Chosen Man vs. gunjones
Chosen Man |
Draw | gunjones |
Now go figure this one. Here we are ending the game at turn 223 out of 360. While granted I took some three times more in artillery losses, and almost 3,000 more in cavalry losses, with many of my losses a result of French popping up late at entry hexes and by doing so AUTOMATICALLY routing as a result incapacitating) many of my battalions stationed there within 5 hexes; a rule or mechanism in the system I did not even know about. That, again given my prior ignorance of the rule, could not be helped. My other big mistake (and that prevented a formal marginal victory) was waiting a few turns too late to destroy the lower Danube bridge (9, 352). On the other hand, The French suffered near 11,000 more infantry losses; with Napoleon, Davout, Massena and Oudinot in wild disarray with their tails between their legs all fleeing the map to avoid further combat (with some 129 scattered French left hiding in the woods.) Meanwhile, I occupied ALL the victory hexes, including Ratisbon. THIS the game rules calls a Draw, yet if such had been the actual historical result, Waterloo would probably have occurred in 1811 rather than 1815. That is a Draw? Then I'll take it, as I am sure anyone else would who had to choose sides when the game was over.