Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

As I worked through the 1805 OOB I saw some things that maybe need to be fixed:

- The French Waldeck infantry uses graphic of Hesse infantry(113/50) but should it use it as a dutch unit? We did not make up a new icon for this one. The slot that is shown as Waldeck in my spreadsheet has the comment to use the Hesse infantry if we dont make up a new one. That is what must have happened and no new icon will be forthcoming for this game.

- Austrian Dragoons and Chevaulegers have graphic/icon switched. Chevaulegers should have 45/13 and Dragoons 44/12.(That was already lengthy discussed at the gamesquad forum, and unless hard facts show up it might not be worth to toy around with it) Yes, I see this. Let me do some checking just to be sure. My friend, Mike, can help me to ensure that this is indeed correct. Both types used white and green interchangeably throughout the wars. I will look at the Austrian army PDF I have too which discusses uniform colors for 1805. Simple fix by the way. I use Ultra Edit to do mass changes within files.

- Following French artillery units are designated as "Heavy" unit type but should be "Light" unit type(at least judging by the artillery that is uses), they use B but should use A for the unit type in the OOB.
1/8 Regt Foot
3/7 Regt Foot(2x in OOB, 1 in Art/3D/IIIC, 1 in Res/IIIC )
17/5 Regt Foot(4x in OOB, 1 in Art/1D/IVC, 1 in Art/2D/IVC, 1 in Art/3D/IVC, 1 in Res/IVC but that one is correctly designated B, the others all use A)
5/1 Regt Foot
3/1 Regt Foot

I cannot verify this .... I do not have Bowden's book on the campaign anymore. So maybe the gun type should have been "heavy" ... but let me see what I can find out. The French army was still using 8lb guns then. You are confusing the issue too ... if it is a Light gun then it uses a "B" gun class (Light). If it is a "A" type then it is a (Heavy) gun class. Or were you speaking of the PDT file weapon type?

- French 17/5 Regt Foot is 4x in OOB, 1 in Art/1D/IVC, 1 in Art/2D/IVC, 1 in Art/3D/IVC, 1 inRes/IVC, all together 24 guns what seem much too large for a single company that should have only 8 guns. Are these other companies?

Probably what happened is that I copied it three times in that corps. Again, I will have to refer to Bowden or OB for that corps to get it correct.

- Does the French 4/7 Chasseurs purposely use 18/6 as graphic/icon instead of 19/6 like the other squadrons of the regiment? Yes, am sure that the 19 is an error.

- 3lb Grenz Bty doesn't use the Grenzer artillery graphic(50) but just the normal foot artillery graphic(48), same counts for unit icon, it uses 4 but should use 6. Will fix this.

- For the Austrian army the unit graphic for the German units seem to be used very often, only very few use the Hungarian graphics, just wonder if that is correct. I used a list of regiments that were either Hungarian or German. A lot of the Hungarian regiments fought in Italy. You might want to look in the OB for the Caldiero campaign in N.Italy. A higher percentage of Hungarian regiments were present in the Archduke Charles' army.

- In Kutusov's Army the Musketeers Regiments use the same graphics for their Fusilier Bat. and Grenadier Bat., they also have the same quality ratings, I can understand that some Grenadiers might not have performed above the Fusilier units but isn't it appropriate to still use the Grenadier graphics for the grenadier battalions like it was done in Buxhowden army? Probably a mistake. I will look into this one.

- The Heavy Section in Artillery/IIC uses the graphic for the Garde Artillery, is that correct?