Great video. Just bought those books and ordered the Perry plastic Prussians plus some French. Also ordered the rules for Eagles of Empire. Early breach loading rifles got me interested in the period. You give a good historical run up to the war historically speaking as well. Cheers from Canada.
The only thing I would add is a note on miniature scale - due to the historical army sizes its quite rare to fight the battles in 25mm. More commonly people play in 15mm and down with 10mm and 6mm both being relativly common. I do like the beauty of the 25mm figures. Yet I've yet to find a set of rules that utilise the scale and historical contex well. Unless you have massive table space 25mm is challenging.
As you know it’s a period which does interest me and I go want to continue with the journey but I am held back by not knowing what rules to play….. once I know that I am sure my figures will come out again. Great job flying the flag Matt
I'm facing the same conundrum regarding what rules to play in 28mm. With the Perry range expanding you'd expect someone is bound to jump at the opportunity to write some rules for them. I remember Richard Clarke mentioning he has a keen interest in the 1866 period and the changes in tactics and weaponry the occurred during that time.
@@ManJackThe Eagles of Empire do their own rules, there's also The Men Who Would Be Kings. They are both skirmish rules though and to be honest I'm a bit fed up of everything being a skirmish. There are some rules called '1870' but I think they are for 15mm. Black Powder feels like the only option.
Thanks for the overview of the ranges, just coming to the period, on the back of 1864 series/film and the Perrys doing Plastics. Rules wise, I'll ve checking out your further videoas and TMWWBK and EoE own rules, others I see are Valour & Foritiude by the Perrys has a beta list up although not sure there 28mm best scale imho. Also there's 'They died for Glory' although a bit long in the toof Richard Clarke gave these a positive review way back when and more recently Howard Whitehouse A Gentlemans War. For British on Prussian action ower missus, there's a victorian fiction the Battle of Dorking, being Operation Sea Lion about 70 years early!
Thanks Andrew. Yes, I was looking at Valour and Fortitude. I think the Perry's are planning to add an FPW PDF to the Napoleonic rules they already have.
Perrys have already added a Beta army Lists. Watching your EoE rules review I like Lion Rampant and Pikemans Lament and noted the comparison so might have a punt with those although pricey for a PDF but then FPW seems to have a small pool for rules especially for 28mm and V&F is free so EoE to start and build to V&F if expand the armies to that size. @@BattleMatt
@@BattleMatt Yeah- it's always possible to break battles down a bit with a bit of thought and planning. I really like the look of the French troops, so it is tempting.
Great video, really helped me. Although one question, where did you get the flags? I bought the perry’s Prussian infantry advancing box and that didn’t have any flags and I can’t find any online?
That's odd I got mine out of the Perry boxes. Maybe email Perry and ask them? Eagles of Empire sell them too, but better to get them off Perry if they weren't in the box.
@@BattleMatt I couldn’t find flag in the description either, odd since it specifically states in the French box that it comes with flags. I’ll ask, thanks
Gotta love the French in this war. After they lose their entire army including their emperor and Paris is surrounded... " But we cannot surrender you did not defeat us." Prussians confused. "No no no Monsieur, you defeated the previous government. WE are a brand-new government and consequently have never been defeated. Now go away. We are busy."
A quick and easy suggestion. Take an American Civil War game and swap the generals. One side has a fanatically brave army with idiot generals and the other has a well-organized but green army with brilliant generals.
