Ian Chinich is a Rhode Island professional with a healthcare background who guides the Faulkner Consulting Group. In addition, Ian Chinich enjoys tabletop gaming and war strategy games like De Bellis Antiquitatis and De Bellis Napoleonicis.

De Bellis Napoleonicis consists of fast-play rules for historical miniature wargaming centered on the Napoleonic era. Created by British Army veterans Bob Carter and Alex Testo, the duo applied their military experience in crafting the game rules true to Napoleonic history and designed to deliver tactically challenging battles. 

Every maneuver piece on the tabletop represents a tactical troop, known as a unit, such as heavy cavalry, light infantry, and horse artillery. Model figures represent units mounted on a single base and feature varying depths. Two or more units can move as a group formation.

With command and control just as crucial as the quality of troops, a set of Commanders Action Points provides a template for gamers to put their strategic imprint on hard-fought campaigns; among the extended battles that the rules have been tested on are Austerlitz, Waterloo, and Leipzig. For example, the France 1794-99 army list provides gamers with 12 elements, such as muskets, assembled by the general to form poor-quality light infantry. Simultaneously, the gamer has access to Hussars in the form of cavalry and specialist light infantry troops that became elite "legere" by 1800.