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Grand Battery

A Guide and Rules for Napoleonic Wargames

Diane Canwell

Jon Sutherland

First published in Great Britain in 2010 by
Pen & Sword Military
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
47 Church Street
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2AS

Copyright Jonathan Sutherland & Diane Canwell, 2010

9781783461073

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1988.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the following for providing images: Joe Dever, Pete Moreby (Elite Miniatures), Wargames Holiday Centre, Scarborough, Warmodelling, Garrison Miniatures, Front Rank Miniatures, Baccus, Miniature Figurines (Caliver Books), Eureka Miniatures, The Assault Group and Vinnie Singleton.

The editor would like to thank the members of Rainham Wargames Club for their time, expertise and figures used in playtesting, with special thanks to Graham Down and to Tim of Frontline Wargames for the photo shoots. Thanks also to Nick Dingle for additional playtesting and very useful comments.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the first of Pen & Swords series of wargaming guides and rules. The series is much more than a set of wargame rules or a description of the weapons and tactics of the period. In this title you will find a brief history of the period, a primer on the weapons and tactics used by the protagonists and information about the uniforms and transport used.

The series is aimed at the wargamer, the newcomer to the hobby and the old hand with years of experience of building up miniature forces and playing wargames. The rules are designed to be easy to pick up and play, novel in their approach and above all, as close a representation of the real fighting as possible. It is never likely that we can reproduce what happened on a real battlefield, but the rules are designed to give a true flavour of the type of warfare without overcomplicating things and making the game play ponderous to the point that they are unplayable.

Wargaming is a social activity in the main and the rules assume that the hours that the wargamer has spent alone organising, painting, basing and protecting the figures and vehicles will be rewarded by a game with fellow players. That said, it is perfectly possible to play against a programmed dummy opponent who will try to react to your actions and will attempt to mimic the tactics and strategy used by a real enemy on the battlefield.

Grand Battery covers the broad sweep of the Napoleonic Wars, essentially a series of wars fought between France and other nations between 1799 and 1815. We arbitrarily choose this period as 1799 was the year in which France came under the domination of Napoleon Bonaparte. The guide covers a wide variety of different nations, from the Austrians to the Ottoman Turks and from the British to the innumerable German states. The scenarios in this book are designed to provide a taste of gaming the period with three battles from 1793-1815,

The guide also includes a unique buyers guide which details most of the manufacturers of figures and vehicles for the period; additional sections cover terrain and buildings. Each set of rules in the series will be supported by a series of scenario books. Each of these focuses on a theatre of the war or a particular aspect of the warfare, such as the Peninsular War or Napoleons campaigns in Egypt. Each scenario book will include at least twenty scaled scenarios with additional rules, new organisation charts and original photographs of the games in progress.

Pen and Sword also have online resources to support the series, at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk and there you will find additional scenarios, rules clarifications, battle reports, downloadable cards, templates and ready reference sheets and a host of other game support.

Have fun and good gaming!

Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell

CHAPTER 1:

Period History, Chronology and Major Battles

Chronology of Napoleonic Battles

The Napoleonic Wars, although they only spanned around sixteen years, involved nearly every European nation. The wars also spilled out into North and South America and into Egypt. The Napoleonic Wars were primarily fought between France and her allies and a shifting coalition of nations. A constant against the French were the British and at various times they were in alliances with Russia, Austria, Portugal and other countries.

The Napoleonic Wars represent perhaps the first total war; in the sense that the wars were being fought by primarily conscripted soldiers and whole nations found themselves embroiled in the conflict rather than their professional armies.

The French managed to fashion a huge number of victories, some of which would knock nations out of the conflict for some months or years before they could recover. There were periods of peace, but they were short-lived. Systematically the French under Napoleon attempted to dominate Europe and reshape the states as they saw fit.

The wars saw innumerable small skirmishes and engagements, but also vast battles with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of men involved. In Napoleons invasion of Russia in 1812 he took with him an army of half a million men. This chapter can only scratch the surface of the Napoleonic period. It begins with a chronology identifying the key events and battles. We then turn our attention to some of the key engagements of the Napoleonic Wars, leading up to the last throw of the dice by Napoleon and the French, which ultimately ended in the destruction of his army at Waterloo and his exile, which marked the end of the Napoleonic period.

Year	Date	Conflict
1792	20 April	France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Piedmont, beginning the War of the First Coalition

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