Reply To: Napoleonics at AdeptiCon 2018

[Darkest Star Games]

That’s great that they were so responsive.  When we took our HUGE pirate game up they bent over backwards to help us in loading and putting away as well as managing the crowd/viewers.  They were a pretty well oiled machine, i even heard their tournaments went smoothly (a rarity at most cons!)

Bandit wrote:

We don’t provide a framework for ImagiNations but I don’t think there is anything to prohibit them. The Raising an Army supplement included in The Complete Player’s Guide offers lots of details on how and when to apply different characteristics and historical examples of them being applied that someone into ImagiNations could use for their own ends.

That’s perfect!  I personally have no idea what is really different between a Heavy Cavalry and Curiasser, and things like what characteristics and when is brilliant to use for ImagiNations.  I love history, but the few times I have engaged in attempts at playing Napolionics I have fallen foul of the “button counters” and been turned off.  I’d rather play ImagiNations as then those same people couldn’t cast stones, as well as loving the fun of creating.

Bandit wrote:

What sort of specific support, if any, does such require or benefit from?

Now that is a bit tougher of a question for me.  I’d think that if there was some sort of points system that would help with unit creation, as well as some sort of way to help generate those army design “starting funds” for campaign type games.  All of the info and details that help a newbie really put together an army.  Games that have a sort of build system that I have played have helped me decide whether a +2 to some unit’s initial attack upon charging is worth the cost of say losing a point in basic moral, but from a historical stand point I have no idea if it’d be better to use Grenadiers or Life Guards or why to take the 35th Rifles over the 23rd Rifles without some sort of performance break down…

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