New Leipzig PBEM AAR

[milrevko]

Well I don't say anything against the house rules just that correct optional rules can support historical gameplay or hinder it depending on how they are set.

The reason that the results were "UN historical" is because: (In the North)
1) The Isolation and Destruction in total of the French IV Corps
2) Which lead the French III Cav corps to try to rescue the doomed IV Corps and was in turn destroyed.
3) This lead to the French XII Corps Total isolation and Destruction
4) That meant the French VII Corps could not make it across the river in time and it was also
totally destroyed
5) The above was even before the main battle in the south

This about 60,000 casualties of French for about 6,000 allied. This is not a "rules" option but a poor choice of corps placement to say the least.

I would have been able to make this happen with any combination of optional rules because I isolated,disrupted then "routed and Isolated" every unit there was, then I over ran them....

So, I apologize if I seem harsh but when a person see's something they do not understand and then attribute the cause to non attributable factors I am prompted to make them read the facts again.

Multi-melee is only used against skirmishers and in the last game the French did not make use of skirmishers and I did.

In some ways the column pass through could benefit the allies but it does also hurt them.

In earnest I would say the excessive casualties were caused buy the French attempting to operate corps in a semi-independent manor with out cavalry support where as I used INF corps integrated with CAV and ARTY to pin then Isolate the destroy the bad guys...

Here is the Starting positions of the new game: