KS Napoleon Mod II 1.07

On the stock Waterloo maps, the cavalry will not charge in heavy woods. They will do so in light woods and orchards. I don't think we can prevents certain formations being formed on certain terrains.

Probably won't make it today.

Internet is bad, they techs are coming to the house again this afternoon but there is a chance that I will have a new connection today.

Of course I am not holding my breath it would be the end of me.


ENJOY Men!!

advancing in line in a wooded area should be nigh impossible.

That very true but infantry had an Open Order formation which placed the files about twice as far apart and the British guards used this when advancing through Bossu Wood on the afternoon of the 16th.

I personally don't think we need the clutter of yet another formation so assuming any line in woods is really open order works for me.

Kevin - can we prohibit cavalry melees in light woods as well as dense? As Roland mentioned our old GB:KS mod system of NO MELEE IN certain defensive bonus terrain is better that NO CHARGE FROM which is what the vanilla game currently uses.

To play with the 1806 Prussians uniforms feels like a travel in time to the XVIII century.

And it is always a challenge to survive figthing the French. Yesterday 2 hours into the battle it looked to me we were going to be surrounded. Nice battle.

Blucher was close to panicking! I thought Roland had fallen off his horse and gone mad!

We just managed to save the day in the end.

A few more mod issues identified and (soon to be) ticked off.

Not sure I ever want to command Saxons again though - most unreliable fellows.

Saxon scum. The traitors switch sides at the first hint of battle.

I did figure out why that happened and corrected it. I think I'll keep the method secret as I may need such an event in a scenario.

I fixed the issue with TC'd unit messages being displayed. However, we need to test this and make sure other player messages still get through. I'd like to do a quick test before the game today. If someone can arrive about 15 minutes early we can give it a try. If it works, I'll pass out the new file to the other players.

sure - I'll be around!

sure - I'll be around!

Please send him the briefing for today.

I'll go one better and post the OOB and map. The Beefeaters are at the objective. Maybe in other places too.

Général de Division Gerard (18732 Inf.  3391 Cav.  54 Guns))

 Général de Division Jerome Bonaparte (4637 Inf.  804 Cav.  14 Guns)
   Général De Brigade Grenier (1976 Inf. 5 battalions  Avg. Exp. 6.2)
   Général de Brigade Dupeyroux (2661 Inf. 7 battalions  Avg. Exp. 5.4)
   Général de brigade Bruno (804 Cav. 6 squadrons  Avg.Exp. 5.0)
   Capitain Godet (6 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)
   Capitain Parisot (8 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)

 Général de Division Comte Duhemse (4887 Inf.  1112 Cav.  14 Guns)
   Général de Brigade Compte Claude Michel (2134 Inf. 4 battalions  Avg. Exp. 8.0)
   Général de Brigade Jamin (2753 Inf. 6 battalions  Avg. Exp. 5.5)
   Colonel Anton Mouton (1112 Cav. 8 squadrons  Avg.Exp. 5.0)
   Capitain Paquet (8 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)
   Capitain Dumont (6 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)

 Général de Division Count Foy (4076 Inf.  733 Cav.  12 Guns)
   Général de Brigade Guye (1965 Inf. 4 battalions  Avg. Exp. 7.0)
   Général de Brigade LeCapitaine (2111 Inf. 5 battalions  Avg. Exp. 6.0)
   Général de brigade Berton (733 Cav. 6 squadrons  Avg.Exp. 7.0)
   Capitain Lebeau (6 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)
   Capitain Bernard (6 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)

 Général de Division Baron Vichery (5132 Inf.  742 Cav.  14 Guns)
   Général de Brigade Aulard (2202 Inf. 5 battalions  Avg. Exp. 6.0)
   Général de Brigade Schmitz (2930 Inf. 5 battalions  Avg. Exp. 5.
   Colonel Anton Dommagnet (742 Cav. 6 squadrons  Avg.Exp. 5.0)
   Capitain Radet (8 Guns   Avg. Exp. 7.0)
   VI Corps Res. Batterie à cheval (6 Guns   Avg. Exp. 5.0)

what map is that?

WLGen3. It's the last one to play on. I don't think the city map would be worth the effort.

Wow - they really put a lot of effort into creating this one... impressive terrain features and quite diversified in landscape...

We need to send someone to scout those woods to the NE, a whole corps might be hidden there.

I guess we have our volunteer to scout out the 4 corners of the map...

You know I excel in the battlefield as a fake reserve, and reserves should be rested. I must say here that you did an excellent job yesterday as a real reserve.

but...but...  I was left without orders, and being the obedient soldier I am I didn't want do anything without the approval of my CinC - who forgot about me I think  
the only guy who wanted to order me around was a mere General-Major (Digby) - who was experiencing a few moments of grandure I think... I simply had to "not understand" his suggestions...

... only my kind and sensible nature eventually convinced me to move and DO something ... "save the day - tally, bally ho and all that"  



fun aside: was a great fight last night - pity I crashed 30 mins before the end...

I will be playing today. Best wishes and good luck whichever corps commander I work for ... You will need it lol to compensate for my many weaknesses

pity I crashed 30 mins before the end

What a coincidence. That was the period when we finally got control of the battle.

that was so cheap... too cheap - even for you... - do I really have to bring up the points?

toight's plan...


Divisional Commanders TBA once we know how many we have!

My men had not seen so many horses before,since most of my guys have been in prison for a while and were city criminals.. Plus those guys in skirts were annoying. But I must say my squares held. Artillery really can hurt guys in squares tho - ouch. It was funny that my dog had to go outside the very moment the British cavalry started coming towards me. I came back and my units were ok.

well.. we were vastly outmatched and since we were unable to get the entire army together against the enemy  due to certain reasons, we were soon under heavy pressure - the Household Brigade literally tore us to pieces and eventually paved the way for the British infantry to make a strong attack against our men still in square. We managed to somewhat push them back eventually but when the battle ended I realized that the enemy still had over a division of fresh troops in reserve...

There is no way of sugar coating this - we got crushed - period.


note to self: must draw even simpler maps - never use more than 2 arrows and maybe a circle...

And here I thought it was going well lol

No doubt about it, we got spanked real hard.  Once their cavalry pinned us the battle was essentially over.  The British only needed half their forces to completely stop us.  Here's the perspective from my little piece of the fight.

The superior British routed our cavalry off the field in the first stage of the battle.


With our cavalry gone and our men forced into squares, the AI calls up a division of infantry to do business.


They advanced in two lines, the British in the first and the Dutch following a few hundred yards behind.


The British heavy cavalry kept watch and allowed the French no possibility of taking the initiative.


All we could do is try to attack on the flank and quickly form into squares when the enemy cavalry moved in to quiet things down.


And this from a people that boil their meat!