You should try them as pbem. Join Napoleonics Warfare Club for: " Eckmuhl, Wagram and latest Waterloo".ORIGINAL: Dave Briggs
If you guys like the old Battleground Civil War games, and you have the money, you should try some of the newer HPS versions, especially the Gettysburg Campaign and Penninsular Campaigns. They are basically the same game system as the old Battlegrond series but have many new enhancements that make the games play much better. The biggest difference is that now you can select to play with an auto defensive fire setting so that defensive units get to fire while units are moving up instead of having to wait till all the phasing units have moved. This give a much more realistic and fluid feeling when maneuvering troops. It also eliminates one mailing when playing someone by email. There is also a new combat results formula that gives much more accurate fire and melee results. I'm not real pleased with the terrain and unit graphics but I've been able to incorporate my own graphics that make the new games look just like the old Battleground games. And of course all these games come with a campaign game too.
The AI is still weak, but when I play solitaire, I usually play both sides as human with full Fog of War. However, these games really bloom when playing against a[:)]nother person. I have probably spent more time playing, tweaking and creating with these games than any other game I own.
There are, of course, other clubs/sites[:)]
