Although I'm a big fan of C&C Napoleonics, I've also been really impressed with Jacobite Rising, which is very nicely nuanced and has generally quick scenarios, surprisingly high variety and a good level of re-playability. I'd say Jacobite Rising is my favourite C&C apart from C&CN, followed by C&C Medieval, then Ancients. I've also tried Memoir 44 (seemed much more simplistic than C&C and I couldn't work out what scale it was supposed to represent) and The Great War (felt like a good trench warfare simulation - pointless attack beaten back with losses = all back to square one plus lots of dead people - but somehow I never got into it).
The gaming group I'm part of has taken time out from our habitual C&CN gaming to play the Jacobite Rising scenarios, and stats are below in case anyone is interested. Each scenarios has been played at least once solo and at least once multi-player. The Average winning margin column shows the % difference between each side's banners at game end, so although Scenario 8 (Clifton) is 100% Government wins, the banner margin was only 30%, so both games were reasonably close, unlike Culloden Flanking Move, which were runaway Govt wins both times. Does anyone else have any stats to share?
[Update: 8 May 21: table updated to include Mark McG's stats below:]
Scenario No of plays % of Govt wins Average winning margin
1 - Killiecrankie: 4 0% 42%
2 - Dunkeld 3 100% 53%
3 - Cromdale 3 33% 42%
4 - Alness 3 100% 83%
5 - Sheriffmuir 3 67% 72%
6 - Glen Shiel 3 100% 67%
7 - Prestonpans 3 0% 83%
8 - Clifton 2 100% 30%
9 - Inverurie 2 50% 60%
10 - Falkirk (Stage 1) 2 50% 43%
11 - Falkirk (Stage 2) 2 100% 40%
12 - Battle Of Culloden 5 80% 46%
13 - Culloden (Flanking Move) 2 100% 75%
