Waterloo Bicentenary Project

[BigDuke66]

Waterloo Bicentenary Project

Goal: Rework the historical scenarios of the HPS/JTS Waterloo game

I have checked the first 50 scenarios(the others are hypothetical or at company level) and what I tracked down as historical(or supposed to be) scenarios are these:

Starting on 15th June 1815:
"The Waterloo Campaign, June 1815" 006.Large_fixed.scn
"The Waterloo Campaign, June 1815" 007.Large_historical.scn
"Rearguard Action at Soleilmont" 028.Soleilmont_h.scn
Both campaign scenarios are multi day scenario that can likely at best just provide a historical start but of course that can't guarantee a historical course of the campaign.


Starting on 16th June 1815:
"The Battle of Ligny_h, June 1815" 008.Ligny_h.scn
"The Battle of Ligny_v1, June 1815" 009.Ligny_v1.scn
"The Combined Battle of Quatre Bras & Ligny - Historical, June 16, 1815" 018.QB_Ligny_h.scn
"The Battle of Quatre Bras - Historical, June 16, 1815" 022.Quatre_Bras_h.scn
I'm not sure which of the both Ligny scenarios is considered the or the more historical scenario that has to be checked.
I guess if a rework is necessary for these battles too any changes could simply be added to the combined battles scenario.


Starting on 18th June 1815:
"The Battle for Plancenoit" 015.Plancenoit_v1.scn
"The Battle for Plancenoit" 017.Plancenoit_v3.scn
"The Ridge - D'Erlon's Attack - Phase 1" 032.The_Ridge_v1.scn
"The Ridge - D'Erlon's Attack - Phase 2" 033.The_Ridge_v2.scn
"Waterloo - Historical" 037.Waterloo_h.scn
"Waterloo_Wavre Historical" 043.Waterloo_Wavre_h.scn
"The Battle of Wavre, June 18 & 19 1815" 047.Wavre_h.scn
The Plancenoit and Ridge scenarios are just part of the Waterloo battle and if that scenario gets reworked it has to be seen if changes get necessary to these scenarios too.
Here again any changes to the single battle scenarios could flow into the combined battle scenario.


The single historical battles/actions that have to be researched are just 5:
- Combat at Gilly
- Battle of Ligny
- Battle of Quatre Bras
- Battle of Wavre
- Battle of Waterloo


Now if this is supposed to be a serious project I guess it needs a name, my idea would be simply to orientate at what we now have, so I suggest to call it the "Waterloo Bicentenary Project" or short WBP.