White Boards of Doom

Tip of the Day

Every commander needs a great big board to plot his plans upon.

Next time you are out shopping, and passing by CheapWorld with a few spare coins jingling in your pocket, dive in and grab a couple of these small but fantastically handy white boards for use in your next game / simulation ...

Storage for Napoleonic Divisions / Corps

Tip of the Day

A quick and dirty tip on storage for Divisions / small Corps.

For the DBA armies, I have these excellent little wooden boxes that are just the right size, and paint them up to suit the particular army. But what about the Napoleonic armies ?

Portraits

Tip of the Day

Quick tip of the day ...

Tired of having yet more little scraps of paper on the battlefield to mark the names and locations of Corps commanders ? Tired of having them blow around in the wind ?

Well, try this idea :

Get some small cheap picture frames, preferably in some ostentatious period style, and print out mini portraits of actual commanders.

The whole exersize of hunting for photos online yields a wealth of useful information on the actual people who led the troops on the battlefield. Not only a visually effective gaming trick, but also very educational. Highly recommended.

Simple Battlefield Signposts

Scenery of the Day

Sometimes its the real simple things that make all the difference.

A couple of simple scenery tricks today that are quick and easy to do, and cost virtually nothing. I think they add a nice little touch of life to the gaming board.

Period signposts :

Woot ! you can make hundreds of these period signposts for around $2, and a small investment of your time.

Republique Measuring Stick

Quick Tip of the day - building your own custom measuring stick for gaming.

You would never find a tape measure on a Napoleonic battlefield, but you would find coloured rods used for measuring and sighting guns.

Here is a converted chopstick from the chinese take away, shaped like an RSM's batton, and coloured like an artillery sighting stick.

Useful and cool at the same time.

Divisions on the stick are measured out in cm, and painted in bands on the chopstick.