Napoleonic HITS/GCM Event: "The Battle of Busaco" Saturday 10 August 2013

With only one sign-up expressing a willingness to fill a CinC role, it looks like we may be going leader-less in Saturday's battle. If this turns out to be the case, I propose that the game be run cooperatively at the corps/division C.O. level. We can spend a bit more time in pre-game Councils of War, if necessary. Might be a bit less coordinated than past games, but should still work.

A few preliminary side & command assignments will be made later today or early Thursday. That way, teams will still have an opportunity for pre-planning if they wish.

-Ron (Palmer)

I'll take C&C, only to keep Kevin from sending my boys on a death ride.

I will, however, blame you Ron if I pull a muscle while flailing my arms about like an idiot.

kg little mac wrote:I'll take C&C, only to keep Kevin from sending my boys on a death ride.

I will, however, blame you Ron if I pull a muscle while flailing my arms about like an idiot.

lol, no worries. I believe all SoW injuries are specifically covered in your healthcare plan.

Thanks for taking charge. Now's your chance to wreak real payback for past injustices by Kevin the Butcher. 

Palmer wrote:Now's your chance to wreak real payback for past injustices by Kevin the Butcher.

A gross mischaracterization. It has always been pure coincidence that Soldier's division ends up in a hornet's nest. More likely it is the other side that holds some grudge against him and singles him out for punishment. Just like this weekend.  

It will be refreshing having a direct command of my own this time around; though I have a sneaking suspicion I won't have any subordinates to distract me  

kg little mac wrote:I'll take C&C, only to keep Kevin from sending my boys on a death ride.

I will, however, blame you Ron if I pull a muscle while flailing my arms about like an idiot.

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

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

Anglo-Portuguese:
CinC = Uncle Billy/MTG
Leffe7
Digby (cavalry)

French:
CinC = kg Soldier
Palmer
Khrysis (cavalry)

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

At last! , I will be free to play another of Ron's superb scenarios:) 

Confirmed on Doodle.

Don't mind what side or command. If artillery, I might need some prior warning so I can get a little practice in first.

Looking forward to it.

Cheers

Mike

It'll be great to see you again Mike.

Apologies for pulling out at this late date, gentlemen.

Mrs K was taken to hospital yesterday after an accident, and while we're home again I'm going to be devoted to her tonight instead of our rightful victory.

Hope you can find another cavalryman for the French!

Sorry to hear of your wife's accident, Justin. All the best for her recovery.

I might be able to take over your command.

Very sorry to hear of the accident. I hope she is on the mend.

Hi Justin, all the best to your wife. I hope she is well again!


re yesterdays battle:
I noticed some weird formation displays on the toolbar. Ordering a brigade around in collumn formation, the toolbar would still display skirmish formation. And the form square button looked the same as "use roads".

re artillery: One of the french batteries worked correct and the other not. Was there any difference between them in the scenarios OOB (like leader class, formation, ...)

Thanks again for the game last night, gents.

I didn't have any issues with the French Cav. There were occasions where they refused to charge but that might have been because I forgot to TC them.

Appologies to my comrades for my later performance. I went well back to try to rally a squadron and got distracted in my interest at how long the unit remained panicked. By the time I had come to my senses, the Austrian attack was in full swing. Oops.

Its a shame about some of the issues with this game and the way it spoiled at least one person's game. Perhaps we need to move towards establishing a core of trusted OOB's and push forward with a KS GUI.

I was a very interesting battle. I am not at all convinced that the Austrians can win that one. The French cavalry performed very well in the initial stages of the battle and then blocking our advance through town and while the French infantry pulled out of the fight and established a new line on the ridge to the north.

I think the issue with the French arty may have been either a matter of some file not loading correctly of perhaps something to do with RebBugler's toolbar. We should have restarted the game at that point and tried to isolate the problem. I didn't have any problems moving my arty and having it behave normally, but I use the courier system for all that.

I agree that it is time to build our own toolbar for nappy games that will incorporate the buttons people find useful. I'd ask that people take a picture of Reb's toolbar and circle the non-standard SOW buttons that they like to use. Digby has given me a list of what he finds useful, so if a few others do the same we can jettison Reb's toolbar and avoid any possible file conflicts.