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December 03, 2005

Bicentennial Austerlitz Refight AAR

This is the decade when all the cool Napoleonic battles (starting with Austerlitz, I am not a big fan of Marengo) will have their bicentennial celebration. Since I have enough Russians and French to do the battle, I've decided to give this a shot using Sam Mustafa's Fast-Play Grande Armee (the rules are available in the "news" section).

My first order of business is to find some troops that's going to be used for Austrians. At first I am content to just use my Spanish troop to proxy for the small amount of Austrians that I need (they are all white coats, plaus they were both Hapsburgs at one time so no problem right?), but Jeff alerted me to some nicely painted Austrians on eBay, So I quickly snatched them and Jeff helped me rebase them while I was away on vacation (thanks Jeff). At the end of the day I still don't have Austrian cavalry or artillery, so I'll have to settle for Russian Cav/art as proxies.

All the pictures from the game can be seen here.

Our group regularly plays the original Grande Armee rules, which everyone liked except the "rubber band rallying rules" that we all deemed just a little too flexible (i.e. a routed unit can rally at the end of a turn, and pop up back at the commander's command radius). The new Fast-play rules took that away so it's a much more brutal game (rallying is still possible, but is VERY hard to do. One has to pull his forces back to 20" away from the closest enemy, and they can only rally 1 SP per Impulse). Keeping a reserve becomes essential to avoid disaster which we all thought is a better way to go.

One other big area of change is the command rule, which is streamlined and has a much more "euro" feel. Basically each commander will roll 2D6 everyturn, and compare the result against a chart (adding or subtracting any "personality modifier", so Murat gets a +2, whereas Bernadotte gets a -1), one needs a 7-9 to stay in countrol. Too high and the whole formation must attack, and lower score means it holds and can't doing anything, or even run away from the enemy. The CinC can improve the odds by sending the commander in question up to 2 extra dice, so the commander can then roll up to 4 dice, and then pick the best 2 to make his score (shades of Can't Stop).

Finally, the whole combat modifier and skirmish combat also got streamlined. The whole system is still a work in progress, but we feel (and many players on the Grand Armee Yahoo group concurs that the rules as it stands is already pretty solid. So we are ready to go!

The Russian (Bob, Freddy, and Milton) plan is to hold tight on the right flank (since we are outnumbered there), and then up the Advance guard and march them laterally behind the Pratzen height to serve as a central reserve, and then planning a strike down the French center.

On impulse one of turn one, the French lost control of both Murat's cavalry and the Imperial Guard(!) Both formations got an mandated attack order so off they went, straight into Lup on the south western tip of the Pratzen Height. Before we can blink both Liechtenstein and Bagratian are in full retreat, pretty soon Constantine's Imperial guard all the only line holding the Russian right (with about 4" clearance to the back of the board with no room to retreat).

Our plan of having Buxhowden's advanced guard coming to the rescue can still work (definitely against the odds), but that depends on 1) Buxhowden rolling good enough on the command dice so it doesn't get delayed, and 2) Miloravich can hold off Soult's attack long enough for him to come to the rescue. Alas, Buxhowden sat on his hands for an entire impulse while Miloravich's command melted under Soult's attack (Chris rolling 5 hits out of 6 dieroll is a main contributor to his success). Before Davout can even engage the battle is pretty much over (the Russian casaulty passed the break mark, which triggers a morale check, and we failed).

The entire game took about 3 turns and about 3 hours (and that's with a lot of rules checking). It is VERY fast-play indeed. We feel that the flow of the game is pretty historic (only exception in my mind is that how likely is it for Napoleon to lose control of both the cavalry reserve AND the Imperial Guard on turn one/impulse one? Clearly a game thing...)

Since we now have to explain to the Tsar why we lost, we can offer up some other extraneous circumstances (excuses)...

1) The OB we are using is based on the original Grande Armee scenario. In that setup the Russians have about 183 SP (strength points) to the French's 219 SP (about 84% of the French strangth). In converting to the Fast Play rules (which have a different way to figure out the Strangth Points, it's now 143 SP to French 214 SP (now down to 67% of French strangth). Clealy we were robbed!

2) One of Allie's chief strangth is its artillery park, and under the new Fast play rules artillery (expecially 12 lb. guns) have its effectiveness toned down. Another strike against us.

I do want to try this one again, probably using the original SP calculation, and maybe use some other game balance options to make this a closer contest...

Posted by msoong at December 3, 2005 10:29 PM

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Chris I agree with almost everything you said, and then some...

Another fiddly rule is the attached leader casualty rule where you have to keep track of different colored die, and also remember the result by the end of the pulse so you can remember to roll for leader death. WAY too complex (and I think the original leader death rule to be cleaner).

Artillery running away rule is not in itself complex, just that there are enough edge cases not clearly stated in the rules to make it weird. Sam need to seriously rethink all the combination that can happen and spell that out explicitly. (same with the Artillery attach rules).

As for Skirmish battle, a rival set (Huzzah, modeled on Warmaster) have a pretty neat solution: They keep skirmish battle abstract and on a army level. So each army will have a single Skirmish value for a particular scenario. There are things a play can do to increase that from turn to turn (by desolving a SK capable unit to participate in this "skirmish battle"), ea turn one die is rolled with various modifiers and that decides who has skirmisher superiority, and that translates to getting saving throws and such for that entire army for the turn. Huzzah is actually a very tactical set of rules so I think that for FPGA some adaptation would work pretty well...

Posted by: msoong at December 7, 2005 08:52 PM

I though the fast-play rules were an improvement on the standard rules. While I felt that the standard rules had a lot of good features in principle, I really thought they just took too long to play and were too complicated for me, someone who just is never going to play a lot. I remember the first small Peninsular War game we played, which took 4+ hours.

The fast-play rules were definitely an improvement, but I think there is still a bit to go in terms of streamlining the system. I still think it takes a bit too long relative to the amount of real player choice. The skirmishers, for instance, still take a lot of time and hassles for miniscule game imact, although they are a lot better than they were in the standard edition. And the artillery attachment and escape rules are still ugly and IMHO don't quite work.

I also wondered if a better way of tracking hits might be to print the "full" strengths on the base label, and then use those tiny dice they use in Battle of the Five Armies to track losses, instead of the record sheets. Looking up and tracking SPs is a bit of a hassle.

Anyway, I enjoyed the game. The command rules were I felt much improved, and the new shorter turns (a d4 instad of d6 to check against the "pulse" number) were a major improvement I felt. I think it's a fundamentally very good system, but I'd still like to see it substantially further streamlined.

Posted by: Chris Farrell at December 7, 2005 11:28 AM

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