Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Help question. The new update shows Front and a percentage. I assume this is how many musket can fire out of the total but I'm not completely sure and how is the percentage determined?

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Marechal Jonathan Thayer
Prince de Friedland et Duc de Saalfeld
2ère Brigade
1ère Division de Grosse Cavalerie
Réserve de Cavalerie
La Grande Armée

That is correct.
The front is 100 meters, showing the percentage of the unit headcount that can fit into the frontage of one hex. The maximum headcount that one hex can fit into a 100-meter front is 540. Anything above that will have to be deployed behind the front three rows (for three-rank infantry) and will be prevented from firing. For example, a battalion of 800 will have a significant percentage of its men masked by the first three rows. The percentage indicates how many men can utilize their muskets within the 100-meter front. The rest of the firepower is wasted.

Furthermore, there is another dimension to consider – the number of digital soldiers that can fit into a 100-meter front is determined not by the number of men but by the number of companies and size.
I wrote an article on this, which is now included in the 4.08 Manuals folder under Intro_NapBattles.pdf.
Page 21 of the document contains a section on Infantry Deployment Principles and Tactics, which explains this in detail with images and other illustrations.

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General-Leytenant Alexey Tartyshev
Leib-Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment (Grenadier Drum)
1st Brigade
Guard Infantry Division
5th Guard Corps


(I don't play with with ZOC kills and Rout limiting ON)

I also suggest looking in the current manual under "5.3.9 Stack Firing".
A bit lengthy and complicated so I do not copy it here.

Current manual afaik here:
https://files.wargamedesignstudio.com/i ... Fp4Li3FerR

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