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Bautzen Update V1.01 Released
07-22-2013, 06:33 AM, (This post was last modified: 07-22-2013, 06:36 AM by Sgt_Rock.)
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RE: Bautzen Update V1.01 Released
Turns out I forgot to add in the updated PDT files that sync the weapon's values across the three 1813-1814 titles. That will have to go into the next update.

The ratings are NOT that much different so there is not a huge issue here.

In the next update I will include a linking campaign file that will allow you to play from 1813 thru to the end of the 1814 campaign. A new option will be added into the Leipzig game for you to forgo fighting at Leipzig (French) and retreat into France to lick your wounds and call up more troops. There will be one retreat action fight but the campaign will not end with a victor for either side until you finish the 1814 campaign.

Thus once the French player decides to NOT fight at Leipzig the battle to be fought would be similar to Hanau and then you would copy the campaign file to the 1814 game and finish the campaign using that game.

And yes, there will be a linking campaign from Leipzig to 1814 as well. It will just not include the Spring Campaign that was in the Spring - Fall linking campaign file I added to both Bautzen and Leipzig.

This will mean a lot of new scenarios, campaign picture maps and campaign file branching for me for both Leipzig and 1814 but I am up for the challenge.

I hope that you guys have tried out Bautzen and 1814. While not as popular as Leipzig, the two titles have a lot of new material and in particular I learned more about the 1814 campaign by building that game than what I knew from my past reading.

What we aught to be doing is bombard Emperor's Press with tons of emails to get them to release George Nafziger's book on the campaign. George tells me that the book was ready in the EARLY 1990s!!!! Ridiculous how publishers tie up books like that. I really could have used his book for my research.

Also the 2nd vol. by Mike Leggiere on the campaign. I bought his first volume not know that a second was planned and that it would only cover the intro actions along the Rhine but not cover ANY of the main battles of the campaign. Hoping his book comes out in the next few years. I would be glad to make manpower corrections to the units based on either George's or Mike's books.

Manpower figures for 1814 were difficult to obtain - the French clerks destroyed a lot of records for that time period as the Allies neared Paris from what I was told. Very difficult to find out sizes on the Allies too.

Hope you guys like the 1813-14 games. Really a bonus for me to be able to do those. Still have one more to go (no, its not the Peninsular War or Eylau) ....
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Bautzen Update V1.01 Released - by Compass Rose - 07-20-2013, 02:20 AM
RE: Bautzen Update V1.01 Released - by Sgt_Rock - 07-22-2013, 06:33 AM
RE: Bautzen Update V1.01 Released - by MikeyV2 - 07-23-2013, 12:57 PM
RE: Bautzen Update V1.01 Released - by Sgt_Rock - 07-23-2013, 02:34 PM

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