<font color="pink">Try being Barrett after all that. Yikes! Walk into the tavern for a quick pint and I'm being shot to pieces! British Marshals up in arms suggesting I need to visit the loo, [:(!] officers yelling at each other about how unfair war can be [B)]; thank goodness you don't really know what I look like! [8D]
First irony; I don't beleive, Jim, that you and I have ever had the pleasure of crossing swords, have we? Try me sometime. You've got the rank, hence the experience, to tackle me for good or ill. [}:)]
Irony two: as Muddy says, and indeed shown, a good Allied officer can absolutely give me a run for my money. I like to play, I like a challenge too, like anyone. To me, these games are like chess. Just a body of rules. Variations are infinite. If some strategy had not been developed, I would have continued to lose against the likes of Muddy, because he defends remarkably well. Just because Napoleon lost, why should I "follow history"?
Are you saying a French officer should not try hard? I doubt it. I have played many Allies, of course, and I think every one of them has had fun, whether clobbered, broken even, or victorious. [^]
Irony three: as for junior officers, well, they have to find their own path, and will explore their own methodologies. And I predict some Allied lieutenant or captain will stumble upon a reasonably decent counter-strategy. Frankly, I invited your War College to conquer ours with insight; the "Full Barrett" is a challenge to you - don't run from the challenge: confront it! You make it sound as if I have won for all time; and that's no fun. Might get me the coveted Legion of Honour, [:)] but it would not be as much fun. I am sorry that you feel that you can no longer find joy in the game.
Irony four: this is not war, it's a game. For fun. Consenting adults, and all that. If it was war, the real Napoleon would perhaps laugh at you, like he did the Austrian generals in Italy, fighting the "old fashioned way", and losing. Oh, how cruel. There should be a law against it [:p]
Success, sir, is it's own justification.
Finally, it is probably true that the scenario is weighted in favour of an aggressive Frenchman. But on the other hand, it is weighted against a hesitant Frenchman, too, and I think I simply made that observation public.
Now, buy me a drink, and I may suggest to you how to stop the Full Barrett. [;)]
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General Barrett,
Duc de Ligny, Comte de Brienne,
Commander, VI (Bavarian) Corps, Army of the Rhine,
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la 1er Compagnie d'Artillerie de la Vieille Garde
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