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| Rating: |
8.8 (4) |
| Games Played: |
3 |
| SM: |
3 |
| Turns: |
36 |
| Type: |
Custom |
| First Side: |
French (Nap) |
| Second Side: |
Allies (Nap) |
29 August 1813 - Historical - Intended to be played Head to Head - Following his victory at Dresden, Napoleon ordered his army to pursue the Army of Bohemia towards the passes to the south and trap as many of them if possible. The delay was slow to get started because he had no idea that the Allies had already started the retreat after the battle ended. Thus the French-Allied forces got a late start and the Allies were able to make some time on them. Vandamme's I Corps headed south down the main road to Bohemia. At Kulm he ran into the elements of Ostermann-Tolstoy's force. They turned to fight and hold the door open for Barclay's forces to be able to retreat across the Elbe. The first day's fighting saw Vandamme build up his strength slowly. For every attack he made the Allies were able to muster up more forces as they arrived to press back his I Corps. Eventually the Allies massed over 40,000 men and Vandamme knew that the day's fighting was over. Confident that Marmont and St. Cyr were soon to arrive on the 30th he prepared for action on the morrow but what actually happened was quite different than what he had expected! This scenario depicts the fighting of the first day after the French advance guard had pressed the Russians out of Kulm.
jim pfleck
Doctor
Ronster1970
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Russians start will minimal infantry and decent artillery but with a ton of high quality cavalry arriving throughout the scenario.
French have decent artillery and lots of capable infantry but pretty worthless Cavalry.
The problem for the Russians is the ground is broken up by streams with only a few bridges which means if the French capture these as they did in our game the Russian Cavalry is an expensive white elephant.
Really well played by Ron who deserved the victory.