Not sure if we have something really compact out there because this engine is just more complicated then most other Tiller engines, that is why any explanations are usually rather large.

For example the introduction to this series, originally a post post blog on WDS, here as a 95 pages pdf:
https://wargameds.s3.amazonaws.com/down ... attles.pdf

There are also videos by WDS but then again taking them all you got a lot to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/@wargamedesignstudio4166/videos

In the end for the latest patch level with the new OR that allows pushing skirmishers there is surely no other way then trying it out.

Not sure if we have something really compact out there because this engine is just more complicated then most other Tiller engines, that is why any explanations are usually rather large.

For example the introduction to this series, originally a post post blog on WDS, here as a 95 pages pdf:
https://wargameds.s3.amazonaws.com/down ... attles.pdf

There are also videos by WDS but then again taking them all you got a lot to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/@wargamedesignstudio4166/videos

In the end for the latest patch level with the new OR that allows pushing skirmishers there is surely no other way then trying it out.

Hi Tony,
To start with the basics, I think there’s no way around this—you have to read the manual from start to finish.

I had extensive experience with this engine over 10 years, but when I returned to NWC after an 8-year absence, I re-read the manual at least three times before things started to settle in my head.

Even now, after completing close to a thousand PBEM turns, I still refer to it as I go.

This game offers so much depth that it will take time to master. But once you reach a certain level of understanding, and marching, toorps deployment, and actions happen in a controlled way as you planned them, you will enjoy it tremendously.

Care for a friendly maneuver game, sir?

I would stick with playing more field battles to get going with the series. Hougomont was really a bad place to attack. It sucked in the BEST field division that the II Corps had. Might be the best division in the army, aside from the French OG division.

I would try playing a similar sized scenario in the game that has less fortifications.

An aside: Hougomont sucked me in too when I first played Wellington's Victory by SPI long ago back in the 1970s. Its just a huge "troop magnet." Capturing it was not really necessary in order to win that side of the battle line. Its the same in Austerlitz where you have a chateau on the Allied left. Beating the army is the key in these games. Not taking hard points.

I would stick with playing more field battles to get going with the series. Hougomont was really a bad place to attack. It sucked in the BEST field division that the II Corps had. Might be the best division in the army, aside from the French OG division.

I would try playing a similar sized scenario in the game that has less fortifications.

An aside: Hougomont sucked me in too when I first played Wellington's Victory by SPI long ago back in the 1970s. Its just a huge "troop magnet." Capturing it was not really necessary in order to win that side of the battle line. Its the same in Austerlitz where you have a chateau on the Allied left. Beating the army is the key in these games. Not taking hard points.

I can assure you sir, there will be no beating up on, or destroying of any kind. My intention is an instructive maneuver game for the benefit of all of France!