Battle of Amberg is done and finished up Ettlingen pretty quickly this morning.
For Ettlingen ... it was actually fought over a broader area than I cover but I just have to stay on schedule and mapping out all of that area just didnt seem to be a productive use of my time.
Instead I used the (already finished) Ettlingen map that has the village of Malsch on it. That village was the main area where the fighting took place. There was some cavalry action to the west - the cavalry for both sides guarded the flank and neither was able to get the better of each other.
Up in the hills to the east, St Cyr's troops were able to draw the Austrians out of their excellent defensive position and hidden French units sprang the trap. The Austrians had to retreat once their left flank fell back. Hard to see that as a good action for us ... I mean who would come out of a position where you had about 32 guns and a commanding position? So I passed on mapping that section of the battle and instead we get a nice medium sized action.
Tomorrow I will work on Limburg (1796). After that its Emmendingen (again, 1796) followed by Aldenhoven (1794). Two battles from the 1799 Noord-Holland campaign follow after that. Biberach 1800 will be last.
If I feel up to it I will finish off the Tourcoing-Tournay map - it would be used for a large operational level battle of Tourcoing scenario.
We have only two more artwork groups for the Units.bmp file for Joe Amoral to do. Then he moves on to doing the 3D artwork.
I have one more image to add in - its of the Royal Allemande Emigre' cavalry regiment. Someone on The Miniature Page (TMP) posted the link to the image for me. Very helpful group there.
I must say that many gaps in my knowledge of this period have been filled in. As Jim P. mentioned its nice to see the 1796 campaign get coverage. You all can thank Warren for that. Of all of the campaigns covered it has the most battles or actions represented. I found some units during the work on the smaller battles that were not in the campaign OB. I plan on adding them in as bonus units. I did not use them in the campaign scenarios but I could do so for "Bonus" scenarios.
Finally, I plan on doing two huge battle scenarios where every unit of the early period (1792-95) is used in the first one and then every unit from the later period (1796-1800) is used in the second scenario. Might be comparable to the "Twin Peaks" scenario from NRC. Probably something like 150k per side. Might call them "Monster Revolutionary Wars Mash"
