The planning for the next campaign is going well, despite
constant changes in plan.
My first plan was a fictional 1812 campaign, based on the
Austrians and Prussians joining with the Russians to prevent Napoleons invasion
of Russia by attacking France in January 1812.
I did a lot of work on maps and orders of battle before deciding to
abandon the project.
I wanted to keep some link with the current 1813 campaign,
and clearly that would not be possible if the next campaign was based a year
earlier. So instead I decided that the
next campaign would be based on the 1814 campaign in France.
The link works well.
Napoleon has suffered more defeats in my fictional 1813 campaign than
victories. He has lost both Hannover
and Gera in the mini PBEM campaigns. So
it is not unreasonable for him to call an armistice in late 1813 to allow him
to build up his armies. The allies
demand that he retreat to the river Rhine before they accept a cease fire. That is the background for the 1814 campaign.
The big job is to make new maps, in particular a new map of
all of France.
My first draft of the map is above, and shows my initial
thoughts on the proposed campaign.
There will be six armies on each side, so the orders of
battle will be another big job.
It’s a very ambitious campaign, much larger than any of my
previous ones.
Each player will be an army commander and will command four
corps. There will be twelve command
posts, which is a lot of players to find.
There is a forum for the campaign which you can find here
As the planning progresses I will post updates on the forum
and put documents and maps in the files section
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