tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202580486252841248.post2940605606669954732..comments2024-03-22T08:22:53.499+00:00Comments on The Waving Flag: DBR: A Glimpse Behind The CurtainVexilliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568117694302239705noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202580486252841248.post-23816641608798409422009-04-14T00:54:00.000+01:002009-04-14T00:54:00.000+01:00Mike got it mostly right, but for the wrong reason...Mike got it mostly right, but for the wrong reasons, I think. His comments on 18th century stuff is just wrong, (and I'll tell you why) but the real take away is that large groups men, embattled for war, tend to pretty much go in one direction. no matter how they're organized, and the desire of wargamers to instantly change their crappy battle plans colors in the most lurid way the many complaints about why their figures can or cannot do this that or the other thing.<br /><br />Now back to Mike's comments: the crack about deploying into line from column while advancing not being described until the French revolultion is utter garbage, and anybody who's read the The Prussian Infantry regulations, the Prussian cavalry regulations, Czetteritz's "Officer's manual", Warnery's 'Remarks on cavarly" Wolfe's "Instructions to Young Officers, Millan's "Manoevres for a Battalion of Infantry upon Fixed Principles" just to name a few, basically shows that there is just a lot more going on than can be conveniently described by DBR or indeed, any set of rules. So things get boiled down to their most basic. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but people have to get their head around the concept, and in almost 20 years of playing DBx rules, I see people choke on this again and again.Robert Sulentichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434450735236378007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202580486252841248.post-45293466832912894702008-09-16T01:53:00.000+01:002008-09-16T01:53:00.000+01:00Not a time period I have studied (or gamed) but wh...Not a time period I have studied (or gamed) but what was written made good sense.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12862893880440624911noreply@blogger.com