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The Fun We Missing Without an 1807 Game
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Author:  EaglesFly [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:11 pm ]
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Saturday Nov 1, 1806

Warsaw
A courier brought the first details of the disaster of Jena / Auerstead. After a change of mounts the rider headed toward Ostrolenka, carrying a dispatch for General Bennigsen. Neither Bennigsen nor anyone in Russia yet know of the defeat of the Prussian Army at the hands of the Grande Armee.

(from 1806 The Autumn of no Return )
Author:  Jim Pfleck [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:14 pm ]
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Ray,
Maybe you should make one!
Author:  clifton seeney [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:23 pm ]
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The Polish war should have followed long ago Murat's run across Germany too the battle of Friedland
Author:  EaglesFly [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:24 pm ]
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Sunday November 2 1806- Crivitz

Before daybreak, Blucher continued the march due west toward the lower Elbe,and entered the widespread cantonments east of Crivitz. During the day one of the Prussian battalions was surprised and lost four officers, 50 men and a cannon. in the evening Soult, who was in pursuit reached Plau and his Calvary Lubz. Murat camped at Malchin. Blucher resolved to retire behind the river Stor and rest his men.

Posen;

Davout marched on Posen. Jerome's newly formed Corp of Bavarians and Wurttembegers was on the march to Crossen -on- Oder and were placed under Davout's orders
Author:  EaglesFly [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:30 pm ]
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Hi Jim ,
I wish I knew how to design these games, but alas not within my abilities , maybe though if enough people in the club were prepared to pre- order an 1807 Game with JTS then perhaps he would see the economics of it and we would soon be fighting at Pultusk, Golymin, Elyau, Friedland and Tilsit and many other places on the large map the game would come with.
Author:  clifton seeney [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:03 pm ]
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Now that the greatest way to get it! put me on the list
Author:  EaglesFly [ Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:35 pm ]
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Monday November 3 1806

Schwerin - Blucher crossed the Stor River and entered quarters, but not without mishap. He resolved to march on Gadebusch by night and not attempt the move toward the bridge under construction over the Elbe

Crivitz - Bernadette finally captured the low lying Crivitz and pushed his Cavalry through the town. as they emerged into the countryside beyond the Prussians suddenly attacked and threw them back capturing many including a colonel and Bernadotte's Aide de Camp. On the Prussian left however General von Wobeser and the Usedom hussar regiment were late in crossing the Stor River and Bernadotte drove them into the east bank of the Schweriner- See. Another battalion of Prussians was captured as it travelled alone from its distant cantonment toward the Stor. Bernadotte camped on the souther tip of the Schweriner - See. Soult finally reached Crivitz at the end of the day where Sahuguet's exhausted dragoons joined them.

[From 1806 The Autum of No Return ]
Author:  Michael Ellwood [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:08 am ]
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Pre-ordering sounds like a good idea to me! I will even pay up front before its complete if that's what it would take. The likewise for the Peninsular War! :mrgreen:

Wellington was a great general but a bad strategist I tell you! Without the guerilla war Wellington would have been in trouble more often. Napoleon was a great strategist served by overconfident unadapting generals backed up by a very mediocre 'king'.

Lannes or Davout would have whipped his arse!
Author:  Ed Blackburn [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:13 am ]
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I wish we could have convinced Bill to do it. He has much of everything needed form his other work... :cry:

On the good side I know of two titles in pipeline waiting on artwork.

Did I type that out loud?
Author:  Aloysius Kling Sr [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:52 am ]
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I know there is a new game close to completion, but the what game and when is as always seems to be a very well kept secret.

Battle On
Author:  Jim Pfleck [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:25 am ]
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Gents, indeed, I see several playtesters posting here and we are all sworn to secrecy, so regarding 1807 ( I too would really like this-the Russians gave Nappy all he could handle!) or the much rumored (confirmed to be in development years ago) Peninsula game or anything else in the period, we all should tread carefully.

It is not necessarily economics but rather (a) is there a designer working on it?, (b) how fast are they moving?, and (c) where is a nearly completed project in Tiller's Queue? The designer makes the maps and scenarios but normally does not do the art or make the actual stand alone program (these games are not made as modules but as unique games). So if there is a designer on it already, then it would be somewhere in this process, which can take 10 months (I think Bill did 1814 in less then a year and some of the panzer campaigns have been done quickly) to 5+ years, depending on the designer and then if 4 other designers have games almost done too then they need to wait in line for finishing.

But I too hope we see one before we are all too old to see the monitor to play!
Author:  EaglesFly [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:55 pm ]
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Officers salute - I am not a play tester, just an anxious customer looking to buy the product and I love the polish campaign perhaps some of the map will be in white to reflect the true nature of the winter campaign that was fought - looking forward to it if it is to be
Author:  Jim Pfleck [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 4:28 pm ]
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It would be nice. IMHO opinion it was one of the closest campaigns of the period--many battles could have gone either way and even the smaller and medium sized ones are interesting. Lots to work with for the campaign engine too. And we already have snow tiles from 1814!
Author:  EaglesFly [ Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:51 am ]
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Monday November 3 1806 - Berlin

Napoleon ordered his newly drafted conscripts forward from France - he wrote to Kellerman;

"I have much territory to hold, and it is essential that the reinforcements should reach me in good time. The Russians are indeed distant yet,
but it is possible that we shall meet them half way and be at close quarters within a month. There is no time to lose. nothing that came up after
the battle would be of much use to me. Take your measures accordingly."

Napoleon received the dispatch sent by Brunswick. already determined to dethrone the dynasty, he broke out in a fury, "If I were to have the town of Brunswick demolished so as not to leave a stone standing, what would your Prince say ? Does not the law of retaliation permit me to do to Brunswick what he wished to do to my capital ? Tell General Brunswick that he will be treated with the respect due a Prussian Officer but I cannot recognize a sovereign in a Prussian General. However, Sir you may assure the inhabitants of Brunswick that the French will prove themselves generous enemies; that is my desire.

The emperor accorded an audience to the Polish General Jan Henryk Dabrowski, ordering him to form a Polish army of 30,000 men form the liberated regions

[from "1806 The Autumn of No Return" ]
Author:  Zaraath [ Sat Apr 26, 2014 6:23 pm ]
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Is he ever going to do another M&P game? :cry: I can't imagine there are enough devotees of the period in a minor niche like hex wargaming to make it financially worthwhile.
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