The Latest News on Blücher

Extracted from Sam Mustafa's Honour site.

- Blücher is going to have a flexible scale, adjusted as needed for different campaigns/theatres. So in the Peninsular it will be 1 Base = 1 BN. For something bigger like Waterloo, it would be 1 Base = @1000 men, and for a monster like Dresden or Leipzig it will be more like 1 Base = @1500 men.

- All Lasalle bases will work; nobody will need to worry about basing.

- No matter how big the campaign or battle, the game will scale to a reasonable amount of space and figures.

- Campaigns are absolutely central to the Blücher concept and the campaign system will be done first.

- The Blücher campaign system is paperless. It uses card-play to keep track of things like orders, attrition, traffic, reconnaissance, weather, and even the progress of sieges or espionage. Cards allow us also to inject interesting “special events” into the the campaigns.

- The card-based system allows us to dispense with paperwork and the need for a third-party referee or umpire to keep track of everything.

Blücher will depart from Lasalle in dramatic, fundamental ways. It will share the same basing system, the same kind of layout and presentation of the rulebook, and a few of the same terms and values, and most importantly, like all HONOUR games it is intended to play in a few (2-4) hours on a reasonably-sized table with a reasonable collection of miniatures.

But it is not simply Lasalle’s Big Brother. Blücher is going to be a very different game.

Waiting to see!