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Bill Peters
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 Posted - Nov 06 2009 : 6:16:24 PM
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| http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/NapBat/Ausertlitz/austerlitz.html Its official - the game is now on the HPS website. Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)
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Mike Ellwood
New Zealand
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Colin Knox
New Zealand
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 11:08:38 PM
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Man this looks excellent can't wait to get our copy a Mike!
Its on the way downunder care of Rich A round for Bill, HPS and testers please Helga! General de Brigade Knox
Grand Duc d'Austerlitz et Comte de Argentan  Escadron Mamelouks
Chasseurs a'Cheval
Division de Cavalerie la Vieille Garde.  CO. 1er Brigade, III Division Cavalerie Legere, III Corps Armee du Nord
http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm
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Bill Peters
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 10:39:12 PM
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| There is one battle I am working on that used trenches. Abatis also was used. Trenches were dug during some battles but yes, its mainly for the sieges like those found in the Peninsular battles. Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)
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Colin Knox
New Zealand
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 7:59:00 PM
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| Trenches were used in both Spain and the siege of Danzig in the Napoleonic wars I recall. I would not be surprised if most all sieges of the period used them. Not sure about actual non siege battles though. General de Brigade Knox
Grand Duc d'Austerlitz et Comte de Argentan Escadron Mamelouks
Chasseurs a'Cheval
Division de Cavalerie la Vieille Garde. CO. 1er Brigade, III Division Cavalerie Legere, III Corps Armee du Nord
http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm
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Kirill
Russia
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 7:15:27 PM
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| Bill, thank You very much. It's very helpful! And another one question - "trench terrain type", what's this?
As far as I know trenches used only in Civil War in first time, not in Napoleonic wars... Thank You for your answers! Omne ignotum pro magnifico est |
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Bill Peters
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 1:38:40 PM
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| Kirill - to use indirect fire you pick a hex that is out of LOS of the indirect fire weapon and then use the Control key + right click on target hex or you use the artillery dialog and just fire on a unit. If its out of LOS it will use the Indirect fire formula. I divided up the Russians into indirect fire sections as they had 4 guns per battery (for the most part). Where there was just 2 howitzers for the French or other nations I did NOT divide up the batteries in order to keep down the amount of units. In a future title I am doing I took the French howitzers and combined them into a 4 gun section. Also: Indirect fire weapons must still have a LOS to the target in order to perform Opportunity fire during an opponent's turn. I checked this out to be sure today. I moved French units out of LOS of a Russian licorne section I had unlimbered (yes, it was unlimbered!) many times but they never were fired on. Thus there is no fear of moving around the map out of LOS of an indirect fire weapon and wondering if they are going to fire on you. If this does happen in your games please report it directly to Rich Hamilton at the HPS Support email! Hope that helps. Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)
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Kirill
Russia
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Mike Ellwood
New Zealand
364 Posts |
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Jeka
Ukraine
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Bill Peters
5203 Posts |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 1:35:33 PM
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| Element by element though there is a Command Control feature. It can be invoked for those moves where you want to move a large group of units over an area of ground that is undisputed. But mainly you move the units one by one. Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)
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HarryInk
Australia
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Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 03:25:55 AM
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| Can I ask how the movement is processed? that is, can I tell IV Corps to move from A to B and the program will arrange everything, or do I move element by element myself? |
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Bill Peters
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bijl0130
Belgium
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 4:01:40 PM
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game forms are updated,
greetings and enjoy playing! 
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Luitenant-Generaal Marco Bijl Commander Anglo-Allied army. 2nd Dutch guides (guards).
Militaire Willems Orde 3rd Class (MWO)
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Bill Peters
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 2:26:20 PM
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| Yes, I believe that Rich Hamilton can work this out for you. So if you want to order 5 copies of Austerlitz with 4 others (or any combination of HPS games) you can still do this. You have to email him with all of the payment details and he then gets them sent out to you. You then mail them out to the individuals that ordered the game. I believe that is how it works. Not sure if for extra bucks he will individually mail them for you. Good info to know ... Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)
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Colin Knox
New Zealand
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 12:47:36 PM
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Hi Bill and others
Does anybody know if HPS still do a deal for club members if you order 5 games or more? regards General de Brigade Knox
Grand Duc d'Austerlitz et Comte de Argentan Escadron Mamelouks
Chasseurs a'Cheval
Division de Cavalerie la Vieille Garde. CO. 1er Brigade, III Division Cavalerie Legere, III Corps Armee du Nord
http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm
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Bill Peters
5203 Posts |
Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 11:22:34 AM
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| Guys - ok, eye candy time: here are four jump maps of the large maps included in the game. Eagle - this map was assembled by Andy Burke using the old map editor from one of the campaign games and then converted to the HPS format. I purchased this map from him and then edited the map (map tags were too small) for various reasons. Its 254 x 254 and the selection box (red) is on Canterbury. Dover is in the southeast section of the map. Folkestone is in the south/southwest.  Moravia - this map includes the Austerlitz battlefield and Brunn. Its 443 x 301 hexes in size. The selection window is on the Pratzen Heights.  Piave-Pordenone - this map is a combination of the areas of Sacile-Pordenone and the Piave River area and regions to the north and northwest. Its 408 x 213 and the selection window is over Sacile. The map is not a combination of those found in Eckmuhl and Wagram but an all new map created by David Guegan and completed by myself. David did the more complicated section (western half) and had done up alot of the eastern section when work called him away. He had to work with scans of the paper map (and I also mailed him the paper topo maps too). It was a difficult project for him and much thanks for his hard work!  Finally, the largest map in the game: Ulm Campaign. Its 822 x 560 hexes in size. The selection window is on Ulm. Augsburg is in the far right section of the map.  Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come)
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Kosyanenko
Russia
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Richard
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Bill Peters
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SLudwig
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Campaign Austerlitz
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