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I am really excited to play this title but I have little knowledge about Napoleonic times, in terms of both warfare and economy-society. I am glad if anyone can recommend some web-pages to look for. SO I can learn something more, and hopefully, can enjoy the game much more...

I recommend these sites:

http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/

http://www.napoleon-series.org/

Enjoy!

Thanks for those links Russian Guard.

I think I've posted here before that I would like to get into Napoleonics wargaming, but always found it intimidating and too complex. I went and bought a book on the subject a couple of months ago to help me and quickly got completely lost in the many names of the people involved, as much as anything else. The OOB's for some of the battles are unbelievably difficult to understand for someone with little or no knowledge of the history of this period and methods of warfare. Having a primary interest in WWII makes the transition quite hard. It's obviously a very complex subject (or I'm too stupid to understand - no comments please hehe!), so I'll give these sites a go.

Cheers,
Jim

these pages are really helpful, thanks very much!

Jim
LOL, I remember I read a book about Tarawa about 4 times growing up (good book) but trying to follow what was going on, was very HARD

then I joined the Marines, and the book is a peace of cake now

(guess you could say, I learned the HARD way)

A/1/8 was my outfit

so something like at 14:00, E/2/8 was fighting a holding action while A/1/8 and L/3/8 tried a flanking movement to try and shut down the strong point, make perfect sense now

once you get the names and system down, it gets easier to understand, hassle is, I think each of them Nations had there own system back then

oops, sorry, see, I am writing as if everybody knows what I mean

A/1/8 is Alpha Company, 1st Bat, 8th Marine Reg
E/2/8, is Echo Company, 2nd Bat, 8th Marine Reg
L/3/8 is Lima Company, 3rd Bat, 8th Marine Reg

now for a book, or a battle, for the 2nd Marine div, you also had the 2nd Marines and the 6th Marines, not to mention the Arty or Tracks (10th Marines and 2nd Assault Amphibian Bat)