Campaign areas in Germany and Spain
It
was my intention to campaign just one of the five available campaign areas at a
time. This would allow me to
concentrate on the detail of the two armies involved. However it did not take long to discover
that just one campaign area would not provide enough battles to wargame.
During
the PBEM campaign all five campaign areas were gamed at the same time. This ensured that there was always at least
one battle waiting to be gamed.
Sometimes there would be three or four waiting at the same time. The result was that we never ran out of
wargames.
I
started the solo campaign with the Brunswick campaign. This is set in northern Germany and has one
French army attacking the Prussian Army.
The first battle was produced on day two of the campaign. So far, so good.
But
the campaign then had to be halted to allow us to fight the battle. And I could not work towards the second
battle until the wargame has been completed.
So
I have decided to run all five campaign areas at the same time, just as I did
in the PBEM campaign. To do so I have
to make four more campaign maps and produce the orders of battle and other
administration.
After
a busy week I have completed two more campaigns, both in Germany.
The
Gotha campaign will pit the second French Army against the Russian Army.
The
Bamberg campaign will require the Austrian Army to stop the Bavarian Army
taking that city. The Austrians have
moved their base of operations from Vienna to Prague. This will allow me to integrate allied
armies in the future, should I wish to do so.
Next
week I hope to finish the British and Spanish Armies in Spain.
Meanwhile
for the first time in years my wargame table lies empty waiting for the next
battle to take place.
