Your welcome Darsh!
Grog: Thanks for the info Napoleonic Wargaming
Presuming you have much experience with a wide veriety of Napoleonic strategy/grand tactical PC games, can I ask;
Are there any games which might play well in tandem with HWLG for campaigning?
This is being discussed elsewhere in the forum and I expect in your Clubs too.
I would appreciate your views.
You might even get an extra member or two
I do, have most of them that I can find. Sadly most games that would lend to such are games unto themselves. Crown of Glory or Imperial Glory would be perfect, if they were not their own beasts as well.
Campaigns on the Danube would be the ideal choice, but sadly the game has so many errors, bugs and issues, it would not work at all, it is a real lemon.
So to counter such, we at the
International Napoleonics Wargaming Club (iNWC) are in the final stages of developing a LG Tournament that would fulfill these needs, using a map we found for planning and grand strategy phase of it.
Essentially how we have designed it with our Campaign Master is, there are 3 players per side, and keep in mind there can be 2, 5, maybe even 10 different sets of Campaigns going, all w/6 players a piece, it all depends on how many people we get interested. The Campaign will last for the better half of the year. The game runs in weeks, between planning, execution and then battle. 2 total and then repeats itself.
The Campaign master has the various commanders look at the map and they have objective cities they need to take to win. The Campaign is based in 1805, with Austria, Russia, French, Rhine Allies & Italy all involved (basically most of what is in LG). If this becomes wildly popular we will expand the Campaign to an ongoing type thing or roll it over into another Tourney idea we have.
March orders are submitted and the Campaign master gives various reports to the teams like Rumors, Scouting reports from cavalry probes, Reading snippets from "The Geneva Convention", newspaper, Depot Building and a few other ways to help guide where the enemy may be. He decides if there was a Clash of Arms and if there is a battle, he issues a situation report of what forces are involved. The Armies meet in a real time player vs player battle. So some battles may be shorter and some longer. (We can see if there is a group of PBEM’ers interested as well). Battles could be Corps vs. Corps or even Army vs. Corps (delaying action). Multiple battles can take place weekly and if its a big week of battles we just put the next week turn off until we’re ready. There is a points system in LG that calculates the winner and loser so there is a result.
There is a National Will factor that will lead to a Campaign Victory. It is the capture of key cities from either side. French Empire National Will defeat happens if Strasbourg falls to the Allies. Allied Coalition defeat happens if Wien (Vienna), Mantua and Prague all fall to the French. If Russia suffers 2 strategic defeats they are limited to moving eastward only, to simulate a slow withdraw back to Russia. (Strategic defeat has yet to be determined).
So that is some of the essentials. We would like to find other Campaign Master’s who could help too. They could participate in one and then run another, if we get enough people interested.
Here is a link to the two maps we are using:
The Planning Map is meant to help plan your movements, depot placement and to find objectives.
http://battleground-club.de/LG_Tourney/planning_map.htmThe Political Map is meant to show who owns what province and how far on the path to glory a nation is.
http://battleground-club.de/LG_Tourney/political_map.htmWe still have a few things we need to iron out and I assume will have that done soon. Once we are ready to start, I will post the page link here. But do
sign up for the Club in the meantime.
The NWC I am sure will get a Campaign going there too, so don’t neglect them as well.
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