JTS -- Republican Bayonets on the Rhine -- RELEASED

[Cyrano]

In the last Grogcast, I said the Tiller games remain on my "Mount Rushmore" of Napoleonic gaming.

Well, the JTS Boney series got one bigger today:

https://john-tiller-software.myshopify.com/collections/napoleonic-battles/products/republican-bayonets-on-the-rhine

If you didn't love it before (this puzzles me, but I know there are some) you will not suddenly now.

For the rest of us, it's a filled hole in our hearts.

[MengJiao]

In the last Grogcast, I said the Tiller games remain on my "Mount Rushmore" of Napoleonic gaming.

Well, the JTS Boney series got one bigger today:

https://john-tiller-software.myshopify.com/collections/napoleonic-battles/products/republican-bayonets-on-the-rhine

If you didn't love it before (this puzzles me, but I know there are some) you will not suddenly now.

For the rest of us, it's a filled hole in our hearts.

Yep.  This sounds fantastic!

[nelmsm]

Was a playtester on this one. You're going to like it.

[Grim.Reaper]

Misread..

[MengJiao]

Was a playtester on this one. You're going to like it.

Wow!  I just bought this and it looks truly fantastic!  Which reminds me I've loved the whole series for the last 15-20 years!

Hey and in this set you get the first use of aerial recon (balloons) in battle (Fleurus, Summer of 1794)

[dinsdale]

Superb! I can't think of many games (board or pc) which have taken on this era.

Anyone know if it works with wine?

[MengJiao]

Superb! I can't think of many games (board or pc) which have taken on this era.

Anyone know if it works with wine?

  Yep, to the unusual (but extremely interesting) topic!  Is WINE some kind of operating system?

[bbmike]

Superb! I can't think of many games (board or pc) which have taken on this era.

Anyone know if it works with wine?

I'll see if it works with bourbon if you want.

[berto]

Anyone know if it works with wine?

The JTS Civil War Battles and Panzer Battles series all work (near) perfectly fine in Wine.  (Maybe just some sound issues now and then.)  As do the JTS air (Vietnam etc.) and naval games (Midway etc.).  Would the JTS Napoleonic series work in Wine?  I can't imagine why not.

[Grim.Reaper]

Was a playtester on this one. You're going to like it.

Wow!  I just bought this and it looks truly fantastic!  Which reminds me I've loved the whole series for the last 15-20 years!

Hey and in this set you get the first use of aerial recon (balloons) in battle (Fleurus, Summer of 1794)

Be interested in your impressions...I keep wanting to give Tiller games a shot again, but for some reason they don't stick with me.  Does anything about this game have a chance to change my mind?

[dinsdale]

  Yep, to the unusual (but extremely interesting) topic!  Is WINE some kind of operating system?

It's a way to run windows apps on a mac.
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berto, cheers I am going to pick it up. Its been years since I bought a Tiller game, but the subject matter is just so tempting.

[MengJiao]

Was a playtester on this one. You're going to like it.

Wow!  I just bought this and it looks truly fantastic!  Which reminds me I've loved the whole series for the last 15-20 years!

Hey and in this set you get the first use of aerial recon (balloons) in battle (Fleurus, Summer of 1794)

  Unless you have a huge interest in the very early battles of the French Revolution (pre-Napoleonic since in 1792 he would have been still in Artillery school and up to 1794 mostly unemployed, 1795 shooting the Jeuness d'Orai, 1796 in Italy, 1797-8 in Egypt and so on) this would not be a good place to start back on John Tiller and the turns are 10 minutes, the Hexes 50 meters thus the battles fairly large and confusing.

Be interested in your impressions...I keep wanting to give Tiller games a shot again, but for some reason they don't stick with me.  Does anything about this game have a chance to change my mind?

[MengJiao]

Was a playtester on this one. You're going to like it.

Wow!  I just bought this and it looks truly fantastic!  Which reminds me I've loved the whole series for the last 15-20 years!

Hey and in this set you get the first use of aerial recon (balloons) in battle (Fleurus, Summer of 1794)

  Unless you have a huge interest in the very early battles of the French Revolution (pre-Napoleonic since in 1792 he would have been still in Artillery school and up to 1794 mostly unemployed, 1795 shooting the Jeuness d'Orai, 1796 in Italy, 1797-8 in Egypt and so on) this would not be a good place to start back on John Tiller and the turns are 10 minutes, the Hexes 50 meters thus the battles fairly large and confusing.

Be interested in your impressions...I keep wanting to give Tiller games a shot again, but for some reason they don't stick with me.  Does anything about this game have a chance to change my mind?

Unless you have a huge interest in the very early battles of the French Revolution (pre-Napoleonic since in 1792 he would have been still in Artillery school and up to 1794 mostly unemployed, 1795 shooting the Jeuness d'Orai, 1796 in Italy, 1797-8 in Egypt and so on) this would not be a good place to start back on John Tiller and the turns are 10 minutes, the Hexes 50 meters thus the battles fairly large and confusing.

[Grim.Reaper]

Thanks appreciate it...was browsing over the blitz forum and seemed some folks were recommending as a good "starter" so I wasn't sure.  I guess for now I will be watching this thread for impressions:)

[berto]

  Yep, to the unusual (but extremely interesting) topic!  Is WINE some kind of operating system?

It's a way to run windows apps on a mac.

Or on a Linux system.

Most of my JTS playtesting is on my Linux netbook, using Wine for the Windows emulation.