Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

As Andy noted, it used to work that way that they automatically disordered. I checked in NRC and Bautzen and the skirmisher disorder trick, as Andy noted, has been written out of the code.

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C.N.Matthews

Clint,
It is likely that you have never seen that (and I too cannot recall ever seeing it, well, maybe once) because people usually melee with a large enough force to have a chance to win, which thereby causes enough losses to disorder...

And of course when you have forces of mixed nationality as allies, put one nation behind the other and even if successfully meleed, a unit cannot retreat on top of another nation so stays put....

I tried that just in Leipzig an indeed I can't even manually move a unit into another unit that has a different nationality.
That isn't mentioned anywhere in the manuals.
Does this even count for officers?

I assume it counts for Leaders yes. I don't know for sure. It certainly affects skirmishers so I think it affects leaders. It was something added in the last but one patch as I recall. Personally I had no problems with mixed stacks in retreat or rout.

Test.

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Ernie Sands
1ère Brigade of 2ème Division de Grosse Cavalerie, Réserve de Cavalerie
de la Grande Armée
President, Colonial Campaigns Club

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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In the BG games you certainly could not voluntarily mix units. But I think they could be mixed if a unit was meleed on top of another one, or if they routed together. I haven't played those games for some time now so can't be sure.

Test, again.

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Ernie Sands
1ère Brigade of 2ème Division de Grosse Cavalerie, Réserve de Cavalerie
de la Grande Armée
President, Colonial Campaigns Club

I suppose this should push the player even more to separate the different nationalities.
When you think of scenario like Leipzig where the Allies are played by a single player you already have a coordination of the different nationalities that is well beyond anything that really happened, so having the game mechanics work like this will likely only foster a more historical gameplay.

@Ernie Sands
If your testing for mail notification, it works for me again on the NWC.

I always play the allies and had not thought of that. That doesn't sound gamey, that sounds like sound tactical planning!

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Major General Richard Bradshaw, 1st Viscount of Manchester

Lloyd's Battery, Royal Artillery
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Reserve Artillery & Engineers

Great, Christian, thanks.

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Ernie Sands
1ère Brigade of 2ème Division de Grosse Cavalerie, Réserve de Cavalerie
de la Grande Armée
President, Colonial Campaigns Club

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Marechal Jeff Bardon
Duc de Castiglione et Prince de Wagram
Commandant de la Garde Imperiale

The game-ist thing I have ever seen (actually I have never seen it!) is SHARPE!

What cow shyt!