the leipzig project page
The 1813 autumn campaign in Germany is one of my favourite Napoleonic
campaigns. After the disaster of Russia, the breach between the
tactical abilities of the French Army and its enemies practically
disppeared whereas the Emperor's genius was not the same than
before. All those considerations lead to more equilibrate battles. I
use Napoleon's Battles and
that ruleset acknowledges this fact by lowering the French army
statistics so the flavour of the campaign is maintained.
In tha past I have played some of the battles with variable results
that generally follow the real result. Now (April 21, 2006) I want
to replay, practically from scratch, the 1813 autumn campaign
starting with the FLB, i.e. Gross-Beern, Katzbach, Kulm and
Dennewitz. I will use the previous Scenarios as a starting
basis, modifying the OOB's when necessary, and adding the chance
element (chance cards) following the
Four Lost Battles style.
During 1812 and 1813 there was some major and many minor changes in the
clothing of the fighting men, caused by logistical shortcomings
or by the implantation of new regulations. Thus, French infantry was
suposed to fight in the new Bardin uniform, the French 'Chasseurs à
Cheval' changed to their new Kinsky habits, the Prussian Reserve and
Landwher units (both infantry and cavalry) weared many different
indumentaries, the Wurtemburgers changed their typical helmets by
shakos, etc.
In the FLB fought many different nations. Italians, Saxons,
Wurtemburgers, Bavarians and Polish were in the French side fighting
Prussians, Russians and Austrians. In my previous refigths of these
battles I used the adequate figures for the major nations and some
of the minor ones, but Italians, Wurtemburgers, Bavarians and Saxons
were represented in the battlefield by figures with similar
uniforms. Now I want to use the right figures so a little previous
uniformological research must be carried out. This part of the
hobby is for me so pleasant as the actual wargaming!
Many of the engagements occurring at the Campaign of
Leipzig or, by the way in any other Napoleonic Campaign, were minor
affaires. Napoleon's Battles is grand-tactical
oriented, so in order to play these small battles I need another
more
tactical approach. I could to use a commercial Tactical
rule-set (Shako
II,
General
de Brigade,
Le Feu Sacré
...), a free downloadable (Eagles and Glory, Serrez les Rangs) However, I don't want to waste
my quickly diminishing neurons so I pretend to use
Napoleon's Battles
with other terrain scales: 1":50yds (1:1,800) in one-half Napoleon's
Battles (NB0.5) or 1":25yds (1:900) in divisional Napoleon's
Battles (NBd) making only the minimum possible
modifications. the Scenarios at the right-hand menu are marked
(0.5)
or (d) as applicable.
I want also to use a new internet tool. In the blog
PROJECT LEIPZIG 1813, I want to communicate the day-to-day (or
the week-to-week) state of the project, so...