1805 August Campaign: OOB unaccuracy

[stagira]

Being anyway one of the (few) intriguing scenarios in the game (I mean those in which some grand-strategic elements are present), I found in it some annoying not-historical details; among them, the most relevant are:
1) a total lack of those "2nd line" forces which actually kept their positions around Boulogne; (this could have had a tremendous impact on french side, IF - and just if... - scenario scripts would have contained any chance for british landing over France...)
2) Batavian foces in Holland, under Louis command, are excessively randomized and underestimated;
3) french garrisons all around France have their strenght too much randomized, far from their historical strenghts, which;
4) french forces in central and southern Italy are totally lacking.

I suggest Ageod researchers to have a look to ALOMBERT-COLIN (recently republished), whose appendix volume contains every data, at batallion/squadron/battery level of french forces at the beginning of this campaing, mid august 1805.

best regards

[PhilThib]

May be you would be willing to update the setup files

[Nikel]

The document is out of copyright, a pair of files are available here

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=alombert



A direct link to the annexes, I guess this is the text stagira is talking about, djvu and pdf formats available, just in case somebody is brave enough to go so deep


http://ia341008.us.archive.org/3/items/lacampagnedeena01coligoog/lacampagnedeena01coligoog.djvu

http://ia341008.us.archive.org/3/items/lacampagnedeena01coligoog/lacampagnedeena01coligoog.pdf

[stagira]

May be you would be willing to update the setup files

I'd be glad (and proud ) of being able to do it, but i've not yet found in this forum the rules of managing those files. You please show me the link to them, Phil.

Alombert-Colin: there are other two volumes on-line:
http://www.archive.org/details/lacampagnedeena00coligoog
http://www.archive.org/details/lacampagnedeena02coligoog

[PhilThib]

You need to download the games DB on this forum. Also, there has been already a lot of discussion on this here : http://www.ageod-forum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=156