Eagles of Empire on Kickstarter

 

In case you hapen to have missed out, my dear friend Sören and his Eagles of Empire are running a kickstarter with their latest minis and source book for the Franco-Prussian War. 

As I understand it the Kickstarter will offer a broad selection of new stunning metal miniatures, cold wther French and Bavarians, a new Unit Upgrade cards deck, and a full color scenario book focusing on the the Armie of Loire including 12 scenarios,   He also have some exellent start-up Eagle of Empire collections to a 25% disscount.

The base pledge are just reached so now the kickstarter are of to some really nice stretch goals. please have a look. 

If you havent tried out the Eagles of Empires skirmish rules yet I hope you will as they are a nice little gem that I been involved in to create:)  The rules are fast and quite innovative set of rules, what I like the most are the built-in economy and morale system that make the HQ send more troops etc if you performe well and reach your forces objectives.

A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!

NO it is not Richard III but a Frensh Officer from the Frank-Prussian war that are in desperate need of a new horse. The mini are "Mort du Commandant Berbegier" from the Eagles of Empire range.

Prussian Infantry - Franco-Prussian War

I planned to post these pictures about a week ago but was interupted by a phone call... my son David and my wife had been in a severe car accident, some dude thought it was a good ideea to skip a stop sign, so my wife and son hit his car right in the side in 90km/hour... 

I have spent the last week at the hospital with my Son thant got the most severe injuries of the two. My beloved wife got a fracture in her foot and ofcours a real beating by the crach, David broke an arm, fractured a finger on the other arm, got face damages, fractured jaw, 3 teeths dislocated, a minor damage on the liver and a general beateing by the crach so he had to have intensive care and several operations fixing his arm, teths, the liver damage they had under observation for a week and there was no need for surgery.. 

It seems like we can go home from the hospital tomorrow, he are bored so I guess he is recovered quiet well considering all damages.  

I´m so glad they survived at all in that speed.

Prussian infantry from the Eagle of Empire range, except for the mounted officer that are a official Hamburger Tactica mini.

Eagle of Empire infantry rulebook out now as .pdf

My matey Sören has just released his Eagle of Empire rule, Rulebook 1: Infantry Skirmish dedicated to support his 28mm Franco-Prussian war miniature range.

The rules are avaliable in .PDF file at the moment in the EoE webb shop.

Even if i´m a bit bias I must say Sören made a great work on the rules, they give fun, fast and intence games, especially the layout of them, looks great.

Some side spread samples below.

Empire of Eagle also started a collaboration with North Star Miniatures and have just released a fist box with North Star Franco-Prussian War minis in the Prussian Jägers box of 2 squads.

Boxed set of 16 Prussian Jägers, with 12 skirmishing action poses and 4 command figures incl. bugler, officer and troop card.

Recognised by their special shakos and dark green uniforms, the Jäger units were the elite light infantry of the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.

In the Eagles of Empire Rules, the Jägers will feature some expert firing abilities, keeping the French advance at bay with their marksmanship.

Sneak Peak of the layout for Eagle of Empire wargaming rules

I got some sample pages from the ongoing layout work of the upcoming Eagle of Empire wargaming rules. As with the exellent looking unitcards included in the miniature boxes the sampla pages look great in my mind.

I don´t know how much of the rules i´m allowed to reveal, but I feel the need to ease my mind a bit;)

The units in the game are considered to be Squads and if you have a officer present they can be grouped in to Sections, equal to the minis included in an Eagle of Empire infantry box, might be a coincidense ;)

To start playing very small games of the Eagle of Empire rules a box of minis will be enough, but to explore the depth of the rules I would suggest that each player at least have two boxes of minis so there will be 4 Squads at each side.

The rules are considered to be "big skirmish"game, the scope are not to playout a complete battle but a small part of a bigger picture. This will be reflected in the rules by different resourses that higher command might make available for your part of the battlefield as the game progress in the form of  new troops and the abilities from the national specific Doctrine cards that will be included in the rules and yes, there will be a couple of different Doctrine cards for each nation.

To manage these resources during the game you will gain Command Points that you can spend to use the abilities on the Doctrine card you have choose to use during the game as well as call for new reinforcements in the form of new Squads and Sections, BUT you have to economize your Command Points as you also need them to get Victory Points that are essential to win the battle.

The management of the Command Points and to decide when to use them for Doctrine Card abillities, Reinforcements or Victory Points are a key factor to be sucessfull in a game of Eagle of Empires.

I hope to be able to tell more about the rules later on.

Eagle of Empire skirmish wargaming rules introduction and basing

I have posted some unboxing posts of the very nice 28mm Eagle of Empire miniatures, Prussian Infantry, French Infantry and Bavarian Infantry and as they are Sold with the still unpublished Eagle of Empire skirmish wargaming rules in mind some questions have come up regarding basing for the Rules.

I have been involved in the play test with the man behind the rules Sören that also run Eagle of Empire miniatures. As it is still under playtest i reccon all are not set in stone, buy the basing of the minis have been the same all the time.

In a box of Infantry from eagle of Empire you will get 16 individual minis, Officer, Ensign, Musician and Core troops. For the Eagle of Empire rules these minis included in a box represents a Section with an attaced Officer. A Section are made up of 2 Squads, each squad have 3 bases. A Section may have a Officer attached.

As you can see by the Section Cohesion picture abow the minis are bases on round bases, each Squad are made up of 3 bases and 7 minis. 

• 2 man bases are 30mm 
• 3 man bases are 40mm

Rules wise it is good if each Squad are made up of 3 bases or you have to keep track of losses in some other way, the number of minis on each base are really not that important, but it look good on the gaming table and give a good skirmish feel to the game to use the sugested basing style. 

Below you can see some examples of the minis from a French Line Infantry box that have been based according to the Eagle of Empire rules. 

First you have the Squad of 3 bases abd 7 minis, then you have 2 independant squads of 2x3 bases (2x7minis) that can form a Section if the are given an Officer.

The last picture show the whole content of the box, 2 squads that are  formed as a Section as they have the Officer with Ensign attached and within the command ranges.

I hope this helped you out to start basing you Eagle of Empire minis for the Eagle of Empire skirmish wargaming rules.

Prussian minis from Eagle of Empire

I just got me two boxes of the new Prussian infantry from Eagle of Empire miniatures so I thought that I should let you have a closer look to them.

Here you also can find my unboxing of the Eagle of Empire French Infantry or the Bavarian Invantry.

The minis are of course 28mm and are sold as a box with 16 minis  that are broken down to 11 infantry, 1 Ensign, 1 Bugler, 1 Drummer, 1 NCO and 1 Officer.

The minis in the box are enought to create a 2 units with command for the upcomming Eagle of Empire rules. There are also 2 greate looking units cards for the rules included in the box.

As I understand the Franco-Prussian war the Prussian troops fought more agressive than the French and I really feel the minis in the Prussian Box are capturing that movement, most of the minis are advancing with a few that have stopped to fire. The box have no duplicated amongst the 16 minis as they all have individual sculped heads and arms and Equipment so even if the bodys are from 2 or 3 basic ones the minis feel really individual, a very nice concept, perfect for skirmish wargaming:)

The last picture below are from the 2 Historical character minis sets that Eagle of Empire have started to Produce, really nice ones that add even more to the setting.

Vorwärst Kinder ! The von Halden Spring offensive

Just a heads up for you all that as I like the stunning Franco-Prussian minis my matey Sören at Eagle of Empire miniatures are producing.

Seems like there are more named Historical Charactersadded to the range, amongst them the Prussian hero von Halden. That also seems to lead the way to a 10% discount on all curryns eagle of Empire minis untill 14 may 2018. You can find the discountcode at the Eagle of Empire facebook page.

If you are aiming for a French force you also have a greate deal with stunning 28,5% discount.

The wounded Commandant Berbegier resting on a dead horse during the Battle of Gravelotte and French Line Infantry value deal:

Pour L'empereur French Infantry deal: 
4 Infantry Boxes (64 miniatures total)
8 Unit Cards
Painting Guide
Free Commandant Berbegier miniature
Normal price: £112 
DEAL PRICE: £80