HPS NB vs. Battleground

[FM WarB]

Jason,
The ideal formation in game terms you describe for d'Erlon is not that which he used in the battle. See Adkin, The Waterloo Companion, pp. 195, 343-345 and 412; Barbero, The Battle, pp 124-125; Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon, pp. 351, 1076-77; and Weller, Wellington at Waterloo, p. 95 for descriptions of d'Erlon's infantry battalions deployed in line, one behind another. You actually would have to be able to stack eight bns in a single hex to get Donzelot and Marcognet's divisions into their division columns by battalion.

We apparently disagree, as when the BG games first came out I argued that cavalry was too strong in the game. I believe that the HPS game engine changes, along with oobs that have cavalry in squadrons, not regiments addresses the issue of cav being too strong to my satisfaction.
Warren