Nachod 1866 - a Bloody Big Battles game

[Chris Pringle]

Well we played Trautenau last night and certainly a dramatic game full of action. A full AAR to follow in due course.

AAR yes please!

[cameronian]

Austrian skirmish ability/stands - I'm unfussed in playing at a smaller level than BBB uses (as the default 1000 man, with 500 for the smaller training scenarios at a push), and doubly so for the APW, so dropping to 250 men per stand doesn't really interest me. What I do wonder (as discussed above, off list and elsewhere ) is - does the Jaeger presence warrant giving each Brigade an S rating, or make one four stands with S rating and one 3 stands without. As I'm more than half swayed away from giving them S at all, you can change that to A ratings instead with the same question

Or, should the Austrian Divisions be used in place of the Brigades, so you have a manouvre unit at 7 S/A P T Trn MLR? I think that's too much, as to me one of the "features" is the inability for Corps commanders to actually mass their Brigades up and go in together in a supported attack.

Also, Daves set up has kind of reminded me of a more Austrian favourable Gitchen where the stray "disengage immediately" order arrives just before the Austrians are pinned in place instead of just after

You know an Austrian infantry division comprises two companies not two brigades don't you.

[toxicpixie]

Yes, sorry not that level of division, but the non-existent level below Corps of two brigades which i'd used as mental short hand when translating/thinking about real world to game set up Bad habit, compounded by not stating my assumptions

Should probably have said "would it be better to combine pairs of brigades and make them seven stands with A and S ratings etc etc"! Which I wouldn't want to do as it makes Austrian command and control far to simple for the player and doesn't reflect Corps commanders awkwardness in controlling their brigades and getting them into action together instead of however and wherever they contacted the enemy.