NAPOLEON'S BATTLES: Divisional Commander

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Napoleon's Battles - Divisional Commander (NB-DC) 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.

The rules uses the same basing sizes and system of Napoleon's Battles, but at battalion scale, so a Napoleon's Battles 24 miniatures brigade (six bases of four miniatures) is approximately a battalion in Divisional Commander (1 figure equals about 25-30 men). Your Napoleon's Battles armies can be used to play Divisional Commander without any basing change.

DC covers the whole Napoleonic era, including the British-American War of 1812, the forgotten Wars of Liberation in South America, and the last War of the Napoleonic Era: the 1st Carlist War.

DC is designed to play Napoleonic battles of medium size, involving a division, or a small corps, to represent historical battles, or to play balanced games based on a point system that allows players to play fictional scenarios for running campaigns or championships. As with all the Capitan Games rules, we use the online army builder system.

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.

The huge influence of Napoleonic combat systems, tactics, and weaponry (the flintlock musket was the standard weapon for all armies until the later 1840's), meant that they remained the standard throughout the world until the full development of the rifled musket. This weapon, which used percussion caps rather than a spark from a flint, together with rifled artillery, changed tactics and formations and ended the Napoleonic Era.