Colonial/Napoleonic era thread. IMHO it's a very underrepresented period/setting/genre in RPGs

Colonial/Napoleonic era thread. IMHO it's a very underrepresented period/setting/genre in RPGs.

Post cool art, talk about any campaigns or games you've played in the era, and just generally talk about when warfare was really goddamn snazzy

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My character is a rapier focused duelist and soon will get his cavalry saber, so I can start making horseback duels.

also it felt appropriate to make him an elf for some reason.

I guess the refinement and affections of an napoleonic officer seemed more related to the elven race.

Sounds rad, user.

Temaraire was a cool book

>The refinement of ordering artillery to fire a barrage of tiny pellets at the enemy until they're so mauled even their faces are beyond recognition
Probably not what you were going for, but that is what I see elves as being like. They're refined and cultured, but see war as a gentlemanly affair. They also believe certain decencies like "taking prisoners", "accepting surrender", "distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants" and "not taking scalps as war booty" are gentlemen's agreements 'lesser races' can't be expected to upkeep so they're entirely null and void when fighting them.

Pic related is an absolutely fantastic piece of fantasy set in the period. BBC adaptation was also pretty good. It's more or less about the discovery of the last (practical) magician in England and his involvement in the Napoleonic conflict. Also a fantastic depiction of one of the Fair Folk

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It's underrepresented because it's one of the few eras that you simply cannot shoehorn in le ebin female warriors

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So elves are 18th century Britain?

there is no war where people don't kill, but even then war was a pretty different business on the 1800s.
officers were not coming from the rank and file, they were high born and had their debonair. I like pretending his youth aka his first 100s of years were spread on an enviroment similar to those on officers academy, where men have their spontaneous comradery from the ballroom fraternization and the duels.
not to mention gunsmiths and artillery engeneers were highly superbly educated, many aspects of war were hardly for the rank and file anymore.

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>cheesecaky uniforms
>but also murder
This artist has no taste and no class

why britcucks? are talking about sea warfare? if so you can go for the spaniards just as easy. or the French ships like the Revenant.

here is a list of cooler countries with cool land based armies and officers in case you are not familiar with the 1700s 1800s: france, prussia, russia, denmark, germany, poland.

I personally like the fact that Denmark had an elite cavalry called "the Dragoons" and were stark green uniforms. gorgeous stuff.

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the filename is very descritive here

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>any country
>cooler than britain

>napoleonic era
>germany existing

>denmark
>noteworthy in any way after about 1500

>that thread about snazzy uniformed fairies having extremely tiny, low consequence (because respawns) wars for the honor of their cute princesses, who have to keep them under control enough to stop them from ruining the tea party, but let them have enough fun that they don't get pouty
>never resulted in anything

Can I just sit in this thread and be contemplative jazz music

>britcucks
>were the uncontested strongest empire of the 18th century until Napoleon showed up and claimed the last 20 years

The movie Ana Karenina
the books from the Sharpe series.
these are good inspirations sources to get the mood right.

>>were the uncontested strongest empire of the 18th century until Napoleon showed up and claimed the last 20 years
Wat

t.blucher
Go to bed prussia

Not even Prussaboo, I just post related art when asking Britbong a question

if you had to suck a cock for every baseless implication you make you would have a stomach to filled with manjuice you would have stop eating horses, you absolute delusional street shitting horse eating crooked teeth orphanage raping britcuck.

Prussia and Britain rose rapidly during the 18th Century however Britain had by far more effect on anything that wasn't Europe.

ITT britucks sperg about being noteworthy other than "the guys who rely on highlanders to actually get shit done"

>however Britain had by far more effect on anything that wasn't Europe
Gee strong fleet allows you to do that who knew. I still don't know why you compare Britain to Prussia rather than other European countries of the period.

>The ball & mouth an tap-loading meme.

wew lad

der Letze tanz

Die nächtliche Heerschau (The night parade)

I said
1852
GERMANIC
NECROMANCY
BARDS

>cheesecaky uniforms
what are you on about? Those look pretty normal

They're not wearing any trousers and are getting hit by orgasm bullets.

Look below their chests

This looks cool as hell

What has prussia or germany ever shown this world? What accomplishments have they ever provided to the annals of history? How to go to war with all of your neighbour's and get btfo by slavs, anglos, and frenchies? You guys are almost worse than Italy at fighting.

Ebin /int/ posting, friend.

well bazinga'd

your uniforms are not bad as well.

long hair only, weeabo.

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You are clearly unaware of the women who disguised themselves as men to fight in multiple armies and navies during the period. The Sweet Polly Oliver phenomenon was pretty common.

Comfy

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Oh, right you are. Artist should have colored in more skin tone than just the one person to make that come across. I'm going to continue to attribute the expressions to them singing or something, though.

>Nice Napoleonic thread
>Some Anons try to derail into national shitflinging
Every fucking time with you people, you just can't keep it in your trousers.

Leather apron axe guy is a Sapper?

He is the Butcher of Vienna

Unless he's a hussar, they're far too wild - possible they'd be a wood elf, but honestly it's more likely an orc or half-orc, just with a fuckton of style

Dafuq is that hat-helmet thing?

Going full Mulan is fine tho, that did actually happen. It's when the entire focus is centered around "look at me I'm a girl look what I can do".

Cheeky comments shall not go unchecked friendo

>This is what buttsore Frenchies and Napoleon fanboys actually believe.
He lost. Get over it.

AKA feed the skirt wearing savages to the cannons and then claim victory.
Also, the Scottish are British, whether they like it or not. Fucking ignorant burgerfats.

In his defense, I've heard they make excellent sausage.

That's clearly horse/mobile artillery.

He lost after reshaping europe and revolutionizing warfare over the course of 30 years, yes.

Its ok then the great male renunciation happened.

Fantasy settings are fantasy settings user, they don't have to 100% reflect our own history. I suggest you unclench your arse hole and relax about magic games of pretend.

You have some issues. Also they did join in secret, nor is it that hard to "shoehorn" anything in a fantasy setting if you want.

Ehh, pretty good, but too much of an emphasis on crowbarring and wedging in modern progressive values.

You wanna tell a story about the Napoleonic wars with dragons, the LEAST interesting or relevant part of that idea is a plucky young dragon demanding equal rights or finding a way to write women into early 19th century militaries.

That said, all I remember is Parnassians being described as a British dragon breed with crazy ass long, deadly claws and they're definitely my favourite from the series.

It's not used because warfare at the time was regimented and involved the most boring kind of gun.

You could take your very own advice and disregard my comments

It is pretty boring warfare in general. uninspired period and very little of interest compared to medieval, classic, fantasy, sci fi or even modern, even modern is more interesting.

I was wondering why they were all female until I realised they're just elves

SOME TALK OF ALEXANDER
AND SOME OF HERCULES
OF HECTOR AND LYSANDER
AND SUCH GREAT NAMES AS THESE
BUT OF ALL THE WORLD'S BRAVE HEROES THERE'S NONE THAT CAN COMPARE
TO THE TOW ROW ROW ROW ROW ROW OF THE BRITISH GRENADIERS

Until napoleon comes along.
Colonial biz is also pretty interesting.
Not to mention privateers and conquistaw

>involved the most boring kind of gun.

I think this is a large part of why I have virtually no interest in this period of history from a military perspective (besides Anglo Colonists in North America fighting against Indians and French/British). In later time periods, there was a much wider variety of weapons in use, even by the time of the American Civil war there were men with flintlock muzzle loaders fighting against people with repeating cartridge using rifles and seemingly every variation in between. But at the time of the Napoleonic wars, it seems to a casual observer like me as though the only available arms were awful smooth-bore muskets, carbines and laborious muskets that took an age to load. A lot of the warfare seemed to also be based on raw numbers of troops overpowering other rectangular formations of troops with little to no strategy involved. I know this is just a popular conception that probably has little basis in reality, but it still sticks with me to the point where I'm disinterest in the combat.

I hate the uniforms too, they're extremely off putting.

a fucking orc??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

what are you even thinking.

How can other colonial powers even compete?

When ere we are commanded to storm the palisades
Our leaders March with fuseilles and we with hand grenades
We throw them from the glacis about the enemies ears
With a tow row row row row row for the British grenadiers

I have a pretty shitty handle on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, and I've never read the series in question, but there were a lot of lower and marginalized groups attempting to assert their rights during the initial frenzy wasn't there? What with the Sans Culottes and such.

Also recommended sources on the Era? I've been listening to the Age of Napoleon, which has been pretty good, but the French Revolution was one of those periods that ended up getting glossed over or falling between the cracks in my history education.

Really? I think it would be quite simple, you are very paranoid.

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wood. elves.

>I hate the uniforms too
You're ignorance was forgivable but this is beyond comprehension.

m8 do you know what they said about hussars?

Imagine having to die wearing that get up. Your last thoughts would surely be something along the lines of "why am I bleeding out in this muddy field while wearing what looks like something from an awful furniture catalog".

Do you like any historical fashion when you're clearly so attached to if it would be in style today?

Eh, I eat a musket ball through the chest in the year 1800 or the year 2018, my last two thoughts would be "I wish they the still gave us cuirasses", and, "at least I look fly [pants ruined as my bowels release]".

>Napoleonic
>Napoleon was French
>Brits are the second most common posters on this website
Add 2 and 2 together. It's exactly the same reason why any thread involving even the slightest references to the HYW devolves into either "why the longbow was actually a premodern machine gun" wankery or conspiracy theories about how Jeanne d'Arc was actually a witch and probably a prostitute too.

Well, she was. Both.

What makes it boring?

Warfare in most periods was actually pretty boring when you strip away the idealization. That in mind, a fantasized version of black powder era combat where everything is at its most exciting all the time would be cool as hell.

Yeah, you've only got a muzzleloading musket, but that's part of the cool factor. Once you've fired your shot now you're down to your bayonet, and if the enemy fired his shot and hit the guy next to you he's down to a bayonet too.
Not to mention officers with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other. And if we're talking American Revolution and you're a Colonial with a Kentucky rifle or a fowling piece, well, you don't get the luxury of a bayonet. They'd often hold their weapon in the off-hand in melee combat to block using the barrel while using a knife in the main hand.

And if you're an "equipment list" kind of guy then it wasn't just muskets. The British introduced the Baker rifle as a specialist weapon, and the Prussians did similar with their jaegers. Cavalrymen carried short carbines and musketoons slung under their arm ready to whip out Bonnie and Clyde style. Swords were still very much a thing for officers, and sergeants would carry a spontoon (a kind of polearm) or a bigass axe like in . Sometimes, militia without guns would just be given spears or pikes instead. Also the Austrians used a few repeating air rifles for combat, like a modern BB gun except meant to kill people.

Paging Gropey. I know you're lurking.

Why did every soldier get a sword? It seems a wasteful thing to do, considering they would mostly be using bayonets.

>I hate the uniforms too

because a proper army equips its soldiers with everything they might need.

But those swords are shit compared to others of the period.

Sorry had a game tonight. There is also so much misunderstanding of 18thC warfare its kinda painful.

They didn't. It depended on your unit type among other things. Heavy infantry such as grenadiers for example would almost always have a hanger or sidesword. Many european hatmen, or regulars would as well because bayonets are not as useful in the melee after contact. Muskets are not the most balanced melee weapon, and the number of artifact bayonets I have handled at work that are bent (as well as the number of modern ones I have bent in practice) really shows the abuse they under went in combat. Swords, hatchets and daggers are always useful.

Yes and no. Units would also abandon or adjust to fit their roll. For example, light infantry almost always ditched swords for hatchets and knives. They are just more practical in the field, and they are not a prolonged combat unit anyways.

By what metric? Fighting unarmoured men in tight conditions, the hanger was an ideal and practical sword- robust and easy to use, while being quite deadly.

I highly suggest the book "With Zeal and With Bayonets Only" by Matthew H. Spring, as well as period combat and drill manuals.

Pic is my hanger.

Nice regimental. Who you with?

you mean you don't need to shoehorn them in

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I feel it's underrepresented because the vast majority of material you see is all war related.

Please post more females of the period in uniform i need the images

Weren't some light infantry units issued hatchets? I think I remember reading that somewhere.

I know it's anime but this guy's pixiv has a lot.
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>I need the images

This seems urgent, for what purpose do you need them? Are you running some kind of weird campaign.

It's not urgent i am working on a CYOA and i want to make female characters in the army