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Dennewitz: It is September of 1813.  Marshall Ney has been ordered to take Berlin and disband the militia forming there.  Napoleon has just won a great victory at Dresden and it is hoped that Ney's Army will catch the enemy wary and off guard.  Awaiting Ney is the Army of the North consisting of two corps of Prussians (one just forming), a corps of Russians and a corps of Swedes.  These are under the command of Crown Prince Charles of Sweden (for those of you who aren't watching this soap opera he used to be called Marshal Bernadotte of France).  The Army of the North is covering a wide area of possible attack.  It is hoped by the French that Ney can punch through to Berlin by taking the Army of the North on piecemeal.   6 players.  15mm Volley, Bayonet and Glory.  8x6 table preferred.

Background

John Holtz and I started with the same OB information (his) and came up with substantially different flavors to the battle.   Not having John's Swedaphobia ( :^) ) I have included the Swedish forces that John didn't add or had show up as Russian (OK, OK to make a long story short back in the 1970s I was paid for a painting job in Heritage Swedes, don't ask why!!!  At any rate I have enough to do the Corps.  Last year when we did Liepzig John  didn't want to do the 3rd day because no one would ever want to paint up the Swedes and I mentioned I already had them painted and mounted.  Well John just didn't want the Swede's on the table.  Oh well I digress).  John's scenario focuses in on the main historic action while mine starts earlier and lets the players develop the action as they see fit.   So the difference in feel is more of a set piece action vs a meeting engagement.   John starts at 11AM, I start at 8AM we both go to  8PM.  I refer you to John's scenario for much of the background and research information.  My battlefield map was developed from several period maps of the battlefield and a modern computer generated map (the latter used mostly to adjust the scale).  It mainly differs from the historic terrain in that many of the redundant roads have been removed.   What is left represents about half of what showed up on the historic map I used.  This is  a very settled and fairly urban area.   The shapes of the woods are very angular and this comes straight off the historic maps.  It must be because most of them have been cleared to field edges.   FYI my map source was from the Napoleon Series Map Reference Section.

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