Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Holy cow... sounds like quite a pounding match!

I am ceratin that it would make a good article on tactics for the NWC Newsletter. Why not take some snapshots and write a little description? The Editor would certainly be pleased with your contribution. [:D]

FM Sir 'Muddy' Jones, KG
2nd Life Guards, Household Cavalry
CO, Cavalry Corps
Allied CiC

Always willing to drink...to the Polish Lion.

To your health Marechal!

<b>Général de Division Michael Cox</b>
<font size="4"><i>Principe <font size="1">della </font id="size1">Toscana</i></font id="size4">
Comte de Moselle

<i><font size="4">Armée du Rhin</font id="size4">
<font size="2">2e battallion, 1er Regiment de Chasseurs a Pied, Inf. de l'V. Gde.</i></font id="size2">


<font size="1"><u>In Regards to Skirmisher Flop by Melee Losers:</u>
<ul><li>Make it an optional rather than fixed rule (at the very least). </li>
<li>Skirmisher stack size relative to retreating formed unit should be a factor (whether in clear or covered terrain). </li>
<li>For skirmishers, (not leaders or wagons) covered terrain (swamp, building, city, town, forest, marsh, and perhaps orchard) should negate the overrun result.</li></font id="size1"> </ul>

The "Battle of Giants" continues. Turn 13 (only 5th after armies got into contact) sees more glorious charges and counter-charges, resulting in almost unbeliavable bloodshed. Current loses are:

French
302 infantry
14720 cavalry
13 guns
22 commanders

Russians
19 infantry
10583 cavalry
12 guns
8 commanders



GL. Pavel Stafa
Leib-gvardii Preobrazhenskiy polk
Kommanduyuschiy Korpusom Rezerva
2-oy Zapadnoy armii EIV

Oh my! You guys ar really determined! Honestly I can't imagine how to loose 10-15 thousand cavalry in 5 turns[:I]

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<center><b>Eyo Imperatorskogo Velichestva Leib-Kirassirskogo polku
Polkovnik Anton Kosyanenko</b></center>

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Kosyanenko</i>
<br />Oh my! You guys ar really determined! Honestly I can't imagine how to loose 10-15 thousand cavalry in 5 turns[:I]<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
No piece of holy soil of Russia should be given to attackers! [:D]

GL. Pavel Stafa
Leib-gvardii Preobrazhenskiy polk
Kommanduyuschiy Korpusom Rezerva
2-oy Zapadnoy armii EIV

I'm very keen on integrity of our lands myself![^]

But make sure to save at least some men for reproduction. Or we would have no one to work these lands[:I]

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<center><b>Eyo Imperatorskogo Velichestva Leib-Kirassirskogo polku
Polkovnik Anton Kosyanenko</b></center>

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Baron</i>
resulting in almost unbeliavable bloodshed. Current loses are:

French
302 infantry
14720 cavalry
13 guns
22 commanders

Russians
19 infantry
10583 cavalry
12 guns
8 commanders
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Is this an all cavalry scenario or are there any more infantry there? I don't think I have ever seen cavalry losses on this scale and certainly not this early after contact. Are there not many turns in this scenario?

Intrigued

Mark
VII Corps

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mark Eason</i>
<br />Is this an all cavalry scenario or are there any more infantry there? I don't think I have ever seen cavalry losses on this scale and certainly not this early after contact. Are there not many turns in this scenario?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Well, its NRC TwinPeaks, a 2-day battle, where opponents start at opposite (W & E) map edges and cavalry reaches line of battle about 3 turns before infantry is able to [:)]

GL. Pavel Stafa
Leib-gvardii Preobrazhenskiy polk
Kommanduyuschiy Korpusom Rezerva
2-oy Zapadnoy armii EIV

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Baron</i>
Well, its NRC TwinPeaks, a 2-day battle, where opponents start at opposite (W & E) map edges and cavalry reaches line of battle about 3 turns before infantry is able to [:)]
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Thanks Pavel

Now I understand. And because they can reach each other in three turns, they do; with avengeance [:D]

Regards

Mark
VII Corps

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mark Eason</i>
Now I understand. And because they can reach each other in three turns, they do; with avengeance [:D]

Regards

Mark
VII Corps
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Mark,

It's a little more complicated than that and Pavel is being much too modest.

Our esteemed opponents have hit upon a very clever Russian tactic which Tomasz and I were much too slow to fathom, mayhaps because we have campaigned for so long in Central Europe rather than the steppes [B)]. Specifically, the Russians have a decided numerical superiority in cavalry, on the order of 3/2, albeit nearly half of it consists of cossacks. Despite their lower morale, however, they are rated as "lancers" in NRC and, when used <i>en masse</i>, can kill elite French cav as well as any Gd Dragoon or cuirassier. Given the initial Russian numerical superiority, Pavel & Jeka have simply launched an all-out cavalry action, on all fronts. Their initial losses were acceptable since they a) were trading low-morale cossacks for elite cav, and b) their overall numerical advantage means that a straight battle of cav attrition would always end in their favor.[:(]

My hat is off to them for devising a crude, but nonetheless effective, strategy.

Regards,

Paco

<i>Maréchal M. Francisco Palomo
Comte de Marseille
Duc d'Abrantes
Commandant - Division de Cavalerie de la Vieille Garde</i>
CO - <i>Iere Corps de Armee</i>