Mike

To assist understanding the above information i have provided a link i used in the past to understand Napoleonic Warfare. This scratches the surface on accuracy of muskets and references the effectiveness against cavalry. This is a training video from West Point Academy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtPIwjZs43g

Beginners List of Cavalry Troops

http://www.napoleonguide.com/cavalry_france.htm

Infantry charging Cavalry:
1. Immediate Morale Test – Charging to your doom takes real balls of steel.
2. Infantry should be penalized if the Cavalry Unit isn’t Disordered. The cavalry tactics of the day dictated a counter charge when formations broke ranks and went running wildly at them.
3. Disordered Cavalry should instead take morale test to see if they retreat from charging Infantry because why stand and fight when you can simply run away on your horse. (Cavalry should take casualties as stragglers would get caught).

Cavalry charging Infantry:
1. Infantry could take morale test to simulate “Form Square” due to Cavalry Charge.
2. Failing the test meant the square wasn’t properly formed and the Cavalry charge goes off as intended due to them exploiting the weakness.
3. Passing the test should HALT the Cavalry Charge as horses will not throw themselves into a fence of spikes willingly. It should be noted that most cavalry units weren’t armed with meaningful firearms useful for anything other than close engagements or harassing fire. So with the exception to “Heavy Cavalry” perhaps, they should not be shooting at troops as most carried saber, lancer, etc.
4. Infantry should get penalized to a degree as movement should be all but halted when cavalry are near leaving them open to artillery fire and danger of infantry charges. Units in square can’t effectively run off their counterparts when 1/4 of their manpower is facing the threat. There was drill in moving the squares for the different nations so halving movement the next turn would simulate that as they backed away keeping horsey boys at bay and firing pot shots at them.

There are no other games centered on this battle or period for whatever reason. I think in all honesty that since the majority of the tabletop genre centers around the Brits and French etc that it has become a misrepresentation of what the Napoleonic wars were and whom it affected the most. Without doubt the Austrians carried a great majority of the fighting along with the russians, prussians, and other minor states. The British for the most part financed the wars for their allied powers. This was part of what caused the failure of the 5th coalition as the fellow knows as Stadium (spelling?) oversold his influence to the Austrian king promising that England was going to cough up way more gold than discussed including all these other european powers were going to declare war and march on France ending this nonsense of people governing themselves etc, and returning to the rightful states of kings. Austrian King really didn’t want to go ahead with his idea because he correctly believed it would be their end.

Of course the King of Austria should have perhaps asked where these supposed high ranking talks were being held (seems to be mostly liquered up low ranking officials in bars attempting to run up their corporate ladders). Hand shake and a beer is great for exchanging a lawn mower, but i’d think you’d want a bit more solid evidence of intent for national matters.

At any rate, that’s the short of a very long story as told by the “Thunder on the Danube” trilogy.

I’m very interested in this period and perhaps one of my favorites. I’ve done extensive research into it as a HOBBIEST. I in no way portend to lend any credibility that i may be an expert in the matter, i simply just know a small bit more than someone whos never read a book.

At any rate, i’ve many charts, complete OOB’s for all sides and if you so desire to do this i’d be more than happy to assist any way i can be of use. I’m currently finishing painting the ENTIRE VI Korp as represented in historical detail (as much as possible) and have purchased the entire Provisional Korp for the french and will start painting them one day soon. Both of these are for the battle of Abensburg leading up to the battle of Wagram.

I’ll include a shameless plug for my favorite miniature caster because all his minis are metal provided by newline designs in England by the owner Sean. He started out like you and i hope you gain his success over the years.

Napoleonics

I haven’t forgotten about this, just not sure how to go about my thoughts in a useful manner. I’m still thinking. I LOVE your system and if i can help improve the fun of it i’d like to do so in a positive manner without wasting your time. I did respond to the leadership in the other thread which would carry over significantly into this.

I suppose my idea of linear warfare and it’s feel is taken only from tabletop gaming and BP is a command and control type of game where the combat is automatic and out of the players control. It’s a game of issue orders and then resolve what was heard. Lastly is combat which each unit automatically shoots the closest target it has line of sight on. That game is not this one and i’m not sure how to incorporate what i’d like to see from that genre of games into the E-version you are so kind to spend the time to write for us for reasonable fee.