NB Divisional Commander

The chaps at Capitan Games are very busy. Besides the new edition of Napoleon's Battles, a.k.a Marechal edition, they have desgigned Napoleon's Battles, Divisional Commander. In their own words:

"Napoleon’s Battles – Divisional Commander is a fusion between our Napoleon’s Battles Grand Scale rules, and our company level rules Capitan. So you may well find aspects of the two rule sets mingled in NB-DC.
To represent the intense movements and counter movements of the formations in Napoleonic battles, DC uses a system (as do other Capitan Games rules) that allows more flexibility in the game rather than an 'I go, you go' system.
Divisional Commander 'DC' is a set of Napoleonic rules designed to play Napoleonic battles of medium size, involving a division, or a small corps. DC is designed to allow to represent historical battle or to play balanced games based in a point system that allows players to play fictional scenarios for running, campaigns or championships.
The rules uses the same basing sizes and system of Napoleon’s Battles, but at Battalion Scale, so approximately a Napoleon’s Battles 24 miniatures Brigade (6 bases of four miniatures) is a Battalion in Divisional Commander, so a miniature is about 25-30 men. Players that has his Napoleon’s Battles armies can use them to play Divisional Commander without any change."
The game will use an online army builder system (available at www.capitangamesonline.com) where to find the full units characteristics and to print the command cards of each unit.
The Crysler’s Farm scenario, using the NB Divisional System, designed and played by Southend Wargames Club has won the Best in Show award at SELWG 2013 in London.

 I am very curious about the results, because myself used a home-variation, appropriately named Divisional Napoleon's Battles, before the launching of Lasalle. Really it was only Napoleon's Battles with some minor modifications (See Divisional Napoleon's Battles in the main web site), and I played some scenarios, but in the end, I stopped using it when I found Lasalle.
However, this new attempt seems different, so we will wait until its release!

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Capitan Games 1813-1814 is ready!

Capitan Games has released the new supplement for their napoleonic small units game CAPITAN.
New units and officers to play the Liberation Wars 1813, and the Campaing of France in 1814. Napoleon against all the Allies, units from Prussia, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Wutemburg, Bavarian, Hanover, British Freikorps, German Minor States, and the new French Guard Units, and the veterans of the Russian campaign. A total of 392 new units.

Click to download the Units

Capitan games 1813-1814

Capitan Games is the name of a Spanish company, owned by Miguel Costa. Their philosophy is to provide the miniature wargamers with a 'Print and Play' line of wargaming products, although a printed version can be ordered via Paypal in their web-site
Amongst these, CAPITAN is a small tactics napoleonic ruleset, designed to play battles between small groups of troops, such as advance recconnaisance, convoy escort, guerrilla actions, raids on small towns, border or frontier posts, incursions into enemy territory, actions against advanced camps, and all those situations where specific tasks were assigned to a few troops of their units.

Now there are some news:
"We don’t have holidays, we are working in our new supplement for our Napoleonic Rules CAPITAN. New units and officers to play the Liberation Wars 1813, and the Campaing of France in 1814. Napoleon against all the Allies, units from Prussia, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Wutemburg, Bavarian, Hanseatic Legion, Freikorps, German Minor States, and the new French Guard Units, and the veterans. Don’t miss it, in about a month….. "

Visit the Capitan Games web site and try their system

Capitan Games

Capitan Games is the name of a Spanish company, owned by Miguel Costa. Their philosophy is to provide the miniature wargamers with a 'Print and Play' line of wargaming products, including:
CAPITAN (Captain) for small actions in the napoleonic era (Available in English & Spanish)
CAPITAN CARLIST. A Capitan supplement for the Spanish Carlist Wars, mid 19th century (Available in English & Spanish)
CAPTAIN SPECIAL OP’S Tactical combat in the WWII – Spanish Civil War coming soon- (Available in English & Spanish)
COMBAT WINGS Plane Dogfight actions. Chapter I World War I – Spanish Civil War coming soon (Available in English & Spanish)
CAPITAN DE MAR Y GUERRA – MASTER & COMMANDER Naval actions in the Nelson age (Available in Spanish, coming soon in English)
CORONEL Napoleonic battalion level battles – Carlist Wars supplement (Available in Spanish, coming soon in English)

The system followed by the Company is to make available all the elements: rules, markers, cards.... that can be downloaded free. A high-quality printed version of elements, such game cards, will be soon also available (not free of course!)

In the words of its designer, CAPITAN, i.e. the small tactics napoleonic ruleset, is a selection of rules designed to play battles between small groups of troops, such as advance recconnaisance, convoy escort, guerrilla actions, raids on small towns, border or frontier posts, incursions into enemy territory, actions against advanced camps, and all those situations where specific tasks were assigned to a few troops of their units.... CAPITAN is not a “skirmish” game, but a game system based on the infinity of small battles during the Napoleonic wars.

The rules are designed for 28/25 mm. miniatures, but you can also use 15mm. miniatures. You can either use the figures individually or grouped on a base.
The miniatures of standard bearers, musician’s, officers and ADC, represent 1 man; in all other cases one figure represents 3 soldiers. A unit of 8 to 12 figures are a section and 3 units make a company.
Each turn of the game is about 3 minutes in real life.
Ground scale is about 1/100; the ground scale differs to the figure scale to allow you playing on a not too large table

The system is card driven: each player has a series of game cards for each unit or officier, taht are played until all the cards are used.

The system could be used for a third, small tactical? company-based? game level. However, before to adopt it, I must to study two fundamental questions: (a) the need of rebasing my figures and (b) the solo capabilities of the system

Visit the Capitan Games web site and try their system!