Ive played Grand Armee fast play and Might and Reason for a number of years, so it seemed an obvious choice to have a go at Sam Mustafas, soon to be released LaSalle series. Its rumoured to be out in November and hopefully Mike at BlackHat miniatures will be able to get them in soon after that. The other reason, is simply how good AB figures really are. They are so nice to paint up, they look brilliant and you get brilliant service from Fighting 15's, its uk seller.
Anyhow Lasalle games is part of the new honour system, which is made up of Lasalle and Blucher games. Each uses the same basic rules and concepts and more importantly basing. In Lasalle a unit of 4 Infantry bases count as a battalion. In blucher, I believe 1 unit of infantry will equal one battlation. The lassalle basing Ive chosen to use, is 4 x 2 figures on a 40mm wide base and its width being 25mm. In fact, thanks to the British post service, Im still waiting on some precut bases, dispatched over a 10 days ago. The same basing size is being used for my cavalry and Im putting 3 figures on each. In Lasalle 4 bases equal 1 battalion both horse and cavalary. I believe in some cases, you can have large battalions (6 bases) to represent the Austrians. As im starting with the french and a few brits, Im not in need of that.
Ok, so I know the bases and I know Ill need Infantry, Cav and Arty I can begin to build my army. Which will come next.......