Napoleonic Battle: the 1812 Campaign
Fig 1: French initial deployment Had a really enjoyable game this Saturday. The scenario was a battle from the 1812 invasion of Russia, with the French forces turning back to stall the advancing Russian forces. The French deployed in two lines of defence, with a forward line (on the right) on a ridgeline anchored on a defended town, and a second line on a second ridgeline behind, with a final line on a bridge covered by a strongpoint in a village. Fig 2: initial Russian deployment and axes of attack I was playing the Russians, and my fellow commander and I had a fruitful discussion where we narrowed down our options to two: the first option was to fix but not assault the first defensive line while slipping cavalry into the space between the two lines, to block the second line from reinforcing the first, followed by an assault on the first line after sufficient artillery bombardment. The second option would have been a massing of forces in the space below the first defensive line (on th...
