ESR. It looks like the perfect rule set for the period.
Happy SHARKS!
00:00 Drugs are bad m’kay?
00:50 Stabby stabby stabby!
02:35 What’s the point of growing up when you don’t eat cake when you feel like it? You might be dead tomorrow! CAKE!
22:20 A watere loo is a great invention
28:30 But wait! There is more!
37:20 Mettbrötchen!
1:06:00 exploding Paul?
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Rule of cool. It’s my hobby and I enjoy collecting and sometimes painting them. And even if I were to try to min-max stuff I would fail horribly. There are always other people better at gaming than me. So why even stress about it? Shiny new mini FTW! That being said I am somewhat guilty of “both versions of the build the mini can be made into look cool.. which one is more powerful?” XD
Happy Sunday.
I much prefer a themed army than what’s “the best”. Back in the old days of Warhammer Fantasy I ran a pure Khorne chaos army, with zero magic users, even when others would mix and match. Granted I probably lost more games than I won.
I would also go with Khorne’s number – 8, (or multiples) for unit size.
Yeah ESR is great, I have played it a lot and it is everything Gerry has said it is. I still prefer playing DBN, because it is simpler and quicker and I can play 3 games in an afternoon. Having said that, if I want to play something with more period meat on it’s Napoleonic bones, I always go for ESR or General D’Armee.
HAPPY sunday….
The hasslefree minis are great pity they seem to be out of business as the websites been a holding page for months now
Hi happy Sunday folk’s
Don’t watch hostel before you go Shan 🙈
Sounds like the machine they have in LOKI in the game 🤔
Good to be back in the XLBS 👍
I wish more systems would do what ESR does : dedicate a serious amount of pages to designing scenarios and terrain layouts that make playing the game possible/fun.
Sure, there’s the generic abstract deployments and scenarios in a decent amount of rules these days.
But what about something a bit more practical?
Terrain can make or break a game in a lot of games.
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What about a functional army that happens to be cool?
The vast majority of list building advice is aimed at those competitive a-holes.
And the thing that kind of annoys me : starter sets that only ever build one list or that push you towards a specific style of list. GW is especially guilty of this as they’ve basically stopped selling fluffy bits. The Gobbo army list had squigs and spiders as cavalry options, but only the squigs got decent/new models. Spiders and related had to make do with ancient models that could only be bought on their official webshop … when they were in stock once in a blue moon.
Gerry is too generous as usual. I’ve not won a game against him in a while, but always enjoy the games. I seem to remember seeing my elves being roasted over the chard remains of my Treemen by Halfling cooks.
Ignoring the Dry Undead filth list, I’d rather give my opponent an enjoyable challenge than win (not that I always achieve that as I take too long when my mind goes completely blank and make basic errors like forgetting to play the scenario or sitting back when I have no shooting).
I’m guilty of not taking elf bows in a Sylvain Kin list, but what’s more hated than a racist elf with a bow? I’m thinking more frogs less racist elves for next time.
My list building tends to be based on what’s in my pile of potential rather than a meta list, except for that one time trying out one of the lists from the Kings of War masters. I tend to play the same army and swap out one of two units to try (often unsuccessfully) to reduce the time I take figuring out how to use them. Just ask Paul how long I took playing a new army against him. I really enjoyed the game but I took a ridiculous amount of time. Probably the longest I’ve ever taken. Sorry Paul.
Stunning projects.