Alexey Tartyshev wrote:
Gentlemen,
For your interest - apart from AARs, the plan for this year is to add two more articles to the Theory section of the NWC manual, both focusing on infantry:
- The Art of Melee
-The Art of Musketry
For example, yhe musketry article will be more technical in nature. It will start with very basic concepts such as firepower values and then move toward more complex topics—for example, how companies within battalions deploy over 100+ meters of frontage and how this directly impacts FP output. My feel is that many players do not fully realise how significant this effect is.
The combined-arms topic is harder to theorise without becoming overly generic (like: “choose the right force mix for the right terrain”). That said, I will give it more thought to see what training materials can realistically be produced.
Seems like a very good idea Mein General-Leytenant, I'm learning and experimenting many things playing the Hunting Davout scenario from Campaign Eckmuhl. It seems like an evident truth, but there is a big difference between the musket fire from a shortened line than from an extended line, that wasn't that evident for me until experimenting the difference in the battlefield.
Alexey Tartyshev wrote:
One idea is a quiz-style exercise, where cadets are given a scenario and asked to produce a battle plan following a fixed structure, such as:
- OOB analysis for both sides
- Terrain analysis
- Main effort allocation
- Supporting attacks
- Force mix by sector
To keep this manageable, each step could offer multiple-choice options rather than open-ended answers. This would provide a clear model for pre-battle preparation, which I believe accounts for at least 50% of success in combined-arms warfare.
The other half of success—the actual execution—is much harder to teach, as it largely comes with experience. That said, PBEM files could be provided to show real combined-arms cases, demonstrating the initial setup and how those decisions played out over subsequent turns.
This is essential, I'm enjoying a lot my Hunting Davout scenario thanks to this previous exercise. We are at Turn 34 and at this point everything is going according to the initial battle plan that was made taking into account all of those points that you enlisted. It's a very hard fight with an expert french general in defensive tactics, but I think I'm doing a decent job.
I'm an Austrian General but with the Russian formation from the Alexey Tartyshev School and Doctrine.
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