Should I start up a Path of Nappy AAR, or are you tired of me

[Terminus]

Query: "Irregular Artillery"? Civilian militia with cannon?

[Hard Sarge]

Query: "Irregular Artillery"? Civilian militia with cannon?

I don't see that ? do you mean Irregular Cav ?

[Jim D Burns]

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Jim

[Hard Sarge]

soory, been still plugging away, just not reporting, now the hassle will be trying to rememeber why I thought the snap should be taken

I am getting to the end phase of my war, so will be showing more maps then battles, and other things that pop up that may be interesting, or were to me

so lets see

I won the War with England, and getting ready for some fun in the sun, am at war with Russia, not happy about that

too much risk to send the boy up north by sea, and too long to march, so, will just hang in place

so I am getting ready to take on Spain, they got good Cav and some decent guns, plus they are one of the biggest pains in the butt you are going to run into

War in the East is going good, and making my Drive across the steppes

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the winter kicks in, in Russia, the Winter is worse then there Armies, and it is nasty, you got to stay in supply (good luck) and the size of the provinces for forgeing drops in half

I reach Moscow, and run into a blizzard during my attack

these are fun, poor vision, poor movement, extra damage, short days, but, I pulled off a flanking move for the battle, and came in, right on the flank of the enemy, they really were not able to react, and I wasn't able to, do much either, but I had firepower (and just in case, most of those Guns are not mine, I took them, as I marched across the Nations)

also, this Army had a Corps of Inf, a Corps of Cav and a short Corps of Guns, I broke off the Inf Corps to march on St. Petersburg, 90% of the times, I would never say this is something you should do, and for this battle, I got lucky, the blizzard was really something that was in my favor, it totally crippled the Russian Cav and Inf (a summer time battle, and this could of been real dicey)

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if you notice, it is 8 PM on the first day, that is all day to move about 10 hexes, and I have not really even engaged the enemy yet

this snap, shows it has been bloody, lots of bodies lying around, the walls of the fort are shot apart, I have broken his big guns and chased most of his Cav, either away or backed up

you may of seen how broken up my line was, alot of my guns are unsupported and open for charges, only in the blizzard, the Russian Cav, don't have the movement to do much

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ORIGINAL: elmo3

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

and now, for something you don't see to often, can you tell what it is I am showing ?

Nope, if you look at the fleet name, that is one of the English Fleets, I captured, so , not often will you see a English Fleet, fighting for the French, with English ships

Extra sails deployed?

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what the East is looking like

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if I remember correctly, that is almost a year after I took Moscow, them buggers are still fighting

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and what the final goal looks like, the plains of Spain, I already own the Islands and some of the border lands

this attack will be Total War (that is a pain vs Spain) Lots of Troops, lots of support

move, hit, bring up support, then move again

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Dec of 1813, I am 20 points away from winning, Nappy would be proud (of course, he would be telling me how he could of done better !)

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hmm, I was suprised when they moved there main Army away from the south, that is only a small Corps up north, I was hopeing it would stay in the south, I would of cut it off on the first move and then shattered it, here it may cause trouble

I start my move, in Jan, Enforced Peace is over, and I declare total war (Jan is not the best campaign weather, but I want to be sure, I don't let Spain declare on me first, then I can't go for Total War, and to win this, I need to take everything Spain has

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you may see I got a lot of extras and supplies on the bottom, I have been hordeing for months, I can't afford for my Nation to go bankrupt in the middle of my last war, I got lots of food, my Provinces are farming there tails off, I have money, I am going to be buy depots like mad

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I declare Total War, then the Spanish Declare War on me (so I was right)

but he tricks me, and slips his main army back south, catching one of my Corps, I know some of his numbers from spying on him, and know he has at least 4 Guns and tons of Cav, my Corps is overmatched, and calls for help

Nappy is not going to be happy for one of his main Armees to not follow orders and take the province they were sent to, but, got to finish off the Spanish Army first

I got a good spot for the battle, unpassable hills to the south, partly unpassable to the north (mainly, I can pass, the enemy further down, can not) also got lakes and are river, so, his Cav has been taken out of the battle for a bit, I got a solid line and Cav to hit anything mistakes made, I like it, will like it better when I get some help though

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and of course, I make the first mistake, I left my Cav out front, the Spanish bring up a gun and Cav, I can't charge and can't turn around, I take a decent volly, and the Cav starts to mess with me, I move trying to get a chance for a flank attack on the Guns, and the Cav runs me down

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I get a charge off after all, but, while I do damage, don't break or take the gun, plus I am disordered (very much not good with enemy Cav around

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well, took out the General at least, wanted the gun more !

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force a gap and haul butt, one Cav is disordered and one is shookup and getting low in morale

(if you didn't know, look to the upper right, see that white square, that is a disordered unit, if it is red, it is routed or dead or something bad, green is good)

but my line has held, I was able to keep the Enemy away, when it had a chance to do some damage, my troops are close and it is going to be night soon, things are looking up

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night has been good to me, I got most of my reinforcements onto the map, some are still tried, so they are hanging back and resting, and now I got troops and movement, to face me, the got to stay with in the line of the hills, that is bad news, because I do not, I got the blocking force there and can hold, while I get into postion

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the north flank, (last shot, day break)