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| General Boucher contemplates tactical doctrine prior to engaging the French |
The last post had done great comments that are all very much appreciated and helped emphasise to myself the Napoleonic knowledge of the followers of the blog. The effective use of skirmishers and linear tactics of the Prussians was raised very well by Rob which got me thinking on how to be absolutely sure it’s reflected accurately in the wargame setting.
As always, when in even the slightest doubt I contact Doctor Dave Brown and he always comes through.
Thoughts on linear tactics etc were that all manoeuvre is in line however attacks on built up areas and redoubts are allowed to be executed in column. Everything else, in lines as the historical doctrine.
His thoughts on the skirmishers were as follows:
“Stick with the basic rule that all poorer skirmishing nations lose one skirmish base from the brigade screen.So, a four battalion brigade only produces 3 bases and so on.For the Prussians this is made up of the schutzen platoons and 3rd rankers.You could be very harsh on the Saxons and reduce them by 2 bases per brigade screen as I'm not sure how prolific they were at using 3rd rankers.If you did go down this route I'd suggest ignore a Falter result for a dispersal of a two base skirmish "screen".
So there we have it. A great result in terms of feedback from the rules creator and some excellent correspondence from my fellow gamers.
Now let’s roll a few dice!
