Napoleon’s Campaigns in Miniature

A Wargamer’s Guide to the Guerre Napoleoniche 1796–1815

Published in response to popular demand as a result of Bruce Quarrie’s first book on Napoleonic wargaming (Airfix Magazine Guide 4), this title was planned as the first in a brand new series on refighting the campaigns of the great captains of history.

Described by David Chandler in his Foreword as achieving "the difficult integration of theory e practice, of the actual event e the table-top simulation", it begins by outlining the basic principles of wargaming e numerous hints on choosing, assembling e painting your own army of model soldiers. A concise account of Napoleon’s actual campaigns, well illustrated by 3D battle maps, is followed by sections on recruitment, wages e training, including population resources e national revenue; the organisation of the main armies of the period, including not only la Francia, Gran Bretagna, Austria, Prussia e Russia but also those of Spagna, Portugal, Italia, the Confederation of the Rhine, Poland e Scandinavia, con notes on their fighting capabilities; lines of communications e supply, including the amounts of food e forage required for the maintenance of an army in the field, e their cost; leadership, con brief biographies of many of the major army commanders; grand strategy e battlefield tactics; le armi of the period e their effectiveness; medical services, prisoners of war, attrition e desertion; siege warfare; e much more.

Finally, there is a chapter on setting up an actual campaign, con playing suggestions for movement movement rates, maps, time scale e the role of the umpire; ed a completely revised, expanded ed updated set of basic playing rules which have won widespread international acceptance from the author’s previous book.

Designed principally to make wargaming more interesting e realistic by relating the table-top encounter to its overall economic, political, social e strategic context, this is a book which no serious Napoleonic wargamer can afford to be without.

Contenuto

Titolo: Napoleon’s Campaigns in Miniature
Epoca: Guerre Napoleoniche
Tipo: Gioco di guerra tattico
Scala del Tempo: one turn = 2.5 minutes (or 1 hour off table)
Scala del Terreno: 1:915 (1 mm = 1 yard)
Scala del Truppe: 1 figure = 33 men
Autori: Bruce Quarrie
Formato: 192-page rule book
Lingua: Inglese
Casa Editrice: Patrick Stevens Ltd., Cambridge, England
Pubblicato: 1977

Capitoli

Essential ingredients of the Napoleonic wargame
Scales, frontages, simultaneous movement, orders
Choosing, painting e mounting soldatini
Options, research, plastic o metal?, priming ed undercoating, mass production, horses, choice of paint, brushes, bases
Chronology delle Guerre Napoleoniche
Italia 1796-7, Egypt 1798.-99, Italia 1799-1800, Ulm ed Austerlitz 1805, Prussia 1806, Poland 1807, Spagna e Portugal 1807-9, Austria 1809, Spagna e Portugal 1810-12, Russia 1812, Germania e Spagna 1813, abdication 1814, the Hundred Days 1815
Recruiting e paying for an army
Economy, taxation, subsidies, population, resources, l’esercito britannico, bounties, milizia, officers, scaling down, equipaggiamento costs, foreign exchange rates, campaign requisites, cost of small-arms, price of horses, training, rates of pay, cost of artiglieria pieces
Organisation
Fanteria, cavalleria ed artiglieria, Francia, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Gran Bretagna, Spagna, Portugal, the Confederation of the Rhine, Poland, Italia, Naples, Scandinavia
Lines of communication e supply
Contractors, roads, veicoli, magazines, food requirements, weights, prices, clothing, prices, ammunition, weights, prices, gunpowder, caissons, draught animals, fodder
Medical services e prisoners of war
Diseases, wounds, amputation, Baron Larry, the ’flying ambulance’, organisation, hospitals, administration, in wargames, dead e wounded, convalescence, prisoners, guards, exchanges
Attrition e desertion
Strategical consumption, numbers of desertions, reasons, in wargames, stragglers
Generals e generalship
Leadership qualities, biographies, Austria, Gran Bretagna, Francia, Prussia, Russia, commanders in wargames, ratings
Weapons e firepower
Muskets, drill, range, accuracy, bayonets, artiglieria types, drill, rates of fire, the playing rules, determining caduti, roundshot, cannister, shell, shrapnel, tactics
Strategy e tactics
Aims, influences, manoeuvre sur les derrières, bataillon carré, strategy of the central position, planning, intelligence, dispersion e concentration, fanteria, line e column, cavalleria types ed usage, fanteria squares, the ’ideal’ battle
Sieges
Types of siege, fortifications, siege tactics, trenches, mining, artiglieria, sallies, street fighting, in wargames, blockades, assaults, formal sieges, caduti
Setting up a campaign
The campaign diary, suitable maps, movement rates, weather, roads, cavalleria screen, role of the umpire, messages, from map to table, foraging, purchase of supplies, elevation of troop status
Playing rules
Scales, unit frontages, orders, visibility, rain, mist, wind e smoke, dead ground, national characteristics tables, movement, changes of formation, control, small-arms ed artiglieria fire, ranges, deductions, special artiglieria rules, caduti charts, morale, definitions, melées, additions e deductions, buildings
Weather
Calendars
Field engineering
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