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Lasalle at Leipzig: Battle of Leipzig After Action Report

The Carleton Tabletop Gaming Club, in partnership with Sword and Board in downtown Toronto who graciously allowed us to use their space over 2 days put on our first Napoleonic event. The event was called Lasalle at Leipzig both because it involves a game event using the Lasalle rules for the Leipzig campaign, but also, importantly, because this scenario is ahistorical, including an alternate history where Lasalle himself survived and the British stalled and withdrew from Spain. This allowed us both to include British lists, Bavarians loyal to Napoleon, and write a more open range of possibilities for the results of the campaign. The scenario assumes that Napoleon's primary chance to win the battle was historically lost when Murat’s charge failed to fully rout the Coalition units, south of Leipzig on the first day. It seemed to us that the most suitable use of the Lasalle ruleset was to represent this action alone, rather than attempting to cover the wider events of the 3 day...

Road to Nationals Part One: State of the Game

Canadian Nationals in September. My first time going to Nationals and only my second real tournament. The ground is shifting under the feet of most flames of war players these days. Version 4 and a return to midwar has rendered a lot of armies and lists unplayable, both literally and in the moaning, hyperbolic sense. I was left relatively unscathed, late war Germans and early war french weren’t hurt that bad but my opponents came out stronger than ever. There’s a nasty trend in our club, a slow power creep in tanks. When we first started, my most common match up was taking my StuGs and grenadiers up against British infantry and shermans. Now all I fight is IS-2’s and churchills. Panzer 4’s and StuGs just don't cut it face to face with those monstrosities, now nebelwerfers and fausts made it work in the past but no more. I’ll admit the invincible 10 point panzerfausts were a little silly and nebs were arguably t...

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