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| Author: | dragoon [ Thu May 03, 2007 4:42 pm ] |
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In game terms, what's the best unit to have in your arsenal? Any thoughts? Ie, light infantry, or rifles, or 12-lb cannon, or heavy cavalry, or what? Col. Dirk Smith 1e Bg, 16 Dv, V Corps Armee du Rhin |
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| Author: | Colin Knox [ Thu May 03, 2007 4:50 pm ] |
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My personal view is A grade horse artillery regards Colonel Colin Knox, 4e Chassuer a Cheval 1st Brigade 3e Division Cavalerie Legere IIIe Corps http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm Armee du Nord |
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| Author: | Bill Peters [ Thu May 03, 2007 8:17 pm ] |
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I like the Russian 12lb batteries myself. Along with that the Imperial Guard cavalry - Gren a' Cheval. Bill Peters Armee du Rhin - V Corps, 5ème Division, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come) [url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url] 
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| Author: | Glyn Hargreaves [ Thu May 03, 2007 9:24 pm ] |
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I would vote Russian 12lb batteries also.[:)] <b><center><font color="red"> Lieutenant Colonel 2nd Battlion 95th Regiment of Foot II Corps Anglo-Allied Army</font id="red"></center></b> <center>  </center>
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| Author: | D.S. Walter [ Thu May 03, 2007 9:32 pm ] |
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In my opinion, no single unit is of any use on its own. So the balanced all-arms team is what gets my vote. <center> D.S. "Green Horse" Walter, Maréchal d'Empire Duc des Pyramides, Comte de Normandie Commandant la [url="http://home.arcor.de/dierk_Walter/NWC/3_VI_AdR_Home.htm"]3e Division Bavaroise[/url], L'Armée du Rhin Commandant les Grenadiers à Pied de la Vieille Garde, "les Grognards" Commandant L'Ecole de Mars, L'Armée du Rhin, 2005-2007  </center>
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| Author: | Antony Barlow [ Thu May 03, 2007 10:44 pm ] |
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I too would go with a well balanced force, all high quality, and with excellent leaders commanding, of course[8D] <center>[url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.r.barlow/Napoleonic/nap.htm"]Lieutenant Colonel Antony Barlow[/url] ~ [url="http://www.geocities.com/anglo_allied_army_stats/Anglo_Allied_Army_Cavalry_Corps.htm"]2nd British (Union) Brigade, Anglo-Allied Cavalry Corps[/url] ~ ~ [url="http://www.geocities.com/militaireacademie/dragoons.html"]4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards[/url] ~  </center>
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| Author: | Jim Pfleck [ Fri May 04, 2007 2:17 am ] |
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Blucher, regards, Feldmarschall Jim 'Prinz' Pfluecke Commander, Austrian Cavalry Reserve 3 Graf O'Reilly Chevauxleger Rgt Hahn Grenadier Bn |
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| Author: | Colin Knox [ Fri May 04, 2007 8:29 am ] |
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Blucher Jim? Well yes he was worth a few brigades of Hussars I guess. OK the consensus is all arms to which I agree. So the best unit on a field is a French corps with a division of heavy cavalry attached [:D] So the French Imperial guard seems to fit the bill. Colonel Colin Knox, 4e Chassuer a Cheval 1st Brigade 3e Division Cavalerie Legere IIIe Corps http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm Armee du Nord |
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| Author: | Bill Peters [ Fri May 04, 2007 8:31 am ] |
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The thread has to do with UNITs. All of us understand the importance of combined arms. A 12lb gun PLUS a river in between the enemy destroys combined arms anyway! [:D] Whether its infantry, cavalry or artillery they all get blown away eventually! [^] You can have the entire French or Allied army including pioneers (but no boats please). I will take a grand battery of 12lb guns and a river anyday! Bill Peters Armee du Rhin - V Corps, 5ème Division, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come) [url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url]
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| Author: | Sir Muddy [ Fri May 04, 2007 10:54 am ] |
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dragoon</i> <br />In game terms, what's the best unit to have in your arsenal? Any thoughts? Ie, light infantry, or rifles, or 12-lb cannon, or heavy cavalry, or what? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> How about two hundred skirmishers (multiple units) with a leader and a supply wagon in a chateau like Mt. St. Jean? Such nasty beasties they can be... FM Sir 'Muddy' Jones, KG 2nd Life Guards, Household Cavalry |
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| Author: | Al Amos [ Fri May 04, 2007 12:42 pm ] |
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How about Guard Inf, highest quality, armed with 12pdrs. Don't laugh you can do that! [:p] Colonel Al Amos 1erè Brigade Commandant 2ème Division de Dragons |
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| Author: | buffpilot [ Fri May 04, 2007 1:58 pm ] |
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My favorite is the big Britsih Guard Infantry battalions at Waterloo. THey can dish out the firepower like there is no tommorrow. My second is Guard Horse Artillery. Most flexible unit on the map. I also have a soft spot for the big 12lb Russian batteries. Cavalry are much overrated. I assume the members of the animal husbandry units will disagree though[:D] Marechal Doug Fuller Duc de Montmorail et Comte de Hainaut 2e' Grenadiers a' Pied de la Vielle Garde I Corp Commander AdN 
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| Author: | Bill Peters [ Fri May 04, 2007 2:25 pm ] |
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Al Amos</i> <br />How about Guard Inf, highest quality, armed with 12pdrs. Don't laugh you can do that! [:p] Colonel Al Amos 1erè Brigade Commandant 2ème Division de Dragons <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Hmm, could add that into a future title just for fun. We can call it Josephine's Battalian! [:D] Bill Peters Armee du Rhin - V Corps, 5ème Division, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt and ... more to come) [url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url]
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| Author: | Paco Berenguer [ Sat May 05, 2007 12:31 pm ] |
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Exhumation researchs show us that the most mortiferous weapon during Napoleonic Wars period was the artillery by far. So my vote go to russian 12lb batteries. Podporuchik Paco Berenguer Nizhnegorodskiy Pekotny Polk 26 th Infantry Division 7th Infantry Corps |
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| Author: | Kosyanenko [ Sat May 05, 2007 9:28 pm ] |
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Arty is the main killer on the battlefield, so yes, Russian 12 gun strong 12lb company. But actually wars consist only of several days of figting with weeks and months of marching, maneuvering, etc. The main loses happen in these actions. So my vote goes to cossacks regiment enforced with one regular squadron of dragoons or hussars and 2 gun strong horse arty section. Eh! If only we had cossacks regiments that could pass through the woods and across the streams with no disorder, that could smim across the creeks and even wide rivers (for example Dnieper and even Berezina just at the time remains of the grand armee was crossing it!), that could fall back with no disorder when meleed, That could outmarch any other cavalry, that could dismount and fight just like jaegers.[V] So my vote goes not to the units that facilitate victory in a single battle, but to those that bring vitory in War.[^] <center>  </center>
<center><b>Eyo Imperatorskogo Velichestva Leib-Kirassirskogo polku General-Mayor Anton Valeryevich Kosyanenko Commander of the Second Army of the West </b></center> |
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