Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Hello,

In Austerlitz (from readme txt file)

<b>- Added Dragoons to the cavalry types, which can dismount.</b>

Anybody know of a scenario in Austerlitz that you can do this?

Still looking for some Dragoons...

<b><font color="gold">Gén. de Div. </b></font id="gold">Paul Wakeman [url="http://www.acwgc.org/acwgc_members/paw/wakeman-AdR.htm"](OBD)[/url]<b>
<font color="beige">75ème Regiment d’Infanterie de Ligne</font id="beige">
<font color="blue">2ème Brigade
3ème Division</font id="blue">
IV Corps
<font color="red">La Grande Armée
</b></font id="red">

Paul_Wakeman@yahoo.com

Found one - 03A1 Haslach-Jungingen

Dragoons for sure, but dismounting them????

<b><font color="gold">Gén. de Div. </b></font id="gold">Paul Wakeman [url="http://www.acwgc.org/acwgc_members/paw/wakeman-AdR.htm"](OBD)[/url]<b>
<font color="beige">75ème Regiment d’Infanterie de Ligne</font id="beige">
<font color="blue">2ème Brigade
3ème Division</font id="blue">
IV Corps
<font color="red">La Grande Armée
</b></font id="red">

Paul_Wakeman@yahoo.com

I also could not find any. or how to dismount them

Major Alexey Tartyshev
Moscow Grenadiers Regiment
2nd Grenadier Division
8th Infantry Corps
2nd Army of the West (NWC)

Yes, you press the Change Formation button on the toolbar similar to how you change infantry from Line to Column or from Square to Column.

Only added them to one situation where the were used as such. If you want to copy the OBs and change the dragoons to be able to fire mounted and dismount the code is easy to check. Just open up the Wertingen OB and look at the French dragoons for a sample.

D type is dragoons

Q is for carbine

I sent John a note about changing the text for the "Formations" section of the User.pdf file so that not only are Dragoons included in the text but also artillery. For some reason artillery was not noted under that section.

Colonel Bill Peters, 17th Dragoons, III Corps, French Army
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come)
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I'm actually playing a game against FM Jim Hall

01A-HTH-Wertingen (33 turns)

There are some tactical advantages to dismounting the Dragoons, but really they still are cavalry for casualties, so its a fairly expensive option unless you can get them into position quickly.

I seem to recall that in this period, Nappy had a number of dragoon units that were, in effect, infantry, simply through the lack of good horses in France.

regards

Gen Mark Oakford
Commander 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cav Division
Reserve Cavalry Corps

Yes, those dismounted units are depicted in the 1805.oob file:

D Dragoon à Pied/ResCav
Begin
L 4 6 100 GB d'Hilliers
B 1B/DàP/ResCav
Begin
L 3 6 101 GB Lesuire
U 587 4 I Q 31 10 1/1 Dragoon à Pied
U 583 4 I Q 31 10 2/1 Dragoon à Pied
U 737 4 I Q 31 10 1/2 Dragoon à Pied
U 729 4 I Q 31 10 2/2 Dragoon à Pied
End
B 2B/DàP/ResCav
Begin
L 2 6 102 GB Brouard
U 884 4 I Q 31 10 1/3 Dragoon à Pied
U 886 4 I Q 31 10 2/3 Dragoon à Pied
U 545 4 I Q 31 10 1/4 Dragoon à Pied
U 551 4 I Q 31 10 2/4 Dragoon à Pied
End
B Art/DàP/ResCav
Begin
U 4 5 A A 25 2 ?/1 Regt Foot
U 8 5 B C 25 2 ?/1 Regt Foot
End
End

You wont find them at Austerlitz. At least none of the OBs I used had them there.

They also appear in the 1806 game.

Colonel Bill Peters, 17th Dragoons, III Corps, French Army
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come)
Swiss-Swedish Army CinC, Musket and Cannon Game Club - Come over and see what we are all about!