Strength Points

INFANTRY, cavalry and artillery bases in Bob Cordery's Napoleonic Portable Wargame rules typically have a strength-point value of two.

Strength points refer not to a base's offensive value, but to how many hits it can take.

My WoFun 10mm infantry and cavalry have two rows of figures per base.

A base of French infantry, representing a division in my Waterloo refight

It will be an easy matter to remove a row when a strength point has been lost.

I have set up my artillery to have four gunners to a base, so the loss of a strength point can be shown by removing two of the gunners.

So far, so simple, but a complication arises with Napoleon's Imperial Guard, each division of which I intend to award an SP of three to reflect its elite status.

I will need some sort of discreet marker that can be removed when the first strength point is lost.

Napoleon and Wellington, as army commanders, will have an SP of six, and each corps commander will be worth three SP.

These are purely notional numbers and do not reflect any offensive or defensive capability.

However, the loss of such figures will be important as under the rules an army that loses a third of its strength points counts as exhausted, after which it can no longer take offensive action.