1805 August Campaign: OOB unaccuracy
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:54 pm
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
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
) 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.