Campaign Eylau-Friedland Has Released!

[jim pfleck]

I was a playtester and I played the first 6-10 turns of Eylau and its variants somewhere between 7 and 10 times, and two "full" battles. The Russian gunline at Eylau is formidable but its flanks are wide open and with the poor weather it is often hard to move artillery. So yes, a frontal assault is a bad idea and with the visibility sometimes low the French can blunder into local disaster. But the guns can be a liability. I won a battle as the French largely based on my opponents artillery and infantry losses-the French army was broken into two pieces and, while I think I would have been able to restore the situation, I was largely able to pull back and the Russians did not have enough troops left to really counterattack.

The Battle of Eylau has a lot of replay ability and I doubt it will go the same way twice. Each side has a well balanced army (inf, cav, guns), both sides have the opportunity to seize the initiative, and it is bloody.