Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

I agree in everything except for "Battle was a demoralizing experience, but the effects often didn't outlast a good night's sleep or two." maybe this is too optimistic. I couldn´t find data in the 1800s but the difference of the power of the arms (artillery, aviation, vehicles) can be replaced for the physical proximity and the cutting weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock

mmm I´m wrong?...I have found this:

"During the Napoleonic Wars, the losses due to troops deserting battle were regularly greater than the losses resulting from combat. Since desertion was relatively easy during such early wars, it probably kept the rate of combat trauma low in comparison to modern standards. Like a psychiatric safety valve, soldiers could often escape the horrors of war before developing severe psychiatric scars."

"(...)In modern war, soldiers are often grouped in smaller and more isolated units, and the enemy is often unseen. It has been suggested that these changes have increased the anxiety experienced by soldiers, despite the fact that their daily risk has actually decreased!(...)"

http://anxiety-panic.com/arthur/arp-war.htm

So run, baby, run...[:o)]

Lieutenant Fornos
5. Infanterieregiment Preysing
2ème Brigade 3ème Division
VIème Corps Bavarois
L'Armée du Rhin

Put my name too, it would be interesting [:D]

<b>general Eugene Gulyaev
RA Chief of Staff
Leib-Gvardii Semenovskij Polk
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