LANNES Campaign: Set up for Battle #3, 1806

    Barry and I had time after game #2 of our LANNES Campaign to do the post game rolls, so we did so. It has only taken me a month top post them, though! The campaign scheme calls for adding 3 new units to each side. I rolled up a much needed 6 lber foot battery and yet ANOTHER 2 Light infantry units. Barry rolled up another Line infantry, a 6 lber foot battery, plus a Dragoon unit to bolster his weak cavalry arm.

    After that we rolled for the fate of the existing units. Of my 14 units, 2 were degraded (one of which had no effect as it was already as bad as it could get!), 2 were unchanged, and the remaining 8 went up one for their Defense of Combat die type. Francois Faucon (C-in-C), Fabien LeFerme, and Rene Renard all improved their Leadership Die by one, whilst Simeon Souris' poltroon-ery was evidently noticed by his troops, degrading one Die Type. The newcomer, Henri Hibou, evidently didn't see enough action to impress his troops one way or the other. The D10/D8 unit must be the Invalid Company, I think!


FRENCH ARMY, post game 2

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Unit #	Unit Name	DD	CD	Routs Caused	Final UI loss	Routed, etc?	End Game Result
1	Vendémiaire Line	D4	D12		2	Y	DD Down 1
2	Brumaire Line	D4	D8		2	Y	No Change
3	Angoulême Chasseur	D8	D12		0		DD up 1	Become Hussar
4	Ardennes Light	D6	D10		0		DD up 1
5	Bordeaux Chasseur	D6	D12		1	Y	CD Up 1
6	Chaumont Chasseur	D8	D10		1		DD Up 1	Become Hussar
7	Vertu 6# Ft Artillery	D6	D8		0		DD Up 1
8	Génie 6# FA	D8	D12	3	0		DD Up 1	Becomes HA
9	Bouches-du-Rhône Light	D10	D8		0		DD Up 1	Becomes Guard!
10	Frimaire Line	D4	D8		2	Y	DD Down 1 (NE)
11	Nivôse Line	D4	D10		2		No Change
12	Côte-d'Or Light	D8	D8	1	1		DD Up 1	Young Guard
13	Rhône Light	D6	D12		2		CD Up 1
14	Morvan Dragoon	D4	D12		0		CD Up 1
15	Travail 6# FA	D4	D8
16	Gironde Light	D6	D8
17	Loire Light	D4	D8

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General	Name	LD	Special	Hit?	Outcome	Year	End Game Result
C-in-C	Francois Faucon	D12	-			1799	LD Up 1	Hawk
A	Simeon Souris	D10	Poltroon			1799	LD down 1	Mouse
B	Fabien LaFerme	D10	Fabian			1800	LD Up`1	The Farm
C	Rene Renard	D12	Fabian			1799	LD Up 1	Fox
D	Henri Hibou	D12	Fabian			1805	No Change	Owl

RUSSIAN ARMY, post game 2

	NEW DD/CD RATINGS SHOWN IN GREEN
Unit #	Unit Name	DD	CD	Routs Caused	Final UI loss	Routed, etc?	End Game Result	Comments
1	1/Alexapol	D4	D10			Yes	No Change
2	3/Alexapol	D4	D12			Yes	CD +1
3	1/Ingermannland	D4	D12	1	1		CD +1
4	3/Ingermannland	D4	D12			Yes	CD +1
5	6# Battery #1	D8	D12	2			DD +1	Becomes Horse Btry
6	1/Smolensk	D6	D10				CD +1
7	3/Somlensk	D6	D10		2		DD +1
8	1/Simbriski	D6	D10				DD +1
9	3/Simbriski	D4	D10	1			CD +1
10	6# Battery #2	D4	D12+1	2			CD +1	Becomes 12# Btry
11	1/20th Jager	D8	D10	1			DD +1	Becomes Grenadier
12	1/21st Jager	D4	D10			destroyed	No Change
13	Siberia Dragoons	D6	D10				No Change
14	Cossacks	D4	D8				CD +1	Become Uhlan D4/D8
15	Dragoons	D6	D10
16	6# Battery #3	D4	D10
17	Line Infantry	D4	D8
General	Name	LD	Special	Hit?	Outcome	Year	End Game Result
C-in-C	Boris Badenov	D10	N/A				Charismatic
A	M. Smartov	D12+2	N/A				LD +1
B	Trembalalotsky	D12	Epileptic	Ld Roll of 2 = no move; re-roll officer sruvival			LD +1
C	Boramirov	D12	N/A				No Change
D	Scardikatzky	D8	Poltroon	Down 1 for Rally Rolls			No Change

    We then moved on to the pregame setup (taken directly from FoB2). This time we forgot to apply the random modifiers to each of the die types, but it's zero sum game anyway. so we won't worry about it. The rolls came out as noted below. This time out I managed to lose all 4 rolls! : 

Area	Fr Die	Fr Roll	Russ Die	Russ Roll	Result
Tactical	D6	5	D10	8	1 of winner’s Cmd groups may do Tactical Adjustment
Strength	D10	5	D10	10	⅛ of loser’s Cmd groups late D4+D6 MOVES
Recon	D10	3	D6	5	No effect
Deploy	D8	1	D8	3	NE; winner gets to choose table orientation or side

    Next, we  rolled for the Warplan 5/5 district the 3rd battle of the Campaign was to take place in. This time we had to go on to the 3rd district, as the first 2 were clearly unsuitable. One was open sea, which would actually work out fine if we had a naval component to the campaign. That is something to consider next time. I t would be easy enough to do a cross walk from Land to Sea Units, maybe decreasing the numbers by 50%..

    In any event, that left us with the third of the three districts generated, 5B.22. The  adjacent card in my files is 6B, so I just went with that for the purposes of nearby terrain.

The WarPlan 5/5 Atlas describes district  5B.22 as follows: "Soft, cultivated land. Farm. Fences. River fordable all year. Very bad roads in wet weather".  It was determined that the French will enter from the "West" (edges with the road, river, and hill), while the Russians will enter from the East (fittingly!), the side with the road and 3 small copses of woods. One of my Commands will be delayed a  number of MOVEs to be determined. In the first 2 games, the side so disadvantaged has won! 

    The nearest village is in 5B.23, ORITANA, which is noted to have a high stone tower. A likely name for this next one might be the Battle of Oritango Downs. in a partial nod to both the nearby village, as well as a certain well known member of The Miniatures Page!