The Battle of Marengo scenario - 098. The Battle of Marengo - 098_Marengo_HTH.scn - is easily my most balanced scenario I have ever designed. In all of the playtesting it usually ended in a Draw or Minor Victory. You would have to get two players of unequal ability to play it to get a Major Victory OR if one player does something exceptional great!
Remember that the armies were basically similar in size. The French have Desaix showing up later in the day. So .....
The French need to play a game of "give ground but not too soon and do not lose too many troops doing it" type of a strategy.
The Battle of Rivoli scenario - 056. The Battle of Rivoli - 056_Rivoli_HTH.scn - again, another fun one to play. Again, the French are outnumbered to begin with but the Austrian columns are spread out and fixed to begin the game. Bonaparte arrives to save the day with forces and its going to be a matter of whether the French have avoided losing too many forces as to whether they can win.
The Battles of Castiglione ... ok, there are two of them. The more famous battle is:
027. The Second Battle of Castiglione - 027_Castiglione-2_HTH.scn
The French usually will win this one. They have the Austrians outnumbered and out-positioned. Thus I include two variants. Take your pick! The purist will play the Historical scenario to try it out. The addict will find one of the variants they like and play that one.
The largest map in the game is "Quadrilateral-Extended.map." I thought I was finished with the game this past weekend but on Monday I noticed I had not gotten to this map to fill in more terrain detail. I also found a road that ended in a field!
I spent 11 hours Monday and Tuesday going over this map. New farms/orchards were added. Etc.
I want to spend more time on this map. Its never really going to be "done" and I hope to update it over the next year and include it in an update. There is just so much area ... the left map edge has a large impassable area ... its really not a problem. None of the battles were fought there. I would like to add in the remaining area some day. There is also a lot of impassable terrain in the upper elevations. This is not only due to the "26 level barrier" in the map editor but also for the fact that it just wasnt someplace that the troops used.
There are several large scenarios that use the map (some or all of it). One is for the Castiglione operation and the other is for the Arcole operation. The Rivoli operation was mainly confined to the Battle of Rivoli map ... if the French had lost there wasnt anything stopping the Austrians from getting to Mantua.
More on the game later ....
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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz
3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps
Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie
NWC Founding Member
For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options
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