Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Simmons Games has posted several maps and documents relating to the 1796 campaign ini Italy on the website. Some in English translation.

http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/

Sources
Relation de la Bataille de Marengo (Relation of the Battle of Marengo) by Général Alex. Berthier. French, English.

Campagne de L’Armée de Réserve en 1800 (Campaign of the Army of the Reserve in 1800) by Capitaine Gaspar de Cugnac French (Complete), English (Partial – vol. 1, ch. 1 - 9).

Bonaparte vor Mantua (Bonaparte Before Mantua) by Viktor Hortig German, English (forthcoming).

Carta Topografica del Regno d'Italia 1:25 000 (Topgraphic Map of the Kingdom of Italy 1:25,000) by the Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy). The online collection includes maps of the battlefields of Arcola, Caldiero, Bassano, Castiglione, Lonato, Fontaniva, Marengo, and Rivoli. Italian, English.

Carta Topografica del Regno d'Italia 1:200 000 (Topgraphic Map of the Kingdom of Italy 1:200,000) by the Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy). Currently only the maps for northern Italy are included here. Italian, English.

Histoire Régimentaire et Divisionnaire de l'armée d'Italie (History of the Regiments and Divisions of the Army of Italy) compiled by the editors of the Spectateur Militaire. French, English (forthcoming).

(I had a hard time getting the map tool to work on a Win98 machine.)

<b>Général de Division Michael Cox</b>
<font size="4"><i>Principe <font size="1">della </font id="size1">Toscana</i></font id="size4">
Comte de Moselle

<i><font size="4">Armée du Rhin</font id="size4">
<font size="2">2e battallion, 1er Regiment de Chasseurs a Pied, Inf. de l'V. Gde.</i></font id="size2">
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nice sources - thanks.
All works perfectly on Firefox and XP.

<center><font color="orange"><h4> Marechal Zbyszek Pietras
1er Regiment de Chasseurs a Cheval, Vieille Garde
16th Division V Corps Armee du Rhin</font id="orange">
<font color="orange">Duc de Danzig, Comte de Bourges</font id="orange"></h4></center>

GREAT!!!
Thank You very much.

Captain Stefano Ostinelli
14ème Infanterie Regiment
2ème Brigade d'Infanterie
3ème Division
VIème Corps Bavarois
L'Armée du Rhin

Gents,

Yes many of the early napoleonic battles are a beauty.
So I can only say come on HPS way to go, but I know
that I only shout in the woods.

I myself have began looking for other sources for these
scenarios and battles who HPS never make.

Regards
Hauptmann
Ola Berli
IR 18 d'Aspre
Imperial Austrian Army.

Ola,
At this point, I wouldn't make any bets as to what HPS will and will not make. Especially when you look at the other engines, it's pretty clear that they are committed to making a number of the less famous battles as well.

Ok, fine, I wouldn't put any money on a scenario where Nappie gives the Paris Mob a whiff of grapeshot... but short of that?

Patience is a virtue.

FZM Freiherr Gary McClellan
Generalissimus Imperial Austrian Army
Portner Grenadier Battallion
Allied Coalition C-in-C

Thanks for the links Mike. What used to be termed a topo map is not the same as what we have now as in the old days a topo map had nothing to do with exact contours. I note that these maps will come in handy for exact placenames but that elevationas are going to be found on more modern maps. Just the same these were a real find to say the least. I have looked over their board game on Marengo via the website and it looks like a novel approach to a game.


Bill Peters
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram)

[url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url]

Gary,

to compare the napoleonic games with PZC. is not fair. I do not
find any PZC battle who is not quite famous but that is me. PZC is
also HPS most important series.
I only say that it is very sorry that the napolonics is coming way
down on the list.And I will continue to dream of:
The Jena Campaign
The Eylau Campaign
The Austerlitz Campaign
The Friedland Campaign
All the early battles between France and Austria
in Italy.
All the battles in Spain.

And what will HPS give me next I bet for Campaign 1813, is it high
on my list not at all, will I buy it and play it... Of Course.

But maybe HPS is coming with another campaign and that will make
Me glad[:D]

Regards
Hauptmann
Ola Berli
IR 18 d'Aspre
Imperial Austrian Army

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br /> What used to be termed a topo map is not the same as what we have now as in the old days a topo map had nothing to do with exact contours. I note that these maps will come in handy for exact placenames but that elevationas are going to be found on more modern maps. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Glad you found them useful. Yes, the topo stuff is not up to snuff, but could be useful for someone mapping the terrain (where the forests are, where the hamlets are, etc etc. I posted it more for browsing and general interest. (But if it piques your or Charlies interest and we get a game out of it - so much the better!)

<b>Général de Division Michael Cox</b>
<font size="4"><i>Principe <font size="1">della </font id="size1">Toscana</i></font id="size4">
Comte de Moselle

<i><font size="4">Armée du Rhin</font id="size4">
<font size="2">2e battallion, 1er Regiment de Chasseurs a Pied, Inf. de l'V. Gde.</i></font id="size2">
<center></center>

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mike Cox</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br /> What used to be termed a topo map is not the same as what we have now as in the old days a topo map had nothing to do with exact contours. I note that these maps will come in handy for exact placenames but that elevationas are going to be found on more modern maps. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Glad you found them useful. Yes, the topo stuff is not up to snuff, but could be useful for someone mapping the terrain (where the forests are, where the hamlets are, etc etc. I posted it more for browsing and general interest. (But if it piques your or Charlies interest and we get a game out of it - so much the better!)

<b>Général de Division Michael Cox</b>
<font size="4"><i>Principe <font size="1">della </font id="size1">Toscana</i></font id="size4">
Comte de Moselle

<i><font size="4">Armée du Rhin</font id="size4">
<font size="2">2e battallion, 1er Regiment de Chasseurs a Pied, Inf. de l'V. Gde.</i></font id="size2">
<center></center>
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Er, my interest in Italy has been piqued enough to ask for at least one title for this area of campaigning.

I hope you guys like Italy ....

Bill Peters
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram)

[url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br /><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Er, my interest in Italy has been piqued enough to ask for at least one title for this area of campaigning.

I hope you guys like Italy ....

Bill Peters

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In case any one missed that...

Gen Cox

Does that mean HPS codes "Suvorov's Italian and Swiss Campaigns"? [:0] SIS - a nice abbreviation, isn't it?[:I]

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<center><b>Eyo Imperatorskogo Velichestva Leib-Kirassirskogo polku
General-Mayor Anton Valeryevich Kosyanenko
Commander of the Second Army of the West </b></center>

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Kosyanenko</i>
<br />Does that mean HPS codes "Suvorov's Italian and Swiss Campaigns"? [:0] SIS - a nice abbreviation, isn't it?[:I]

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<center><b>Eyo Imperatorskogo Velichestva Leib-Kirassirskogo polku
General-Mayor Anton Valeryevich Kosyanenko
Commander of the Second Army of the West </b></center>

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Its something that I would definitely like to do. Nothing definte as of yet but its on my list of games I want to do.

Rich has said that he would like to do the Peninsular War games and so I believe that you guys can expect alot of good titles to come in the next two years.

Bill Peters
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram)

[url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url]

Just a note: I downloaded all of these maps but the Castiglione map could not be saved as a smaller size. The booger is 25 MB in size!

I could not open up the Arcola map at all. Its 65 MB!

The answer: I need more RAM!!! I must have more RAM!

Thus the order went out for a 1 GB module.

Sheesh, 84 dollars with S&H included. The price of RAM these days is truly incredible.

Bill Peters
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram)

[url="http://www.fireandmelee.net"]Fire and Melee Wargame site[/url]