breaking news, AOE has moved - click here!

To serve you better Age of Eagles has partenered with Grouply.com to provide a better online, Napoleonic experience, one that merges our Yahoo Group with our traditional Website. The new site does NOT replace our Yahoo Group, but merely provides an enhanced interface to access it, merged into a single online portal with the rest of our Website to provide one stop shopping.

There is NO requirement to register or join Grouply to read Yahoo Group messages or to access our traditional Webpages, to include purchasing AOE products online. If you wish to reply or post a message to the Yahoo Group via the Grouply interface, or take advantage of some of Grouply's unique features, then you need to sign in using your normal Yahoo Group ID and Password. Given most folks on the Yahoo Group use a daily digest or direct Email, there will be no change in the the way you do business, and there is NO Spam.

We'll keep this Webpage up indefinately to redirect folks to the right place, but we do hope you our new diggs and check us out. We think you'll like what you see.

ABOUT AGE OF EAGLES

Age of Eagles is Napoleonic Fire & Fury, the miniatures game you and many others have been waiting for. Fully integrated into the original, classic rules set (affectionately known as BOFF, or Basic Original Fire & Fury), huge battles are now possible in a system that balances accuracy and simplicity. Units are infantry and cavalry brigades as well as artillery batteries of 6 to 12 guns. Each infantry stand represents 360 foot soldiers while each cavalry stand represents 180 troopers. Ground scale is 120 yards to each inch, while all turns represent 30 minutes actual time. Commanders are deployed for independent brigades, divisions, corps and the army.

• Superlative reviews in Military Miniatures Magazine and at Deep Fried Happy Mice:
  
  The Age of Eagles is a very, very well put together rule book. The rules go into great detail and make no assumptions about prior player knowledge of the period. The diagrams are many, and each is extensively captioned . . . I really appreciate all the detail provided – a great many rules sets do not take the time to spell out, for example, how to move the stands when changing formation.

And from Miniature Wargames (UK) reviewer Bill Loade, April 2009:

Now back to the original question. Does Age of Eagles have that Napoleonic feel? I suspect you have guessed my answer is YES. As a long time Napoleonic gamer I have to say they succeed really well and have inspired our group to start gaming the period again . . . So my advice is dust down those troops and purchase the rule set. You won't regret it.

• Unique Initiative and Reserve Movement Phases replicates army command and control.
• Infantry movement and firepower defined by national doctrine, to include Linear, Columnar and Impulse.
• Concepts of skirmishers, squares, cavalry fatigue and countercharge, massed artillery batteries fully integrated.
• Uses a popular basing system, so no rebasing of figures required.
• Includes three full scenarios with unit labels - Austerlitz (1805), Dresden (1813) and Quatre Bras (1815).
• Full data charts covering commanders and combat formations to include specialty formations such as the French 57th Ligne.
• Supplement Sheet with corrections, clarifications and optional rules online and continuously updated by the author.
• First scenario book, covering the Befreiungskrieg 1813 and 1814 now available. Vae Victus from France judged it, "A winner!"
• Full discussion group support with 2976 (third largest Yahoo wargaming group and growing!) members as well as some of the best conversation on the Web.

Last updated 4 January 2010.

Miniatures by John Snead, HMGS East.
Background image from the Anna Beek map of Malplaquet, 1709.

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