Tomorrow marks the 210th year since the Battles of Liebertwolkwitz & Leipzig. I happen to be playing #068 from Campaign Leipzig now with a fellow member, Jim Pfluecke, one of the playtesters on my team for the game. Its been ages since I played this one.
Leipzig was the biggest battles of the Napoleonic Wars but gets scant notice from authors. Unlike the Battle of Waterloo which gets a new book every year, Leipzig has a dearth of titles for it and its a shame. See my list of books I used for the game in the Design Notes (Notes.pdf) in the Campaign Leipzig game. If I had time I would do a "Campaign Notes" section for the game that would dwarf the one I did for the Philippines '44 game!
It would be something like 300-400 pages complete with illustrated OBs and images from the period of the major and minor battles from that campaign.If you don't start up the battle or one of its smaller scenarios at least look over them. For me its a more important battle than the Battle Waterloo (and entire campaign) which for me was just a "forlorn hope" of Napoleon's and never really to be taken seriously. At Leipzig, had Napoleon been able to coordinate the movements of Ney's III Corps better, he might have pulled of a minor victory instead of losing so many men like he did.
One of my mini-projects I want to work on is to add in French formations from the Campaign Leipzig game to the Campaign 1814 game. I would have to check to see how many of the images from Leipzig need to be "ported over" but its not going to be a lot. The Polish corps, many of the French formations that were destroyed in 1813 at Leipzig, etc. Would make La Grande Armee more potent when cornered on the Bree Plateau and elsewhere that Napoleon fought the Allies. Of course some of the Allies would be added in too.