I like to let players do what they want, but at a cost.

Want to form square before the Cavalry hits you? Sure, attach a commander.

Want to do a on the spot detachment? Sure, but you make your Brigade weaker.




Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn



From: George Noble
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:23 AM
To: NapoleonicFireandFury@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [NapoleonicFireandFury] Detachments


Michael,

Could cut the parent down to 12/9/6 and the depatchement 3/-/2

Wesley

--- On Sat, 12/27/08, Michael <mwSaber6@...> wrote:

From: Michael <mwSaber6@...>
Subject: Re: [NapoleonicFireandFury] Detachments
To: NapoleonicFireandFury@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 8:20 PM

Rather than re-working labels. A shortcut if you will. Take a 15 stand unit,
detach 3 stands and the label still is 15/11/8. 12 stands get to maneuver and
the 3 stands are locked into the building.

Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn

From: George Noble
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:58 PM
To: NapoleonicFireandFu ry@yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: [NapoleonicFireandF ury] Detachments

why would detachements count as losses till reattached?

--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Michael <mwSaber6@msn. com> wrote:

From: Michael <mwSaber6@msn. com>
Subject: [NapoleonicFireandF ury] Detachments
To: NapoleonicFireandFu ry@yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 9:21 AM

What are your thoughts on detachments? Reading Arnold's Crisis on the Danube and
re-thinking Waterloo, made me wonder about this. It seems that the Austrians
liked to penny packet detachments of roughly a battalion (2-3 stands) especially
in villages on their flanks. An idea I have is that a player can remove 2-3
stands from a brigade at the beginning of the game to declare a building (single
model) defended. This model would then defend as a unit with an additional +1 to
the cover type (loop holed, prepared defenses).

If the player retains the building at the end of the battle these stands do not
count toward losses as they re-join their brigade. Until then the Brigade is
treated as having lost the stands. Obviously, large brigades can do this with
less detrimental effects.

Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]