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    Hi, I am doing an AAR as Russia with the Europe in Conflict mod and Radious Campaign AI mod (as well as numerous asthetic mods). Doing Russia because I am Russian and bayonet charges are my style. Been wanting to do a TW AAR for a few years so I guess I'll give it a go. Also I'm reading a good bio of Alexander I and there are alot of interesting people in the Russian Army at that time.

    I wont be using any save exploits and autoresolve will be kept to a minimum (of course if I come across an army or fleet where I have an overwhelming advantage I'm not gonna waste my time with them on the battle map). I'll prolly start writing the first chapter this evening sometime.
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    Prelude:

    Captain Nathaniel Moore:

    Well a little about myself. I am the son of a American Revolutionary from Virginia who served under Washington from Saratoga to the Battle of Yorktown. So naturally I joined the Army of the our young Republic to assure her freedom and independence from any foreign power. During my studies I took up German, Russian, and the French languages. My tutors thought I would be a good fit for foreign service. So at the personal reccomendation of Thomas Jefferson I was sent to the court of St. Petersburg as a miltary attache to keep observation of the latest going on in the Russian Army.Iin the winter of 1801 I set off from Jamestown to the Baltic. What a travail, for a young steadfast republican to be sent to Autocratic Europe…a child of the Shenandoah to mix with the powdered wigs and stuffy sense of hereditary entitlement of the Russian court. When I came to St. Petersburg my previous impressions did not deceive me. It was filled with petty intrigue and hidden anger, but I meant one man who ruled over it all. The young Emperor Alexander. He and I got acquainted, being the same age and disposition. This crowned head….this EMPEROR had a surprising affinity for our revolution and our liberal ideas. But he was after all still the Emperor of Russia. He had inherited the wars of his grandmother and father against the French Republic and rightly so. The ideas of freedom were perverted in Revolutionary terror and then into what was just another dynasty with the name Bonaparte instead of Bourbon.

    The Emperor and I were sitting in the old Menshikov Palace outside of St. Petersburg in the quaint town of Oranienbaum. We enjoyed the rustic landscape with a much appreciated lack of shallow nobles talking useless drivel. He told me that Russian nobility was divided into two. The court and the Army and out of the two he truly liked the Army. He asked me if he wanted to observe the coming campaign under General Kutuzov with the Russian Army stationed in Hungary. He told me, "You know you Americans are unaccustomed to how we fight and we are to you as well. Maybe it would be beneficial if we learned from each other." I told him no American would be crazy enough to stand in lines out in the open only to get shot at." "This is true, but sometimes it is just much better to charge in with the bayonet. Suvorov loved it and he won quite a lot of victories for my grandmother."

    I left St. Petersburg the next morning on route to Hungary. I was greeted at Bratislava by a young Russian count named Volkonsky. He was dressed in the usual Russian Army uniform and asked me in heavily accented English if I was "Captain Moore."

    "Yes of course" I replied. "I am Captain Volkonsky, one of Kutuzov's Staff officers. I am on my way to the camp just across those mountains. I've been instructed to escort you to there." When I got to the camp it was a long way from the fickle protocol of the court. The rain had just past through leaving it muddy while soldiers sat in their tents singing and drinking. Some had spent 20 years in the his Imperial Majesty's Army and have known no other life than the campfire and smell of gunpowder. To look at them you would not think they were one of the most feared groups of men in all Europe. The uniforms were somewhat shabby and certainly not as flashy as the British or French. It seemed to me a regular British linesman was more overdressed than a Russian officer. They were also not such big men. Even the grenadiers seemed a bit lackluster. But I could tell that this group of Russian peasants and the best of the Russian nobility had a fire and spirit in their souls which is the real measure of a soldier. You can drill a man all you want and put them in a gold leaf uniform, but if they run away they are useless...and I supposed you have just wasted alot of gold. These men weren't that different from my friends in my little corner of Virginia.

    The next morning I was invited into a staff meeting with Kutuzov. He like his men did not present the physique and air of a noble gentlemen or the great general he was made out to be in European papers. He was infact quite small and one could not help notice his missing eye he lost when a turkish ball went through his temple on one of Suvorov's many campaigns. "We have a decision to make gentleman. Barclay De Tolly wants us to wait in Poland for part of Beningsen's Army to join up with us before we move to Southern Germany. This will give use needed men before we advance, because we will need it against Napoleon, but if we wait we run the risk of letting them strengthen their position. We could run the risk of being tied down in defending Vienna instead of being able to push them back across the Rhine."

    "I think we should wait for those soldiers General" interjected a young Voronstov. Vorontsov is not a coward but there is sometimes a fine line between cowardice and appropriate caution. Vorontsov thinks in the long term and he saw that in order to have a sustained campaign against Napoleon we would need much more men than we had. "We might have enough to storm Munich and Stuttgart but then what? We will be left in a precarious position right on their borders and far from ours. I don't want to have to rely on Bavarians for reinforcements. These are not Turks. One mistake against the French and our entire army could be surrounded quite away from home."

    Kamensky was much more aggressive than his colleague. Vorontsov is right, we don't have enough men for a sustained campaign and that is why time is not on our side. We have no other choice but to go straight away! Don't stop until our Cossack horses drink the waters of the Rhine!

    Kutuzov thought about his options. "Well you are both right. Vorontsov, if we wait too long we wont be going anywhere, but we definitely don't have enough men to get to Stuttgart. We can always wait for Benningsen's reinforcements in Munich. We will liberate our Empress's homeland from these French bastards. Alexander's wife was the eldest Princess of Baden-Wurrtenburg (google it). Her father had been deposed by French and usurped by Napoleon's incompetent and servile brother Jerome. They had a duty not only to their motherland but also to their Empress to free her people from French terror.

    "What do you think Amerikanets?" They had atleast extended to me the courtesy of my view on the matter, something unheard of, but these times were unheard of. I thought Vorontsov was right, but it was not my place to contradict Kutuzov my host. "I think the General's solution is quite balanced. We would do it differently in the Americas...but we aren't in the Americas." They didn't really care what I had to say anyways, the decision was already made. Maybe they hoped to glean some new innovative foreign idea from me, but I suppose I didn't have any to spare.
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    We need SS

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    Been doing some FF academy work next chapter will have ss. This was just the introduction of characters and whatnot.
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    Ok...Good luck your FF academy work.. We are waiting next chapter...thanks

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    Got a break in firefighter training to do this AAR. Next Chapter coming in shortly

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    Chapter 1: The 1805 Campaign of General Kutuzov
    Objectives
    Take Kutuzov's Army on the move and at the very least liberate Bavaria

    Hold Position in Southern Germany until reinforcements arrive

    Build up economy on the home front.
    Get reinforcements to Southern Germany

    Story
    The Russian Army arrived undermanned and far from any supplies or reinforcements to commence its first battle against the French. The Bavarians had been usurped by the French and a branch of the Wittelsbach (actually family that ruled Bavaria) family was fully behind removing the puppet King of Bavaria.

    The Bavarians had a mixed force of professional line infantry, citizen volunteers, 6 pounder cannons, and Cavalry. The Russians on the other hand had some horse artillery, and 2 regiments of Cossacks and a few regiments of line infantry and grenadiers including the vaunted Pavlovsk Grenadiers.

    Kutuzov started out by advancing his cannons at high speed leaving them dangerously exposed to an enemy charge, but the arrival of Cossacks protected them and the Bavarians were forced to deal with the mass of his army. The superior artillery of the Russians caused a good amount of casualties to the Bavarians and their friends in the infantry. This would be a consistent tactical problem for the Russians.
    As soon as the line was established, the Bavarian citizen volunteers took heavy casualties from the more accurate Russian fire. At this time Kutuzov called in the Cossacks to sweep in and attack the infantry to devastating effect. The charge was reinforced by a general bayonet charge across the whole line-sweeping the Bavarians off the field.


    Horse Artillery set up on the flank of the Bavarian Army


    Pavlovsk Grenadiers charging with bayonets fixed on the Bavarians who are desperately trying to get off a shot before the wall of grenadiers hits their lines.

    Unfortunately, the Cossacks took so many losses that they fled the field. Thus, they were not able to attack the final artillery battery at the end. The Bavarian guns were in such a position that an infantry attack would have to move through a bottle-neck to get to them. The only men with horses were us, Kutuzov and his general staff. So for the first time, I as an American became more than just an observer and we charged the cannons. Kutuzov is old and slow, it was quite dangerous for us to risk the old man, but a Russian general is supposed to be an example to his men, and this 60 year old advanced straight at the artillery risking himself against the battery.


    Kutuzov maybe 60 years old, fat, and blind in one eye but he still enjoys a charge himself every now and again.

    Regardless, we prevailed with minimal losses and the new Wittelsbach king was back on his throne doing what Bavarians do best- brewing beer and minding their own business.

    We were surprised how total the victory was. We took very little losses. The notion that we could advance to Baden and Württemberg and free our Empress's homeland from the French was more than a definite possibility. So we set out again, this time with two regiments of Bavarian volunteers- the Nuremburg Battalion and the Munich Battalion. This was the beginning of what would become two of the most prestigious units in the Russian Army.

    Baden and Wurrtemburg had a much less complicated army. They were all completely line infantry. This had two effects. They could be easily be manipulated due to the lack of variety of their troops, but since they outnumbered us, it was a possibility that they could overrun us.



    Again Kutuzov made very good use of his highly mobile artillery. Choosing to put them on the unprotected flank of the enemy and in support of the line. Due to the damage the Cossacks sustained, they were only used in the rear to attack any unit that was routing off the field. This made the likelihood of a shootout with them more probable, leaving Kutuzov at a disadvantage. Say what you will about the bravery and tenacity of a Russian soldier, but their commanders don't place too much emphasis on marksmanship. They have a real attraction to the bayonet that is at time dangerous and impractical. Regardless of their accuracy, the canister shot from the cannons solved that problem, and the Wurremburgers broke, choosing not to die for the French cause any longer. At the end of the day, the Empreor's brother-in-law was back on the throne in Baden and two regiments from Baden and Wurtemburg joined our army. The Stuttgart Battalion and the Karlsruhe Battalion- named after the birth place of the Russian Empress.



    Again casualties were very limited. Could it be true! We have reached Kamensky's goal! Our horses soon drank from the river Rhine in full view of the French. That is when Kutuzov had a very daring idea. Up until now we had not fought the French, we only fought their puppets who half-heartily supported their master in Paris. No we have not fought the real French Army. In order for us to shake Napoleon to his core, we had to push into France itself. Strasbourg was there for the taking. The French were massing at Metz far away. We could come in and give Napoleon his wake-up call.



    So we marched again, our horses crossed the Rhine and we headed set straight for Strasbourgh, garrisoned by the highly talented commander, Marshall Murat who fought against Suvorov in Italy during the wars against the French Republic. Kutuzov no longer thought the idea of deploying cannon at the flank was a good idea with the french. They were a much more organized army that could move much faster than the Bavarians and Wurrtemburgers. Plus, after two battles our line was at risk of thinning. 600 is not much to loose but they still needed to maintain a sustained campaign. The cannons. Kutuzov managed to storm the enemy cannon with the Cossacks, thus taking out their artillery. This time however, the French fire was so effective that it managed to route a few of our units. The new German additions, including two contingents of Wurrtemburgers managed to hold the line while the Pavlovsk Grenadiers charged head on into the French fusilers. The Cossacks, done with routing Murat from his camp and shattering the French artillery, came in from behind and decimated the last standing French forces. As was usual for the Cossacks, they chased down the fleeing French and ran them down until the last man was dead on the soil. Very few managed to escape. Strasbourg was ours!


    The Cossacks trample French fusiliers routing from the Russian Army at Strasbourg

    Unfortunately, Voronstov was right as well. We did not have enough manpower to hold our position against the French- especially in their own borders where the local population was organizing against the Russian incursion. Benningsens reinforcements had not even crossed the Russian border into Poland. Our army was still alone. Napoleon and Ney were already setting up for their counter attack. So, this temporary conquest was just looted of all its treasure. Packed up of valuables and sent in our baggage caravan back to the East. Right before we left the city, we set fire to all the buildings we could and retreated back to Stuttgart. Our campaign, as glorious as it was came to a stand still. In the mean time, the French still occupied Hannover and were sieging the city of Innsbruck. There was still work to be done.


    Rebels angered by looting and French forces massing make holding Strasbourg a big liability

    On our way to Hannover, the unthinkable occurred, Saxony declared war on Bavaria. We were rather unconcerned about this development. Saxony is after all a very small kingdom. Why would the Russians care? The Bavarians had a big enough army in and of themselves. Besides, Russian diplomats could get our Prussian allies to attack them. Our objective was Hannover. We had no time to care about Saxony.

    Indeed Saxony became absorbed into Prussia. But we did not think things through and the Prussians are notorious for pushing the line. They did not look to kindly on our liberation of Bavaria. The addition of a third power in the form of Russia was not welcome to Austria either. So, they came together to attack Bavaria. This was a tense situation. The French were advancing on Stuttgart again and our allies were swallowing up our smaller ally. Throw away Bavaria dishonorably, or create a giant war between Russia, Prussia, Austria, and possibly Britain while Napoleon eliminated us one by one? Obviously Bavaria had to be thrown under the rug. Needless to say, their King was not happy and so he banished us out of his Kingdom to Tyrol-now occupied by the French. Our Army, was now surrounded-isolated from our homeland and the support of our so-called allies. These Germans could tear apart their brethren in Bavaria, but we would no longer protect them against the French.


    Prussia decides to complicate the situation

    Before we could return back to Russia, we had to fight one more battle. The Battle of Innsbruck. There Beningsen's reinforcements had finally arrived-only without Beningsen. He was apparently back in Estonia preparing a new Army. So these men were combined with ours and we moved against the French Army to free ourselves from our Alpine prison. The French army was nothing like we had seen before. This was no garrison in an unwatched city like Strasbourg. This was the vanguard of the French advance to Vienna. Napoleon's Old Guard was here in force.


    Trapped in Tyrol by the French vanguard

    Again our forces advanced. This time the battlefield had some advantages that we could use, but it would require getting very close to the fire of the old guard. Kutuzov sent his men to take cover at point blank range behind a wall. Once the regiment occupied it, they were able to stay and shoot the old guard with almost total impunity-that is unless they charged, and they did. The Old Guard charged and broke the regiment as well as 4 others, creating a wide gap in our line. We were running out of men. All that was between Kutuzov's camp where I was staying and the Old Guard regiments were a bunch of jaegers. These jaegers held off against the old Guard long enough for cannon and other line infantry to come by their flank and save us. The French advance slowed, sputtered, and finally broke under the force of a tremendous barrage of grapeshot and the cold steel of the bayonet and the saber. With the old guard eliminated, there was no hope for the French. They fell back and Tyrol was ours. Our road back to our home and our wives was now open. We would not have to deal with Napoleon for quite some time. Unfortunately for Austria and Prussia, they would have to survive without Russian help. Besides, the Turks were making sounds in the South and Emperor Alexander had plans of conquest of his own while the Germans paid for their betrayal of Bavaria.


    Even in a route, Kutuzov finds an opportunity to turn the tables on the French


    The Karlsruhe Battalion executes French Prisoners after the battle in an act of revenge for the reoccupation of their homeland
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    Brilliant AAR! Keep up the good work!

    May i ask, which mod do you use to make you protectorate's units unlockable for you own factions?
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    Nice AAR. Keep up the good work!
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    Europe in Conflict mod. Effect of the mod is that you can only recruit native troops from conquered foreign territory and that is only a set amount. Say if I outright conquered Bavaria I could recruit 6 units of Bavarian line infantry, 3 Bavarian 6-lber cannons, and 2 Bavarian Chevrealaux (sp) Cavalry but none of my faction default infantry, cavalry, or artillery.. I have to import those in from Russia proper. Each region has different type of unit but most are boring line infantry. But Norway for example gives you ability to recruit two units of some fun type of light infantry and Silesia gives you the ability to recruit three units of Silesian sharpshooters. Very valuable as Russians who lack any real light infantry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YuriVII View Post
    Europe in Conflict mod. Effect of the mod is that you can only recruit native troops from conquered foreign territory and that is only a set amount. Say if I outright conquered Bavaria I could recruit 6 units of Bavarian line infantry, 3 Bavarian 6-lber cannons, and 2 Bavarian Chevrealaux (sp) Cavalry but none of my faction default infantry, cavalry, or artillery.. I have to import those in from Russia proper. Each region has different type of unit but most are boring line infantry. But Norway for example gives you ability to recruit two units of some fun type of light infantry and Silesia gives you the ability to recruit three units of Silesian sharpshooters. Very valuable as Russians who lack any real light infantry.
    ok, thanks

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    Chapter 2:
    Peace and Petty Wars

    With Russian withdrawal from the war against Napleon going on in German lands, Russian attentions turned to more internal issues. Looting the French city of Strasbourg did helped kick start the Russian economy. The first step was agriculture. Russia was not a very industrial country, but it had the most wheat fields in the world, especially in the fertile Ukraine. It also wanted to expand into Atlantic trade, especially to America. Emperor Alexander's grandmother, Catherine viewed the America as a land of opportunity, uninterested and unattached in European affairs. America's only interests with regards to Russia was trade. We Americans were too busy with our own remote part of the world to really care. Being in St. Petersburg of course, I was a minority among my country men. But if I did not have this appointment I probably would not care at all about the French, especially since President Jefferson purchased French North America from Napoleon. I might even have had a favorable opinion of the man. But that was not my lot in life, and the American Ambassador in St. Petersburg decided to let me go of my duties. Since the Russian Army was no longer in engaged in battle against Napoleon, there was no real need to observe them.

    I found myself without an income here in middle of Europe. My plantation in Virginia was quite far away and inaccessible. However, I was in a remarkable position. Eventhough I had no capacity in the American government any longer, I did have the friendship of Emperor Alexander I, who wanted to devote large sums of money to trade with my country. So, I decided to settle here in Russia and found the American Baltic Shipping Company in St Petersburg. I became a member overnight of the Russian state, just like John Paul Jones after the Revolution when he served in Catherine's navy. However, there was a challenge to this enterprise. The Scandinavian countries. Russia had declared war on Sweden and taken Finland. France and Spain also still had large navies that often raided the trade routes across the Atlantic. The Royal Navy, as powerful as it was, could not be everywhere at once, and definitely would not help us against the Swedes. In addition to this there were still problems with the Turks. War had broken out and the Russian seized Bessarabia. Alexander had grand plans to liberate the balkans and put his brother Constantine on the throne of a new Greek Empire, under Russian protection of course.


    No resistance to the liberation of Rumania.

    Since most of Russian attention focused was focused on France, Russia did not advance past Bessarabia, since it offered a natural choke point and was quite easy to hold. However, once Kutuzov's Army was marching back home after the betrayal of Bavaria, the Russian army suddenly found the impetus to make itself known in the Balkans. The first target were the fellow orthodox peoples of Rumania. The Balkan Army, under the command of Fyodor Buxhoewden struck at Bucharest and liberated it from the Turks, this founding for the first time since the Dacians of Ancient Rome- an independent Rumanian state to serve as a buffer to both whoever controlled Turkey and Hungary. This was the first crucial step to liberating Constantinople from the Turks, a dream of Russia since the days of Ivan the Terrible.


    General Beningsen- commander of the Nordic Army.

    Another dream was an open port to the sea. Russia had a long tedious relationship with the Swedes and now the Danes. Russia seized Finland right after Kutuzov came back. This was complicated because Sweden was an ally of Britain and Austria. A move against them could have split the alliance…but the Tsar knew that coin could change the mind of any Englishman and the prospect for Austria of a war with France and Russia was out of the question. The bribe worked and Sweden found itself at the mercy of the Russian Empire. I left for St. Petersburg to attach myself to Benningsen. I had experience with light infantry tactics on the American frontier and the Swedes had a good assortment of these dangerous killers that the Russians would need to counter. We loaded onto ships and sailed from the Aland Islands under cover of darkness to land just North of Stolkholm.


    The Swedes fight for their kingdom

    The Swedes were completely caught unaware. Although the Russian Army was much bigger than the Swedish Army, the Russian Navy was barely a challenge for the Swedes. It was by sheer cunning and a lot of luck that we were able to land a whole corps onto the Swedish mainland. The Swedes had no choice but to counter our landing with all their troops in Stockholm. The Swedes would fight for their life. This was their chance to stop us before we marched into their capital. They fought with a norsmen's tenacity. Charging us with bayonets, Getting to our cannon, and every wood was occupied with a Swedish jaeger ready to snipe out on our soldiers. Beningsen defeated the Swedish forces only after extremely heavy casualties, The Swedes retreated to Stockholm and we laid siege to them. There was no further point in resistance. They lost their city and their sovereignty. The Swedes were not to be liberated like the Rumanians and the Bavarians, they were to be directly incorporated into the Russian Empire. According to Alexander, the Swedes were more of a danger to Russia than the Poles. These people cannot be independent. Such an event- the conquest of Sweden had never before rocked the Scandinavian world. The Danes were in a precarious position. Their coasts watched by the British- eager to revenge Hannoverian losses to Denmark, the French to the South and now a victorious Russian Army poised just across from their capital of Copenhagen took out the only secure flank they had. Denmark had to act fast, Benningsen's Army was reeling from the Swedish campaign. As soon as the Russian flag flew over the port in Stockholm, Danish war drums were rolling. Sweden is a big province and Beningsen needed time for ammunition and a few regiments of Swedish line to be called together. The Danes advanced to 200 verists (a verst is ~1.2 km) of Stockholm unopposed until the first skirmishes took place.

    The Danes make a play for complete domination of Scandinavia.

    By this time however, the Army of Kammensky (the prophet of the Bavarian campaign) had reached Swedish shores.Russian forces were still outnumbered but the Danes were spread out. Victory would come in push one Army away. We appeared on the battlefield. This time I wore the uniform of a Russian Captain of Infantry, but the Danes knew they had no hope of holding us here so the fell back to their compatriots in the small town of Nykoping in Sodermanland county. Here would be another deciding battle, this would decide the fate of Scandinavia. Would it be under the control of Russia or the Danes? To the Danes this was a matter of national life and death for their small kingdom. For our Empire it would be a drastic setback in the pursuit for the sea and for my shipping company. For how can I trade in Norfolk and Boston with Spanish, French, and the Danish fleet hunting down my ships?

    Our forces met and right as the first cannon shot fired, Benningsen ordered his uhlans to attack the Danish guns. The Danish commander as a result was probably very annoyed with this loss. As a result he maneuvered his heavy cavalry toward ours and sanwhiched them with his own jaegers and infantry. Our uhlans fell on the field in great number. Only a small contingent was able to break through the Danish dragoons and move to safety. Now it was up to Russian guns and Russian steel. Our soldiers advanced, but the Danish commander had another trick up his sleeve. He sent his light infantry to pick off our men from the bushes, but with our cavalry in disarray there was no way to effectively counter them. In this battle I was serving in a Russian jaeger regiment. Benningsen ordered me and my men to find the jaegers in the wood and run them down with bayonets. Nothing else could stop them. My friend Ernst, a fellow I had known since I first came to this wild country fell on the field as we moved against them. This was a surreal experience to me that I did not understand he was dead when he fell. To me it was as if he had just tripped on a branch. I felt nothing. I just stood in disbelief. It was only after when we drove the jaegers off the battlefield did the reality of the situation sink in. Danish reinforcements were pouring across the battlefield and Kamenskys Army was nowhere to be found. Ernst was not to be the only one that fell that day. Another Danish cavalry unit smashed a Russian infantry regiment before it could become a square and in the ensuing melee, a saber slashed General Beningsen's throat. The death of this man caused a shiver across the line and our men fell back.


    Bagration's Georgian Grenadiers take cover behind a stone wall as Danish troops advance on their position.

    Eventually we had to fall back to a stone wall with Colonel Bagration's grenadier regiment. The Danes were expending their last forces of men against our to drive us from the wall. My jaegers and Bagration's regiment managed to hold off a force 5 times our size until we too had no choice but to break rank and flee. We ran to a wood to take cover and rest the whole regiment was in disarray. Then we heard drums in the distance. Kamensky had come and his force was enough to drive the Danes off the field. The Battle of Nykoping had come to an end, and for us this victory was far from easy. Many men had died for their countries today.


    Kammesnky's forces overwhelm the Danes at Nykoping

    After the battle my regiment joined Kammensky on his march toward Oslo. It was lightly defended by the Danes and the garrison surrendered without a fight. Apparently the Norweigians were very keen on being apart of a distant Russia than a close Denmark. Kammensky recognized me instantly during a parade in Oslo.
    "Monsenieur Moore! How good it is to see you! I thought you returned to America and now I see you are in the service of our August Father !"(term Russians used for Russian Emperor). "Yes, Nikolai Mikhailovich" I replied. "There are too many sharks in the sea for me to go back.!" The General thought my situation quite trite and with a grin he asked, "Are you referring to the French or British sharks?" Unfortunately, he was referring to the recent British practice of impressing American sailors into the British navy. "I would have to say both, general." He reassured me, "Don't worry I will make sure that we can have some Russians sharks as well, but perhaps there is something you can do for me in the meantime. The last few battles with the Swedes and the Danes have shown me the value of having some good light infantry. You were a skirmisher back in the Americas. These Norwegians are good shots and hate Danes and Frenchmen. We have a lot in common with them. I want you to train two regiments of these men. You will be given the rank of major. We still have to storm the fortresses around Copenhagen. We may need them to help with any unforeseen contingencies." I replied, "I will give the Emperor the best soldiers this side of the Atlantic!" "Haha, good. I suspect we will need them."

    So off I went with my new command into the mountains and fjords of Norway to look for the best shots in Norway. Among them I already found a regiment of Norwegian partisans who used skis to move themselves. These men will do nicely for the empire!

    They would test themselves at Copenhagen numerous times. We captured the Danish capital with only a skeleton force defending the city. The remnants of the Danish Army had left it in order to attack a British landing force. As an act of good faith to our British allies and as a way to motivate perfidious albion to commit soldiers on the continent, the Russian Imperial standard was replaced with the Union Jack over the fortresses of Copenhagen. The French, now in Hannover and Prussia did not take too kindly to this and we had to protect the British from being overrun there. In retrospect it was a mistake as England remained pinned down in Denmark. Her soldiers, as skillful as they are were not numerous in number and were spread around half-way cross the globe. But the Duke of Wellington's skill in battle matched that of even Kutuzov.


    Bagration's Grenadiers arrive just in time to save the British fort as Kammensky and the Duke of Wellington look on.

    During our campaigns in Scandinavia Bukhvoden fell victim to a Turkish assassin and Vorontsov was placed in command. Vorontsov carried the Russian Army to the gates of Constantinople. After occupying and raising a few regiments of Turks, the Emperor donated Constantinope to the newly liberated Greek people. Austria was being overrun by French soldiers. It would be only a matter of time before the French were knocking on Russian doors. The briefly took Budapest when Vorontsov's Army kicked the French out and liberated the Hungarians from their brief French occupation. The coming war would fall on Prussia and our Polish provinces instead of across the Carpathians.
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    Default Re: [AAR]Za Chest' i pobedu! (For Honor and Victory)) Russian AAR

    wow really nice AAR indeed, i have never seen anyone who make russian AAR
    keep it up mate i'll keep checking

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