Best Game for Prussia ?

[Sgt_Rock]

I am very late on chiming in here. From April to September I have been constantly working on Marengo.

Yes, Leipzig was our tour de guerre I think of the series. It has the most battles of the large size and also a lot of medium sized scenarios too.

I got into miniatures when I was young and the Prussians of the X Corps in Russia were some of my favorites to fight with. My good friend, Kevin, taught me a great deal about them. He was one of the first players I knew to dispel the "The Prussians didnt skirmish" nonsense. At one miniature game he just calmly turned to me and said, "Bill, detach the back stand of the battalion and put them out as skirmishers." We were playing Empire III in those days. Bowden has some odd fascination with the concept that the French and British were the only ones to skirmish that much.

Now add to this - in the latest title, Marengo, the Kingdom of Sardinia had some excellent light troops. I learned this from a good miniatures friend, Mike Verity, who was one of the Historical Consultants on Marengo. Otherwise I was thinking of rating the KoS army as lower than normal. (the reason why they fell apart at the end of the 1796 campaign in Liguria was their supply situation was bad)

In Leipzig I had my hands full with just about every major and minor power in the wars. Even Spain was represented and the British. Lots of uniform research. A ton of looking into OBs.

The work on Leipzig helped a bit in 1814 but that title had its own hurdles. The OBs were harder to compose. A lot of OBs with just the names of the units and no strengths.

I hope by now you are enjoying Leipzig! It remains one of the best we have done so far! Largest Playtest Team, etc.