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Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:11 pm
by AresMars
RE: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:24 pm
by pzgndr
Kevin Zucker's
https://napoleongames.com/ Operational Studies Group website has some good historical summaries available. I met Kevin a couple years ago with his
Napoleon at the Crossroads game set up and spent quite a while chatting with him. He is a wealth of information. His historical summaries are worth checking out.
RE: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:31 pm
by fvianello
ahaha.....I think i'll cross post this quote in another thread where Murat and I are defending EiA FOW rules:
Pay Attention. Use the limited intelligence rules to your advantage. Keep track of the forces involved in all battles. If no one else is maintaining a running record of game events, do so yourself. He who has sole ownership of the game history will find himself in a powerful negotiating position when others suddenly became concerned about the exact strength of a force which has turned and now threatens their capitals.
RE: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:32 am
by pzgndr
Napoleonic Wars
https://www.westpoint.edu/academics/aca ... eonic-wars is a link to the online West Point military history campaign atlas series.
RE: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:40 am
by Magpius
Somebody had better take down those links in the opening post.
They do not appear to go where they once may have.
RE: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:46 am
by Magpius
Many of the earlier links are also broken.
To be expected I guess, after so many years.
RE: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:16 pm
by pzgndr
I cannot recall what EIA 'tips' were on the old EIA Archives site long ago. I'll say that when this Matrix version game was released, the game manual did not include the Player Notes from the original rules. I added those (16.0), as well as the two strategy articles that appeared in The General, "Grand and Grandiose Strategy" (17.0) and "Campaigning in Arms" (18.0). Also, the \Data\docs folder in the game contains the Murat Tutorial and a Combat Tables Reference card to help players. So there's plenty of advice for beginners and experts provided with the game now that wasn't there upon release. Probably more than plenty, if you read and study sections 16-18 in the manual.
UPDATE. The EIA Archive Online is still there, it's just that the old http is updated to https. I revised the links above in the original post as well as the two links I provided so long ago. As for the 'tips', those are just Part I and Part II of Hanson's article "Campaigning in Arms" that I mentioned above and are in the manual. Learn It, Know It, Live It...
Re: Excellent Source of Advice for Beginners and Experts
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:25 pm
by pzgndr
I recently noticed that this old link is no longer active. I get the dreaded "404 - Not Found" screen. I often used this site to download references that I've used over the years to create the classic Empires in Arms and alternate Empires in Harm OOBs and setups. So I've copied some of the more relevant files so that players may review them and understand what the differences are between classic EIA and alternate EIH.
The attached zip file contains:
EIA Rules with Errata
EIA_3.1_Charts
eiarules13-17
EIH_4.0a_Rules
EIH_4.0aMajorOOB
EIH_4.0aMinorOOB
EIH_Ver4-0d_Charts
Game Card 1
Game Card 2
Political Status Display Card
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