Hundred Days mod?

[deLancey]

I was wondering if it would be possible to make a modification that focuses entirely on the hundred days campaign in Belgium. The map would be entirely of Belgium and Northern France and included the small villages and towns and chateaux that dotted the countryside - this could be based off one of the old boardgame maps for Napoleon's Last Battles or The Last Days of the Grande Armee. Instead of an abstraction like we get in the current Waterloo campaign the armies would be, as much as possible, 1:1 representations of the armies - and uniforms - of that specific campaign.

Factions would be:

French Imperial HQ and Garde (Napoleon)
French Left Wing (Ney)
French Right Wing (Grouchy)
British, KGL and Hanoverian (Wellington)
Dutch and Belgian (Orange)
Brunswick (Duke of Brunswick)
Nassau (Prince Bernard of Saxe-Weimar)
Prussian (Prince Blucher)
Russian (Prince Barclay de Tolly)
Austrian (Prince Schwartzenburg)

I was thinking that Generals would be (in part to cure the bad habit of Generals riding off like cavalry and getting killed) for the most part Dismounted foot types while ADC's would be small mounted units with limited Rally Capacity. In addition, there would be Band units - Imperial Guards and Highland Pipe Bands which function like generals with a rally capacity.

Alternatively... a scenario that would encompass only France and its borders in 1815 - ie. a grand strategic simulation of the 1815 campaign - would be fun too.

Just thinking out loud!

[Invictus XII]

I have considered this for a while now, watch this space...

[deLancey]

nice! I think that a mod like that would be really awesome. Instead of just limiting the player to the old Waterloo battlefield, the mod could stretch from maybe Conde or even Valenciennes in the Southwest to Namur in the Southeast, up to Tirlemont and Louvain to the Northeast and Enghien and Ath westwards.

Alternately... one could technically simulate the three areas of the 1815 campaign with a map area devoted to the British attack on New Orleans - surviving British units would then be able to be shipped back to Britain for recovery to possibly reinforce Wellington. To balance it off, Napoleon would be able to have more diplomatic options available, possibly to influence a Dutch defection or a Prussian withdrawal.

Instead of conquering every single village, lines of communication and supply would be built up, functioning like the Supply Depots/Centers in the vanilla game. Units would have specific recruiting areas so pulling extra regiments out of thin air would be impossible. Ultimately this should force the players to use the historical forces at hand (and possible variants) to achieve their objectives.

Anyways, just thinking out loud!

[deLancey]

The Osprey Waterloo campaign book actually has a map that stretches from Valenciennes and Tournai in the west to Liege and Maastricht in the east and from Avesnes and Givet in the south to Ghent in the north. The main allied problem would be to concentrate their forces to meet Napoleon's thrust without jeopardizing their lines of communication. Wellington's army in particular is spread out over a very wide area ready to counter a westward thrust and massing forces to oppose a determined thrust at the center or east should be difficult.

I don't think anyone's really done a 1:1 scale Hundred Days simulation ever. That in itself should make a project like this really awesome and challenging!

[Prince of Essling]

The Osprey Waterloo campaign book actually has a map that stretches from Valenciennes and Tournai in the west to Liege and Maastricht in the east and from Avesnes and Givet in the south to Ghent in the north. The main allied problem would be to concentrate their forces to meet Napoleon's thrust without jeopardizing their lines of communication. Wellington's army in particular is spread out over a very wide area ready to counter a westward thrust and massing forces to oppose a determined thrust at the center or east should be difficult.

I don't think anyone's really done a 1:1 scale Hundred Days simulation ever. That in itself should make a project like this really awesome and challenging!

I like the idea of a 1815 campaign. The Osprey map is inadequate. The best map material is at http://www.kbr.be/collections/cart_p...rraris_nl.html
This is the complete 1777 map of Belgium in colour. It is divided into numbered rectangles - 97 is Ligny battlefield, 78, 79 & 95 equate to Waterloo & Wavre battlefields etc.

[deLancey]

That's an awesome find Prince of Essling! That's more than awesome - it's amazing!! It sure blows the Osprey book map out of the atmosphere. Imagine if every little square there was made into a NTW province - one could then bring into play other forces that were available in Belgium but did not participate in the campaign and La Grande Armee could undertake other maneuvers than that dictated by the old historical record - like a pinning attack at Hal/Enghien by a semi-independent Left Wing to draw off the Anglo-Allied forces while the main force of Napoleon attacks the Prussians at Charleroi/Ligny. The possibilities would be endless!

[Prince of Essling]

That's an awesome find Prince of Essling! That's more than awesome - it's amazing!! It sure blows the Osprey book map out of the atmosphere. Imagine if every little square there was made into a NTW province - one could then bring into play other forces that were available in Belgium but did not participate in the campaign and La Grande Armee could undertake other maneuvers than that dictated by the old historical record - like a pinning attack at Hal/Enghien by a semi-independent Left Wing to draw off the Anglo-Allied forces while the main force of Napoleon attacks the Prussians at Charleroi/Ligny. The possibilities would be endless!

Indeed - lots of options; but what we now need to find is a map that stretches from Belgium to the Rhine & down to Switzerland, onto the Italian & Spanish borders etc...... the options would then be almost endless & a real test and big headache playing as the French in trying to resist the allied juggernaut!

If this does eventually come off, pretty sure I can dig out most (nearly said all but cannot guarantee that) of the various orders of battle to help flesh out the armies.