Age of Eagles is Napoleonic Fire & Fury, the miniatures game you and many others have been waiting for. Fully integrated into the original, classic rules set (affectionately known as BOFF, or Basic Original Fire & Fury), huge battles are now possible in a system that successfully balances accuracy and simplicity.
Units are infantry and cavalry brigades as well as artillery batteries of between 6 and 12 guns. Each infantry stand represents 360 foot soldiers while each cavalry stand represents 180 troopers. Ground scale is 120 yards to each inch, while all turns represent 30 minutes actual time.
This is a "Big Battle" game where you will command divisions, not battalions. Everything is included to make battles of over 150,000 combatants a playable reality. Unit data charts, Irregular units such as Cossacks or Prussian Landwehr, lancers, armored cuirassiers and more, are all presented in a format to appeal to Grognard and recruit alike. Simply consider:
- Read the review in Military Miniatures Magazine!
- Brigade level to fight large battles in a single setting.
- Unique Initiative and Reserve Movement Phases replicates army command and control.
- Infantry movement and firepower defined by national doctrine - Linear, Columnar and Impulse.
- Concepts of skirmishers, squares, cavalry fatigue and countercharge, massed artillery batteries fully integrated.
- Uses a popular basing system, so no rebasing of figures required.
- Includes three full scenarios with unit labels - Austerlitz (1805), Dresden (1813) and Quatre Bras (1815).
- Full data charts covering commanders and combat formations that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, to include specialty formations such as the French 57th Ligne or the Kexholmski Musketeers.
- Unique and quick black undercoat painting instructions included.
- Supplement Sheet with corrections, clarifications and optional rules online and continuously updated by the author.
- First scenario book, covering the Befreiungskrieg, the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 to include Wellington's invasion of southern France, now in preparation.
- Full discussion group support with 2206 (fifth largest Yahoo wargaming group and growing!) members as well as some of the best conversation on the Web
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 31 October, 2006.
