This Thursday I had a chance to practice Sharp Practice game from TooFatLardies. It’s Napoleonic skirmish game and as a skirmish uses less models than Black Powder game.

We played mission, where one side needs to find a spy who is hiding in one of three buildings and other side need to make other side life hard. Under eye of Rafał from Bolter.pl I played Spaniard against Tomasz British.

  • Silent town somewhere in Spain.
  • Spaniards march to then silent town.
  • All Spanish troops came to a town.
  • Marching forward to the city center.
  • Casadores investigate first building. They leader unhappilly find attractive women.
  • British marched in column around the townhouse and then…
  • …spread into deadly fire line.
  • Both parties started firing each other. Some of the Kazadores also investigated if there is spy inside.
  • Cavalry runned into the forest to outflank British.
  • Cavalry losed they leader, regrouped, the same thing happend with regular infantry. With spy safe in town hall British won a day.

Summary:
– it’s interesting that there is Napoleonic skirmish, everything I recognize with that era, are large battles.
– interesting system of unit activation – deck of cards is responsible for it, random events like officer stepping in the shit. Different personalities of leaders is also interesting.
– system of morale decreasing.
– need to try more, maybe with my own Russians – still need to paint them more to play Sharp Practice.