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Denziens Eagles of Empire
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About the Project
Finding rules for my growing Franco Prussian War collection and trying out Eagles of Empire rules set.
Related Game: Eagles Of Empire
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Bavarians
The perry plastic box set for Bavarian infantry. I put together a troop of minis. To do them justice I think two boxes are needed to get another troop and a jaeger unit 
Forces so far
I invested in more artillery which allows me to use the battery special rule of rolling 3D6 instead of one when firing.
French Reinforcements
The perry American civil war box provides enough for two different platoons with commands. I know the rifle isn't correct but I'll give that a pass.
Zouaves and Algerians
A Day of Gaming
One of the barriers to getting into this game is the need to have unit cards for your models. I finally picked some up. The other factor is not knowing how many minis you'll need. You don't have an army list in the traditional sense but bring on troops when you need them cpdnfing command points which you gain from controlling objectives. These points can also be spent on victory points. The first player to reach the target amount wins. So no set turns either. It was these interesting mechanics that got us hooked on our first four games we did in one day. Each quick and deadly. We started with the basic scenario from the infantry drill book. A take the hill scenario using infantry only.
Both sides took the easy objectives represented by casualty markers but the hill was harder to reach. The prussians can spend command points on a doctrine to double their move so crested the hill first
Taking the hill the prussians come under fire from French chassepot rifle fire that is double the prussians range so they could only respond by using off table artillery which took more points.
The prussians hide behind the hill for safety and have to use more points to rush reinforcements on to the table. This gave the French oprtunity to advance. Now both sides claimed the objective which led to a bayonet charge which the prussians lost. Accumilating enough victory points the French win
Our second game included cavalry and artillery which introduced a whole bunch of challenges. The french hussars rushed to claim an objective and usedcall four points to get ahead in the victorypoints becausethey knew prussian cavalrywould soon contest it .
I realised I need more cavalry so I can make squadrons. This would make them more useful as well as artillery as two make a battery which increases their effectiveness. The French machine gun did help keep the prussians back who struggled to cross the dead ground which the French longer range covered
The tactical decisions really mater in this game. Cavalry battered into each other keeping the prussians back and allowing infantry to break forward while the long French range was hard to combat. The prussians realised too late they should have used off table artillery on the French in the buildings as they would get no cover. But the French had the victory points again
The final scenario we played twice and once again the prussians lost. Its very difficult to win once you get on the back foot and you have to spend points bringing on reinforcements rather than gaining victory points. After being cut up by cavalry in the first attempt the prussians advance through the cover of woods which cavalry can't enter. This slowed them down allowing the French to claim objectives first. It's a tricky game to master but very engaging and it's unique system of resource management kept us on our toes
French forces so far
One of the things that has put menoff this era is that I do WW1 and the French force's are so similar for 1870 and 1914. But it's a good alternative to American civil war. I already had all these French painted up but now they are based with the eagles of empire game in mind
Rebasing
I made my own bases by making some discs the appropriate sizes in sketchup and 3D printing them. The units contain 7 infantry on multiple bases of groups of 3. When you loose a health you rdmivexa whole base. I've never really multi based before but they look good 
Inspiration
I recently went to Paris and visited the Army museum and took a few pics in the Franco-prussian war section. They had an interesting collection of not just uniforms but also art 
Although my wife soon realised the holiday was no break from little men
They have a good selection of uniforms from both France and Prussia as well as Bavaria. You always get more cavalry uniforms on display because there is more variety than infantry uniforms.
French machine gun 
