Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

What these games need is the ability to pick your forces and a random map. I have not played against the AI in the few games I have but my opponents typically have. It is a bit disheartening to have your enemy recommend moves for you because they know everything you have and where it will come on the map.

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Major General Richard Bradshaw, 1st Viscount of Manchester

Lloyd's Battery, Royal Artillery
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Reserve Artillery & Engineers

That would be nice I agree. Can't see it happening though. I try and play scenarios not played before as much as possible but the older the game the less likely this is. Spain at least ticks the box.

Anyway I wouldn't listen to what an opponent says......

I agree it'd be nice....but nothing is stopping anyone from using the scenario editor....granted it takes a lot more effort, but it leaves the window open for something different....

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

I never was into "generated" battles, usually the map looks so silly random that you wonder why anyone would battle here.
For example the Steel Panthers series has a map generator but as said the maps miss any resemblance to real natural landscape.

What-If situations are OK as they usually are based on real landscape and forces also seem very plausible but generated is just dull in my opinion and with many battles not covered it also doesn't seem necessary.

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Alternately you could pick a big map, pick a big scenario and then choose your variable entry rate percentage and just go for it...

of course then the issue becomes vp level balancing -but it is not impossible. . . not entirely the same thing as a random battle generator but it would provide some randomness to situations.

There used to be a guy at the ACWGC, years ago, who designed blind battles for people. As in they put in a request, the two opponents and he made them and then sent them to play, possibly already setup in PBEM form, can't recall...

Now who the heck was that.....

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

I don't know if you remember but there was a "Hill Challenge" tournament many years ago organized by Simone Tombesi at the ACWGC and it was awesome.

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

This was the most impressive feature of Muddy's Master of Europe tournament of which there has been 4 editions.
No one knew the scenarios or force mix as they were custom builds and sent to you with the first turn advanced so you could not study the opponents forces.

Sometimes they were uneven but as Muddy said in the end the best players seemed to find there way through.
Many of the old players in this club loved that tournament with a number of famous champions.

I liked it as the scenarios were not balanced in a sterile way. Even though I was on the butt end of a couple of toughies it was still great.
A pure knockout for everyone. No PC groups not that they are bad thing necessarily.

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Marechal Knox

Prince d'Austerlitz et Comte d'Argentan
Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur

"What is history but a fable agreed upon"