Bataille Empire v2 @ Britcon 2025

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At Britcon this year the Bataille Empire Napoleonic rules will feature a Version 2 event in a multi-round competition including any official clarifications issued by the author.

Coalition armies v Republican/Empire armies

This 15mm event will run with 5 games over the weekend (Friday evening, 2 games on Saturday and 2 games on Sunday).
  • Games being fought on an individual basis with battles between Coalition armies and French Republican/Empire armies.
    • This is an open event so any army from the army lists in the rule book is welcome.
  • If possible, players should bring two armies one Coalition and one Empire, if this is not possible for some reason allowances can be made or armies lent.
  • Basing of figures should be between 6 and 8cm for units in line or 3 to 4 cm when in column (standard sized units)
  • All army lists should comply with the requirements in the BE Version 2 rulebook including any official ammendments issued by the author.
  • Army lists should be 200 pts maximum.
  • Standard sized tables of 120cm * 80cm
  • Battles will take place on tables with pre-set terrain, no player will be expected to play on the same table twice, tables will be reset Saturday night or at other times if necessary.
  • Some Players will be asked to bring terrain suitable to set one table up.
  • The initial game with be organised on player ranking and not from the same club, the subsequent games based on the players score in the competition, no player will play the same player twice.
  • The maximum number of turns for each game on Saturday and Sunday will be 7.  Friday’s game will continue till time out or one player is routed.
  • In the case of odd numbers, I will drop out and simply umpire and enjoy the show.
  • Players firstly dice for the army they will use, one of them throws a dice and on a 1,2 or 3 uses the Empire army otherwise uses their Coalition army. In the final game players can choose to use an army if they haven’t already used it in the competition.
  • Games with then begin with dicing to determine the attacker who will then choose sides. The first game played will be using the Battle scenario and the final game an Encounter scenario. The umpire will dice for the other games to determine the scenario to be played across all tables after the attacker on each table has been determined and they have chosen a side. Each scenario will be only played once.
  • Games will be finish after a full turn as been completed. Twenty minutes before the end of the game players will be told this to enable them to agree when they can finish the game without exceeding the time limit significantly. 

The timetable is as follows:
  • Friday:         6:00pm earliest start, 7:30 latest start, play to a conclusion or around 10;30pm when time will be called.
  • Saturday:     09:30-13:00, 14:00-17.30 
  • Sunday:      09:00-12:30, 13:30-17:00


Scoring will be done on the usual French system.  

​Contact : Adrian Steer 
​Umpire: Adrian Steer, plus the usual cabal of experts who'll be playing anyway
List Checker: Adrian Steer
List submission deadline August 9th


Book via the Britcon Booking Page