While preparing my
last post I realised that with the slow pace of progress around here, I needed
to go back and check my own map in order figure out where things ought to lie
after last week’s battle and how they ought to progress. If I needed a refresher, I can only imagine
that the Interested Reader had to do some studying as well. So, I am going posting here a couple of maps
that should illustrate the flow of events across Syldavia’s obscure
landscape. Above is a map showing movements of the start of the spring campaign, namely the Bordurian raids on bridgeheads controlling access to King Ivan's winter base at Klow. The map below shows King Ivan's movements in response to these raids leading, finally, to the encounter in the Zileheroum Marshes.
It goes without saying that this blog has been stalled for some time while I have had my hands full with work and kids. I have had the AAR for the Battle of Olbernhau (see previous post) mostly completed for some time, but it has been languishing forgotten in the limbo of the "drafts" file. In the effort to re-start things in motion around here, the first order of business is to publish it! Battle of Olberhau After Action Report Prelude The town of Olberhnahu with forested hills to the east (rear). The Allies enter the table from more or less this position moving from right to left, then turning sharply west (left) As outlined in the previous post ( here ), our scenario revolved a hypothetical encounter of the French IX Corps and the Allied Army of Bohemia just west of the town of Olbernhau, southern Saxony, in August 1813. The battle game is preceded by the approach of the town by Count Pahlen III’s Russian hussar division, moving in from the
An interesting map well annotated.
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Alan
Great detail! I'm tempted by the idea of doing something similar, but set in the 1930s, closer to the events of 'King Ottokar's Sceptre'.
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Matt, hard to argue with the choice of project...! You might to take a peek at the excellent "Borduria Calling" blog here:
http://funnylittlewars-gardencampaigns.blogspot.ca/
Thanks, I've nominated you for a Liebster Blog Award: http://theclosetgamer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/fellow-blogger-moiterei1984-was-kind.html
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