Errors in "Crisis on the Danube"

[MarkT]

All Games: no FOW, French single player

When I played the first game of this scenario, I envisioned a double envelpoement of Charles at Wagram. I Marched Lannes upstream to be joined by Vandamme to strike from the west, while Massena, Davout, and the Guard would move downstream, cross and strike from the east. All was set in motion, and while waiting for Vandamme, I spent my time trying to coax Bessiers (sp) to move. He would not. Finally My 4 corps crashed (with great uncoordination) into the wagram area. The guard started to move, but too late.
Charles rallied, and crushed my forces.


Thus I embarked on a second game to concentrate at Vienna and then strike Charles.

PROBLEM1: As I concentrated, the Guard still did not move, All other corps were ready and waiting. So deciding not to wait any longer, I launched my forces downstream to force a crossing, and turn Charles left.
PROBLEM2: NONE of my Corps moved out of Vienna. (a couple of units would start, then return) After checking my orders, for the next 5 turns, I resigned myself to the fact that the Austrians had NOT given the keys to the city to Napoleon, and my forces were locked in.
Eventually, Charles moved upsreatm, crossed, and marched down the Danube. I tried to send my army west, but to no avail. (and still the Guard slept.)

Finally, before Charles reached Vienna, Massena sallied forth alone and got crushed!!!
Reinfocements arrived, and inturn, passed into, but not through, Vienna. One way doors!

A third scenario duplicated the second.. [:@]

A fourth was played to try to unite my army. I marched Massena and Davout in a circular direction (ala Jeb Stuart) around Charles to unite with Lannes and a very tired Vandamme. The Guard, appearantly in fear of going into Vienna, still refused to move.
I finally launched a relatively coordinated attack on Charles. But Charles had time to amass half of Europe and I got crushed in a landslide. And then the Guard moved????
Napoleon fled back to Vienna and watched across the river as his Corps got shattered.
As soon as MacDonald arrived, Napoleon ON HIS OWN innitiative, fled Vienna for the safety of the camps of MacDonald and Grouchy. (who had no recourse but to be sucked into the one way doors of Vienna. Thus ended a very frustrating evening.

[Malagant]

I saw a similar thing happen while playing the Austrians.

The French just sat in Vienna, giving me free reign to move upstream, and close off all the roads to Vienna. One French corps came west out Vienna, the others were enveloped and destroyed in the city streets.

I thought I was just a truly amazing commander...pity to hear this might be a game glich. [;)]

[MarkT]

Maybe we were playing PBEM and you were doing great [:D]

Ah, but, alas, Vienna is a well concieved trap.

I am going to run another scenario and "race" to Vienna "just" to get stuck.

Maybe its the Brothels [;)]