Napoleon in Russia Project

[jonnymacbrown]

Fwiw, this happens to be Mr Egan's pet topic here at the Blitz as he has been posting the same thing for years now.

I will give him credit though, as it has me thinking of adding a blog post about research, citations, multiple sources, and reconciling accounts, as well as tracing sources ... one source using another source isn't really a multiple source.

Page notations, account comparisons, digesting material and -like I said above reconciling differences (which are not always cut and dried anyway), interpreting missing data, also sometimes the requirement to add in subjective assumptions (and provide the basis for the rationale of having done so).

I don't know Charlie Cutshall, never met him -think he was long gone before I ever became involved in anything... but the thing is I also don't know what he did and what he didn't and really there is a scenario editor, and I think that the PDT's can be altered ...

I can say that if I were actually that bothered by a scenario (or scenarios), I think I might actually try to do something about it to see if I could make it work. Actually, I guess that I have before - that is the reason that I have done some graphic work because I want to know what if.

Otoh I could just sit around and complain about how this that or the other thing could have been done -and that it is not my responsibility to fix, etc, etc, etc --- whatever ... I do think that if something really bugged me for that long of a period of time, I would do something about it for my own sake, if for nothing else.

And obviously mileage varies ... however as a note to the community -none of this is particularly new... I just accidented on the same material from 2010 here (and I am pretty sure there is older material than that.).

It is still the stock historical scenario and anyone who buys the game thinks it is an historical simulation; it isn't. It's not about me: I've played Waterloo 100 times, from Avalon Hill, to Wellington's Victory, to BG to HPS. I keep bringing it up for the people who buy the game expecting historical accuracy and who aren't getting it. I am doing something about it by bringing up the issue every few years hoping that the stock scenario will be corrected; pretty easy to do with any update. I'd be happy to if anyone would ask me to. jonny