http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/ Column_Line_and_Square Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:21:07 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/465 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/465 The basic flaw to these rules comes in the melee phase - which is its weakest part, I tend to use a modified CLS system or some such like TSATF instead. ... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:09:52 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/464 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/464 Thanks Bob found my reference but not where I expected it - Houston- His earlier life included encouraging emigration to Tennessee, time spent with the Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:42:52 GMT Bob Beattie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/463 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/463 Go to the second link below and get PDF version for $8. I have played it and it works nicely for a half dozen to 10 figures per side. Sharpe and some Rifles Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:33:12 GMT Tahmassebi, Stefan http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/462 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/462 Thanks, Dave. Stefan. ________________________________ From: CLS-Column_Line_and_Square@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CLS-Column_Line_and_Square@yahoogroups.com] On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:29:52 GMT Bob Beattie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/461 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/461 Note that Sam Houston was hit with both an arrow and musket balls fighting the Red Sticks at Horseshoe Bend. The former got tended and the went back to Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:29:20 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/460 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/460 Thanks Bob for the timely correction - so much for my 50 yr old memory LOL - Next time I will check the rules before I respond - LOL ... From: burker1@... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:27:24 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/459 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/459 It is a Napoleonic Skirmish game I believe its produced by Ganesha games I have played it once, but it seemed to be to "warhammerish in its design and Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:25:16 GMT burker1@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/458 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/458 Actually, Fred Vietmeyer wrote a corrections at some point stating that the Bashkirs were not armored but that the Kalmuks (sp?) wore chain mail. So Bashkirs Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:26 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/457 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/457 Actually when I ran the Horshoe Bend battle I lowered the CLS ratio to a 1 to 10 to give the natives a chance and added in British reinforcements. For bashkirs Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:17:22 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/456 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/456 Peter Off the top of my head its what started the arms race in the "northwest" when the Hurons had firearms and other tribes did not. I know in the Redstick Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:09:35 GMT Tahmassebi, Stefan http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/455 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/455 What is "Song of Drums and Shakos?" IS it a Napoleonic skirmish game? And where can one get it? Thanks. Stefan. ... From: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:53:17 GMT davecooper2002@... http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/454 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/454 Actually Robert your dead one, cept for those American Indian tribes that were in an Arms race to obtain flintlock muskets, because they could shoot further - Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:38:01 GMT Bob Beattie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/453 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/453 In CLS, a game of the Napoleonic era, aren't the bow armed troops just a gimmick troop type? Native people in the US were very small numbers in the War of Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:01:10 GMT Peter http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/452 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/452 Here is a question. How many Native Americans that were fighting for the British carried bows in battle? The British often supplied arms as well as selling Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:12:35 GMT robert gruwell http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/451 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CLS-Column_Line_and_Square/message/451 what i mean is the troops like native indians(USA) and those troops that grew up useing them like bashkirs and other types like them.   this is hepling me