General Scenario: Battle of Castiglione, August 5, 1796

    On consideration of a scenario for trying out some hitherto unplayed Napoleonic wargames rules, I decided that Albuera was perhaps better suited to a second game with some or all of the sets, and began looking for a different scenario, preferably one I haven't gamed before. With my ongoing participation in Jon's Rivoli game, a battle from Napoleon's first Italian campaign seemed attractive. Thus I settled on the Battle of Castiglione

The overall situation as Napoleon was confronted by yet another attempt by the Austrians to relive the garrison of Mantua (like the following two maps, from David Chandler's The Campaigns of Napoleon). 

Early phase of the battle

The later phase of the Battle. 

This Map is from https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Castiglione_1796_campaign_order_of_battle

And yet another map!

Revised OOB and naps based information provided by Michael:

Castiglione August 1796

1 Infantry - 1,000 1 Cavalry = 600, 1 Artillery = 10 guns

French Army of Italy, Napoleon Bonaparte commanding

Division Massena

Brigade Joubert

3 Light Infantry

Brigade Valette

3 Light Infantry

Brigade Victor 

3 Line Infantry

Brigade Rampon

2 Light Infantry

Brigade D’Allemagne

3 Line Infantry

1 Battery

Division Augereau

4 Line Infantry, 1 Battery

Division Despinois
3 Line Infantry

Division Fiorella
4 Line Infantry

Division Kilmaine
2 Grenadier, 2 Chasseurs, 1 Hussar, 1 Dragoon
2 Horse Artillery

TOTAL: 8 Light Inf, 17 Line, 2 Grenadiers, 4 Cavalry, 4 Batteries

(20,000 Inf rising to 27,000 at end of battle, 2400 cavalry, 40 guns)

Austrian Army, FM Dagobert von Wurmser

Right Wing, FML Davidovich

Col Schubirz
1 Jager, 1 Grenz

GM Spiegel 

1 Line 1 Grenadier (actually Deutschmeister IR #3), 1 6# Foot Battery

GM Liptay
4 Line Infantry, 1 6# Foot Battery

GM Mittrowsky (2nd Line)
4 Line Infantry, 1 6# Foot battery

Left Wing, FML Sebottendorf

GM Gummer

2 Line Infantry

Col. Piazczek
2 Hussar, 1 Uhlan
1 x 3# Cavalry Battery

2 x 12# Foot Batteries (at Monte Medolano)

TOTAL: 1 Jager, 1 Grenz, 1 “Grenadier”,11 Line, 2 Hussar, 1 Huhlan, 6 Batteries

14,000 Infantry 1800 Cavalry, 60 guns

Terrain Map

Deployment Map

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Original version:

Finding a good Order of Battle proved much more difficult. The best I could find was this one from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castiglione_1796_campaign_order_of_battle

French Army

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Army of Italy: Napoleon Bonaparte (42,049)
  • Division: General of Division André Masséna (15,391)
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Antoine La Valette
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Antoine-Guillaume Rampon
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Claude Perrin Victor
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Paul Guillaume
  • Division: General of Division Pierre Augereau (5,368)
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Martial Beyrand †
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Jean Gilles André Robert
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Gaspard Amédée Gardanne
  • Division: General of Division Pierre Francois Sauret (4,462)
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Jean Joseph Guieu
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca
  • Division: General of Division Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier vice Pascal Antoine Fiorella (10,521)
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Louis Pelletier
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Charles François Charton
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Emmanuel Gervais de Roergaz de Serviez
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Claude Dallemagne
  • Division: General of Division Hyacinthe Francois Joseph Despinoy (4,772)
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Nicolas Bertin
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Jean-Baptiste Cervoni
  • Cavalry: General of Division Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine (1,535)
    • Brigade: General of Brigade Marc Antoine de Beaumont

Austrian Army

Dagobert von Wurmser

• Austrian Army: Feldmarschall Dagobert von Wurmser (60,690, 98 position and 94 battalion guns)
  • Right (I) Column: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich (17,621)
    • Brigade: General-major Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen
    • Brigade: General-major Johann Rudolph Sporck
    • Brigade: General-major Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz
    • Brigade: General-major Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko
    • 17 battalions (15,272), 13 squadrons (2,349), 24 position guns
  • Right-Center (II) Column: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Michael von Melas (14,403)
    • Brigade: General-major Peter Gummer
    • Brigade: General-major Adam Bajalics von Bajahaza
    • Division: Feldmarschallleutnant Karl Philipp Sebottendorf
      • Brigade: General-major Franz Nicoletti
      • Brigade: General-major Philipp Pittoni von Dannenfeld
    • 19 battalions (13,676), 4 squadrons (727), 24 position guns
  • Left-Center (III) Column: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Paul Davidovich (9,892)
    • Brigade: General-major Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky
    • Brigade: General-major Anton Lipthay de Kisfalud
    • Brigade: General-major Leberecht Spiegel
    • 11 battalions (8,274), 10 squadrons (1,618), 40 position guns
  • Left (IV) Column: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló (5,021)
    • Brigade: General-major Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
    • Brigade: General-major Ferdinand Minckwitz
    • 5 battalions (3,949), 7 squadrons (1,072), 10 position guns
  • Mantua Garrison: Feldmarschall-Leutnant Joseph Canto d'Irles (13,753)
  • Brigade: General-major Gerhard Rosselmini (3,666 in 5 battalions)
  • Brigade: General-major Josef Philipp Vukassovich (2,449 in 3 battalions)
  • Brigade: Oberst Karl Salisch (1,489 in 6 battalions)
  • Brigade: General-major Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd (2,443 in 5 battalions)
  • Brigade: Oberst Strurioni (2,298 in 2½ bns)
  • Unattached: 434 cavalry in 3½ squadrons, 96 sappers, 701 artillerists
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    However, it is completely lacking in any detail as to the kinds of troops contained within each formation. I was able to make a rough approximation from more detailed listings for battles earlier and later in the campaign, but in the end wound up just using what seemed reasoable to me from that data and the contents of my own collection. 

    I settled on the following somewhat generic OOB, which will have to be further adapted to the rules to be played. In any event, I used the following rough conversion of historical numbers to tabletop units:  1 Infantry unit  = 1,000 men, 1 Cavalry unit = 600 men,  1 battery = 8 guns

French Army- Napoleon Bonaparte

Massena 8,000

6 Line Infantry, 2 Legere. 2 Batteries

Augereau  10,000

8 Line Infantry, 2 Legere,  2 Batteries

Despinoy 4,000

4 Line Infantry

Verdier 2,00 Grenadiers

2 Grenadier

Marmont 18 horse artillery

2 batteries

Kilmaine 1500 Cavalry

1 each Chasseur, Dragoon, Hussar

Fiorella 500 dragoons, 5,000 infantry

1 Dragoon, 1 Legere, 4 Line, 1 Battery

TOTAL: 29 infantry, 4 cavalry, 7 artillery

Austrian Army, Dagobert von Wurmser

Melas 8,000 Infantry, 24 guns

1 Light Infantry, 1 Grenadier, 6 Line Infantry, 3 x 6 lber Foot batteries

Sebottendorf  8,000 Infantry, 24 guns

1 Grenz, 1 Grenadier, 6 Line, 3 x 6 lber Foot batteries

Davidovich 7,000 Infantry,  2400 cavalry, 16 guns

1 Light Infantry, 6 Line Infantry, 2 Hussar, 1 Chevau-Leger, 1 Dragoon, 2 x 6 lber Foot batteries

TOTAL: 23 Infantry, 4 cavalry, 8 Artillery

Terrain map, 6 x 9 foot table

Deployment Map; arrival of Despinoy, and later Fiorella, will bein part rules dependent. 

    Now to set up the terrain and troops, and then decide which rules to play first!

February 22nd, 2021 - Thanks to the much more detailed (but still with gaps) information from Michael aka Wargamer Rabbit, a significant revision to the OOB and deployment maps will be coming in the next few days...   Peter