Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Gentlemen officers, please, share your knowledge, if you have some info.

Is it truce, the days of April, 18-21st in 1809 were so rainy and muddy as the HPS' Eckmuhl Campaign conception asserts? Or the game developers just wished to give some advantages for the French side from the beginning of it?

I did not get the convincing info from my sources (James R. Arnold, Ian Castle, D.Chandler).

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General-Feldmarshal Prince Vladimir N. Repnin
Imperial Russian Corps Commander
Prince Braine-Le Comte & The Adjutant-General of His Imperial Majesty
Chevalier Guards Regiment

Bill Peters requested that I post this reply for him:

From a quick read of John Gill's first volume on the Abensberg/Eckmuhl campaign the weather data in the game is very accurate but my original source was Petre's volume on the campaign. In there he backs up my weather data and there is no doubt that mud prevailed from the afternoon of the 17th until the frost of the morning of the 22nd dispersed its effects.

The claim that any of us that work for John Tiller deliberately favor one side in our titles is preposterous. We try our best to follow historical data. Any assertion to the contrary is not based on consistent facts.

Check out Petre's work, "Napoleon and the Archduke Charles." In that volume he specifically mentions Wrede's advance on AdK Louis happened during the evening of the 20th after a thunder storm had transformed the landscape into a quagmire. Add to this that the rain from the days before the 16th probably left the roads muddy and I probably should have added in some mud on the 16th too!


Vladimir, you may certainly respond, but I do request that Bill and you keep this debate civil. It can certainly be a scholarly discussion about the historical weather.

Damn it no matter how hard I try I can't get all the allied troops lowered to E grade and the French made A grade
JTS's latest titles are even going the other way. Everyone knows a truly historical account would follow these ratings.
After all a French uniform alone is worth an A grading.

But seriously Vladimir I can vouch for the truth in Bill's words albeit a bit angry

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Marechal Knox

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