New Leipzig PBEM AAR

[BigDuke66]

Big Duke:

I wish the game engine instead had an optional rule that would just allow skirmishers to be attacked more than once in a turn. I think almost everyone would play with that option.

They really did a good job with the civil war game, it cost extra movement to move adjacent to a unit with skirmishers deployed. Which in fact is exactly how 99% of skirmishers were trained and used for.

Another way is not have either side deploy skirmishers and have the units fight as battalions, what a concept.

Ever since cav units can break down people have also been using them ahistorically also...

Yea a restriction of the skirmishers by housrules is necessary, a little bit is already done by the game, from the manual:
"Skirmisher Rule
In addition to the normal test, Disordered Skirmisher units of non-Light, non-Guard units are only eligible to recover from Disorder if they are within 5 hexes of their parent unit."
But that is surely not enough to keep the players from using them as "commando units".

Can't imaging Napoleonic works without skirmishers as sometimes there was extensive skirmishing done as prelude to the real battle, also the use of them for battles that also cover "unusable" terrain like forest is also important.

Civil War might be OK but here the problem is that the skirmishers there also a a slight problem, in some cases it won't cost extra movement points to get close with the unit using skirmishers.

From the CW manual:
"I’ve noticed that the +1 extra MP cost of moving into an enemy Skirmisher Zone never prevents the movement. That is, if it would normally take 3 MP to move into a hex and a unit only has 3 MP left, then
the presence of an enemy Skirmisher Zone in that hex doesn’t prevent the movement. Isn’t this a bug? If the program prevented the movement, then the controlling side would know that there was an enemy Skirmisher Zone in the destination hex and thus that there was an enemy unit in the vicinity.
However, the opposing side would have no indication that a unit from the other side was nearby. Thus the side that had deployed Skirmishers would have less information than the side that had not. "


Oh and yes that picture is from http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/ a good page to give a quick look at certain things in the various armies.

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Looking at how your opponent acts.... either he thinks he's in a different war like(WW1 maybe) or he totally exaggerates the quote "Offense is the best defense."