Waterloo has one of the largest cavalry charges ever, and battles like leipzig are just enormous. In Napoleonic warfare there's a very strong hierarchy, and the importance of multiple divisions and corps systems is critical for battles that are larger than previous ones, like SYW. Wargaming is usually very inaccurate in the amount of control it gives to players: a medieval king or a hoplite strategos has very very very few options in a battle. Napoleon changed the landscape and command style. Historical reasons: Wargaming was literally born just in that era. Problem with WW1 is that WW2 is much more exciting for most as WW1 is associated with the static warfare in France and Siege battles so not really something to build a campaign around or re-play famous battles (while there were other battles as well, they are usually unknown by most as WW1 is overshadowed in media by WW2) One thing that makes the Napoleonic Wars more interesting is that we have a lot of details about the conflict and battles as well as there were nearly all European countries as well as the USA involved at some point (War of 1812) so there are a lot of sources, books and movies and many famous historical and fictional characters are known to a wide audience ask random people if they can name a famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars, and most will answer Waterloo, while naming the factions of the War of the Roses or a single battle of the Seven Years war will be impossible to answer for mostĪnd Civil Wars in general are mostly only interesting for smaller groups as there are only 2 factions to be playedĪnother point for Napo are the Uniforms as those are easier to paint if models in units all wear the same unless with Knights or Samurai were everyone had different colours

From my experience Seven Years War (including the French and Indian War) is as popular as Napoleonic but more in 6/15mm

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