Special Waterloo III HITS/GCM Event: Saturday 27 July

Excellent! Another opportunity to send Soldier on to glory.  

It will be harder now that you've slowed your infantry-square assaults' speed to 1mph.

Actually I was hoping Ron would put us on the same side and the possibility of you doing glorious battle against twice your numbers while my men are lounging about eating bonbons was more of what I had in mind.

Uncle Billy wrote:Actually I was hoping Ron would put us on the same side and the possibility of you doing glorious battle against twice your numbers while my men are lounging about eating bonbons was more of what I had in mind.

Yes. . . you can always count on little mac being in the thick of it, no matter how poorly led he is.

I shall be there.

kg little mac wrote:Yes. . . you can always count on little mac being in the thick of it...

Hopefully, more so than the revered namesake (at least in the view of this 1864 Courier & Ives cartoon):  


Caption: "The Gunboat Candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill"
Text Bubble: "Fight on my brave Soldiers and push the enemy to the
wall, from this spanker boom your beloved General looks
down upon you."

If Soldier ends the fight with more than 10% of his original force, you know he was slacking. I always try to afford him the opportunity to give the last full measure. Though I must confess, Mitra arranges that far better than me.  

Indeed. On Saturday Mitra was just scary. The words "butter", "hot knife" and "through" come to mind.

I have updated the KS Napoleon Mod to version 1.610.  Some of the changes are:
1. Wooden fences have no effect on movement, fatigue or have any defensive value.
2. Formations were all rewritten.  You should see much smoother deployment and less of the Chinese fire drill, where soldiers march from one end of the line to the other.
3. Skirmish formations are more potent.  They have ~15% greater firepower than a line formation and they move significantly faster than men in column.  This was done to encourage players to use what was a very important feature of napoleonic battlefields.  Your light, legere, jager and grenzer units should be able to form skirmish lines.
4. If using the stock toolbar, all the formations selected from the combat page will maintain their formation while marching.  They will not change to column, move and then change to their final formation.

The download link is here:
Large Maps: http://www.norbsoftware.com/Downloads/Mods/LargeKSNapoleonMod1610.zip
Small Maps: http://www.norbsoftware.com/Downloads/Mods/SmallKSNapoleonMod1610.zip

And do we need to delete the Logistics file as before? I ask because, once again, I'm rebuilding by SOW:Gettysburg - Napoleonic Wars programs etc after yet another re-format of the HDD and re-installation of the OS, this time remembering to install all of the required updates to the OS. And yes, I did it just for the practice and fun of it, for those inquiring minds.   Oh, yes, and also because I'm approaching senility at about warp factor 8 and cannot recall how these all fit together.  

Kevin, with the stock toolbar there's no square formatoin button is there? Its my biggest reason not to use it. How do you form square?

But of course there is.  It's on the combat page, (soldier firing his rifle). I form squares using the button. I only use the courier system if it is a unit that is not under my direct control and is about to be overrun. Then I send it a courier order. Sometimes it gets there in time and I hear Martin J. cussing under his breathe as his cavalry, unable to halt, destroys itself. Very satisfying.  

Ike, yes when you install the Road To Wagram & Peninsula Mod, delete the \Logistics folder from it.  The KS Napoleon Mod has all the logistics files in it.

Thank you, sir.

Preliminary sides (from sign-up preferences entered to date)

Anglo-Allies:
CinC = Uncle Billy/MTG
kg Soldier
Digby
Hays (cavalry)

French:
CinC = Khrysis
Palmer
Mitra (cavalry)

Later arriving players will be slotted where necessary to achieve balance in numbers and experience.

I will miss this one but I'm very interested in the results by using the new settings