Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Gentlemen,

I would like to propose adding Ageod's "Napoleon's Campaigns" to the list of games supported by the club. It is an excellent operational level wargame that would complement the tactical level games supported so far quite nicely. I play it myself, together with Gene Renna, and I would very much like to see it allowed to the club.

The Colonial Campaigns Club has long ago added Ageod's "Birth of America" and the American Civil War Gaming Club has just accepted their "American Civil War" as supported game.

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I agree! Great game.

Feldmarschall Jim 'Prinz' Pfluecke
Commander, Austrian Cavalry Reserve
3 Graf O'Reilly Chevauxleger Rgt
Hahn Grenadier Bn

Give us some details Dierk.

How many phases? Is email easy? How many players?

One of the reasons why EiA had issues was the multiphase issues. Just too many emails per turn.

Does this use plotting?

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 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]

It's "we go" (both sides plot their moves, they are resolved simultaneously). Interface is as simple as it gets, almost all's drag-n-drop, the rest a small number of buttons. It's easily played PBEM, with a single file going each way. There are no issues that I'd be aware of.

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Maj. Gen. D.S. "Green Horse" Walter
~ 16th (The Queen's) Light Dragoons ~
4th Brigade, Anglo-Allied Cavalry Corps
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~ 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ~
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Game: http://www.ageod.com/game-Napoleon%2527 ... NG100.html

Forum: http://www.ageod.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=138

Demo: http://ageoddl.telechargement.fr/latest/NCP_Demo.zip

Outstanding Dierk. I enjoyed Frank Hunter's game on 1806 and 1809. This looks even better.

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 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]

Napoleon's Campaigns is an excellent game. All the campaigns are included, from Austerlitz to Waterloo. There are even campaigns for a hypothetical invasion of Great Britain and the war between Russia and Sweden over Finland.

Turns represent one week of time. Supply plays a prominent role.

Making your moves takes far less time than it does in a full game of Waterloo, QB, Ligny, etc. Even in a large campaign, such as Napoleon's invasion of Russia, many units group into divisions/corps and thus move as a stack. I spend far more of my time thinking about possible moves and strategy than I do actually making my moves.

2nd. Lt. Gene Renna
12th Regiment of Dragoons
4th Cavalry Brigade
Anglo-Allied Cavalry Corps

Now before cabinet

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Commanding L'Armee du Rhin
Grande Duc de Piave et Comte de Beauvais
Commanding the Division de Cavalerie de la Moyenne Garde
NWC President</center>

I thinnk the Cabinet is generally agreeable but we need to has out issues of scoring.

as I do not have the game, we are curious as to wether or not our current scoring structure would work here.


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Commanding L'Armee du Rhin
Grande Duc de Piave et Comte de Beauvais
Commanding the Division de Cavalerie de la Moyenne Garde
NWC President</center>

Good point John. Most games have a victory levels. Would just have to see how they equate if they are different.

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 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]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by John Corbin</i>
<br />I thinnk the Cabinet is generally agreeable but we need to has out issues of scoring.

as I do not have the game, we are curious as to wether or not our current scoring structure would work here.
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Perfectly. In the ACWGC and CCC the Ageod games are scored quite the same as the BG/HPS games.

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Maj. Gen. D.S. "Green Horse" Walter
~ 16th (The Queen's) Light Dragoons ~
4th Brigade, Anglo-Allied Cavalry Corps
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~ 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ~
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So the game has Victory levels ? and scenraios with defined number of turns similar to current HPS/Matrix BG games

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Commanding L'Armee du Rhin
Grande Duc de Piave et Comte de Beauvais
Commanding the Division de Cavalerie de la Moyenne Garde
NWC President</center>

Sounds good Dierk! I make a motion that the Cabinet consider this game for inclusion in the club. Who seconds the motion?

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 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]

Cabinet is already considerring it....

we simply need enough info to handle the scoring stuff

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Commanding L'Armee du Rhin
Grande Duc de Piave et Comte de Beauvais
Commanding the Division de Cavalerie de la Moyenne Garde
NWC President</center>

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by John Corbin</i>
<br />So the game has Victory levels ? and scenraios with defined number of turns similar to current HPS/Matrix BG games<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Exactly so, John.

Each scenario has a fixed number of turns known up front (although one player may have an option to extend the campaign a few turns, but I suppose that is no insurmountable problem for the system).

There are presently 15 scenarios in the game, though a couple may be added sooner or later, as there has been a desire by the community to see some longer campaigns.

If one player achieves all his objectives, this is a victory in game terms, and would count as major victory for club purposes.

If no player achieves his objectives, but one beats the other big way in VP, this is a score victory in game terms, and would count as minor victory for club purposes.

If no player achieves his objectives, and their VP are close to being equal, this is a draw in game terms and in club terms.

Let me know if you need to know more ...

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Maj. Gen. D.S. "Green Horse" Walter
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4th Brigade, Anglo-Allied Cavalry Corps
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~ 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ~
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